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The name of Bayon was given by Etienne Aymonier in 1880. According to his report, Bayon was the Latin transliteration of what he had seen written in Khmer as "Bayânt" which he presumed must have been a corrupted form of the Pali Vejayant or Sanskrit Vaijayant , the name of the celestial palace of Indra of which the Bayon was presumed to be the ...
While the modern Basque spelling is Baiona and the same in Gascon Occitan, [11] [12] "the name Bayonne poses a number of problems both historical and linguistic which have still not been clarified". [13] There are different interpretations of its meaning. The termination -onne in Bayonne can come from many in hydronyms -onne or toponyms derived ...
The Bayon is a Khmer temple at Angkor in Cambodia. Bayon may also refer to: Bayon, Meurthe-et-Moselle, a village and commune in northeastern France; Bayon, name for the upper part of the Bayeux (river), a short stream in the southeastern France; Bayon (band), a band from Germany; Bayon Television, a television and radio operator in Cambodia
According to Royden Page Whitcomb's 1904 book, First History of Bayonne, New Jersey, the name Bayonne is speculated to have originated with Bayonne, France, from which Huguenots settled for a year before the founding of New Amsterdam. [34] However, there is no empirical evidence for this notion.
The term Bayou Country is most closely associated with Cajun and Creole cultural groups derived from French settlers and stretching along the Gulf Coast from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama, and picking back up in South Florida around the Everglades, with its center in New Orleans, Louisiana. [6]
Bayon was a German band founded around 1971 in the former GDR. Its musical style can be described as a mixture of folk , jazz , rock , and classical music . Internationally they came to prominence with their musical contribution Stell dich mitten in den Regen to the movie The Lives of Others .
British infantryman in 1941 with a Pattern 1907 bayonet affixed to his rifle. A bayonet (from Old French bayonette, now spelt baïonnette) is a knife, dagger, sword, or spike-shaped melee weapon designed to be mounted on the end of the barrel of a rifle, carbine, musket or similar long firearm, allowing the gun to be used as an improvised spear in close combats.
Juan Antonio García Bayona [1] (born 9 May 1975 [2] [3]) is a Spanish filmmaker.. He directed the 2007 horror film The Orphanage, the 2012 drama film The Impossible, and the 2016 fantasy drama film A Monster Calls.