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Eugène Mercier (1838-1904) is a French entrepreneur and a founder of a champagne company named after him. He is considered the inventor of film advertising. Champagne Mercier. Mercier Champagne House was founded in 1858. It is located in Epernay. Mercier was a small business that was part of the "Owners' Union". In 1871, he began digging huge cellars and construction of the world's largest barrel. In 1885, cellars were opened to the public. Mercier installed advanced electrical equipment (firstly for that period), as well as a steam generator to illuminate the cellars. In 1887, his barrel's tightness was tested with a new annual grape harvest. Mercier arranged for his barrel to be moved to Paris for the 1889 World's Fair. In 1891, French President Sadi Carnot visited the cellars and an excursion was organized for him. Film advertising. In 1900, Paris hosted the last world exhibition of the XIX century. Eugene Mercier appreciated the potential of the Lumière brothers. He asked them to make a film about the Mercier champagne house, in which the owner himself appears on the screen. The world's first film commercial was shown during the world exhibition. Enthusiastic about balloons, Eugene Mercier had an idea to consolidate the advertising of his company during the international exhibition. He secured a tethered balloon on the Field of Mars, loaded with bottles of champagne. During the 1900 World's Fair, the balloon was blown away by 20,000 people.
Pierre Danon is a French entrepreneur. He is Chairman of the Board of the "Volia Group" of Companies, Deputy Chairman of the Board of "TDC A / S" (Denmark), Non-Executive Director of Standard Life in Scotland, Chairman of the Board of "Ypso Holding" And "Altice B2B Holding" (owned by the French operators "Numericable" and "Completel"), a member of the board of directors of "Ciel Investment Limited". Biography. Perre Danon was born in 1956 in France. He holds a degree in civil engineering from the École des Ponts ParisTech and a Master of Law degree from the Faculty of Law Panthéon-Assas University. Pierre Danon also completed an MBA course at HEC Paris. Career. He began his career in 1981 as a financial analyst at "Rank Xerox." Pierre Danon has held various management positions, including CEO in Belgium, the Benelux countries, Switzerland and Austria, as vice president of "Xerox Production Systems", and president of "Xerox Channels Group" in Rochester and New York. He was also a member of the company's strategic strategy committee, managing changes in the company in Europe (launching new products and business solutions). In 1998, he was appointed President of Xerox Europe, headquartered in the United Kingdom. In September 2000, he became CEO of BT Retail. From April 2004 to March 2008, Pierre Danon served as the non-executive director of the British multimedia company Emap Plc. In March 2005, Pierre Danon was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Capgemini Group. In November 2005, Pierre Danon became Senior Adviser to Walter Gubert, President of JPMorgan Europe-Middle East-Africa. From August 2006 to October 2008, Pierre Danon served as President of Eircom. In early 2008, Pierre Danon was appointed CEO of Ciel Investment Limited in Port Louis, Mauritius. In May 2008 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Board of TDC A / S, Denmark.  On
Étienne Lenoir (12 January 1822 – 4 August 1900) is French inventor (80 patents) and entrepreneur. Lenoir was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor and received French citizenship. Biography. Étienne Lenoir was born in Mussy-la-Ville (part of the Belgian Province of Luxembourg). In 1838, he moved to France and in 1870 Lenoir became a resident in Paris. He was interested in electroplating and made several electrical inventions, including an improved electric telegraph. On 16 July 1900, Lenoir received an award from the ACF (Automobile Club de France). It was a vermeil plate with the inscription, "In recognition of his great merits as an inventor of the gas engine and builder of the first car in the world." Étienne Lenoir died in La Varenne-Sainte-Hilaire on 4 August, 1900. Lenoir engine. In 1859, Lenoir invented the first internal combustion engine now known as the "Lenoir engine". Next year he received a patent for "an air motor expanded by gas combustion" from "Conservatoire national des arts et métiers", no. N.43624. In 1863, he created a car on that engine, in 1866 he designed a motorboat. In 2 years, 143 engines were sold in Paris, and production of "Lenoir Gas Engines" had begun.
Bouillancourt-la-Bataille is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France. In 2018, 156 people lived there. Geography. The commune is about southeast of Amiens.
