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René (''born again'' or ''reborn'' in French) is a common first name in French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and German-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus. René is the masculine form of the name ( Renée being the feminine form). In some non-Francophone countries, however, there exists the habit of giving the name René (sometimes spelled without an accent) to girls as well as boys. In addition, both forms are used as surnames (family names). René as a first name given to boys in the United States reached its peaks in popularity in 1969 and 1983 when it ranked 256th. Since 1983 its popularity has steadily declined and it ranked 881st in 2016. René as a first name given to girls in the United States reached its peak in popularity in 1962 when it ranked 306th. The last year for which René was ranked in the top 1000 names given to girls in the United States was 1988. Persons with the given name * Renê (footballer) (born 1992), Brazilian footballer * ...
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Born Again (Christianity)
To be born again, or to experience the new birth, is a phrase, particularly in evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, that refers to a "spiritual rebirth", or a Regeneration (theology), regeneration of the human spirit. In contrast to one's physical birth, being "born again" is distinctly and separately caused by the operation of the Holy Spirit in Christianity, Holy Spirit, and it occurs when one is baptized in water (John 3:5, Titus 3:5). While all Christians are familiar with the concept from the Bible, it is a core doctrine of the denominations of the Anabaptism, Anabaptist, Moravian Church, Moravian, Methodism, Methodist, Baptists, Baptist, Plymouth Brethren and Pentecostalism, Pentecostal churches along with evangelical Christian denominations. These Churches stress Jesus's words in the Gospels: "Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’" (John 3:7). (In some English translations, the phrase "born again" is rendered as "born from above" ...
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René Barents
René Barents (born 31 December 1951) is a Dutch European Union law scholar. He has been a judge at the General Court since 6 october 2011. He previously served as a judge on the European Union Civil Service Tribunal from 2011 until 2016 Barents has worked for the European Union justice system since the early 1980s, and he has been a professor of European Union law at Maastricht University since 1989. Career Barents was born on 31 December 1951 in Rotterdam. In Rotterdam he studied law with a focus on economics at the Erasmus University where he graduated in 1973. Afterwards Barents became a researcher and lecturer in European and economic law at the Europe Institute of Utrecht University. From 1979 to 1981 he held a similar lecturer position at Leiden University. In 1981 he also obtained his Master of Laws degree from Utrecht University. In the same year Barents started working for the Court of Justice of the European Union. He served as legal secretary until 1986 and then for ...
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René Descartes
René Descartes ( , ; ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and Modern science, science. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry. Descartes spent much of his working life in the Dutch Republic, initially serving the Dutch States Army, and later becoming a central intellectual of the Dutch Golden Age. Although he served a Dutch Reformed Church, Protestant state and was later counted as a Deism, deist by critics, Descartes was Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic. Many elements of Descartes's philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, the Neostoicism, revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or in earlier philosophers like Augustine of Hippo, Augustine. In his natural philosophy, he differed from the Scholasticism, schools on two major point ...
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René Deltgen
Renatus Heinrich Deltgen (30 April 1909 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg – 29 January 1979 in Cologne, West Germany) was a Luxembourgish stage and film actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ..., who spent most of his career in Germany. Biography Deltgen was the son of the chemist Mathias Deltgen and his wife Katharina, née Pütz. After graduating from high school, he went to Cologne in 1927 to attend the drama school there. From 1931 to 1934 he gained stage experience at the Städtische Bühnen Köln. He had his first successes in the play Der Graue by Friedrich Forster. After a one-year engagement at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt, he got his first film role at UFA in 1935 in Das Mädchen Johanna, a film about Joan of Arc. Until 1944 he played on various s ...
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René Coty
Gustave Jules René Coty (; 20 March 188222 November 1962) was President of France from 1954 to 1959. He was the second and last president of the Fourth French Republic. Early life and politics René Coty was born in Le Havre and studied at the Université de Caen, University of Caen, where he graduated in 1902 with degrees in law and philosophy. He worked as a lawyer in his hometown of Le Havre, specialising in maritime and commercial law. He also became involved in politics, as a member of the Radical Party (France), Radical Party, and in 1907 was elected as a district councillor. The following year, he was elected to the communal council of Le Havre as a member of the Republican Left group. He retained both of these positions until 1919. Coty also served as a member of the Conseil Général of Seine-Inférieure from 1913 to 1942, holding the post of vice president from 1932. When the First World War broke out, Coty volunteered for the army, joining the 129th Infantry Regim ...
