• 1950 Vincennes Velvets were a minor league affiliate of the St. Louis Browns. The Velvets hosted minor league home games at Nehi Park. The Vincennes Velvets...
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  • came into existence during the 1952 season. On June 7, 1952, the Vincennes Velvets of the Class D level Mississippi–Ohio Valley League moved to Canton...
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    The Hippodrome de Vincennes, also called Vincennes Raceourse, is a horse racing track located in Paris, France. It has a capacity of 40,000. It was created...
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  • Chuck Hawley (category Vincennes Velvets/Canton Citizens players)
    Mattoon Indians 1951 – Mount Vernon Kings 1952 – Canton Citizens/Vincennes Velvets 1953 – Texarkana Bears 1954 – Bryan/Del Rio Indians "Chuck Hawley"...
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  • 1956–1959 Springfield, IL: Springfield Giants 1950 Vincennes, IN: Vincennes Citizens 1950; Vincennes Velvets 1951–1952 West Frankfort, IL: West Frankfort Cardinals...
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  • and were replaced in the 1950 Mississippi–Ohio Valley League by the Vincennes Velvets. The "Stags" had played as an independent local team before the minor...
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  • California Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana Vedanta University in Orissa, India Vilnius University...
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  • League (IIL) Standings on StatsCrew.com". www.statscrew.com. "1952 Vincennes Velvets/Canton Citizens minor league baseball Roster on StatsCrew.com". www...
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  • Rope-ladder Lucky La Mole Friday the Thirteenth Honor of the House of Valois Vincennes Castle Spanish Boots Ashes Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya as Margaret of Valois...
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    Ripley's Believe It or Not! cartoon strip. The town's name also inspired Vincennes, Indiana entrepreneur Milt Harris to create Santa's Candy Castle, the...
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    Morrell Astrolabe Dumont d'Urville United States Exploring Expedition USS Vincennes Wilkes USS Porpoise Ringgold Ross expedition HMS Erebus (J. C. Ross Abernethy)...
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    social event, and an "expensive fashion statement"; the cost of food, furs, velvets, and jewellery for the event was so expensive that negotiations over the...
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  • translated works from French and Armenian into English including; The Bois de Vincennes (2013), The Rosy Future of War (1999), Fifty Years of Armenian Literature...
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    1913, Jean Cocteau said of Maxim's clientele: "It was an accumulation of velvet, lace, ribbons, diamonds and what all else I couldn't describe. To undress...
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  • that the Archives of the Ministry of Defense located at the Château de Vincennes still held unsorted and uncatalogued bundles of Louvois's correspondence...
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    member of the American Philosophical Society in 1817. In 1833, he visited Vincennes, Indiana, where he sketched the first known drawing of Grouseland, the...
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  • "Estranged" "Paradise City" (Taken from the Paris, France Hippodrome de Vincennes show on June 6, 1992) "It's So Easy" "Mr. Brownstone" "Live and Let Die"...
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    number of people at all levels of society. La Voisin was imprisoned at Vincennes, where she was subjected to questioning. On 27 December 1679, Louis XIV...
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    finally relented, on condition that the female singers remain behind a black velvet curtain. During the Paris Commune of 1871, the curé of the church, Abbé...
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    one day. To date, albums covered include: The Velvet Underground & Nico (originally performed by The Velvet Underground) Songs of Leonard Cohen (originally...
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    won, but the next day Louis XIII invited Richelieu to the château de Vincennes and gave him his full support. Marie de' Medici was exiled to Compiegne...
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    newspaper article gives Cassell's real name as Osvaldo Tripolini Ronaldo Vincennes Castelleno.) The son of Luigi and Luisa Castellano, Oswaldo was born in...
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  • bankrupt". The Salina Journal. p. 10. "Sky Ryders in Drum Corps finals". Vincennes Sun-Commercial. August 18, 1991. p. B4. Perrin, Tom (May 18, 1995). "Sky...
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    have the face of one." Mugler died of natural causes at his residence in Vincennes near Paris, on 23 January 2022, at the age of 73. Robot couture "Iconic...
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  • and textile-printing methods on a variety of suitable materials – silk, velvet, terrycloth and burlap - to produce a “correspondence” of colour and motif...
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    Fournier de Bernaville passed from the lieutenance of the Château de Vincennes to governance of the Bastille after the death of Saint-Mars on 12 March...
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  • crenellated tower, a turret, and a rotunda. Santa Claus Town was the vision of Vincennes entrepreneur Milton Harris, who saw the potential of Santa Claus, Indiana’s...
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  • fine pieces include a Louis XVI cabinet topped by a vase of flowers in Vincennes porcelain. The house contains two early (1754 and 1758–59) self-portraits...
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    Dubai via Bandar Abbas, was shot down by the U.S. missile cruiser USS Vincennes over the Strait of Hormuz, killing all 290 people on the plane. The event...
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    Allegany, Francis recorded a quadruple double against Shawn Marion and Vincennes University. Francis transferred to Maryland in 1998 for his junior season...
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