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La Cañada Observatory La Cañada Astronomical Observatory, is an amateur facility in Ávila, Spain privately owned by Juan Lacruz, the main activity is the monitoring of asteroids and comets in close collaboration with the Minor Planet Center, the observatory is registered in the International Astronomical Union with the observatory code J87: La Cañada.
La Cabeza de BĂ©jar La Cabeza de BĂ©jar is a mountainous village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 55 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 93 people.
La Cage aux Folles La Cage aux Folles (tr. The Cage of Fools) is a 1973 French play by Jean Poiret about a gay couple - Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his star attraction - and the adventures that ensue when Georges' son brings home his fiance's ultra-conservative parents to meet them.
La Cagoule La Cagoule (The Cowl, press nickname coined by the Action Française nationalist Maurice Pujo), officially called Comité secret d'action révolutionnaire (Committee for Revolutionary Action), was a violent French fascist-leaning and anti-communist group, active in the 1930s, and designed to attempt the overthrow of the French Third Republic. Its leader was Eugène Deloncle.
La Caixa "la Caixa" is the common name for the Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona (Spanish: Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona), a pension and savings bank in Spain. It is one of the most important savings bank in Europe, and Catalonia's largest and Spain's third largest financial entity.
La Calisto La Calisto is an opera by Francesco Cavalli with a libretto by Giovanni Faustini, first performed on 28 November 1651 at the Teatro San Apollinare, Venice. The story is based on the myth of Calisto from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
La Calle La Calle (El Kala) is a seaport of Algeria, in Annaba Province, 56 miles (90 km) by rail east of Annaba and 10 miles (16 km) west of the Tunisian frontier. It is the centre of the Algerian and Tunisian coral fisheries and has an extensive industry in the curing of sardines; but the harbour is small and exposed to the northeast and west winds.
La Calzada de BĂ©jar La Calzada de BĂ©jar is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 90 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 91 people.
La Camorra La Camorra is the name of a three-movement suite for tango ensemble composed by Ástor Piazzolla. It was inspired by the Neapolitan criminal organization Camorra and represents Piazzolla's most ambitious compositional statement in length and large-scale musical form, though not in harmony or timbre.
La Campa La Campa is an aldea, or small town, in the Honduran Department of Lempira, located about 18 kilometers by dirt road from Gracias, the largest town in the immediate region. The inhabitants of Gracias, La Campa, and other nearby aldeas, including San Manuel Colohete, are mainly of Lenca descent.
La Campana National Park La Campana National Park is located in the Cordillera de la Costa, Quillota Province, in the ValparaĂ­so Region of Chile. This national park covers about 80 square kilometres and is home to one of the last palm forests of Jubaea chilensis (Chilean Wine Palm).
La Campanella La Campanella (The Bell) is a piano etude, also known as a study piece, written by virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt as part of a series of the six Grandes Etudes de Paganini ("Grand Paganini Etudes"), S. 141, composed in 1838, revised in 1851.
La Canada Stakes The La Canada Stakes is a Grade II race for thoroughbred horses run at Santa Anita Park each year. The La Canada is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt and offers a purse of $200,000.
La Cangreja National Park La Cangreja National Park, previously the Cerro de la Cangreja Protected Zone until 2002, is a National Park in the Central Pacific Conservation Area located near the Pacific coast of Costa Rica that protects tropical forest in the Puriscal Canton region of the Cordillera de Talamanca.
La Cantuta massacre The La Cantuta massacre, in which a university professor and nine students from Lima's La Cantuta University were abducted and "disappeared" by a military death squad, took place in Peru on 18 July 1992 during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori. The incident is notable not only for the violations of human rights that it entailed, but for the impunity subsequently enjoyed by its perpetrators.
La Capella Reial de Catalunya La Capella Reial de Catalunya was created in Barcelona in 1987 by its conductor Jordi Savall as a group of soloist singers whose aim is to make the repertoire of Catalan historical music and, by extension, that of Spanish and other music widely known throughout the world. La Capella Reial de Catalunya often performs with Le Concert des Nations, a period instrument group also founded and conducted by Savall.
La Capital La Capital is a daily Spanish-language newspaper edited and published in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It was founded in 1867 (first published on 15 November of that year), and it is the oldest Argentine newspaper still in circulation, which has gained it the title of Decano de la Prensa Argentina ("Dean of the Argentine Press").
