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La Fuga La Fuga (international, English title: The Escape) is a 2001 Argentine film directed by Eduardo Mignogna and starring Ricardo Darin, Patricio Contreras, Miguel Angel Sola, Gerardo Romano and Ines Estevez. The film received 5 award wins & 11 nominations.
La Fura dels Baus La Fura dels Baus is a Catalan theatrical group founded in 1979 in Barcelona known for their violent urban theatre, making use of unusual settings and doing away with the boundaries separating audience and actors.
La Furia del Norte La Furia del Norte ( Spanish for "The Fury from the North") is a rudo (heel) stable based in the Lucha Libre promotion CMLL in Mexico. The name comes from all members the being from Northern Mexico.
La guirlande La Guirlande (full name La Guirlande, ou Les Fleurs Enchantées) is the name of an acte de ballet adapted from a libretto by Jean-François Marmontel, with music composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau. It debuted on 21 September, 1751 at the Paris Opéra.
La Gaceta (Tucumán) La Gaceta newspaper was founded in Tucumán, Argentina on August 4, 1912 by Alberto Garcia Hamilton. It's currently the largest and most influential newspaper in the Tucumán Province, and is considered to be one of the main dailies in the country.
La Gamba La Gamba is a small village in the southwest of Costa Rica on the fringes of the Esquinas Rainforest. The village is inhabited by 70 families (~500 persons) who live in at-grade houses which in general possess two to three rooms.
La Garçonne La Garçonne is a novel by Victor Margueritte first published in 1922. It deals with the life of a young woman who, upon learning that her fiancé is cheating on her, decides to live life freely and on her own terms.
La Garde, Var La Garde is a commune in the département of Var and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. It is located in the metropolitan Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée, and is east of the city of Toulon.
La Garita Caldera La Garita Caldera is a large volcanic caldera located in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado. It is one of a number of calderas that formed during a massive ignimbrite flare-up in Colorado, Utah and Nevada from 40–25 million years ago.
La Géométrie La Géométrie was published in 1637 as an appendix to Discours de la méthode (Discourse on Method), written by René Descartes. Discourse on Method was a philosophical and mathematical treatise intended to disprove Aristotelian philosophy.
La Gloria Cubana (cigar brand) La Gloria Cubana is the name of two premium cigar brands, one produced on the island of Cuba for Habanos SA, the Cuban state-owned tobacco company, and other produced in the Dominican Republic and Miami, Florida by El Credito for General Cigar.
La Grace La Grace or Les Graces is a game invented in France during the first quarter of the 19th century and called there le jeu des Graces. It is played with two light sticks about 16 inch long and a wicker ring, which is projected into the air by placing it over the sticks crossed and then separating them rapidly.
La Gran Chichimeca La Gran Chichimeca was a term used by the Spanish conquistadores of the 16th century to refer to an area of the northern central Mexican plateau, a territory which today is encompassed by the modern Mexican states of Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Nayarit, Guanajuato and Zacatecas. They derived the term from the Aztec who referred to the nomadic tribes of the area as “chichimeca”.
La Gran Sabana La Gran Sabana (English: The Great Savannah) is one of the major natural attractions in Venezuela and is located in the south of BolĂ­var State on the Venezuelan-Brazilian border, approximately 1,400 km from Caracas. The area has a tropical humid climate with an average temperature of 28 ÂşC, but at night it can go down to 13 ÂşC It lies on a plateau with a mean altitude of 1000 meters above sea level.
La Grande Armée La Grande Armée (French for "the Great Army" or "the Grand Army") first entered the annals of history when, in 1805, Napoleon I renamed the army that he had assembled on the French coast of the English Channel for the proposed invasion of Britain and re-deployed it East to commence the Campaign of 1805 against Austria and Russia.
La Grande Encyclopédie La Grande Encyclopédie, inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres, et des arts (The Great Encyclopedia: a systematic inventory of science, letters, and the arts) is a 31-volume encyclopedia published in France from 1886 to 1902 by H. Lamirault, and later by the Société anonyme de la grande encyclopédie.
