Léo Valentin is widely considered to be the most famous "birdman" of all time. He was billed as "Valentin, the Most Daring Man in the World". Léo Valentin...
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up Léo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Léo is a proper noun in French, meaning "lion". Its etymological root lies in the Latin word Leo. Léo is used...
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French skydiver Léo Valentin plummet to his death in 1956 during a performance at an air show in Liverpool. He later alluded to Valentin in many of his...
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21 May 1956, tragedy struck with the death of Léon Alfred Nicolas "Léo" Valentin, billed as the Birdman, when his balsa wood wings struck the opening...
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writer and historian Jean-Marie Cavada (1940) journalist and politician. Léo Valentin (1919–1956), French soldier and adventurer, nicknamed "l'homme-oiseau"...
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Murphy was reelected with 55.34% of the vote, defeating Republican Leo Valentín. Murphy was sworn into office on January 3, 2017. She has urged the Federal...
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Citizens United NARAL Pro-Choice America Planned Parenthood Action Fund Leo Valentín, radiologist Richard Goble, businessman Yukong Zhao, real estate investor...
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Votes % Democratic Stephanie Murphy (Incumbent) 224,946 55.34 Republican Leo Valentín 175,750 43.24 No Party Affiliation William Garlington 5,753 1.42 Total...
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were not very reliable, although some "birdmen", such as Clem Sohn and Leo Valentin, claimed to have glided for miles. Batwings, a precursor to wingsuits...
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1979, CEO and president of Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research Léo Valentin, Class of 1948, inventor of The Bird Man Suit, a predecessor of modern-day...
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opened in Ireland, by the country's president, Seán T. O'Kelly. Died: Léo Valentin, 37, French adventurer and birdman, fell to his death during a failed...
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Democratic 2016 Incumbent re-elected. ▌Y Stephanie Murphy (Democratic) 55.3% ▌Leo Valentín (Republican) 43.2% ▌William Garlington (Independent) 1.4% Florida 8 R+11...
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Valentin Fyodorovich Bulgakov (Russian: Валентин Фёдорович Булгаков; 25 November 1886 – 22 September 1966) was the last secretary of Leo Tolstoy and his...
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choreographed. Ultimately, he gave the film a rating of 2 out of 10. Michel Valentin of Le Parisien gave the film a 2 out of 5-star rating, describing it as...
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Marcel Proust (redirect from Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugène-Marcel Proust)
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (/pruːst/ PROOST; French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary...
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369. Leo Tolstoy (1874). Russian Book for Reading in 4 Volumes Archived 22 March 2024 at the Wayback Machine. Moscow: Aegitas, 381 pages. Valentin Bulgakov...
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Whitsun Air Display (Liverpool, England) – Parachutist and "Birdman" Leo Valentin fell to his death after his wooden wings were damaged after colliding...
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Til Schweiger (redirect from Tilman Valentin "Til" Schweiger)
Tilman Valentin Schweiger (German pronunciation: [tɪl ˈʃvaɪɡɐ] ; born 19 December 1963) is a German actor and filmmaker. He became known in the 1990s for...
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Nougaro, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Boris Vian, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Yanne, Léo Ferré, Jacques Datin, Jean-Claude Massoulier or Bernard Dimey. He sang “La...
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Jules Doinel (redirect from Tau Valentin II)
Allier – 16 or 17 March 1903), also known simply as Jules Doinel or Tau Valentin II was an archivist and the founder of the first Gnostic church in modern...
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was Laurie Cholewa. The winner for the first season was Valentin and for the second season Léo Rispal. The first season debuted on 11 November 2008 and...
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Division Position Top Scorer Goals 1992–93 Surrey County Premier League 12 Leo Valentin 14 1993–94 Surrey County Premier League 5 Paul Mills 36 1994–95 Surrey...
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The Last Station (category Works about Leo Tolstoy)
Movies for Grownups Awards". 15 February 2010. The Last Year of Leo Tolstoy, by Valentin Fedorovich Bulgakov, Ann Dunnigan, 1971, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-241-02061-1...
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Robert Bernier, Miyuki Tanobe, Montréal:Les Éditions de l’Homme, 2004, 157 p Léo Rosshandler, Miyuki Tanobe, Tanobe, LaPrairie, Quebec: Éditions M. Broquet...
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Te Presento a Valentín (international title: This Is Valentin) is a Mexican soap opera produced by Ignacio Ortiz for Televisa. Valentin is a fun, hardworking...
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several world exhibitions. In the middle of 19th century came to Zlatno Leo Valentin Pantoček. He invented the way how to produce the glass money. Later this...
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Hans-Valentin Hube (29 October 1890 – 21 April 1944) was a German general during World War II who commanded armoured forces in the invasions of Poland...
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30 10 3 17 48 74 33 12th Did Not Participate Surrey Challenge Cup SF Leo Valentin 14 SPC R1 RPC R1 1993–94 Surrey County Premier League 24 11 3 10 42 46...
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classmates openly ask if the two are a couple. Léo vehemently denies it, while Rémi does not comment. Léo becomes uneasy with this external perception,...
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There's No Tomorrow (dir. Max Ophüls) – Evelyne 1940: The Emigrant (dir. Léo Joannon) – Christiane Vallier 1940: Sarajevo (dir. Max Ophüls) – Comtesse...
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