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61 unusual facts about Lyon


Appenzell District

Later Appenzell began to establish independent foreign trade relations (1494 Venice, 1497 Constance, about 1499 Lyon, 1529 Frankfurt am Main).

Asterix and the Banquet

The phrase: "Je vous promets qu'on n'a pas fini d'en parler de l'affaire du courrier de Lugdunum !" is a reference to the trial "le courrier de Lyon", where an innocent one was sentenced for the murder of postmen and the theft of their mail in 1796.

Bukit View Secondary School

He went on to become Singapore's hope against 23 other international culinary talents in the finals of the Bocuse d'Or Concours Mondial de la Cuisine 2009 Culinary contest - equivalent to the World Cup of football - in Lyon, France.

Celestines

The founder, having heard that it was probable that Pope Gregory X, then holding a council at Lyon, would suppress all such new orders as had been founded since the Lateran Council, having commanded that such institutions should not be further multiplied, went to Lyon.

Centrifugal railway

Although installations were later placed in the cities of Bordeaux, Havre, and Lyons, the ride ultimately proved to be unpopular and more looping roller coasters were not built for nearly twenty years.

Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield

Had one son and two daughters, the eldest of whom, Elisabeth (d. 1736 at Lyon) married Henry Temple, son of the 1st Viscount Palmerston.

Claude Bowes-Lyon

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1855 - 1944), father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Compagnie Générale des Eaux

In 1854, CGE obtained a concession in order to supply water to the public in Lyon, serving in this capacity for over a hundred years.

David Lyon

David Bowes-Lyon (1902–1961), brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother

Early Modern English Bible translations

They were taken in large part from the work of Stephanus (Robert Estienne of Paris), who had divided the Greek Testament into verses in 1551, during a journey which he was compelled to make between Paris and Lyon.

Eric Pehap

He was the recipient of numerous arts prizes including the Cultural Medal for Graphic Art, presented in Lyon, France in 1979 and was awarded a Gold medal Italy at the Accademia di Parma in the same year.

Eritherium

The holotype (specimen number MNHN PM69) is now in the Musée d'histoire naturelle - Guimet in Lyon and includes an upper jaw (with approaches of the zygomatic bone and two maxillary branches, each of the two posterior premolars (P3 and 4) and three molars (M1-3)).

Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne

Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne (born 1688 in Lyon, died 1771 in Paris) was a French art critic of the 19th century.

Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers

Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers (1668, Lyon – 1741, Paris) was a French engraver best known for his miniature portraits of his contemporaries.

Fine Arts Quartet

In recent years, they have also been guest professors at the national music conservatories of Paris and Lyon, as well as at the summer music schools of Yale University and Indiana University.

Frances Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Her father was Oswald Smith, of Blendon Hall (7 July 1794 – 18 June 1863), and her mother was Henrietta Mildred Hodgson (c. 1805–1891).

Frankfurter Kantorei

The choir has performed concert tours abroad in Paris, Lyon, Venice, Turin, Vienna, Helsinki, St Petersburg, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Seattle and Toronto, among others, and first appeared in Israel in 1979.

Frederick Bakewell

He introduced the first commercial telefax service between Paris and Lyon some 11 years before the invention of workable telephones.

FS Class ETR 460

Three sets were modified to be capable of additionally running on 1.5 kV DC for use on Turin-Lyon services, but have been all re-converted to the ETR 460 standard.

Geography of the Alps

Working upstream, the River Rhône turns to the east near Lyon, and forms part of the boundary between the Alps and the Jura that ends at Lake Geneva.

Goldie Goldbloom

In 2013, she spoke at the International Forum on the Novel, run by Villa Gillet in Lyon, France, on the subject of "Portraits and Faces: Appearance and Disfigurment".

Granville Penn

A supporter of the Odiham Society, he met Charles Benoît Vial de Sainbel who was in England for the second time to try to set up a veterinary school, such as existed at Lyon; and whose profile was raised when he was asked to dissect the famous racehorse Eclipse.

History Museum of Armenia

# in Lyon, Museum of Textiles and Antiquities – “Armenian Textiles”

History of the Great Britain national rugby league team

Clive scored a long distance try in the final in Stade Gerland, Lyon as they drew with Australia 10-10 after extra time.

Jean-Claude Colin

At the end of the summer of 1813 Jean-Claude set off for the major seminary of Saint Irenaeus at Lyon for the final years of preparation for the priesthood.