La Grande River La Grande River (French: La Grande Rivière; Cree: Chisasibi, both meaning "great river") is a river in northwestern Quebec, Canada, which rises in the highlands of north central Quebec and flows roughly 900 km west to drain into James Bay. It is the second largest river in Quebec, surpassed only by the Saint Lawrence River.
La Grande Station La Grande Station was the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's (Santa Fe) main passenger terminal in Los Angeles, California, until damage from the Long Beach earthquake of 1933 forced its closure. When Union Station opened in 1939, Santa Fe moved all of its passenger services there.
La Grande-3 generating station La Grande-3 or LG-3 is a hydroelectric dam on the La Grande River in northern Quebec, part of Hydro-Québecs James Bay hydroelectric project. The station can generate 2,418 MW and was commissioned in 1982-1984.
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, in three acts and four tableaux by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. It was first performed at Paris's Théâtre des Variétés on April 12, 1867 and starred Hortense Schneider as the Duchess, who was highly successful in the title role.
La Grange (song) "La Grange" is a song by the rock group ZZ Top from their album Tres Hombres, released in 1973. A one-chord blues, it is one of their most successful songs, appearing on their third studio album, Tres Hombres.
La Grange expedition The La Grange expedition was a search expedition carried out in the vicinity of La Grange Bay in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in 1865. Led by Maitland Brown, the expedition searched for three settlers who had failed to return from an earlier exploring expedition.
La Graufesenque La Graufesenque is an archaeological site 2km from Millau, Aveyron, France at the junction of the Tarn and Dourbie rivers. As Condatomagus (market of the confluent) it was famous in the Gallo-Roman period for the production of high quality dark red terra sigillata pottery, which was made in vast quantities and exported over much of the western part of the Roman Empire.
La Grey Zuliana La Grey Zuliana is a well-known venezuelan gaita, its known like the Anthem of the gaiteros (Venezuelan gaita musicians), that was composed by Ricardo Aguirre, and recording by first time in 1968 by its author, with the group Saladillo, but according to Arnoldo Hernandez Oquendo, the music and the intro of the gaita belong to Ricardo Aguirre, but the lyrics to Marcial Valbuena, in addition was introduced to this song for the first time in a gaita a Bass guitar.
La Guaira Bank La Guaira Bank (El Placer de La Guaira) is an underwater ridge that is approximately 12 miles (10°50′′N, 67°07′′W) of the coast of the city of La Guaira in Venezuela. The seamount is approximately 12 miles long from east to west and 4 miles wide from north to south, and it rises from 140 fathoms in the surrounding area to 50 fathoms.
La Guajira Desert La Guajira Desert is located in the most northern part of Colombia in the La Guajira Department, covering most of La Guajira Peninsula including some of Venezuelan territory. This desert holds immense coal reserves, exploited in a zone known as El Cerrejon.
La Guancha La Guancha is a municipality in the north-northwestern part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. It is located about 20 km SSW of the island's capital, N of Los Cristianos and Las Américas of Arona and about 75 km N of Reina Sofia Airport.
La Guerre Est Meurtre La Guerre Est Meurtre is an album by Von Hemmling. Self described by Jim McIntyre as a "linear nonlinear history of Von Hemmling" and a "stream of consciousness", it features a variety of recordings by McIntyre from 1984 to 2001.
La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah is an Arabic phrase usually translated as " There is no power and no strength save in God." This expression is mentioned by a Muslim whenever seized by a calamity or in a situation beyond their control.
La historia Caifanes: La Historia is a compilation album by Mexican Rock band Caifanes released almost two years after their sudden breakup. Singles from 1987 to 1996, including two previously unedited live recordings are included in this 24-track album.
La Habana (baseball team) Habana is a baseball team in the Cuban National Series. Based in La Habana Province, the Vaqueros have never won the National Series, though they do often qualify for the playoffs, and reached the National Series final against Santiago de Cuba in 2004-05.
La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality, Quebec [Haute-Yamaska (meaning The Upper Yamaska) is a regional county municipality] in southcentral [[Quebec, Canada. It is named for its position at the height of the Yamaska River which cuts through the south part of the Regional County Municipality, and rises at Brome Lake located in neighbouring Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality.
