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76 unusual facts about Nice


1959–60 in Turkish football

The club progressed to the first round, where they met French club OGC Nice.

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They were knocked out by OGC Nice in the first round after losing out in the play-off match.

2001 Internationaux de Tennis Feminin Nice

The 2001 Internationaux de Tennis Feminin Nice was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts in Nice in France and was part of Tier II of the 2001 WTA Tour.

Alfred A. Tomatis

Tomatis' approach began as an effort to help professional singers in his native Nice based on his idea that errant hearing is the root cause of a variety of ailments.

Antonio Giovanni Lanzirotti

He sends to Paris, a statue La pensieroso, another La schiava, the first found in London, and the second sold to the museum of Nice.

Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond

In 1927, he married Emmeline Mary Low at the Consular Office in Nice, France and they subsequently had two children, Mary and John.

Astra C

On 22 March 1913, using at least one Astra CM Hydro-avion, French operator Compagnie Générale Transaérienne started the world's first scheduled passenger-carrying flights, operating from Cannes to Nice.

Azykhantrop

Exhibits from Azykh Cave were exhibited in France (Nice University), in 1981-1982, where they were in focus of attention of the academic community of the world.

Bellotti's goby

Gobius ater, Bellotti's goby, is a species of goby native to the Mediterranean Sea from the Balearic Islands and the Gulf of Lion to Nice and Sardinia.

Bolzano/Bozen railway station

Since 2010, the station has been a stop for a weekly train between Moscow and Nice.

Boscolo Hotels

The Golf Club of the Montecchia and the Pap Group with three hotels in Nice and one in Lyon are bought.

Bruce Heard

Heard was born in Nice, France on March 9, 1957 to his French mother and U. S. Navy officer father.

Charles Friant

Besides Grenoble and Paris Friant also sang at the casino in Biarritz, the Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels, the Opéra de Marseille, and the Nice Opera.

Christian Azzi

In February 1948, with encouragement from Hugues Panassié, the orchestra played at the first jazz festival in Nice, with immediate success.

Christine Alix de Massy

Christine Alix de Massy (Noghès) (Monaco, 8 July 1951 – Nice, 15 February 1989) was born to Princess Antoinette of Monaco and her then lover Alexandre-Athenase Noghès.

Colman Andrews

In 1992, Andrews published his second book, Everything on the Table: Plain Talk About Food and Wine, a collection of new and revised short pieces, and shortly thereafter he began work on a book about the cuisines of Genoa and Nice, Flavors of the Riviera: Discovering Real Mediterranean Cuisine, published in 1996.

Darmont

In 1921 Darmonts took the first three places in a road race from Paris to Nice.

Dick Rivers

Dick Rivers (born Hervé Fornieri, 24 April 1945, Nice, France) is a French singer and actor who has been performing since the early 1960s.

Don the Beachcomber

He was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star while setting up rest camps for combat-weary airmen of the 12th and 15th Air Forces in Capri, Nice, Cannes, the French Riviera, Venice, the Lido and Sorrento at the order of his friend, Lieutenant General Jimmy Doolittle.

Edmond Clément

Edmond Clément (28 March 1867, Paris - 24 February 1928, Nice) was a French lyric tenor who earned an international reputation due to the polished artistry of his singing.

Errico Malatesta

Returning to Europe in 1889, he published a newspaper called L'Associazione in Nice until he was forced to flee to London.

Francesco Matraire

Little is known of his life; his family is believed to have been from Nice originally, and his correspondence is mostly written in French.

Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy

While Duke of savoy he also held the subsidiary titles of Marquess of Saluzzo, count of Aosta, Moriana and Nice, and claimant King of Jerusalem.

Frédéric Etherlinck

They then lived in Nice, France for three years before returning to Brussels.

Fredericton Society of St. Andrew Pipe Band

Most recently, a few members of the band performed at the Mardi Gras celebrations in Nice in February 2006.

Gabriel Josipovici

He was born in Nice, France in 1940, of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine Jewish parents.