La Carrera Panamericana La Carrera Panamericana is a 1992 video of the Carrera Panamericana automobile race in Mexico. The film included a soundtrack entirely of music by the band Pink Floyd, due to the fact that the band's guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and manager Steve O'Rourke competed in the race.
La Cartuja Isla de la Cartuja (Cartuja Island) is an island in the Guadalquivir river in Seville, Spain. When Expo ' 92 was held there the island was connected to the Triana neighbourhood (which is also an island) and is now more of an isthmus.
La Casa 4 (Witchcraft) La Casa 4 - Witchcraft (also known as Evil Dead 4, Evil Encounters, Ghosthouse 2, Malefiche Presenze, Witchcraft, Witchcraft: Return of the Exorcist and Witchery) is the sequel to La Casa 3 - Ghosthouse released in 1988.
La Casa Azul La Casa Azul is a Spanish pop band. Their sound is often described as combining many of the qualities of 1960s American pop bands like the Beach Boys and 1970s European disco-pop acts like ABBA with clean, clear production reminiscent of Shibuya-kei.
La Casa Pacifica La Casa Pacifica, or "The House of Peace", is a mansion located on the beaches of San Clemente, California, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The home is known as President Richard Nixon's Western White House, used while working away from the official presidential residence, the White House.
La Catedral La Catedral was a prison near MedellĂ­n in Colombia where Pablo Escobar stayed, and had his own men guard him. Under an agreement with the Colombian government, Escobar had this prison built to his exact standards.
La Caution La Caution is a French hip hop duo consisting of members Hi-Tekk and Nikkfurie. They are notable for creating the song "Thé à la Menthe" which is known for appearing (in instrumental form) in the film Ocean's Twelve.
La Ceiba La Ceiba is a port city on the northern coast of Honduras, Central America on the Caribbean Sea. With a population of about 250,000, it is the third largest city in the country and the capital of the Honduran department of Atlántida.
La Ceiba Wildlife Refuge The La Ceiba Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge in Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, which protects tropical forest on the Nicoya Peninsula near the small village of San Rafael de Paquera in the Puntarenas Province.
La Celestina The Celestina (used as title, synecdoche, one of the characters of the book actually called Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea or Libro de Calisto y Melibea y de la puta vieja Celestina) is a book published anonymously by Fernando de Rojas (about whom we know little) in 1499. This book is considered to be one of the greatest in Spanish literature, and traditionally marks the end of medieval literature and the beginning of the literary renaissance in Spain.
La Cetra The Cetra was a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in ancient times, belonging to the chordophone family. The instrument was initially constructed in wood, similar to the lyre, but with a larger harmonic case.
La Ciotat La Ciotat is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône département and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southern France. It is a component of the metropolitan Marseille Provence Métropole, and the second-largest suburb of the city of Marseille, and is located to the southeast of it.
La Cisterna, Chile La Cisterna (Spanish for "the cistern") is a municipality and comuna of Chile located on the province of Santiago in the Santiago Metropolitan Region. It has an area of 10 km², a population of 85,118 (2002 census) and an average household income of $25,658 in PPP US dollars (2000).
La Clandestine Absinthe La Clandestine Absinthe is a popular La Bleue (clear) Swiss absinthe brand produced by Artemisia-Bugnon distilleries. It is a highly alcoholic, anise-flavored, distilled liquor containing the herb wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), and when properly prepared with cold water will louche.
La Clarté-Dieu The Abbey of La Clarté-Dieu was a Cistercian monastery located in Saint-Paterne-Racan, France. The abbey was founded in 1239 by the executors of Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, as one of a pair, the other being Netley Abbey in Hampshire, England.
La Coco-Dance La Coco-Dance (English translation: "The Coco Dance") was the Monegasque entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, performed in French and Tahitian by SĂ©verine Ferrer. This was the first - and to date, the only - occasion on which the Tahitian language was used at the Contest.
La Comay La Comay is a famous puppet doll featured in Puerto Rican television that is managed by Antulio Santarrosa Acevedo, also known as Kobbo Santarrosa, a puppeteer, magician, ventriloquist and promoter born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Loosely translated in English to "The Godmother", "La Comay" appears on the Televicentro television show "SuperXclusivo", where she spreads gossip about different personalities in the entertainment, political, sports and religious fields.
La Comédie humaine La Comédie humaine is the title of Honoré de Balzac's (1799 – 1850) multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815-1848).
