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Bal-musette: a style of French instrumental music and dance that first became popular in Paris in the 1880s. Although it began with bagpipes as the main instrument, this instrument was replaced with accordion, on which a variety of waltzes, polkas, and other dance styles were played for dances. Cabaret by Rodolphe Salis in 1881 in Paris. [22]
The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments (French: Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathématique) is a book by Nicholas Bion, first published in 1709. [1] It was translated into English in 1723 by Edmund Stone. [2] The book describes ways to construct mathematical instruments.
The Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault, conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation. If a long and heavy pendulum suspended from the high roof above a circular area is monitored over an extended period of time, its plane of oscillation appears to change ...
Marker on the site reads: [15] [16] NO. 972 NAVY AND MARINE CORPS RESERVE CENTER – Designed as the largest enclosed structure without columns in the world by noted California architects Robert Clements and Associates, this Art Deco building, constructed between 1938 and 1941 by the WPA, is the largest and second-oldest Navy Reserve Center in the United States.
April 2, 1987 (655 W. Jefferson Blvd. University Park: Landmark large-event venue; headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners: 4: Aloha Apartment Hotel
On April 12, 2011, the California Science Center received Space Shuttle Endeavour from NASA. [23] [24] [25] It arrived at the Science Center on October 14, 2016, after it made its epic journey through the streets of Los Angeles. [26] Before its arrival, a building was constructed to temporary house the Space Shuttle.
Philippe's, or "Philippe the Original" (/ f ɪ ˈ l iː p s / fi-LEEPS) [1] [2] is a restaurant located in downtown Los Angeles, California. The restaurant is well known for continuously operating since 1908, making it one of the oldest restaurants in Los Angeles. It is also renowned for claiming to be the inventor of the French dip sandwich.
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (French: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, pronounced [sɑ̃tʁ nasjɔnal də la ʁəʃɛʁʃ sjɑ̃tifik], CNRS) is the French state research organisation [2] and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.