Fanta Damba ( born in 1938 in Ségou ) is a Malian jalimuso ( Bambara female Griot-singer ) known to her fans as La Grand Vedette Malienne.

The term has also been used for specific naval vessels ( see USS Vedette ), and a class of flying boat ( see Canadian Vickers Vedette ).

The final Talbot-Lago America models ( 1957 – 1959 ) used 2, 476 cc BMW V8 engines or, for the last cars, less sophisticated and less powerful Simca 2, 351 cc ohc engines from the Vedette.

In December 2011, Betfair voided all in-running bets on a race at Leopardstown when an automated customer laid the winning horse Voler La Vedette at odds of 28-1, even as the mare crossed the finish line.

The Ford purchase also added the V-8 powered Ford Vedette range to the Simca stable.

The Canadian Vickers Vedette was developed for forstry patrol in remote areas, previously a job that was done by canoe and took weeks could be accomplished in hours, revolutionizing forestry conservation.

The former Ford SAF plant in Poissy, acquired by Simca in 1954, manufactured a large car called the Simca Vedette.

This was a descendant of the late 1940s / early 1950s Ford Vedette, and was also marketed as Ford Vedette in the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden until 1957.

They were first used in the French 1948 Ford Vedette.

The front suspension design, based on that first seen in the Ford Vedette, employed what would later come to be known as MacPherson struts while a more conventional configuration for the rear suspension used a live axle with half-elliptic springs.

Shortly after the signing of the treaties, officers and enlisted men of the California Volunteers stationed at Fort Douglas established the first daily Utah newspaper called The Union Vedette.

Vestavia's newspaper, The Vedette, received the All-Alabama award for the 2005-2006 school year and has won state-level honors every year since then.

The original engine was a 2. 2 L V8 produced by Ford SAF of French design, also used in the Ford Vedette, and a Pont-à-Mousson 4-speed manual transmission was used.

He went on to become a journalist for the Grenfell Vedette, and later its proprietor.

* Alfred Deller ( 1912 – 1979 )-A discography ( Early Music FAQ )

* Puteshestvie Na Lunu ( 1912 )-A Journey to the Moon

* Buddhism: Its Birth and Dispersal ( 1934 )-A completely rewritten work to replace Buddhism: A Study of the Buddhist Norm ( 1912 )

The elegiac tone is Hardy's natural tone of voice, and it is not surprising that the 1912 - 13 poems are consistently and unmistakably his.

Casa Milà (), better known as La Pedrera (, meaning the ' The Quarry '), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1905 – 1910, being considered officially completed in 1912.

The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.

* 1912 – The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.

By 1912, Ostwald noted that the allotropy of elements is just a special case of the phenomenon of polymorphism known for compounds, and proposed that the terms allotrope and allotropy be abandoned and replaced by polymorph and polymorphism.

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

In 1912 Vesto Slipher measured the first Doppler shift of a " spiral nebula " ( spiral nebula is the obsolete term for spiral galaxies ), and soon discovered that almost all such nebulae were receding from Earth.

The only watercourse in Casablanca is Oued Bouskoura, a small seasonal creek that until 1912 reached the Atlantic Ocean near the actual port.

* Laigle, Mathilde, Le livre des trois vertus de Christine de Pisan et son milieu historique et littéraire, Paris, Honoré Champion, 1912, 375 pages, collection: Bibliothèque du XVe siècle siècle ( this book is the translation of an American thesis of Mathilde Laigle, Columbia U. )

* 1912 – The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is announced by Charles Dawson.

A relationship with Albanian in particular has been advanced by Zecharia Mayani, as well as earlier writers such as Ascoli, 1877, E. Schneider, 1889, Thomopoulos, 1912, Buonamici, 1919 ; but Albanian is known to be an Indo-European language, and widely considered in linguistics to be an isolate.

In 1912 Ambrose Bierce proposed " an improvement in punctuation – the snigger point, or note of cachinnation: it is written thus

Albanians celebrate their independence day on 28 November ( which is the date on which they declared their independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912 ), while in the former People's Socialist Republic of Albania the National Liberation festivity date was 29 November.

However, this was an exceptional case, and it is not until 1912 that there were the first signs of the special expressive use of Insert Shots ; that is, shots of objects rather than people.

Another of the still very rare examples at this date is in Griffith's The Massacre, which was made at the end of 1912.

* 1912 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th U. S. state.

* 1912 – In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.

Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912 and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use.

Nobel Prize winner Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin wrote Dry Valley ( 1912 ), which is considered to be influenced by gothic literature.

However, during a particularly grave crisis at Spala in Poland in 1912, Rasputin sent a telegram from his home in Siberia, which is believed to have eased the suffering.

The Gini coefficient ( also known as the Gini index or Gini ratio ) is a measure of statistical dispersion developed by the Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini and published in his 1912 paper " Variability and Mutability " ().

The mace is made from gold-plated silver, and was presented to the council in 1912.

It is named for Hans Hahn and Stefan Banach who proved this theorem independently in the late 1920s, although a special case was proved earlier ( in 1912 ) by Eduard Helly, and a general extension theorem from which the Hahn – Banach theorem can be derived was proved in 1923 by Marcel Riesz.

The museum was founded in 1912 by Alexander Koenig, who donated his collection of mounted specimen to the public.

Founder Francis G. Newlands was an " avowed racist " who in 1912 mounted his presidential campaign on a platform that called for a constitutional amendment to disenfranchise black men and limit immigration to whites only.

Flat-twin engine in a 1912 Douglas N3, with its cylinders mounted along the frame

In 1912 he mounted a production of The Daughter of Heaven, authored several years earlier in collaboration with Judith Gautier for Sarah Bernhardt, at the Century Theatre in New York City.

After his first individual exhibition at the Royal Society of Art of Antwerp in 1912 international interest in his work mounted and group exhibitions followed in Cologne and The Hague.

Graflex Speed Graphic folding cameras, produced from 1912 to 1973, also have a focal plane shutter, although they are often used with a between-the-lens shutter mounted to the lensboard.

In 1912, the first sand mixer with individually mounted revolving plows was marketed by the Simpson Company.

Newlands was an " avowed racist " who in 1912 mounted his presidential campaign on a platform that called for a constitutional amendment to disenfranchise black men and limit immigration to whites only.