La Honda, California La Honda is a small unincorporated town located in the Santa Cruz Mountains between Silicon Valley and the Pacific coast of California, western United States. Its population is approximately 1500 with a few hundred more living on the outskirts of town.
La Huasteca La Huasteca is a region in the northeastern part of Mexico, comprising mountains, hill country and lowlands, centered on the watershed of the Pánuco River, inland from the city of Tampico. It includes parts of the states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, and Hidalgo.
La Chacarita Cemetery Cementerio de la Chacarita in Buenos Aires, Argentina, known as the National Cemetery, was opened during a yellow fever epidemic in 1871. In the 1800s, a large number of British nationals came to Argentina to work in the many economic areas in which Britain then had extensive interests.
La Chair de l'orchidée La Chair de l'Orchidée () is a 1975 film adaptation of the 1939 novel, No Orchids for Miss Blandish by mystery writer James Hadley Chase, the nom de plume of British-born René Brabazon Raymond. The story was selected by French director Patrice Chéreau, already well-known for his stage direction, as the subject for his first film.
La Chasse La Chasse (The Hunt) is a piano etude 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 Chaux-de-Fonds (district) La Chaux-de-Fonds is one of the six districts of the largely French-speaking canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, lying in the Montagnes Neuchâteloises Region. The district capital is the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds.
La Chica Dorada La Chica Dorada is Mexican singer Paulina Rubio's 1992 solo debut album and her first under the EMI Latin record label. The album includes Rubio's signature song and the single that launched her solo career, "MĂ­o".
La Chinoise La Chinoise (1967) was the thirteenth narrative feature film by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. This is a political film that takes place at a small apartment in Paris and centers around the interactions of four students.
La Inolvidable La Inolvidable (1996) was a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. It was written by Carlos González Vega, Manuel Mendoza, Sonia Nobre de Melo, Humberto 'Kiko' Olivieri, and Marco Tulio Socorro and directed by Tony Rodrígues and Rafael Suárez.
La Intrusa La Intrusa (1987) was a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. It was written by Ana Mercedes Escámez and Inés Rodena and directed by Luis Alberto Lamata.
La Isabela Founded by Christopher Columbus during his second voyage in 1493, La Isabela was the first formal European settlement in the New World. This was after discovering that the fort of La Navidad, which he had constructed during his first trip, had been totally destroyed by the native Taino aborigines.
La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo L'Ile Mysterieuse / La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo / Die Geheimnisvolle Insel (The Mysterious Island) is a 1973 European TV miniseries production adapted from Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse. It was later re-edited into a motion picture for theatrical release.
La Jagua de Ibirico, Cesar La Jagua de Ibirico is a town and municipality of the Department of Cesar, Colombia. This region of La Jagua is rich in coal and it's exploited extensively second to El Cerrejon in La Guajira, representing the first source of income for the Department.
La Jalca (Peru) La Jalca was the first Spanish foundation of the region; therefore, there there was established the first head office of the current city of Chachapoyas. In that one then (1538) took the name of Saint John of the Border of the Chachapoyas, in honor to his holy boss.
La Jarrie La Jarrie is a commune in the canton of La Jarrie of the Charente-Maritime in the département in the Poitou-Charentes région in France. It is the seat of the canton of the same name but commonly without the La.
La Jolla Complex The archaeological La Jolla Complex (Shell Midden People, Encinitas Tradition, Millingstone Horizon) represents a prehistoric culture oriented toward coastal resources that prevailed during the middle Holocene period between ca. 6000 B.
La Jolla Country Day School La Jolla Country Day School (known informally as "Country Day," "LJCDS" or "LJCD") is a selective private school in La Jolla, a suburb of San Diego, California. It was founded as the Balmer School by Louise C.
La liberazione di Ruggiero La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina (En. "The Liberation of Ruggiero from the island of Alcina") is a comic opera in four scenes by Francesca Caccini, first performed February 3 1625 at the Villa di Poggio Imperiale in Florence, with a libretto by Ferdinando Saracinelli, based on Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.