Geeta Vadhera

35 exhibitions have been held by Geeta in diverse locations such as Paris, Tours, Bonn, Nice, Canberra, Singapore, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, New Delhi.

Georges Rousse

While attending medical school in Nice, he decided to study professional photography and printing techniques, then opened his own studio dedicated to architectural photography.

Gérard Philipe

When he was 19 years old, he made his stage debut at a theater in Nice; and the following year his strong performance in the Albert Camus play, Caligula, brought an invitation to work with the Théâtre national populaire (T.N.P.) in Paris and Avignon, whose festival, founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, is France's oldest and most famous.

Grinda Brothers

Both brothers worked as organ-builders mainly in the County of Nice, then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

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Honoré Grinda (30 September 1754 in Nice – 15 June 1843 in Prats-de-Mollo) first learned carpentry with his grandfather, then became an apprentice under Jean-Esprit Isnard, a Dominican from Tarascon near Avignon, himself a noted organ-builder.

Groupes d'Intervention de la Police Nationale

The DCSP has competency in 75 departments and within the territorial services of 7 large provincial towns (Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nice, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Rennes) and overseas (La Réunion, New Caledonia and Antilles- French Guiana).

Harry Bolton Seed

He investigated many major disasters, such as the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake, the 1971 San Fernando earthquake in California, the 1976 failure of the Teton dam, the 1979 slide at the port of Nice in France, and the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.

Helen Fospero

One of Fospero's best roles for Daybreak was in 2012 when she interviewed Elton John at his home in Nice, France, this was Fospero's one and only outside interview that she has done for Daybreak, this interview was broadcast on 20 July 2012.

Henri Christiné

He married a cafe singer whose troupe was passing through Geneva, and went with her to Nice where they were married.

Igor Klipii

He studied law and history at the "Ion Creangă" State University in Chişinău and international relations at the National School of Administration and Political Science of Bucharest (Romania) and the European Institute of High International Studies in Nice (France).

Ivan Lebedeff

His closest relation was given as his sister Nathalie Lebedeff, of Nice, in the south of France.

James Charles Harris

Sir James Charles Harris, KCVO, was British Consul at Nice from 1884 until 1901.

Jean de Reszke

He subsequently busied himself breeding racehorses in Poland and teaching singing in Paris and at Nice on the French Riviera.

John Emlyn-Jones

They had boarded the Air France flight bound for Paris from Nice on the morning of 3 March 1952 but the plane got into trouble soon after take-off and tried to return to the airfield.

John Stenhouse

He left England to convalesce with his mother in Nice (then still part of Italy) until her death in February 1860.

Julia Kavanagh

Julia and her mother were again living in Paris from the early 1860s, but moved to Rouen and then to Nice on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.

Les mousquetaires au couvent

The latest major production seems to have been in Nice in 2001.

Mahen Theatre

In March 1881, a fire in the Théâter Royal in Nice killed almost 200 people.

Mara Darmousli

She entered the contest and won first place in the Greek Elite Model Look final.She then advanced to the Nice International final, held in September in the French Riviera, where she came in third overall in the Pantene contest.

Masamichi Takesaki

In 1970, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice; his talk was about one parameter automorphism groups and states of operator algebras.

Masumi Okada

Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the "Mermaid of Copenhagen" and wife of the statue's sculptor, Edvard Eriksen.

Mercantour National Park

Many of them are perched villages,such as Belvédère at the entrance to the spectacular Gordolasque valley, concealing great architectural riches (numerous churches decorated with murals and altar pieces by primitive Niçois painters).

Mihály Zichy

He left Paris in 1881 and returned to St. Petersburg after short stays in Nice, Vienna and his native Zala.

Neil Lawson Baker

His artistic passion was helped by meeting Adrien Maeght, the famous French art gallery and museum owner, who happened to be competing alongside Neil in the Paris – Nice vintage car rally in 1970 (Neil was a keen competitions driver in vintage cars).

New Apostolic Church

The District Apostles' meeting from 22–24 September 2004 in Nice emphasised again that the Holy Scripture is recognised and regarded as the doctrinal basis of the NAC.