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René Chamussy
René Chamussy (15 December 1936 – 27 October 2016) was a French-Lebanese Jesuit priest and academic administrator. He was the author of several books about Lebanon. He served as the rector of the Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon, from 2003 to 2012. Early life Chamussy was born on 15 December 1936 in Lyon, France. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1956, at the age of 20. Chamussy graduated from the University of Paris, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in French-Latin-Greek and English in 1959, and the University of Lyon, where he received a degree in theology in 1969. He emigrated to Lebanon in 1969, and became a Lebanese citizen in 2012. Career Chamussy taught at the Collège Notre Dame de Jamhour in Beirut in the 1970s. He joined the Saint Joseph University, also in Beirut, in 1977. He served as the director of its Language and Translator Institute from 1989 to 1995, the Dean of its College of Arts and Sciences from 1995 to 2000, and Vice Rector of ...
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René Carol
Gerhard Tschierschnitz, known as René Carol (Berlin, 11 April 1920 - Minden Minden () is a middle-sized town in the very north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the largest town in population between Bielefeld and Hanover. It is the capital of the district () of Minden-Lübbecke, situated in the cultural region ..., 9 April 1978), was a German Schlager singer of the 1950s and 1960s. Hit singles Song title, year, German chart placement (all on Polydor) *''Maria aus Bahia'', 1948 *''Sarina'', 20 April 1950, Philips PH 4003a * ''Mandolino, Mandolino'', 20 April 1950, Philips PH 4003b * ''La-le-lu'', 1951 (with Lonny Kellner) * ''Im Hafen von Adano'', 1951 (with Lonny Kellner) * ''Rote Rosen, Rote Lippen, Roter Wein'', 1953 (first gold record) * ''Bella, Bella Donna'', 1953 * ''Es blüht eine weisse Lilie'', 1953 * ''Kein Land kann schöner sein'', 1960 * ''Das Schiff deiner Sehnsucht'', 1960 * ''Mitten im Meer'', 1960 * ''Hafenmarie'', 1961 * ''Ein Vagabundenherz'', 1 ...
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Rene Capo
Rene Capo (May 9, 1961 – July 6, 2009) was a judoka from the United States who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics. Capo immigrated to the United States from Cuba as a young boy. Though he won several judo championships in high school, Capo took a four-year break from the sport to attend the University of Minnesota. After college, Capo went on to qualify for two United States Olympics teams, could not compete as an alternate in another due to a back injury, and narrowly missed making the 2008 team. In 2008, Capo was diagnosed with lung cancer, which caused his death the following year. Early life Capo immigrated to the United States from Pinar del Río, Cuba in 1962, when he was still an infant, and grew up in Hialeah, Florida. He learned Judo as a member of Florida Judo Kai, under the tutelage of Cuban Champion Reinaldo Montpellier. After graduating from Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School He attended the University of Minnesota, where he pl ...
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René Bricard
René Bricard was a Frenchman who was active in the French Resistance during World War II. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ... in 2002. He died in 2015. References French Resistance members French torture victims Knights of the Legion of Honour Commanders of the Legion of Honour {{France-mil-bio-stub ...
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Rene Bitorajac
Rene Bitorajac (; born 2 March 1972) is a Croatian actor. He has appeared in several Croatian and Bosnian films since the 1980s. Most notably, he starred in the 2001 Academy Award-winning Bosnian film '' No Man's Land''. He is also known for starring in popular Croatian television sitcoms '' Bitange i princeze'' (2005–2010) and '' Naša mala klinika'' (2004–2007). Bitorajac won Golden Arena Awards for Best Actor for his portrayals of sociopathic football hooligan Krpa in the 2009 film ''Metastases'', and Dr. Babić in the 2012 film '' Cannibal Vegetarian''. His role in the latter earned him the Vladimir Nazor Award and the Paris Mediteraneo Gran Prix, among other accolades. Bitorajac also worked prominently in Croatian-language versions of animated features. He provided voice acting for Syndrome in ''The Incredibles'', Buck in '' Home on the Range'' (both 2004), Ham in '' Space Chimps'' (2008), Gru in the '' Despicable Me'' franchise (2010-present), and Red in ''The Angr ...
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René De Birague
René de Birague (Italian: Renato da Birago; –24 November 1583) was an Italian then French noble, lieutenant-general, chancellor and cardinal during the latter Italian Wars and the French Wars of Religion. Born to a prominent Milanese family in 1506, his family sided with the French, and as such when Milan was occupied by Emperor Charles V they were forced to flee to French controlled Piedmont. Declared a criminal in 1536, his Milanese estates would be seized. Birague entered French service in the 1540s, being elevated to ''premier président'' of the ''Parlement'' of Turin, which in combination with his service under the French governor Marshal Brissac from 1550, afforded him immense administrative power in the French occupied territories. In 1562 with the French withdrawal from the Piedmont, he departed his post in the ''Parlement'', however the following year would see him elevated in one of the remaining French held towns, as leader of the Supreme Council of Pignerol. Moving ...
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