La Commune (Paris, 1871) La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000) is a film by Peter Watkins about the Paris Commune. It is a historical re-enactment in the style of a documentary, and was shot in just 13 days in an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Paris.
La Condamine (crater) La Condamine is a small lunar crater that is located on the southern edge of the Mare Frigoris, in the northern part of the Moon. It lies to the northeast of the mountain-rimmed Sinus Iridum formation in the northwest part of the Mare Imbrium.
La Conquête de Plassans La Conquête de Plassans (1874) is the fourth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. In many ways a sequel to the first novel in the cycle, La Fortune des Rougon (1871), this novel is again centred on the fictional Provençal town of Plassans and its plot revolves around a sinister cleric's attempt at political intrigue with disastrous consequences for some of the townsfolk.
La Convivencia La Convivencia ("the Coexistence") is a term used to describe the situation in Spanish history from about 711 to 1492 – concurrent with the Reconquista ("Reconquest") – when Jews, Muslims, and Catholics in Spain lived in relative peace together within the different kingdoms (during the same time, however, the Christian push to the south into Moorish land was ongoing). The phase often refers to the interplay of cultural ideas between the three groups, and ideas of religious tolerance.
La Corona La Corona is an ancient Maya city in Guatemala's Petén department that was discovered in 1996 and later revealed to be the long-sought "Site Q", a prominent, undiscovered Maya city. "La Corona" means "the crown" in Spanish; the first archaeologists to study the site named it this after seeing a row of five temples that resembled a crown.
La Coscienza di Zeno La coscienza di Zeno (Confessions of Zeno, Conscience of Zeno, or Zeno's Conscience) is an Italian novel by Italo Svevo. The main character is Zeno Cosini and the book is the fictional character's memoirs that he keeps at the insistence of his psychiatrist.
La Costa The La Costa Resort and Spa is a luxury resort located in Carlsbad, California, and is best known for its world famous golf courses and its beautiful location in the San Diego area hills. Every year in late July or early August, the resort hosts a woman's professional tennis tournament, now known as the Acura Classic.
La Costa Canyon High School La Costa Canyon High School is one of the high schools in the San Dieguito Union High School District. Located on 88 acres (360,000 m²) in south Carlsbad in northwest San Diego County, La Costa Canyon opened in September, 1996.
La Crescenta-Montrose, California La Crescenta-Montrose is a census-designated place (CDP) and an unincorporated area in Los Angeles County, California, encompassing those parts of the Crescenta Valley not in the cities of Glendale or La Cañada Flintridge. However, both the unincorporated area and the portion of incorporated Glendale north of Montrose are collectively called La Crescenta.
La Crosse Bobcats The La Crosse Bobcats were a Continental Basketball Association basketball team located in La Crosse, Wisconsin from 1996 to the league's bankruptcy in February 2001. The Bobcats were the second CBA team located in La Crosse; previously, the La Crosse Catbirds played from 1985 to 1994.
La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor (LACBWR) is a decommissioned Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) nuclear power plant located near La Crosse, Wisconsin in the small village of Genoa, Wisconsin, in Vernon County, Wisconsin, approximately 17 miles south of La Crosse along the Mississippi River. The site is owned and was operated by the Dairyland Power Cooperative (DPC).
La Crosse Coulee Catholic Schools La Crosse Coulee Catholic Schools or CCS is a privately run Roman Catholic school district in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in the Diocese of La Crosse, involving the Roman Catholc parishes in La Crosse and Onalaska, Wisconsin.
La Crosse County Historical Society The La Crosse County Historical Society is an organization dedicated to the preservation of history in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. The society has a museum, offices, and a number of historical sites in La Crosse, Wisconsin; it was founded in 1898.
La Crosse encephalitis La Crosse encephalitis is an encephalitis caused by an arbovirus (the La Crosse virus) which has a mosquito vector (Aedes triseriatus). It occurs in the Appalachian and Midwestern regions of the United States.
La Cucaracha "La Cucaracha" ("The Cockroach") is a traditional Spanish language folk song of the genre known as a corrido, that became popular in Mexico during the Mexican revolution. One explanation of its origin as a traditional Mexican song claims that this song references car of the famed revolutionary general Pancho Villa, which frequently broke down and earned the nickname la cucaracha from Villa's troops.