Nicola Perscheid

Subsequently, Perscheid earned his living as an itinerant photographer; he worked, amongst other places, in Saarbrücken, Trier, and Colmar, but also in Nice, Vienna, or Budapest.

Pascal Lissouba

He gained his education at the Lycee Felix Faure in Nice (1948–52), the École Supérieure d'Agriculture in Tunis and the University of Paris (1958–61).

Paul Mansouroff

From the 1950s, he starts making frequent trips to Nice and Saint-Paul de Vence.

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Paul Andréevitch Mansouroff (Павел Мансуров) (Born in Saint-Petersburg in 1896 – died in Nice, France, 2 February 1983) was an understated painter of the Russian avant-garde movement of the 1920s.

Paul Reichard

After his return to Europe, Reichard lived in Nice for a while, then moved to Berlin-Charlottenburg, where he died on 19 September 1938 and was buried in the Southwest Stahnsdorf churchyard.

Phillip Ramey

He studied composition with the Russian-born composer Alexander Tcherepnin from 1959 to 1962, first at the International Academy of Music in Nice, France, then at DePaul University in Chicago.

Pierre Pinoncelli

He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux, the French minister of culture at the time, robbed a bank in Nice of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun, and cut the tip off one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt hostage.

Pursuit of the Deadly Diamonds

That got Richard and his nephew Stephen Lane to fly to Nice, booked into a Hotel Parc and saw from binoculars that Michelle was on board a yacht named Au Revoir.

Pyotr Chikhachyov

Chikhachyov's independent scientific activity began in 1841, when he published geological descriptions of Monte Gargano in South Italy and the environs of city of Nice.

Rachel Khedoori

She has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel and the Kunstverein Braunschweig in 2001, and at Villa Arson in Nice, France in 2004.

Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Provence

He resumed the war with Genoa, but died trying to take Nice in the spring of 1166.

Rocca dei Tre Vescovi

The name, meaning "Rock of the Three Bishops", derives from the fact that the mount is on the intersection point of three Catholic dioceses, those of Cuneo, Nice and Digne.

Russian frigate General Admiral

While in the Mediterranean she made port visits at Beirut, Piraeus and Nice.

Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Nice

Beginning in the mid-19th century, Russian nobility visited Nice and the French Riviera, following the fashion established decades earlier by the English upper class and nobility.

Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco

Their first house outside of Italy was opened in 1877 in Nice, France.

Savivanh Savang

She went into exile in the city of Nice, France, where continued to politically pressure the communist government to provide human rights for women in Laos.

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Princess Savivanh Savang Manivong (1933 – 4 January 2007, Nice) was the daughter of King Savang Vatthana and Queen Khamphoui.

Sisowath Monipong

He began his studies in Cambodia, before being sent to France, in Grasse then in Nice, from 1927, under the control of the Governor of Indochina, François Marius Baudoin.

Stephanos of Tallinn

He was appointed in 1972 as protosyngellos (i.e., episcopal vicar) for the southern region of France, with his base in Nice.

Suzanne Adams

She remained at the Paris Opera for three years and then went to Nice.

Théodore Année

Monsieur Année then spent the next 20 years creating many more cultivars, until retiring to Nice, in Southern France, in 1866.

Vahan Malezian

Vahan Malezian (Armenian Վահան Մալեզեան) (Born Sulina, Romania 1871 - died Nice, France 1966) was an Armenian writer, translator, poet, and social activist.

Waldemar Stoud Platou

After her death he married French citizen Alexandra Henriette Maud de Ciccolini in April 1926 in Nice.

William Mitford

He was encouraged by French scholars whom he met in Paris, Avignon and Nice to give himself systematically to the study of Greek history.

Yves Brayer

He also created murals and wall ornamentations, tapestry cartoons, maquettes, sets, and costumes for the Théâtre Français and the operas of Paris, Amsterdam, Nice, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Avignon.


Balázs Kiss

His season's best throw was 81.76 metres, achieved in July in Nice.

