One force attempted to advance through the Alps and another force attempted to advance along the Mediterranean coast towards Nice.
Four events occurred in Nice on October 16, 1979: a landslide at the Nice airport, an aseismic submarine landslide, and two tsunamis that struck the coast.
In the week leading up to the race, Coulthard was leasing the Learjet of friend David Murray when the aeroplane developed engine trouble en route to Côte d'Azur International Airport in Nice, and crashed while attempting an emergency landing at Lyon-Satolas Airport, France.
By winning the peloton sprint in Saint-Amand-Montrond ahead of Allan Davis, Tom Boonen (who finished fifth in the prologue stage five seconds down on Bobby Julich) took over the yellow/white jersey due to the time bonus awarded to stage winners.
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.
Vicari currently lives and works at his studio outside Nice, France, although he also owns apartments in Riyadh and Monte Carlo.
France's other motivations in concluding this agreement with Italy were to settle the status of the Italian Tunisian community in its protectorate of the country, to remove irredentist Italian claims to Nice, and to prevent Italy from growing closer to Nazi Germany by keeping it closely aligned with France and the United Kingdom (the Stresa Front).
In 1930 he settled permanently in Nice, France, where he died; he took an active part in musical and cultural exchanges between France and Finland.
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.
His season's best throw was 81.76 metres, achieved in July in Nice.
He holds the world junior record in 1000 metres with 2:15.00 minutes, achieved on 17 July 1999 in Nice.
The Golf Club of the Montecchia and the Pap Group with three hotels in Nice and one in Lyon are bought.
Heard was born in Nice, France on March 9, 1957 to his French mother and U. S. Navy officer father.
Originally used for a single horse drawn enclosed carriage for 2-4 people, the “Brougham” owes its name to a British statesman, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, whose second claim to fame is having given to the sea-front drive, in Nice in the South of France, the nickname of Promenade des Anglais (the "promenade where the English stroll").
Originally an enclosed carriage, drawn by a single horse, for 2–4 persons, “Brougham” owes its name to a British statesman, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, whose second claim to fame is having given to the sea-front drive, in Nice, in the South of France, the nickname of Promenade des Anglais (the "promenade where the English stroll").
As mentioned, he contributed to the artistic decoration of Saint Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow, and Helsinki Cathedral, in present-day Finland, as well as churches outside the Russian empire - e.g. in Nice, France and Wiesbaden, present-day Germany.
After this he lost his interest in aviation, eventually moving to Nice in his old age, where he died in 1959 having made a fortune in property development in the UK and US.
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.
In 1921 Darmonts took the first three places in a road race from Paris to Nice.
Nine aircraft that survived the war were operated on the Paris-Nice service for several months.
Dick Rivers (born Hervé Fornieri, 24 April 1945, Nice, France) is a French singer and actor who has been performing since the early 1960s.
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.
KTB, the country’s largest private bus operator with a fleet of 1,500 vehicles, runs the Transnasional, Nice, Plusliner and Cityliner companies.
Returning to Europe in 1889, he published a newspaper called L'Associazione in Nice until he was forced to flee to London.
The European Masters Games are held once every four year, with the next games being held in 2015 in Nice, France.
Over the next several years she appeared in operas in Nice, Venice, Triest, Turin, Bologna, Madrid, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.
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.
Most recently, a few members of the band performed at the Mardi Gras celebrations in Nice in February 2006.
He was born in Nice, France in 1940, of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine Jewish parents.
During this time, she won the Academy's award and a scholarship of the Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk (German-French Youth Promotion) for a stay of three years at Villa Arson in Nice (France).
Paillet moved to the Lyon Hockey Club in 2007 where he was part of the vice-champion squad that lost to Nice in the final game of the playoff series.
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.
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.
From 1880 to 1884, he led Baron von Derwies' private orchestra at Nice after which he was violin teacher at the Winterthur Conservatoire in Switzerland until 1887.
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.
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.
In 1937, Henry, his parents, and his elder brother René fled the Nazi regime by moving first to Nice, France, where they lived for 18 months, and then to São Paulo, Brazil.
The Kaiser referred to the city as "The Nice of the North", which gave a tremendous boost to the city's desirability as a tourist destination.
In 1896 Charles Albrecht composed a new arrangement for piano, published by Tihebaux in Paris and called Air National de Monaco; in 1897 Decourcelle of Nice, printed an edition called 429 Hymne National de Monaco for piano.
