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Ashley Maher was born to British parents in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and moved to Los Angeles at the age of five.Her parents encouraged her singing from an early age, and she tried out many styles, including jazz, choral and medieval music.
Birth name: Brenda Gordon: Born April 8, 1949 (age 75) New York City, U.S. Genres: R&B ... Russell returned to her solo career in 2000 with the album Paris Rain, ...
The end of the Roman Empire in the west, and the creation of the Merovingian dynasty in the 5th century, with its capital placed in Paris by Clovis I, confirmed the new role and name for the city. The adjective Parisiacus had already been used for centuries. Lutetia had gradually become Paris, the city of the Parisii. [22]
The ethnic name Parisii is a latinized form of Gaulish Parisioi (sing. Parisios). Its meaning has been debated. According to French government diplomat Xavier Delamarre, it may derive from the stem pario-('cauldron'). [6]
PARIS (AP) — Fashion. Sports. And of course, the rain. Those were the topics — separately, and together — on everyone’s lips as a gaggle of luminaries from sports, entertainment and media ...
The city of Paris covers an area much smaller than the urban area of which it is the core. At present, Paris's real urbanisation, defined by the pôle urbain (urban cluster) statistical area, covers 2,845 km 2 (1,098 sq mi), [9] or an area about 27 times larger than the city itself. The administration of Paris's urban growth is divided between ...
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A hot-air balloon brought an Olympic ring of fire into a rainy sky and singer Celine Dion belted from the Eiffel Tower as Paris kicked off its first Summer Olympics in a century Friday, with a ...