La Cucina La Cucina was a English roots style band of the 1990s, that went under the tagline of "accordion-driven funky neapolitan rockers". Although they were based in the south of England, their music was an amalgam of Southern Italian folk songs and disco and salsa beats.
La Cumbrecita La Cumbrecita is a beautiful small picturesque secluded alpine-like village amongst spruce and pine where cars are not allowed in the Province of CĂłrdoba, Argentina. Settled by central Europeans, the village is focused on eco-tourism, no paved roads, transport on foot, quite possibly reminiscent of towns in the 15th century, a paradisiacal experience.
La Cumparsita La Cumparsita is a musical piece written by the Uruguayan musician Gerardo Matos RodrĂ­guez, perhaps the most famous and recognizable tango song of all time, composed as a young student in 1919. video; click here to see and hear it
La Cygne, Kansas La Cygne (pronounced luh SEEN) is a city situated along the Marais des Cygnes River in the northeast part of Linn County, located in eastern Kansas, in the central United States. The population was estimated to be 1,146 in the year 2005.
La dame blanche La dame blanche (The White Lady) is an opera in three acts by the French composer François-Adrien Boïeldieu (1775-1834). The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe and is based on episodes from no less than five of the works by Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, including his novels The Monastery and Guy Mannering.
La decena trágica La decena trágica (The Ten Tragic Days) February 9 - February 22, 1913 was a battle and series of events in Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution, that culminated in a coup d'etat and the murder of Mexican President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President José María Pino Suárez.
La donna è mobile "La donna è mobile" ("Woman is fickle") is the cynical Duke of Mantua's canzone from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto (1851). Its reprise in the last act is chilling, as Rigoletto realizes from the sound of the Duke's lively voice coming from within the tavern (offstage), that the body in the sack is not that of the Duke after all.
La donna del lago La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake) is an opera by Gioacchino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Totola, based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott. It received its premiere at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples on 24 October, 1819.
La Dawri La Dawri Coachcraft based in Long Beach and later Los Alamitos, California, was one of the largest kit car companies in the United States producing fiberglass bodied sports cars during the rebody/specials craze of the 1950s and 1960s. It got its name from its founder, Canadian Leslie Albert Dawes (Born July 7th 1933 - Died 2002).
La Débâcle La Débâcle is a novel by Emile Zola written in 1892, the penultimate in les Rougon-Macquart series. The story is set against the background of the series of political and military events that ended the reign of Napoléon III and the Second Empire in 1870, in particular the Franco-Prussian War, the Battle of Sedan and the Paris Commune.
La Défense La Défense is a major business district for the city of Paris (French:"Ville de Paris"), bordering Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of the city proper. It is centred on an ovular loop of roadway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine département municipalities of Nanterre, Courbevoie and Puteaux.
La Dépêche du Midi La Dépêche du Midi is a daily newspaper published in Toulouse, southern France, and which is distributed across the Midi-Pyrénées région and parts of the Languedoc-Roussillon région. The editorial line of the newspaper supports the French left.
La Digue La Digue is the third largest inhabited island of the Seychelles, lying east of Praslin and west of Felicite Island. It has a population of about 2,000 people, who mostly live in the west coast villages of La Passe (linked by ferry to Praslin and Mahé) and La Réunion.
La Distinction La Distinction, a sociological book by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930 - 2002), takes as its basis Bourdieu's empirical research carried out in 1963 and concluded in 1967/68. The original publication took place in 1979 in France.
La Douleur La Douleur (War: A Memoir) is a controversial, semi-autobiographical work by Marguerite Duras published in 1985 but drawn from diaries she supposedly wrote during World War II. It is a collection of six texts recounting a mix of her experiences of the Nazi Occupation of France with fictional details.
La Dueña La Dueña (1984-1985) was a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Venezolana de Televisión. The original idea for this telenovela was by José Ignacio Cabrujas and Julio Cesar Mármol.
La EncarnaciĂłn (AsunciĂłn) La EncarnaciĂłn is a barrio (neighbourhood) of AsunciĂłn, the capital of Paraguay. It is located fairly close to the Paraguay River and the downtown area of AsunciĂłn, which is the reason why this barrio has a lot of traditional and colonial buildings.
La Escalera Ranch The sprawling 300,000 acre (1,200 km²) La Escalera Ranch is located 20 miles south of Fort Stockton, Texas and is owned and operated by the Gerald Lyda family. The ranch extends over much of Pecos County and portions of Reeves, Brewster and Baylor Counties.
