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La Villa Santo Sospir is a 35-minute amateur or home film directed by Jean Cocteau in which Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of Francine Weisweiller's villa on the French coast, a major location later used in his film Testament of Orpheus (1960).
Fossett was a famous businessman and record breaking aviator who went missing on September 3, 2007, while flying over the Great Basin Desert. Exactly one year later, in September 2008, a hiker found Fossett's identification cards in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, leading shortly after to the discovery of the plane's wreckage. The ...
Villa Fallet is a traditional chalet located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland designed and built by the eighteen-year-old Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887–1965), who later became better known as Le Corbusier. Jeanneret was teaching himself architecture by going to the library to read about architecture and philosophy, by visiting museums, by ...
Currently, the Sơn La Provincial Museum still stores some black flags with embroidered white snakes, which are symbols of the land. In the 1952 Nasan campaign (" cassava field" in Tai language ), Mộc Châu was used by Vietminh forces as a military supply center to quickly cut off the "stomach" of the French armies ( CEFEO ) in the Northwest ...
Villa Schwob also Villa Turque is a house located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland designed by noted architect Le Corbusier. [1] It was commissioned in 1912 by the watchmaker Anatole Schwob, and completed in 1917.
The Villa Ispahan at 57 Boulevard du Jardin Exotique is a Persian style Belle Époque building in Moneghetti, Monaco. It was built in 1910 by the Persian diplomat Prince Arfa Mirza Riza Khan . [ 1 ] The villa is modelled on the Shah Mosque in Isfahan in Iran, with blue minarets.
Around the same time Michel Leneuf de la Vallière de Beaubassin set up a fur-trading post on the isthmus, while devoting part of his time to the fishing, farming, settlement, and soldiering. Following success in the latter activity, in 1676 governor Frontenac granted him 100 square leagues land which became the Beaubassin seigneury . [ 3 ]
A Chau (Chinese: 鴉洲) is a small uninhabited island in the inner most of Starling Inlet (Sha Tau Kok Hoi), off Nam Chung, [1] in the north-eastern New Territories of Hong Kong. It is under the administration of North District , and falls within the Closed Area .