Plane Crazy is an animated movie made in 1928. It had Mickey Mouse in it. It was made in 1928, but it was not shown to the public until 1929. So it was the first Mickey Mouse film made but the fourth one shown. Plot. At a farm, a mouse named Mickey wants to be like Charles Lindbergh so he builds an airplane but it falls apart so Mickey builds a second plane out of a car and accidentally hits a cow with it. A female mouse named Minnie gives Micky a horseshoe for good luck so Micky brings her on the plane with him. Micky tries to kiss Minnie but she won’t let him so Micky starts driving the plane at a very high speed and she falls out and Micky takes her back into the plane. Minnie doesn’t want to kiss Micky but Micky kisses her anyway so she slaps him in the face. Minnie jumps out of the plane and uses her bloomers as a parachute. Mickey’s plane falls apart and Mickey lands on the ground. Mickey sees Minnie and laughs at her so she leaves. Mickey angrily throws the horseshoe in the air but then it hits him in the head.  Influence. After Plane Crazy, Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks made The Gallopin Gaucho and then Steamboat Willie.
Samantha Jane Robson (born 22 March 1966 in Wandswoth, London) is a British actress who played WPC Vicky Hagen in "The Bill" from 1998 to 2001 and Sloan Peterson in "Ferris Bueller". She has also appeared in the 2006 movie "A Good Year".
Chowkur is one the remotest Tibetan settlements surrounded by number of Indian Villages. It is in Taluk of Periyapatna of Mysuru District, Karnataka state in Southern India. Chowkur is small village specifically for the Tibetan refugees, who have escaped Tibet from Chinese Oppression in 1959. The area of the settlement is 5 km2 (4 sq. mi), which was allotted for first Tibetan refugees who migrated from North India. The pin code of Chowkur is 571107 of Periyapatna post. Chowkur has two camps with 80 houses History. Chowkur was formed in 1975, when many Tibetan refugees moved from northern part of India. Around 500 Tibetan refugees were relocated to Chowkur from Northern part of India such as Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, and Assam. Chowkur has two Tibetan settlements known as Rabtenling and Phuntsokling, which is also known as camp one and two. The settlement is named after a nearby place called Anna Chowkur. Government of Karnataka has provided housing facilities and field for cultivation to Tibetans with the help of other NGOs for the survival. During the early years, many of them survived with collecting woods from the nearby forest for cooking and slowly developed by owning gases. The history of Tibetan refugees settled in Chowkur itself is the history of its people as many does not know much about this remote settlement, not even other Tibetans. The history of Chowkur is recollection of memories of first-generation Tibetan refugee and official records. Population. The total population (2011) estimated is 700 number. Due to large number of Tibetan moving to west, the number of populations has been lessening. During the initial years, the population was less but, there was more birth rates in 80s and population increased. Today, the population can be estimated to 500 in decreasing number. The population record in Chowkur is collected by both Karnataka Government and CTA. The above estimated population record is referred in CTA population census. The population in other Tibetan settlement is more in number than Chowkur as the size of population has always been less. Language. The Official Language spoken in the neighboring area is
Nippon musekinin jidai (ニッポン無責任時代, "Irresponsible Era of Japan") is a 1962 Japanese comedy film directed by Kengo Furusawa. It became one of the most popular comedy films in Japan with the box office earning around ¥350 million ($3,343,567.50 in US dollar). The Crazy Cats comic jazz band and their featured singer Hitoshi Ueki did not invent the local genre of the "salaryman" comedy but they were its face in the 1960s. This film established Ueki's comic persona as a salaryman who would goof off at work and yet somehow always come out ahead, every so often bursting into one of his well-known Japanese folk-inflected songs while dancing something like the twist. The first in a series of "Irresponsible" films whose comic songs formed the soundtrack of Japan's high economic growth. Overview. This