La Esmeralda (ballet) La Esmeralda is a ballet in 3 acts, 5 scenes, inspired by Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, originally choreographed by Jules Perrot; with music by Cesare Pugni and design by William Grieve (scenery), D. Sloman (machinery), Mme.
La Esquina del Infinito One excavated informal one of "jazz" (the same one that opens the album) closes track list, catches the commentaries of Chizzo and Teté moving away of the study and, soon, a hard door-closing that extends indefinitely. Then, La Renga yes appears transported towards the infinite...
La famille Plouffe La famille Plouffe was a Canadian television drama, more specifically a téléroman, about a Quebec family that first aired in the French-language on Société Radio-Canada in 1953. The show was created to fill a void in francophone television in Canada.
La fanciulla del West La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco. First performance: Metropolitan Opera, New York, 1910.
La fausse esclave La fausse esclave {"The False Slave") is an opéra comique in one act by Christoph Willibald Gluck. It has a French-language libretto based on Louis Anseaume and Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville’s libretto for La fausse aventurière (The False Adventuress), an opéra comique by Jean Louis Laruette.
La favorite La favorite (The Favorite) is an opera in four acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a French libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, based on the play Le comte de Comminges by Baculard d'Arnaud. It premiered on 2 December 1840 at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique, Paris.
La finta semplice La finta semplice (The Pretended Simpleton), K. 51 (46a) is an opera buffa in three acts for singers and orchestra, composed in 1769 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, on a libretto by the court poet Marco Coltellini based on an early work by Carlo Goldoni.
La fornarina The Portrait of a Young Woman (also known as La fornarina) is a painting by Italian High Renaissance master Raphael, between 1518 and 1520. It is housed in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini, Rome.
La forza del destino La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Alvaro o La Fuerza de Sino (1835), by Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's Wallensteins Lager.
La Familia de Villanos "La Famiglia dei Furfanti" made a breakthrough in Italian soap opera's along with "Terra dei Furfanti" that came out in 2002. Many great actors and actresses were asked to join in into this breakthrough.
La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (1875) is the fifth novel in Emile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Viciously anticlerical in tone, it follows on from the horrific events at the end of La Conquête de Plassans, focussing this time on a remote Provençal backwater village.
La Fée aux Choux La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy) is one of the earliest narrative fiction films ever made. It was probably made before the first Méliès fiction film, but after the Lumière brothers' L'Arroseur arrosé.
La FĂ©e Absinthe La FĂ©e Absinthe is one of the best-known brands of absinthe, a highly alcoholic, anise-flavored, distilled liquor containing the herb wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). Created by Green Utopia which is owned and run by George Rowley (entrepreneur).
La Felguera La Felguera is the largest parish in the municipality of Langreo, Asturias, in the north of Spain, with 20,000 inhabitants. It is the fifth largest town in Asturias, after Gijón, Oviedo, Avilés and Mieres del Camino.
La Femis From 1944 to 1985, the Idhec (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques) trained forty-one classes and 1439 French and foreign film professionals - among them Louis Malle, Alain Resnais, Theo Angelopoulos, Arnaud Desplechin, Claude Sautet, Volker Schlöndorff, Claire Denis, Andrzej Zulawski, Christophe Gans, Eric Rochant, Alain Corneau, Costa Gavras, Patrice Leconte, Johan van der Keuken, Claude Miller, André Téchiné, Paulo Rocha, Robert Enrico, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Eric Rochant, Yves Boisset, Alain Cavalier, Henri Colpi, and Pascale Ferran. In 1985, the school was retructured under the supervision of the then Minister of Culture Jack Lang.
La Femme piège The Woman Trap (or La Femme piège in French) is a science fiction comic book from 1986 written and illustrated by the Yugoslavian born cartoonist and storyteller Enki Bilal. It is the second part of the Nikopol Trilogy, started by La Foire aux Immortels (The Carnival of Immortals) from 1980 and ending with Froid-Équateur (Equator Cold) in 1992.
La Filiere La Filiere was created in 1993 by Elf Aquitaine to promote French drivers at the highest level, in line with its marketing approach and its commitment to Renault in F1. La Filiere is located at: Technoparc des 24 Heures, Chemin aux Boeufs, 72100 Le Mans, France.
