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A Girl Against Napoleon or The Devil Made a Woman, also known under its Spanish title Carmen, la de Ronda, is a 1959 Spanish historical adventure film directed by Tulio Demicheli and starring Sara Montiel, Jorge Mistral and Maurice Ronet. [1] It is loosely based on the story of Prosper Mérimée's Carmen, with the setting changed to the ...
3 quotque post aliis erunt in annis, or as many as there will be later in years, 4 gratias tibi maximas Catullus: Catullus gives you the greatest thanks, 5 agit pessimus omnium poeta, the worst of all poets, 6 tanto pessimus omnium poeta: by as much the worst poet of all, 7 quanto tu optimus omnium patronus. as you the best lawyer/patron of all.
The opera is based on Part III of the story and omits many elements, such as Carmen's husband. It greatly increases the role of other characters, such as the Dancaïre, [d] who is only a minor character in the story; the Remendado, [e] who one page after he is introduced is wounded by soldiers and then shot by Carmen's husband to keep him from slowing the gang down; and Lucas (renamed ...
Carmen Laroux (September 4, 1909 – August 24, 1942) was a Mexican film actress. Born in Durango , Mexico, she appeared in 19 films between 1927 and 1941 . Laroux is best known for her appearance as Señorita Rita in the Three Stooges film Saved by the Belle (1939).
The Carmen saeculare ("Song of the ages") is a Latin hymn written by Horace and commissioned by Augustus. It was sung by a choir of girls and boys at the secular games in 17 BC. It is written in Sapphic meter and follows the themes of the poets of the day, in particular Vergil .
The Ménec alignments, the best-known megalithic site among the Carnac stones Stones in the Kerlescan alignments Megalithic alignments at Carnac Le Menec alignments. The Carnac stones (Breton: Steudadoù Karnag) are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites near the south coast of Brittany in northwestern France, consisting of stone alignments (rows), dolmens (stone tombs), tumuli ...
Ethnic composition of Romania. Localities with a Hungarian majority or plurality are shown in dark green. After the fall of Romania's communist government in 1989, the various minority languages have received more rights, and Romania currently has extensive laws relating to the rights of minorities to use their own language in local administration and the judicial system.
Piața Romană (Romanian for "Roman Square") is a metro station in central Bucharest, located in the square with the same name, on the main north–south axis of the city centre.