movie was shot in color and cinemascope (TohoScope). The musical themes are "Irresponsible Ichidai Otoko" and "Hello, Until Then". This was the first memorable movie of the Crazy Movie series. The Crazy Cats, which became popular on "Shabontama Holiday" (Nippon TV) at that time, especially Hitoshi Ueki's big hit appearance on "Sudara Bushi". The series involved three main actresses (Sonomi Nakajima, Noriko Shigeyama, Reiko Dan), but it became unexpectedly popular, and 30 more were produced up to "Nippon ichi no shokku otoko" (directed by Takashi Tsuboshima) in 1971. In this play, Yasuo Tanami, who was an employee of the Toho Literature Club at the time, was originally involved in planning the President's Series, wrote the draft of the "Irresponsible Employee" as the antithesis of a loyal member of the company. They sold it as a project for a movie starring Frankie Sakai, but the idea was scrapped due to poorly script writing, and when he left it as it was, producer Eizaburō Adachi asked
Student of the Year is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama movie directed by Karan Johar, based on a story by Johar and a script by Rensil D'Silva and Niranjan Iyengar, and produced by Hiroo Yash Johar under the banner of Dharma Productions and Gauri Khan under Red Chillies Entertainment. The movie stars Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan in the lead roles, and Rishi Kapoor, Sana Saeed, Ronit Roy, Sahil Anand, Ram Kapoor and Farida Jalal are all playing major supporting roles, with Boman Irani, Kajol, Farah Khan and Vaibhavi Merchant in guest appearances. This movie marks the debuts of Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan. Notably, this is also the first of several collaborations of Bhatt and Dhawan. The film's plot is this - The friendship of Abhi (Sidharth Malhotra) and Rohan (Varun Dhawan) is shaken when Abhi falls for their mutual friend, Shanaya (Alia Bhatt). "Student of the Year" was released on 19 October 2012 in over 1400 locations across India. The movie received positive reviews and was successful at the box office as well as one of the highest-grossing Bollywood movies of 2012. An unrelated sequel, "Student of the Year 2", was released on 10 May 2019, starring Tiger Shroff alongside debutantes Tara Sutaria and Ananya Panday. Bhatt made a special appearance in the music video of a song in the end credits. The sequel didn't do as well as this movie but it was still successful at the box office.
eFootball PES 2021 Season Update is a football simulation video game of the "eFootball Pro Evolution Soccer" series, developed by PES Productions and published by Konami for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Android, Xbox One. It is the 20th installment named with PES and the 25th installment named with Winning Eleven (excluding J.League and semi-annual improved versions) in Japan. It is an updated edition of "eFootball PES 2020" (released in September 2019) containing the latest player data and club rosters.Lionel Messi as the cover star of the standard edition, alongside Pro Evolution Soccer ambassadors Cristiano Ronaldo, Alphonso Davies and Marcus Rashford, each representing one of the game's partner clubs. Trivia. In 2020 many sports games series by Konami was adding to E at the start of all sports games by Konami such as Pro Evolution Soccer changed the name.
Krrish is a 2006 Hindi-language superhero film directed, produced, and written by Rakesh Roshan. Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra are the lead roles. Naseeruddin Shah, Rekha, Manini Mishra, Archana Puran Singh and Sharat Saxena are in the supporting roles. This movie is a sequel to Koi... Mil Gaya. The film had a global release on June 23, 2006. It received positive reviews and went on to become a blockbuster. It was the third highest-grossing Indian film of the year. The movie followed with Krrish 3 in 2013. Also, in 2013, Toonz Animation India produced a Indian animated television film series of 4 Indian animated films that are also a part of the Krrish franchise.. They focus on the adventures on the kid version of Krrish, which is why it is called Kid Krrish. A fourth sequel to this film titled Krrish 4 is also in development, which will be released on December 30, 2022. Plot. A young man named Krrish has inherited supernatural powers thanks to his father's encounter with an alien.
