From the moment when the man tried to escape his tired marriage and odious professional commitments by taking a mistress, took a predictable enough course: the wife soon began to ‘ smell her off him ’; there were painful recriminations when the wife accused the man, hired a private detective, threatened to kill herself, and confronted the mistress in an old rambling house reminiscent of Watt ( and where the servant again is ‘ Erskine ’) … The man renounced the mistress, was forgiven by his wife who ‘ suggested a little jaunt to celebrate, to the Riviera or … Grand Canary ,’ and then, to form, returned to the mistress, this time to elope with her.

* Molly Millions, Henry Dorsett Case, and Peter Riviera all have some sort of cybernetic augmentation in William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy.

As Molly and Riviera gain entrance to Villa Straylight, three officers arrest Case and take him into custody ; Wintermute manipulates the orbital casino's security and maintenance systems and kills the officers, allowing Case to escape.

Freeing himself, Case takes Maelcum and confronts Lady 3Jane, Riviera, and Hideo, Lady 3Jane's ninja bodyguard.

Molly then explains to Case that Riviera is doomed anyway, as he has been fatally poisoned by a bad batch of drugs.

He testified against his Outfit friends more than a decade earlier for a lighter sentence in the, " Hollywood Extortion Case ," and was found at that later time, supposedly by Outfit assassin Marshall Caifano, to be working as the entertainment director at Gus Greenbaum's Riviera Hotel and Casino.

At the same time, Riviera is to obtain the password to the Turing lock from Lady 3Jane Marie-France Tessier-Ashpool, an unfrozen daughter clone and the current leader of Tessier-Ashpool SA.

Inside Villa Straylight, Molly is captured by Riviera and Lady 3Jane.

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

* 1887 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2, 000.

In Istanbul, the team recruits Peter Riviera, an artist, thief, and drug addict who is able to project detailed holographic illusions with the aid of sophisticated cybernetic implants.

Although Riviera is a sociopath, Armitage coerces him into joining the team.

Riviera blinds Hideo, but flees when he learns that the ninja is just as adept without his sight due to extensive practice while blindfolded.

Along the Riviera it is found from sea level and up to 800m.

Marmaris on the Turkish Riviera | Turquoise Coast of Turkey, which is famous for its Blue Cruise voyages with gulet type schooner s.

** The village of Rocquebillier in the French Riviera is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm.

* February 23 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2, 000 along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

Grasse (; Provençal Occitan: Grassa in classical norm ( and Italian ) or Grasso in Mistralian norm ) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department ( of which it is a sub-prefecture ), on the French Riviera.

Siderno, also known as the " pearl " of the " Jasmine Riviera ", is one of the most well-equipped tourist resorts on the Ionian coast of the Province of Reggio Calabria, with wide, sandy beaches, clear sea and a magnificently-coloured seabed.

It is part of what is currently being called the Turkish Riviera or the Turquoise Coast, featuring long, sandy beaches at the bases of cliffs and settlements in protected coves that cater to the yachting industry.

* F. Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896 – 1940 ) and his wife Zelda first visited the Riviera in 1924, stopping at Hyères, Cannes and Monte Carlo, eventually staying at St. Raphaël, where he wrote much of The Great Gatsby and began Tender is the Night.

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He also built an important country estate in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera, including the Villa des Cèdres, which is now a botanical garden.

* 1944: Cousteau's first aqualung is destroyed by a mis-aimed artillery shell in an Allied landing on the French Riviera: that left two.

This Promenade was created from the sea during the 1950s and it is one of the best in Italy, at the level ( and imitation ) of those in the French Riviera.

Dr. Nick Riviera, usually referred to as Dr. Nick, is a recurring fictional character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons.

For example, in " Homer's Triple Bypass " a large angry man grabs him, and Riviera says " Well if it isn't my old friend Mr. McGregg — with a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg "; the man literally has an arm where a leg should be and a leg where an arm should be, and it is implied that this is Riviera's fault.

The Gleizes ' spent more and more time at the family home in Serrières, in Cavalaire, and an even quieter location on the French Riviera, both associating with people more sympathetic to their social ideas.

De Gages moved from Modena towards Lucca, the Spaniards and French in the Alps under Marshal Maillebois advanced through the Italian Riviera to the Tanaro and in the middle of July the two armies were at last concentrated between the Scrivia and the Tanaro, to the unusually large number of 80, 000.

# By Genoa and the Italian Riviera, you climb up along the Val Bisagno to leave the city, across the road from Val Trebbia: Strada Statale 45 di Val Trebbia – SS45 towards Piacenza, which touches the towns of Liguria Bargagli, Torriglia, Montebruno, Rovegno, Gorreto and those of Emilia Ottone and Corte Brugnatella ( km 68 );

# By Chiavari and the Italian Riviera, both for the former State Route 586 Valley dell ' Aveto – SP 586 through Rezzoaglio and Val Aveto to Marsaglia ( Corte Brugnatella ) ( not recommended in winter ) ( km 90 ) or head for the Val Fontanabuona by the route Provincial 225 Val Fontanabuona – SP 225 to Bargagli and incorporated in the State Road 45 Val Trebbia – SS45 towards Piacenza ( km 100 );

Leaving Newton Abbot the railway widens out to four tracks ; the two for Penzance diverge to the right at Aller Junction while the Riviera Line trains climb and then slowly descend towards the sea at Torquay.

Village Murter spreads towards the Hramina Cove, where a marina has been built, and to the Slanica cove, which features the most beautiful beach of the Sibenik Riviera, as well as the camp Slanica and hotel " Colentum ".

The main road went north on from Pharr on U. S. Highway 281 to Falfurrias then East on SH 285 into Riviera and north on U. S. Highway 77 towards Victoria, through to Houston on U. S. Highway 59 and finally US 90 to Orange.

When Riviera left Stiff in late 1977 Bubbles joined him at his new label Radar Records and later at Riviera's F-Beat Records.

Wintermute believes Riviera will pose an irresistible temptation to her, and that she will give him the password.

This and its 1932 sequel, Topper Takes a Trip ( set in the French Riviera ) were probably Smith's most famous work, about a respectable banker called Cosmo Topper, married to a depressingly staid wife Mary, and his misadventures with a couple of ghosts, Marion and George Kerby, who introduce him to other ghosts.

On 27 December 1877, while Sullivan was on holiday on the French Riviera, Gilbert sent him a plot sketch accompanied by the following note:

Soutine, who had been virtually penniless in his years in Paris, immediately took the money, ran into the street, hailed a Paris taxi, and ordered the driver to take him to Nice, on the French Riviera, nearly 200 miles away.

Maigret almost invariably wears his heavy overcoat, even when traveling to the Riviera — a fact which leads people unfamiliar with him to mark him instantly as a policeman.

On September 1 of the same year, Weidmann hired a chauffeur named Joseph Couffy to drive him to the French Riviera where, in a forest outside Tours he shot him in the nape of the neck and stole his car and 2500 francs.

He left the Riviera later that year, and the Fitzgeralds never saw him again.

His Matura trip of 1937 to the Riviera, which included underwater hunting and photography, had a formative effect on him.

Emil Jellinek, a successful Austrian dealer and racing driver on the French Riviera who greatly admired Maybach's work, promised to buy a shipment of 36 automobiles for 550, 000 goldmarks if Maybach could design a great race car for him following his specifications.

After the Havana Riviera disaster, the narrator met the Portuguese ambassador with whom that woman wearing a snake ring come and he asked him " what did she do?

In 1923, suffering from bronchial asthma, his parents sent him to the French Riviera on doctor's orders.