Jean-Pascal Beintus

In 1996 Kent Nagano, then music director of the Opéra de Lyon, recognized Jean-Pascal Beintus' talents as composer and began to commission works from him.

Joseph Gelineau

Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1941, Gelineau studied theology at a Catholic seminary in Lyon and music in Paris.

Josephin Soulary

Josephin (Joseph Marie) Soulary (February 23, 1815 - March 28, 1891), French poet, son of a Lyon merchant of Genoese origin (Solari).

Juliana Morell

Accused of taking part in a murder, the father fled to Lyon with his daughter, then eight years old.

Laurent Levesque

He then became a pianist in several symphonic orchestras and accompanist at the Opéra National de Lyon.

Lounès Matoub

Two streets in France have been named after Matoub, one in Grenoble and one in Lyon.

Lugduname

Lugduname (from lat. Lugdunum for Lyons) is one of the most potent sweetening agents known.

Lyon-class battleship

The first two were named for cities in France, while the rest honored French admirals Abraham Duquesne and Anne Hilarion de Tourville.

Lyon's Inn

Lyon's Inn was a small Inn, with eighty students at its peak during the time of Elizabeth I, and educated people as noted as Sir Edward Coke and John Selden.

Mediterranean Interregional Commission

• November 23 & 24, 2009 : International conference on the Contribution of local and regional authorities to the Water Strategy of the Union for the Mediterranean, Lyon (France).

Michael Bowes-Lyon

Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (born 1957), former politician and former British Army officer

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Michael Bowes-Lyon, 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1928–1987), first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret

Nepenthes truncata

On September 29, 2006, at the Botanical Gardens in Lyon, France, a Nepenthes truncata was photographed containing the decomposing corpse of a mouse.

Neven Maguire

He has also featured in a number of other television programmes including 10 of the Best; Neven Cooks, a 6-part series which is broadcast in South Africa, Australia and on Food Network; Cook with Love, a documentary on his participation in the World Cooking Competition in Lyon in 2002 and Neven's Food from the Sun.

Panos Kammenos

He studied economics and psychology at the University of Lyon Business Administration School of Managers in Switzerland.

Paris-Rhône

Paris-Rhône was a French producer of small three-wheeler electric cars based in Lyon.

Passage SAS

At the same time, the brand developed construction applications, in particular by supplying the nosing for the Paris metro steps and equipping the pedestrian zones in cities such as Lyon, Lille and Bordeaux.

Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Patrick Bowes-Lyon

As a younger brother of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's father, he was a great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Patrick Bowes-Lyon (5 March 1863 in Belgravia, Middlesex – 5 October 1946 in Westerham, Kent) was a British tennis player, barrister and uncle of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, mother of Queen Elizabeth II.

Pierre Dupont

Pierre Dupont (April 23, 1821 – July 24, 1870), French song-writer, the son of a blacksmith, was born in Lyon.

Presque-isle

Presque-isle of Lyon, (name used for the 1st and 2de arrondissements of Lyon between the rivers Rhône and Saône.

Province of Lugo

The capital city was an ancient Celtic settlement named in honour of the god Lugh (see Lyon), later Latinised as Lucus Augusti, and which became one of the three main important Galician-Roman centres alongside Braccara Augusta and Asturica Augusta (modern Braga and Astorga respectively).

Renata Reisfeld

Reisfeld co-organized (with Professor Georges Boulon of Lyon, France) 6 Israeli-French science conferences on Solid State Lasers and related subjects.

Salmanticenses and Complutenses

It appeared at Lyon in 1670 in five quarto volumes, under the title "Collegii Complutensis Fr. Discalc. B. M. V. de Monte Carmeli Artium cursus ad breviorem formam collectus et novo ordine atque faciliori stylo dispositus".

Sea spider

In 2007 remarkably well preserved fossils were exposed in fossil beds at La Voulte-sur-Rhône, south of Lyon in south-eastern France.

Sebastian Castellio

Having been educated at the age of twenty at the University of Lyon, Castellio was fluent in both French and Italian, and became an expert in Latin, Hebrew and Greek as well.

Sir Robert Slingsby, 1st Baronet

He entered the Navy and when only 22 was given his first command, the Eighth Lyon's Whelp, then in 1636 the Third Lyon's Whelp, and then the Expedition, in which in 1640 he transported arms from the Tower of London to Edinburgh.

Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille

In 1819 a foundation from the mother house in Lyon was established in the Diocese of Belley under the leadership of Mother Saint Joseph Chaney.

Stade des Lumières

On 1 September 2008, Olympique Lyonnais president Jean-Michel Aulas announced plans to create a new 60,000-seat stadium, tentatively called OL Land, to be built on 50 hectares of land located in Décines-Charpieu, a suburb of Lyon.

Table-book

The first example of such a book is probably Le parangon des chansons (1538) by Jacques Moderne of Lyon.

Tunisia at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships

Tunisia participated in the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France.

Van Le Ngoc

From 1996 - 1998, he followed his study to become a ballet dancer at National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon (CNSM).

Veratalpa

According to Trouessart, the suffix -ana is appropriate for names that reference persons, but not for those that refer to places, such as this name, which is derived from Lugdunum (the Latin name for Lyon).

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Veratalpa is known only from the locality of Vieux Collonges near Lyon in southeastern France; Ameghino knew this locality as "Mont-Ceindre".

Victor de Laprade

After completing his studies at Lyon, he produced, in 1839, a small volume of religious verse, Les Parfums de Madeleine.


2010–11 Rugby Pro D2 season

Lyon, who lost the promotion final the previous year, established themselves as a candidate for the title from early on in the season along with recently relegated Albi.

48May

Hook and Jon went to Hamilton Boys' High School together, where Jon was head boy, while Stowers in the year above, was the lead singer in the band The Grinners (née Lyon), while Shannon Brown is well known on the New Zealand music circuit for his roles in bands such as Tadpole.

Annabelle Lyon

Lyon was a member of George Balanchine’s American Ballet, founded by Lincoln Kirstein in 1936, and danced in the original casts of Le baiser de la fée, Jeu de cartes and Serenade.

Brackley railway station

On 13 May 1950 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrived at Brackley station en route to the first official British Grand Prix held at Silverstone.

Caste system among Muslims

Stephen M. Lyon of University of Kent has written about what he calls "Gujarism", the act of Gurjars in Pakistan seeking out other Gurjars to form associations, and consolidate ties with them, based strictly on caste affiliation.

Clan Lyon

1865–1904 – Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Claude Farrère

Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (27 April 1876, in Lyon – 21 June 1957, in Paris), was a French author of novels set in such exotic locations as Istanbul, Saigon, and Nagasaki.

Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport

On 27 October 1972, Air Inter Flight 696, Vickers Viscount 724 F-BMCH, en route from Lyon to Clermont-Ferrand, crashed 4 km west of Noirétable during bad weather; 60 on board died, 8 survived.

Decimus Rusticus

He then married Tullia of Lyon (b. say 410), daughter of Eucherius of Lyon and wife Gallia(?), and they were the parents of Aquilinus (ca 430 – ca 470), a nobleman at Lyon, schoolfellow and friend of Sidonius Apollinaris and the father of St. Viventiolus and his brother St. Rusticus, Archbishop of Lyon.

Downtown Ottawa

It will include 3 subway stations; one between Lyon and Kent Streets, integrated with Place de Ville, the next station will be built between O'Connor Street and Metcalfe Street and one under Rideau Street with multiple entrances in the Rideau Centre.

EPSI

Later on, with the rise of the computer science industry, the school built branches in Bordeaux, Montpellier, Arras then in October 2002 in Nantes and then later in Lyon.

Gasparo Duiffopruggar

It is believed that Duiffopruggar was born near Füssen in Bavaria, Germany, and had moved to Lyon, France, where he did most of his work, by 1553.

Guy-Marie Bagnard

He studied at the little seminary of Rimont, at the academic Seminary of Lyon (with the Catholic University of Lyon), at the Catholic Institut of Paris, and finally, at the Sorbonne University.

Institut national des sciences appliquées

There are 5 INSA establishments organised as a network and located in major French regional cities Lyon, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg and Toulouse.

Jean de Pauly

Jean de Pauly (Albania, 1860 – Lyon, 1903) was the translator of French editions of the portions of the Talmud and the first complete translation of the Zohar .

John Short

Born in Richmond, Upper Canada and educated in Lennoxville, Canada East, he was the son of the Reverend Robert Short and Margaret Lyon, the grandson of John Quirk Short and the great-grandson of Robert Quirk Short.

Maryse Bastié

The Real Estate Services division of aircraft maker Bombardier Inc. named a street in her honor in Saint-Laurent, Quebec as did the French cities of Anglet, Bron, Haguenau and Lyon.