The Battle of Futamata was fought in the Oshima Province on April 13 - April 29, 1869 and was one of the battles during the Battle of Hakodate. The remnant of the Bakufu Army set up a defense around and used variety of weapons (katanas, , and ) against Japanese forces who were marching to the two-pronged entrance leading to Hakodate, and blocked the advance of the new government army for two weeks.  Background. On April 9, 1869, 1,500 Japanese troops landed in and began marching toward Hakodate from three routes. One of them, Futamata, was the shortest route to Hakodate, and was the only place that crossed the pass from Inakuraishi between Futamata to Onomura. The commander was Masagorō Komai, a samurai. There were 500 and Choshu clan soldiers. The former Shogunate Army, was greeted by a Vice-Commander, leading 300 samurais, two platoons of the Shinsengumi and two regiments of the Ezo training infantry. They arrived in two days on April 10 and set up headquarters in Daibayama.  The Bakufu Army set up 16 around Daibayama and waited for the enemy.  Battle. At 3:00 pm on April 13, the Japanese army started marching from to the captured Tenguyama position and launched an attack on Odaiba. The former Shogunate Army defended Odaiba with rifles using the battlement as a shield, and a fierce shooting battle occurred. The Japanese army, superior in number, changed soldiers one after another and repeated attacks, and the Bakufu rebels, which greeted them, continued to attack them while taking breaks with two platoons taking turns. When it started to rain around sunset, the army put on a jacket to protect the ammunition from getting wet, and when the bullets got wet, they were put in pockets and dried.  The next day, around 7 am on the 14th, the Imperialist army were exhausted and withdrew to Inakuraishi. In
Total SA or Total () is one of the world's biggest oil and gas company. It was created in 1924. Total has also activities in chemistry. In December 2022, the NGOs Friends of the Earth, Survie and four Ugandan NGOs sent the oil group Total to court and accused it of violating the law on the duty of vigilance of large French companies in terms of human rights and environment..
The 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship was the inaugural staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship and was held in Tunisia from 27 June to 10 July 1977. The tournament took place in three venues — Tunis, Sousse and Sfax — where a total of 28 matches were played, the smallest number in its history. The winner was the USSR, who beat Mexico in a penalty shootout, in the final held at Tunis's Stade El Menzah. The Tournament Committee was chaired by FIFA Vice-President Harry Cavan, who had spearheaded the creation of the World Youth Championship. Squads. For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see "1977 FIFA World Youth Championship squads" Group stage. The group winners advanced directly to the semifinals.
At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, Great Britain, an official football tournament between national representative selections was contested for the first time: football at the two previous games had been played between club teams. Eight teams entered (including two from France, the main team and a "B" side).
Bovelles is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France. In 2018, 431 people lived there. Geography. The commune is about west of Amiens.
Baseball had its first appearance at the 1912 Summer Olympics as an exhibition sport. A game was played between the United States, the nation where the game was developed, and Sweden, the host nation. The game was held on Monday, 15 July 1912 and started at 10 a.m. on the Ostermalm Athletic Grounds in Stockholm. The Americans were represented by various members of the American Olympic track and field athletics delegation, while the Swedish team was the Vesterås Baseball Club, which had been formed in 1910 as the first baseball club in Sweden. Four of the Americans played for Sweden, as the Swedish pitchers and catchers were inexperienced. One Swede eventually relieved Adams and Nelson, the American pitchers. Six innings were played, with the Americans not batting in the sixth and allowing the Swedes to have six outs in their half of the inning. The game was umpired by George Wright, a retired American National League baseball player. Second match. On the next day Tuesday, 16 July 1912 in the evening, two American teams played a second exhibition match.
Men's association football (soccer) was contested at the 1904 Summer Olympics. A total of three club teams competed, two representing the United States, both from host city St. Louis, and one representing Canada, from Galt (now Cambridge), Ontario. Originally two other Canadian teams had also been scheduled for the competition, Berlin Rangers and the University of Toronto, but both withdrew before the competition.&lt; The 1904 Olympic Games were spread over several months, linked to the St. Louis World's Fair, and football, in November, was the last sport to be contested. The tournament was played as a straight round-robin, although the game between Christian Brothers College and St. Rose Parish was replayed due to a draw in their first game. Medal summary. Medal table. According to a report in the Toronto Mail and Empire newspaper of November 18, 1904, medals were awarded to the players in St. Louis. The report states that "Immediately after the game, the Galt aggregation, numbering about 50 persons, retired to the office of James E. Sullivan, chief of the Department of Physical Culture, where they received their prize. After a talk by Mr. James A. Conlon, of the Physical Culture Department, Mayor Mundy, of the City of Galt, presented each player on the winning team with a beautiful gold medal." The medal awarded to Fred Steep of Galt, held by The Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum in Vaughan, Ontario, clearly shows that the medals were made in St. Louis, Missouri.
