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Website. www .redoute-bonn .de. The Redoute in Bad Godesberg, now part of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is a hall opened in 1792 for balls of the court of Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria. When Bonn was the location of the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, from 1949 to 1990, state receptions were held at the Redoute.
Frank Vandenbroucke (6 November 1974 – 12 October 2009) was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist.After showing promise in track and field in his adolescence, Vandenbroucke took to cycle racing in the late 1980s and developed into one of the great hopes for Belgian cycling in the 1990s, with a string of victories that included Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Grand Tour stages and Omloop Het ...
The Royal Academy of Spain defines reducción (reduction) as "a grouping into settlement of indigenous people for the purpose of evangelization and assimilation." [1] In colonial Mexico, reductions were called "congregations" ( congregaciones ). [2] [3] Forced resettlements aimed to concentrate indigenous people into communities, facilitating ...
In the lead up to the 2016 games, an Associated Press analysis found that at Olympic sites in Rio de Janeiro, levels of viruses and bacteria from fecal contamination were up to 1.7 million times ...
La Redoute was founded in 1837 when Joseph Pollet, son of a rural family, moved to the capital of the French wool region, Roubaix. There he opened the first worsted spinning operation, inventing a number of processes. His son, Charles, took up the torch and, in 1873, built a factory on a plot at rue de Blanchemaille and rue de La Redoute.
La révolte des Bonnets rouges et l’opinion internationale, article in Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l’Ouest, vol LXXXII, n°4, 1975, p 443-458 (in French) Léon de la Brière, Madame de Sévigné en Bretagne , Éditions Hachette, Paris, 1882;
The Côte de La Redoute is a climb, often included in the Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle route. It is located in Wallonia in the municipality of Aywaille and its incline is 1.6 km long with an average of 9.5%. It is named after a redoubt in the battle of Sprimont, which occurred at the village of Fontin, which is located on it, in the ...
Utah sports magnate Ryan Smith officially closed on his purchase of the Phoenix Coyotes on Thursday, an occasion the team used to confirm its new, temporary name and jerseys, as well as the team's ...