Balksbury

It was a large hillfort first occupied in the Late Bronze Age, and probably had rather a nice view over the confluence of Pillhill brook and the River Anton, below and to the southeast.

Craig Huffer

In October 2011 turned professional joining the Very Nice Track Club to train under Ron Warhurst in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Drugs Are Nice

Drugs Are Nice is the memoir of Lisa Crystal Carver published by Soft Skull Press in the US in 2005 and by Snowbooks in the UK in 2006, detailing her early childhood and later romantic relationships with Costes, Boyd Rice and Smog's Bill Callahan.

Fadagh

Balangestan is a place with nice weather at 5 km north of Fedagh.

Ferrari 166 S

The song, "Red Barchetta", a futuristic story of man against an oppressive society, was inspired by Richard S Foster's "A Nice Morning Drive", a short story published in November, 1973 issue of the magazine Road and Track.

Flora Perini

Over the next several years she appeared in operas in Nice, Venice, Triest, Turin, Bologna, Madrid, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.

Freygolo

Active members of the rising generation of groups, these musicians from Nice (South-East France) have earned a reputation for being a strong live group, speaking with groups such as: Burning Heads, Uncommonmenfrommars, Satanic Surfers, Mad Caddies, Less Than Jake, Big D and The Kids Table, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Mustard Plug, Authority Zero, and Hot Water Music.

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

The first pressing of the Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga CD release included the bonus EP Get Nice!, which contains alternative versions of "I Summon You" (from the previous album Gimme Fiction) and "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb".

Gare du Sud

After World War II, the line to Meyrargues remained closed, leaving the Nice-Digne service.

Golf Punk

Golf Punk magazine was launched by Tim Southwell and John Dean through their Keep Yourself Nice Ltd company in 2004, after securing investment from initially Premier League footballers Michael Gray, Thomas Sørensen, Phil Babb, Jason McAteer and Steven Wright, and then Genesis Investments (part of Chris Ingram's investment portfolio).

Heli Air Monaco

On 8 June 2004, a Heli Air Monaco Ecureuil on a scheduled flight from Monaco to Nice crashed into the sea 2.16 kilometres off Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, killing the pilot and four passengers.

Helidon Gjergji

Among many other exhibitions he has participated at the Venice Biennale 52 (curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Manifesta 8; Present Future, Artissima 10 (Turin), curated by Emma Dexter, the Tirana Biennale 1 (curated by Francesco Bonami); Venice Biennale of Architecture 12 (curated by Gjergj Bakallbashi), Madre, (MCA, Naples); Apexart (NYC); National Gallery (Tirana); Villa Arson; Centre d'Art Contemporain (Nice); Lothringer Dreizehn Kunsthalle (Munich); The Kosova Art Gallery.

Jason and Iyare

Jason Mitchell is known in London's Hip Hop & R'n'B scene as a co-founder of the DJ team Twice Ez Nice in 1989 With DJ/Producer Ollie Twist.

José Luccioni

After retirement, he served as Director of the Opéra de Nice.

Kenneth Lee Spencer

In 1949 Spencer's life changed after performing in Europe for the first time at the International Music Festival in Nice.

Languages of Monaco

French is the only official language in Monaco, a result of the role France has had over the microstate (see Franco-Monegasque Treaty) since the annexation of Nice and the Nizzardo (the territory surrounding Monaco), then culturally and ethnically Italian, as part of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia.

Levens

At the end of the 14th century, the destiny of Levens was linked to the whole County of Nice, which parted with Provence to form an alliance with Savoy on the initiative of the powerful John All Saints' Day, baron of Beuil, whose eldest son later became lord of Levens.

Liz Tilberis

Beatrix Miller, then editor-in-chief, noticed how nice and enthusiastic Liz was, and was promoted to fashion assistant in 1970.

Louise-Victorine Ackermann

She was born in Nice, but spent her younger days in more rural surroundings near Montdidier, south-east of Amiens.

Marian Farquharson

However, as a result of her health, she never signed the Society's roll for admission dying in Nice on 20 April 1912.