Spaghetti aglio e olio (English: "Spaghetti with garlic and oil") is a pasta dish made from any spaghetti type pasta mixed with browned garlic and olive oil. This simple recipe came from Naples.
Student of the Year 2 is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language teen romantic comedy drama movie directed by Punit Malhotra. This movie is a stand-alone sequel to Student of the Year, which was released in 2012, and stars Tiger Shroff, Tara Sutaria, and Ananya Panday in lead roles. Aditya Seal and Harsh Beniwal play the supporting roles. The movie marks the debuts of Tara Sutaria and Ananya Panday. In this film, Rohan (Tiger Shroff) follows his lover, Mridula (Tara Sutaria), to St Teresa's college hoping to reunite with her. There, he befriends Manav (Aditya Seal), the most popular student, but is constantly at loggerheads with his sister, Shreya (Ananya Panday). The movie released on May 10, 2019 and opened to negative reviews. However, the movie was somewhat successful at the box office. It was mainly due to Tiger Shroff's action sequences being credited well. Panday and Sutaria were also credited well for their debuts and won multiple awards.
At the 1900 Summer Olympics, an association football tournament was contested for the first time. Only two demonstration matches were held between the three club sides, and no medals were awarded. France's representatives were determined by the USFSA, which elected the Parisian champion Club Français. For Belgium, after Racing Club de Bruxelles declined to participate, a student selection with players from the Université libre de Bruxelles was sent by the Federation.The team was reinforced with a few non-students. On the other hand, English club Upton Park F.C. represented Great Britain. Despite this, the International Olympic Committee currently credits Great Britain, France and Belgium with gold, silver and bronze medals respectively as part of its attempt to reconcile early Olympic Games with the modern award scheme. The football matches were held at the Vélodrome de Vincennes in Paris. Matches. In the first game, the British squad had little difficulty defeating the USFSA XI. Upton Park led 2–0 after the first half, getting two more goals in the second to win 4–0. Gaston Peltier scored in the first minute to give the USFSA XI an early lead, but Université de Bruxelles scored twice to take a 2–1 first half lead. The French scored five goals in the second half, however, to take the match 6–2. &lt;section begin=A1 /&gt; &lt;section begin=A2 /&gt;
Varun Dhawan is an Indian actor who works in Hindi movies. Varun began his work in film industry in 2010 with the movie "My Name Is Khan". He debuted his career as a lead role with "Student of the Year" with Sidharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt. He became famous with lots of other movies such as the romantic comedies "Main Tera Hero" (2014), "Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania" (2014), and "Badrinath Ki Dulhania" (2017). Later, Varun appears many commercially successful movies as a leading actor and some of which highest-grossing releases came such as "ABCD 2" (2015) and "Street Dancer 3D" (2020). He was also given credit for "Judwaa 2" (2018), and "Sui Dhaaga" (2018). However, the success of the eleven movies he had was followed by flops of his later movies "Kalank" (2019), "Street Dancer 3D" (2020), "Coolie No. 1" (2020) and "Jug Jugg Jeeyo" (2022).
Motor racing was contested at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Fourteen events were held in conjunction with 1900 World's Fair. These events have generally not been classified as official, although the IOC has never decided which events were "Olympic" and which were not. Entries were by manufacturers rather than drivers, and competitors' names were not adequately reported at the time. The exceptions are the two classes of the Paris-Toulouse-Paris race, one class of which was won by Louis Renault. Most events had only French competitors but there were some international entries.
The Germany national under-21 football team are the under-21s of Germany. It is currently controlled by the DFB. Players. Current squad. Players born in or after 1998 are eligible for the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. The following players were called up for the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship from 24 to 30 March 2021. Note: Names in "italics" denote players that have been called up to the senior team.  "Caps and goals correct as of 30 March 2021."