La La La Human Steps La La La Human Steps is a leading Québécois contemporary dance group known for its energetic, acrobatic style that often involves fast-paced and athletic physical contact. Its signature move is the barrel jump, which is like a horizontal pirouette in the air.
La Leçon "The Lesson", or "La Leçon", is a short, one-act play from 1951 by French-Romanian playwright, Eugène Ionesco. This play is one of his most notable works, as well as one of the most notable works in the history of the "Theatre of the Absurd" genre, of which Ionesco was a pioneer.
La Leche League International La Leche League International (LLLI) is an international non-profit organization founded in 1956 in the USA to give support and information to women who choose to breastfeed their babies. It encourages breastfeeding on cue from birth onwards, and continuing for as long as desired by the mother and child.
La Ley (band) La Ley (Spanish for "The Law") was a Chilean pop rock band formed in Santiago by Andrés Bobe and Luis Alberto "Beto" Cuevas Olmedo with Mauricio Claveria, Rodrigo Aboitiz and Luciano Andrés Rojas. After a failed first album, Desiertos (1989), they released Doble Opuesto (1991), which appears as the official first album of the band.
La Libertad Region La Libertad is a region in northwestern Peru. It is bordered by the Lambayeque, Cajamarca and Amazonas regions on the north, the San Martín Region on the east, the Ancash and Huánuco regions on the south and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
La Liberté La Liberté or Freedom is a Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada newspaper founded in 1913 by Archbishop Langevin of Saint-Boniface. In 1970, the publication was taken over by Press-West Limited which is owned by the cultural organization Franco-Manitobaine.
La Linea (TV series) La Linea ("The Line") is an Italian animated series of about 100 episodes created by Osvaldo Cavandoli in 1969. Due to its short duration (usually 2 minutes 30 seconds), it is often used as an interstitial program.
La Llorona According to folklore, La Llorona ( - "lah yoh-ROH-nah", Spanish for "the crying woman"), sometimes called the Woman in White or the Weeping Woman is the ghost of a woman crying for her dead children. Her appearances are sometimes held to presage death.
La Loma Park La Loma Park is the historic name of a tract of land located in the Berkeley Hills section of the city of Berkeley, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Spanish word loma means "rise/low hill".
La Lumiere School La Lumiere School, in La Porte, Indiana, United States, is a private, University-preparatory school founded in 1963. La Lumiere was originally organized as a Roman Catholic school, and still belongs to some Catholic school associations; however, La Lumiere is highly welcoming and accepting of all faiths and creeds, staff and students alike.
La Lune La Lune ("The Moon") was the name of a nineteenth-century French weekly four-sheet newspaper edited by Francis Polo. The illustrator André Gill became known for his work for this journal, in which he drew caricatures for a series entitled The Man of the Day.
La Luz de la Vida "La Luce di Vita" 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 Luz Trail The La Luz Trail (Trail 137) is a popular hiking trail located on the west face of the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The trails begins at the La Luz Trailhead and proceeds approximately eight miles to either Sandia Crest or the Sandia Peak Tramway.
La Luz, New Mexico La Luz is a census-designated place (CDP) in Otero County, New Mexico, United States. It is located immediately north of Alamogordo and lies in the eastern edge of the Tularosa Basin and on the western flank of the Sacramento Mountains.
La mauvaise tĂŞte La mauvaise tĂŞte, written and drawn by Franquin, is the eight album in the Spirou et Fantasio series. After serial publication in Le Journal de Spirou the complete story was published, along with the Marsupilami short story Touchez pas aux rouges-gorges, in a hardcover album in 1957.
La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (original title: La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana) is a 2004 novel by Italian author and semiotician Umberto Eco. It focuses on a man who wakes up in hospital after an unspecified accident, only to find that he has retained his general knowledge but lost all his personal memories.
La mujer de mi hermano La mujer de mi hermano ("The wife of my brother") is a 2005 Mexican film based on the book of the same name written and adapted to the screen by Peruvian author Jaime Bayly. It is the second film of Stan Jakuvowicz, who in conjunction with Peruvian director Ricardo de Montreuil produced the short film Amiga.
