Paris, Texas ( sp. )

Films such as Kluge's Abschied von Gestern ( 1966 ), Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God ( 1972 ), Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul ( 1974 ) and The Marriage of Maria Braun ( 1979 ), and Wenders ' Paris, Texas ( 1984 ) found international acclaim and critical approval.

* Paris, Texas

The film Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders was named after the city, but was not set there.

Paris was on the Central National Road of the Republic of Texas, which ran from San Antonio north through Paris to cross the Red River.

The Texas and Pacific reached town in 1876 ; the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway ( later merged into the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ) and the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway in 1887 ; the Texas Midland ( later Southern Pacific ) in 1894 ; and the Paris and Mount Pleasant ( Pa-Ma Line ) in 1910.

Henry Smith ( born 1876 ) was an African-American who was tortured and murdered at a public, heavily attended and promoted lynching on February 1, 1893 at the Paris Fairgrounds in Paris, Texas.

Its jewelry technologies department, now known as The Texas Institute of Jewelry Technology at Paris Junior College, is internationally recognized.

Paris, Texas was named " Best Small Town in Texas " in 1998 by Kevin Heubusch in his book The New Rating Guide to Life in America's Small Cities.

According to the Texas Transportation Commission, Paris is the second-largest city in Texas without a four-lane divided highway connecting to an Interstate highway within the state.

In addition, Paris Junior College provides post-secondary education, and hosts the Texas Institute of Jewelry Technology, a well-respected school of gemology, horology, and jewelry, and the Industrial Technology Division which offers programs in Air Conditioning Technology, Refrigeration Technology, Agricultural Technology, Drafting and Computer-aided Design, Electronics, Electromechanical Technology, and Welding Technology.

Paris is represented in the Texas Senate by Republican Kevin Eltife, District 1, and in the Texas House of Representatives by Republican Erwin Cain, District 3.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice ( TDCJ ) operates the Paris District Parole Office in Paris.

At the Federal level, the two U. S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison ; Paris is part of Texas ' US Congressional 4th District, which is currently represented by Republican Ralph M. Hall.

* The second Saturday of every October amateur radio enthusiasts ( ham radio operators ) come to the city in large numbers to attend the annual Paris Texas Hamfest.

Across the road is the kitchen, and waiters bearing great trays of dishes dodge traffic as nimbly as their French colleagues at the restaurant in the Place Du Tertre in Paris.

Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.

But the fact remains that in most restaurants, including some of the best of Paris and Bordeaux and Dijon, the bottle is frankly and simply brought from the cellar to the table when ordered, and all the conditioning or preparation it ever receives takes place while the chef is preparing the meal.

The congressman who, in Paris, may have stuffed his wallet with enough franc notes to paper the roof of Notre-Dame will systematically scream that a $200 increase in entertainment allowance for a second secretary is tantamount to debauchery of the Treasury.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

An American in Paris is a symphonic tone poem by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928.

Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

Gershwin explained in Musical America, " My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere.

An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.

He misses his wife who is in Paris, and he uses all his ingenuity and resourcefulness to persuade the city bureaucracy to allow him to leave.

At first he insists that he does not belong in Oran, and his only thought is returning to the woman he loves in Paris.

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

On July 23, 1894, the Parisian magazine Le Petit Journal organized what is considered to be the world's first motoring competition from Paris to Rouen.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

Institutionally it is based on the Annales journal, the SEVPEN publishing house, the ( FMSH ), and especially the 6th Section of the École pratique des hautes études, all based in Paris.

The current leader is Roger Chartier, who is Directeur d ' Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Professeur in the Collège de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Little is known of his life, however it is clear that Alan entered the schools no earlier than the late 1140s ; first attending the school at Paris, and then at Chartres.

* 1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.

* 1944 – World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.

One character, Raymond Rambert, devises a plan to escape the city to join his lover in Paris after city officials refuse his request to leave.

The scenes at the end of the novel, when Oran's gates are reopened, recall the jubilant scenes in Paris when the city was liberated in 1944.

The most recent cinematic portrayal of Aeneas was in the film Troy, in which he appears as a youth charged by Paris to protect the Trojan refugees, and to continue the ideals of the city and its people.

After returning to Paris, he fell ill, probably due to an epidemic then sweeping the city.

The urban area of Barcelona extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of between 4, 200, 000 and 4, 500, 000 within an area of, being the sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, the Ruhr, Madrid and Milan.

Drawing inspiration from Paris, Isma ' il environs a city of maidans and wide avenues ; due to financial constraints, only some of them, in the area now composing Downtown Cairo, came to fruition.

Chardin was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left the city.

After a year in Paris, he therefore began to leave the city and paint scenes in the countryside to capture the daily reality of village life.

Indicate location-Establishing shots may use famous landmarks to indicate the city where the action is taking place or has moved to, such as the Empire State building or the Statue of Liberty to identify New York, the London Eye or Big Ben to identify London, the Sydney Opera House to identify Sydney, the Eiffel Tower to identify Paris, or the Las Vegas Strip to identify Las Vegas.

He died at the age of fifty-one in Paris in 1883, and was buried in the Cimetière de Passy in the city.

While Greek culture placed a greater emphasis on prowess and power, Paris chose to award the apple to Aphrodite, thereby dooming his city, which was destroyed in the war that ensued.

The national cuisine developed primarily in the city of Paris with the chefs to French royalty, but eventually it spread throughout the country and was even exported overseas.

In Paris, the guilds were regulated by city government as well as by the French crown.

Paris and Île-de-France are central regions where almost anything from the country is available, as all train lines meet in the city.

The following year Mesmer moved to Paris, rented an apartment in a part of the city preferred by the wealthy and powerful, and established a medical practice.

Until the 13th century Ghent was the biggest city in Europe after Paris ; it was bigger than London, Cologne or Moscow.

The French geographer Charles Picquet represented the 48 districts of the city of Paris by halftone color gradient according to the percentage of deaths by cholera per 1, 000 inhabitants.

During his early life, he relocated between Savoy and Paris and the tensions between provincial and city life influenced his writings.

Philip Augustus founded the Sorbonne and made Paris a city for scholars.

Paris was by far the largest city with 220, 000 people in 1547 and a history of steady growth.

This awoke in him a lifelong love for Italian music, particularly opera: I had brought with me from Paris the prejudice of that city against Italian music ; but I had also received from nature a sensibility and niceness of distinction which prejudice cannot withstand.