La Fille Mal Gardée La Fille Mal Gardée (The Wayward Daughter) is a Ballet presented in 2 Acts, inspired by Choffart's engraving of Pierre Antoine Baudouin's 1789 painting Le Reprimande/Une Jeune Fille Querrillée Pa sa Mere. Originally produced and choreographed by the Ballet Master Jean Dauberval to a pastiche score adapted from 55 French themes by an unknown hand.
La Fille seule Benoît Jacquot's La Fille seule (A Single Girl) follows a day in the life of a young Parisian woman named Valérie (played by Virginie Ledoyen) who begins a new job at a four star hotel the same day she reveals to her boyfriend that she is pregnant. The 90 minute film is shot in real time in the random style of the French New Wave.
La Fin du monde est Ă  7 heures La Fin du monde est Ă  7 heures ("The end of the world is at 7 o'clock") was a Quebec television comedy series, which aired on TQS from 1997 to 2000. As the title says, the show was traditionally broadcast daily at 7 PM, but was later moved to the 6 PM slot, at the same time as most other networks' news bulletins, with no name change.
La Flèche Wallonne 2006 The 70th edition of the La Flèche Wallonne cycling classic was held on April 19, 2006. It was won by Spanish all-rounder Alejandro Valverde of the Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears cycling team in a sprint finish.
La Flor Del ParaĂ­so "La Flor Del ParaĂ­so" is the third single released by Mexican singer-songwriter Iran Castillo on her first album, Tiempos Nuevos. The promotion of this single, was with a video, and a special remix, that only was released for Iran's presentations.
La Foire aux immortels The Carnival of Immortals (or La Foire aux Immortels in French) is a science fiction comic book from 1980 written and illustrated by the Yugoslavian born cartoonist and storyteller Enki Bilal. It is the first part of the Nikopol Trilogy, followed up by La Femme piège (The Woman Trap) in 1986 and ending with Froid-Équateur (Equator Cold) in 1992.
La Follette Committee The LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee, or more formally, Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee Investigating Violations of Free Speech and the Rights of Labor (1936-1941), began as an inquiry into a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) investigation of methods used by employers in certain industries to avoid collective bargaining with unions. Between 1936 and 1941, the subcommittee published exhaustive hearings and reports on the use of industrial espionage, private police systems, strikebreaking services, munitions in industrial warfare, and employers' associations to break strikes and to disrupt legal union activities in other ways.
La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation The Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation was founded on october 17th 1990 out of the initiative of the former french prime minister Michel Rocard as well as of the former minister of the Interior. The head office of the Fondation “pour la Mémoire de la Déportation” is placed in Paris.
La Fortune des Rougon La Fortune des Rougon, originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Emile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. The novel is partly an origin story, with a huge cast of characters swarming around - many of whom become the central figures of later novels in the series - and partly an account of the December 1851 coup d'Ă©tat which created the French Second Empire under Napoleon III as experienced in a large provincial town in southern France.
La Foudre La Foudre was a French seaplane carrier, and arguably the first seaplane carrier in history * "le premier navire à être transformé en porte hydravion a été le croiseur auxiliaire Foudre en août 1911" Her development followed the invention of the seaplane] in 1910 with the French [[Le Canard.
La France (song) "La France" is a 2001 song by the French hip hop band Sniper. It addresses perceived injustices committed against minorities by the French political system and the fact that even though there is an overwhelming amount of people of African and Arab origins in France, they are poorly represented in politics.
La France M16K The La France M16K is a M16 rifle modified by the company La France Specialties, which among with other firearm-related activities, convert common military weapons into more compact configurations typically for law enforcement and special forces use.
La Franja La Franja de Ponent or La Francha de Lebán (Catalan for Western Strip and Aragonese for Eastern Strip respectively), or simply La Franja, refers to four comarques in the east of the Autonomous Community of Aragon, which are linguistically Catalan, in contrast to the Castillian (and historically, Aragonese) speaking areas of western Aragon.
La Fronde La Fronde (The Sling) was a feminist newspaper first published in Paris, France on December 9, 1897 by activist Marguerite Durand (1864-1936). Durand, a well known actress and journalist, used her high-profile image to attract many notable Parisian women to contribute articles to her daily newspaper, which was run and written entirely by women.
La Fuente de San Esteban La Fuente de San Esteban is a village and large municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 54 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 1442 people.

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