La Madeleine, Nord La Madeleine is a commune in the département of Nord and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. It is located in the metropolitan Urban Community of Lille Métropole, and is a suburb of the city of Lille, bordering it on its north side.
La Maja Desnuda La Maja Desnuda ("The Nude Maja") is an oil painting on canvas by the master Spanish painter, Francisco de Goya, that portrays a nude woman reclining on a bed of pillows. It was executed some time between 1797 and 1800, and is said to be the first depiction of female pubic hair in Western art.
La Manga La Manga del Mar Menor is a resort town in Murcia, Spain. It should not be confused with the nearby La Manga Club resort, known for hosting numerous football (soccer) clubs from all over the world during the winter months.
La Manga Cup La Manga Cup is a "friendly" winter football (soccer) tournament played in La Manga del Mar Menor (Murcia, Spain). Usual participants are clubs from countries with a summer football season: Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States.
La Mancha La Mancha is both a historical and natural agricultural land, and also a clearly differentiated from the Castile ethnological and cultural region in Spain to the south of Madrid, and including parts of its own region and the main part of the provinces of Ciudad Real, Albacete, Cuenca and Toledo, they four in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, characterized by its large and plain fields.
La Manche La Manche (IPA: ), "the sleeve") is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about 563 km (350 mi) long and at its widest is 240 km (150 mi).
La Manche, Newfoundland and Labrador La Manche is a coastal community in the southeast portion of the island of Newfoundland between Cape Broyle and Burnt Cove that was resettled after a major storm on January 28, 1966. The resulting storm wiped away a large portion of the community and caused the remaining residents to resettled shortly thereafter.
La Maraude La Maraude describes the tactic employed by Napoleonic armies of scavenging for supplies instead of relying on extended lines of supply. It was Napoleon’s belief that armies should be largely self sufficient as this freed them from the constraints of supply lines and allowed them to move far more quickly than their more static enemies.
La Martiniere College La Martiniere College is one of the oldest, most prestigious, and most competitive Christian non-denominational Kindergarten-Class 12 schools in India and France. Branches are located in Calcutta and Lucknow in India, and Lyon in France.
La Martiniere Lucknow La Martiniere College, Lucknow has two different campuses in Lucknow, one for girls and the other for boys. La Martiniere Boys College, Lucknow was founded by Major General Claude Martin (1735-1800)and the school commenced its operations in the year 1845.
La Mata de Ledesma La Mata de Ledesma is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 30 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 144 people.
La Matanza de Acentejo La Matanza de Acentejo (Spanish meaning Slaughter of Acentejo in which the Spanish won in 1494) is located on the north coast of Tenerife. It is located 15 km E of Puerto de la Cruz, about 23 km SSW of the island's capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, NE of Los Cristianos and Las Américas of Arona and WSW of the Los Rodeos Airport.
La Mauricie National Park La Mauricie National Park (French: Parc national de la Mauricie) is located in the Laurentian mountains in the Mauricie region of Québec, Canada. It covers 536 km² in the southern Canadian Shield region bordering the Saint Lawrence lowlands.
La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros was a mid 1970s progressive and symphonic rock band from Argentina. In spite of its very short lifespan (2 years), it was a successful group musically during that period, but did not achieve mainstream popularity.
La Mère Poulard La Mère Poulard is a restaurant and hotel on Mont Saint Michel. The restaurant dates back to 1879, and is known for the wall of autographs from over a century of famous diners, as well as for its speciality giant omelettes: several inches thick, made in hand hammered brass bowls, and cooked over an open fire.
La Minerve La Minerve (French for "The Minerva") was a newspaper founded in Montreal, Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) by Augustin-Norbert Morin to promote the political goals of Louis-Joseph Papineau's Parti patriote. It was notably directed by Ludger Duvernay in its earlier years.
La Mirada Interior La Mirada Interior (English translation: "The Inner Look"), was the Andorran entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, performed in Catalan by Marian van de Wal. As Andorra's previous entry had not finished in the top ten, the song was performed in the semi-final.