Monkee Flips

The album cover showed a still of the Monkees (with Peter Tork playing a banjo), from the television episode "It's A Nice Place To Visit".

Neagu Djuvara

He attended lycée in Nice, France, and graduated in Letters (1937) and Law (1940) from the University of Paris (his Law thesis dealt with the antisemitic legislation passed by the governments of King Carol II in Romania).

New Year's resolution

A New Year's resolution is a secular tradition, most common in the Western Hemisphere but also found in the Eastern Hemisphere, in which a person makes a promise to do an act of self-improvement or something slightly nice, such as opening doors for people beginning from New Year's Day.

Nice Work

Morris Zapp makes a cameo appearance in the last part of Nice Work, to add a plot twist where he tries to arrange for Robyn to have a job interview at his American university, Euphoric State (a fictionalized UC Berkeley), in order to stop his ex-wife from being a candidate for an open faculty position.

Noel Larkin

"We played exceptionally well though and held them scoreless for most of the game. I think we conceded three in the last 20 minutes or so. We just caved in a bit. I played in the middle of midfield that night and marked Gianni Rivera, he was Italy's World Cup captain and was making his Milan return that night. That's why there was so many people in the stadium. He is a Milan legend. He came up to me after the game and told me I played well. That was nice and I'll never forget it."

Panait Istrati

Living in misery, ill and depressed, he attempted suicide in 1921 on his way to Nice, but his life was rescued in time.

Peter Windsor

Shortly before the start of the 1986 season, Windsor was in an automobile accident when the car he was riding in with Frank Williams crashed on the way from the Paul Ricard Circuit in southern France to the Nice airport, causing Windsor minor injuries but leaving Williams, who was driving, paralysed.

Saint-Martin-Vésubie

The sympathy of the Italian authorities was mainly due to the work of the Italian Jewish banker Angelo Donati, who was living in Nice and convinced them to protect the Jews from French and German persecution.

Sir George Honyman, 4th Baronet

His father, Sir Ord Honyman, 3rd Baronet, born 25 March 1794, became lieutenant-colonel commanding the Grenadier Guards 27 December 1850, and died at Nice 27 January 1863, having married, 7 April 1818, Elizabeth Essex, youngest daughter of George Bowen of Coton Hall, Shropshire, an Admiral of the Red.

SNCF Class BB 22200

After the first test held in 1976, the BB 22200 were introduced on the Marseille–Nice–Ventimiglia line in southern France–northern Italy.

Tende

Tende has a railway station on the Nice/Ventimiglia-Breil-Cuneo line run by the SNCF, with connecting service from Ventimiglia/Nice in the southwest to Turin to the north.

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things is the first studio album released by the Brighton, Massachusetts band The Luxury.

Tony DeSare

With a sexy, distinctive sound, Tony’s 2007 recording, Last First Kiss, spotlights a refreshingly contemporary combination of originals and standards, from Prince’s “Kiss” and Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move” to classics like “You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To” and Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen’s under-recorded gem “Come On Strong.”

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DeSare’s 2007 recording, Last First Kiss, includes a contemporary combination of originals and standards, from Prince’s "Kiss" and Carole King’s "I Feel the Earth Move" to classics like "You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To”" and Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen’s "Come On Strong".

Trey Lorenz

He also appeared on Redhead Kingpin and the F.B.I.'s 1991 sophomore album The Album With No Name on the songs "It's A Love Thang (Word)", "Nice And Slow" and "Get It Together".

William Link

They also collaborated on several made-for-TV movies, including The Gun, My Sweet Charlie, That Certain Summer, The Judge and Jake Wyler, The Execution of Private Slovik, Charlie Cobb: A Nice Night for a Hanging, and Blacke's Magic; the last, which starred Hal Linden and Harry Morgan, was also developed into a short-lived TV series.

William Messing

In his thesis, Messing elaborated on Grothendieck's 1970 lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice on p-divisible groups (Barsotti–Tate groups) that are important in algebraic geometry in prime characteristic, which were introduced in the 1950s by Dieudonné in his study of Lie algebras over fields of finite characteristic.