Music Inspired by the Group of Seven

However, snippets of recorded dialogue from the Group of Seven artists, and other contemporaneous figures such as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Mackenzie King and John Diefenbaker, are mixed in.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

She joined the Socialist Party in 2002 and joined the team of Gérard Collomb, Mayor of Lyon, in 2003 leading actions to strengthen local democracy, the fight against discrimination, promotion of citizen rights, and access to employment and housing.

Ohad Naharin

Naharin's works have been commissioned by the Frankfurt Ballet, Opéra National de Paris, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Sydney Dance Company, Lyon Opera Ballet, Les Grand Ballets Canadiens, Rambert Dance Company, Compañia Nacional de Danza, Cullberg Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Ballet Gulbenkian, Balet da Cidade de São Paulo, Bavarian State Ballet, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

Onnig Cavoukian

During his career, Cavouk's subjects included Indira Gandhi, the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, Oscar Peterson, Pierre and Margaret Trudeau, Leonid Brezhnev, Patrick Macnee, Hubert Humphrey, and Pat Nixon.

Orli Shaham

Her appearances with orchestras include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit and Atlanta Symphonies, Orchestre National de Lyon, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Orchestra of La Scala (Milan), Orchestra della Toscana (Florence), and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Philippe Decouflé

He has worked for the Lyon Opera Ballet, and choreographed the music video for New Order's "True Faith" and Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy".

Raymond Barre

In 1995, the RPR Mayor of Lyon Michel Noir could not compete for another term in due to a judicial indictment, and consequently, Barre was the right-wing candidate to the mayoralty.

Repas de bébé

The baby featured, Andrée Lumière, died in Lyon aged 24, as a result of the 1918 flu pandemic.

Rue des Marronniers

When he left Lyon for Villeurbanne, Marcel Maréchal succeeded him and installed the Théâtre du Cothurne.

SNCF Class X 72500

They operate longer distance TER services, particularly in the areas south and west of Paris, the Paris to Laon line, around Tours, Nantes, Toulouse, Lyon, Dijon, Nevers, Grenoble, Bordeaux and the South Coast of France.

Society of Mary

Marist Brothers, a Catholic religious congregation of brothers with affiliated lay people founded in France, at La Valla near Lyon in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest of the Society of Mary.

Symphorien Champier

A doctor of medicine at Montpellier, Champier was the personal physician of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, whom he followed to Italy with Louis XII, attending to several battles, and finally settling in Lyon.

Tarik Brahmi

Born in Lyon, France with a father from Toudja, Algeria, he graduated from the Université de Montpellier in 1991 with a degree in Microelectronics and Control Engineering.

Transport in Le Havre

The station is served by trains to major cities such as Paris, Rouen, Lyon, Marseille and local services to Fecamp and Rolleville.

Vente-privee.com

The remaining employees work in the 160,000 sqm warehouses in Blanc-Mesnil (Paris) and St. Vulbas (near Lyon).

VolkerRail

This is a very long standing contract and is a legacy of British Steel's ownership of Grant Lyon Eagre and subsequently Corus' part ownership of GrantRail.

Western Australia border

This expedition, to determine 129° east on the ground, created world-wide scientific interest and involved the cooperation of the Astronomer Royal and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with wireless time signals sent by the French wireless Service, that were transmitted from the Lyons astronomical observatory (Observatoire de Lyon) at Saint-Genis-Laval, near Lyons, France, between 17 and 24 November 1920.

Whole language

Widely-known whole language detractors include Louisa Cook Moats, G. Reid Lyon, James Kauffman, Phillip Gough, Keith Stanovich, Diane McGuinness, Douglas Carnine, Edward Kame'enui, Jerry Silbert, Lynn Melby Gordon, Rudolf Flesch, and Jeanne Chall.

William Lamb alias Paniter

William Lamb wrote Ane Resonyng of ane Scottis and Inglis merchand betuix Rowand and Lionis in 1549.

XTuple

Jeffrey Lyon, the original developer of OpenMFG, contacted Ned LIlly, then of Great Bridge, a company incubated within Landmark Media Enterprises (formerly Landmark Communications), whose owner, Frank Batten Jr., had heavily invested in Red Hat.

Zofia Chądzyńska

After the war she lived in France where her husband, Bohdan Chądzyński, was a Polish consul in Lyon until 1949, then was exiled via Morocco to Argentina.