La Mistrine La Mistrine is an album by La Bottine Souriante, released in 1994. It contains the popular song "Martin de la Chasse-galerie", which tells of a famous Quebec legend, and is performed in cooperation with Michel Rivard.
La Modification "La Modification" (1957) (English title: "Second Thoughts") is a novel by Michel Butor. It is the author's best-known work and is widely considered as one of the most important French novels of the 20th century.
La Mojarra Stela 1 La Mojarra Stela 1 is an early Mesoamerican carved monument (stela) dating from the 2nd century CE. It was discovered in 1986, pulled from the Acula River near La Mojarra, Veracruz, Mexico, not far from the Tres Zapotes Olmec archaeological site.
La Molina National Agrarian University La Molina National Agrarian University (Spanish:Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina) (UNALM) is a state-owned university in Lima, Peru. It is the country's best university in the fields of agricultural and forestry sciences.
La Moncada La Moncada is a small town in the Tarimoro Municipality of Guanajuato, Mexico. The town has a population of 5,100 and sits on the road from Tarimoro City to State Road 51 (Celaya-Salvatierra), it was founded in 1877.
La Mort de Tintagiles La Mort de Tintagiles (The Death of Tintagiles, 1894) is a play by Maurice Maeterlinck, successfully staged by The Theater Studio of the Moscow Art Theater in 1905. This production was directed by Meyerhold and designed by Sapunov and Sergei Sudeikin.
La Moustache La Moustache (The Moustache) is a French film from 2005, directed by Emmanuel Carrère and starring Vincent Lindon, adapted from Carrère's own novel. The film was awarded the Label Europa Cinemas prize at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and is currently distributed theatrically in the US by The Cinema Guild with a DVD release handled by Koch-Lorber Films.
La Movida Madrileña La Movida Madrileña (English: The Madrid movement) was a sociocultural movement that took place in Madrid during the first ten years after the death of Francisco Franco in 1975 and represented the economic rise of Spain and the new emerging Spanish cultural identity. This hedonistic and cultural wave, la movida, also took place in other Spanish urban centers, such as Barcelona and Vigo .
La Musgaña La Musgaña is a Spanish folk music ensemble, founded in 1986 by Enrique Almendros, Jose Marti Climent and Rafa Martin. The band incorporates various instruments such as the dulcimer, fiddle, hurdy gurdy, bagpipes, flutes, guitar and bass, and performs traditional music from the Iberian peninsula, mostly from the Spanish regions of Castile, Zamora, Leon, Extremadura and La Mancha.
La naissance d'Osiris La naissance d'Osiris, ou La fĂŞte Pamilie (The Birth of Osiris, or The Festival of Pamylia) is an opera in the form of a one-act acte de ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 12 October, 1754 at Fontainebleau to celebrate the birth of the future King Louis XVI. The libretto is by Rameau's frequent collaborator Louis de Cahusac.
La noche oscura La noche oscura is a poetry book by Alejandro CarriĂłn first published by the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana at the urging of the poet Jorge Carrera Andrade, then vice-president. This book includes a complete version of the poem Tinieblahttp://members.
La nouvelle manga Nouvelle Manga is an artistic movement which gathers Franco-Belgian and Japanese comic creators together. The expression was first used by Kiyoshi Kusumi, editor of the Japanese manga magazine Comickers, in referring to the work of French expatriate Frédéric Boilet, who now lives in Japan.
La nuit du carrefour La nuit du carrefour (English title: Maigret at the Crossroads) is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest novels to feature Inspector Maigret in the role of the chief police investigator, a character that has since become one of the best-known detectives in fiction.
La Navarraise La Navarraise is an opera in one act by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jules Claretie and Henri Cain. It was first performed at Covent Garden in London on June 2, 1894, with Emma Calvé in the title role.
La Neige au Sahara "La Neige au Sahara" is Anggun's first French language single from her debut album, Au Nom De La Lune. There's also an English version of the song, "Snow on the Sahara", for the international edition of the album.
La New Bears The La New Bears (La New 熊) are a professional baseball team in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan. They qualified for the playoffs in 2006 for the first time in team history, and by virtue of finishing with the best record for the whole season, have gained an automatic berth in the Taiwan Series.

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