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The Great Paris, stage name of a fictional character on the television series Mission: Impossible; Paris (Marvel Comics), a member of the Pantheon in Marvel Comics; Paris Carver, a character in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies; Paris Geller, a character played on the television series Gilmore Girls
The name also has cognates in the Irish Ríona and Manx Reina, both also meaning "queen". Some forms of the name are short forms of the name Lorraine and its variants. Some English versions of the name such as Rainna and Reigna are influenced by its similarity in sound and spelling to the words “rain” and “reign” and “rein”. Rain ...
The name probably came from the Latin word luta, meaning mud or swamp [18] Caesar had described the great marsh, or marais, along the right bank of the Seine. [19] The major part of the city was on the left bank of the Seine, which was higher and less prone to flood.
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 ...
In the United States, the surname ranked as the 946th most common surname in the 2000 U.S. Census.There were 33,914 individuals recorded at that time using the surname Terrell, and of these, 57.43% identified as being white, 38.31% black, 0.27% Asian and Pacific Islander, 0.77% American Indian and Native Alaskan, 1.47% as Hispanic ethnic origin and 1.75% of more than one race.
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 ...
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 ...
Rain is a given name. People named Rain include: Rain Newton-Smith (born 1975), Director General at the Confederation of British Industry; Rain Chudori (born 1994), Indonesian writer, curator, screenwriter, artist and actress; Rain Dove (born 1989), American model, actor and activist; Rain Eensaar (born 1974), Estonian orienteer, rogainer and ...