The second is in Rome University "Sapienza" and the third and fourth ones are being established in Nice and Rio de Janeiro.
This Brigasc dialect has reduced its area in the last centuries, but was present in the hinterland of Nice from La Turbie up to Escragnolles during the late Middle Ages.
The 10th last edition (CIBB 2013) was organized in Nice, France, in June 2013 by Enrico Formenti from the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
After World War I ended, in 1919 he moved to France, where he mostly lived in Nice until 1922 when he moved back to Dubrovnik.
He subsequently busied himself breeding racehorses in Poland and teaching singing in Paris and at Nice on the French Riviera.
He played only one season in Caen before leaving for Nice where his two seasons saw the team rise from FFHG Division 2 to Division 1.
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.
He left England to convalesce with his mother in Nice (then still part of Italy) until her death in February 1860.
After retirement, he served as Director of the Opéra de Nice.
In 1949 Spencer's life changed after performing in Europe for the first time at the International Music Festival in Nice.
The latest major production seems to have been in Nice in 2001.
In the years between 1926 and 1933 Bruna Rasa sang throughout Italy as well as in Montecarlo, Nice, Lausanne and Barcelona where she sang Aida at the city's Gran Teatre del Liceu.
In the middle of the season, Haifa's excellent striker Alon Mizrahi left for French club Nice resulting in a defeat in the CWC quarter final and a slump in the club's league performance.
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.
He was born in Nice (de Niza means of Nice in Spanish)), which was at that time under the control of the Italian House of Savoy.
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.
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).
When Jellinek received his first Simplex on 1 March 1902 at Nice, he rushed to incorporate it into his Mercedes race team, competing in the Nice-La Turbie hillclimbing race.
He left Paris in 1881 and returned to St. Petersburg after short stays in Nice, Vienna and his native Zala.
Miķelis Valters (formerly, and as an author in German, Walters) (May 7, 1874 in Liepāja - – March 27, 1968 in Nice) was a prominent Latvian politician, diplomat, writer, and editor.
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).
The Genoese Riviera, Nice, Gastein, and other German spas are the frequent background of his later verse.
He studied law and history at the "Ion Creangă" State University in Chişinău and international relations at the European Institute of High International Studies in Nice, France.
On 21 January 1874, his father, Daniel Joseph Jaffe died in Nice.
Living in misery, ill and depressed, he attempted suicide in 1921 on his way to Nice, but his life was rescued in time.
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.
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.
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.
He resumed the war with Genoa, but died trying to take Nice in the spring of 1166.
Born in Nice, Pellegrin made his screen debut in the 1945 French feature Naïs.
Latterly the family resided almost continually in Nice and Paris.
Their first house outside of Italy was opened in 1877 in Nice, France.
Princess Savivanh Savang Manivong (1933 – 4 January 2007, Nice) was the daughter of King Savang Vatthana and Queen Khamphoui.
After the first test held in 1976, the BB 22200 were introduced on the Marseille–Nice–Ventimiglia line in southern France–northern Italy.
Stefano Rossetto (also Rossetti) (fl. 1560–1580) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, born in Nice, who worked mainly in Florence for the powerful Medici family, and in Munich.
Later, he visits Lady Mary Percy, whom he had met in Nice four years back.
Monsieur Année then spent the next 20 years creating many more cultivars, until retiring to Nice, in Southern France, in 1866.
In 1970, he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Nice (scattering theory and perturbation of continuous spectra).
Urago was a famous "handmade" bicycle maker in the French bicycle industry located in the city of Nice, in the French Riviera on the Boulevard du Riquier.
After her death he married French citizen Alexandra Henriette Maud de Ciccolini in April 1926 in Nice.
Shortly before World War II erupted, he was again imprisoned in Nice for a duration of 30 days—it was then that he authored his second novel, Mon espace vital.
He was encouraged by French scholars whom he met in Paris, Avignon and Nice to give himself systematically to the study of Greek history.
Yvonne Thomas (1913 Nice - August 7, 2009 Aspen, Colorado) was an American abstract artist.
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The 2011 FIM Nice Italian Speedway Grand Prix was the sixth race of the 2011 Speedway Grand Prix season.
It was recorded at the same sessions that produced Nice, making it a companion piece to that album, and was released directly by Rollins' 2.13.61 label.
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.
In February 1948, with encouragement from Hugues Panassié, the orchestra played at the first jazz festival in Nice, with immediate success.
The former president of U.S. operations for Davidoff, a Swiss maker of luxury goods including premium Cuban cigars, praised Connecticut shade tobacco as "A nice Connecticut wrapper" and "…very silky, very fine. From a marketing point of view, it is considered at the moment to be one of the best tasting and looking wrappers available" in a Cigar Aficionado article on why the world's best cigars use Connecticut tobacco wrapper leaves.
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.
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.
The service began by operating night-time departures calling between ports in St. Tropez, Cannes, Nice, Monaco, Imperia, Genoa and Portofino in the summer.
Balangestan is a place with nice weather at 5 km north of Fedagh.
Born in Nice, Fourdrain had his earliest musical training at the Ecole de Musique Classique et Religieuse (L'École Niedermeyer) in Paris.
After World War II, the line to Meyrargues remained closed, leaving the Nice-Digne service.
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).
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.
Nice & Nasty was member DJ of the group Double Duce, he performed with MC Mighty Rock and recorded scratching effects at Henry Stone's (of TK Records fame) studio in Miami for Amos Larkins production of School Breakdown and later on Fresh Out the Box today considered among the early titles categorized as Proto-Bass contributing to the development of Miami Bass.
He has met the Loch Ness Monster, had a close encounter ('of the 22nd kind, That's when an alien spaceship, Disappears up your behind!'), seen unicorns in Burma, met a working Yorkshire miner and had sunstroke in the Arctic, but despite all these exotic experiences, he has never met a nice South African.
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).
Sir James Charles Harris, KCVO, was British Consul at Nice from 1884 until 1901.
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.
In the fall of 1918, the couple moved to the warmer climate of Nice on the French Riviera where Modigliani's agent hoped he might raise his profile by selling some of his works to the wealthy art connoisseurs who wintered there.
They also performed a cover of Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" with fellow Sony Music Japan artist Mika Nakashima, which was released on the Katteni-Shiyagare tribute album and also included with her single Eien no Uta.
Beatrix Miller, then editor-in-chief, noticed how nice and enthusiastic Liz was, and was promoted to fashion assistant in 1970.
She was born in Nice, but spent her younger days in more rural surroundings near Montdidier, south-east of Amiens.
In 1898 the company engineer, a M. Serex, designed a flat-twin car which ran in the Marseille-Nice Race of that year; this, too, was built along the lines of a Benz.
However, as a result of her health, she never signed the Society's roll for admission dying in Nice on 20 April 1912.
Camel Meriem (born 1979), a footballer who plays for Ligue 1 club Nice
Michel Kitabdjian (born 7 May 1930 in Nice) was the French referee who officiated the infamous 1975 European Cup Final between Leeds United and Bayern Munich in which he had disallowed a goal by Leeds United's Peter Lorimer for offside and denied Leeds two penalty appeals as Franz Beckenbauer first handled the ball in the box and then brought down Allan Clarke in a tackle.
The Nice Observatory was featured in the unsuccessful 1999 film Simon Sez.
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.
The airline has launched 22 new destinations since 2010, with nine more destinations announced: Ankara, Aleppo, Bangalore, Barcelona, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hanoi, Montreal, Nice, Phuket, São Paulo, Shiraz, Kolkata, Medina, Oslo, Sofia, Stuttgart, Venice and Tokyo.
The first disc featured the recent hits, including Konshens’ “Gal a Bubble” and ”Do Sum'n”, Popcaan’s “Only Man She Want”, Busy Signal’s “Come Over (Missing You)”, Cham’s “Wine”, Sean Paul’s “She Doesn't Mind”, Potential Kidd’s “Yah Suh Nice”, Christopher Martin’s “Cheater's Prayer”, Tarrus Riley’s “Not Missing You”, Gyptian’s “Overtime” and more.
Roger Martin du Gard died in 1958 and was buried in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in Cimiez, a suburb of the city of Nice, France.
Moreover, he taught in many universities, namely in Syracuse (Italy), Nice, Aix en Provence and Strasbourg (France), Ben Aknoune (Algeria), and others.
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.
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.
He directed Ballets Russes companies, which performed under a variety of different names, until his death in Nice in 1951.
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.