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Concorde (other)
Concorde is a supersonic aircraft. Concorde may also refer to: * Concorde (pear), a cultivar of the European Pear Transport * Chrysler Concorde, an automobile model * HMS Concorde (1783), HMS ''Concorde'', originally a French naval frigate, captured by the British Royal Navy in 1783 * ''La Concorde de Nantes'', flagship of the pirate Blackbeard Places and buildings * Concorde (Paris Métro), a Paris Metro station named after the nearby Place de la Concorde * De La Concorde station, a Montreal Metro and exo (public transit), commuter train station in Laval, Quebec * Concorde De Luxe Resort, a hotel in Antalya, Turkey * Hôtel Le Concorde, Québec * Lycée français "Le Concorde" * Le Concorde Tower, Huai Khwang District, Bangkok ** Swissôtel Le Concorde, Swissôtel in the Le Concorde Tower, Bangkok Music * Concorde (album), ''Concorde'' (album), a 1955 album by the Modern Jazz Quartet * Concorde, short for Concorde Contemporary Music Ensemble * Le Concorde (band), American indie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concorde
The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde () is a retired Franco-British supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Studies started in 1954, and France and the UK signed a treaty establishing the development project on 29 November 1962, as the programme cost was estimated at £70 million (£ in ). Construction of the six prototypes began in February 1965, and the first flight took off from Toulouse on 2 March 1969. The market was predicted for 350 aircraft, and the manufacturers received up to 100 option orders from many major airlines. On 9 October 1975, it received its French Certificate of Airworthiness, and from the UK CAA on 5 December. Concorde is a tailless aircraft design with a narrow fuselage permitting a 4-abreast seating for 92 to 128 passengers, an ogival delta wing and a Droop nose (aeronautics), droop nose for landing visibility. It is powered by four Rolls-Royce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hôtel Le Concorde
Hôtel Le Concorde Québec is a skyscraper hotel in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It contains 405 rooms over 26 floors. Le Concorde is known for its revolving restaurant, Ciel! (formerly L'Astral), which is situated on the top floor of the hotel and offers a 360-degree view of Quebec City and the Saint Lawrence River. The hotel is located in the historic restaurant district ''La Grande Allée'' and behind is the historic national park The Plains of Abraham (French: ''Les plaines d'Abraham'') and The Battlefields Park (French: ''Parc des Champs-de-Bataille''). History From its construction in 1970 by wealthy businessman Marcel Adams, owner of the company Développement Iberville, Le Concorde was operated by the luxury hotel management company Loews under the terms of a 99-year lease. In 2069, at the end of this lease, ownership was to return to Adams or his successor. In November 2013, Loews announced that the building would cease operations as a hotel in February 2014. Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concord (other)
Concord may refer to: Meaning "agreement" * Pact or treaty, frequently between nations (indicating a condition of harmony) * Harmony, in music * Agreement (linguistics), a change in the form of a word depending on grammatical features of other words Buildings * Concord (District Heights, Maryland), a historic building listed on the NRHP in Maryland * Concord (Natchez, Mississippi), a historic mansion built in 1789, burned down in 1901 * Concord Building, in the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon *Concord Oval, a rugby stadium in New South Wales, Australia * Concord Resort Hotel, a former hotel and resort in the Catskills, New York * Temple of Concord in ancient Rome, dedicated to the goddess Concordia Businesses * Concord Camera Corporation, a manufacturer of cameras and other digital products * Concord EFS, Inc., a corporation that merged in 2004 with First Data * Concord (entertainment company), company that administers sound recording, music publishing and theatrical rights ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Concorde
The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde () is a retired Franco-British supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Studies started in 1954, and France and the UK signed a treaty establishing the development project on 29 November 1962, as the programme cost was estimated at £70 million (£ in ). Construction of the six prototypes began in February 1965, and the first flight took off from Toulouse on 2 March 1969. The market was predicted for 350 aircraft, and the manufacturers received up to 100 option orders from many major airlines. On 9 October 1975, it received its French Certificate of Airworthiness, and from the UK CAA on 5 December. Concorde is a tailless aircraft design with a narrow fuselage permitting a 4-abreast seating for 92 to 128 passengers, an ogival delta wing and a droop nose for landing visibility. It is powered by four Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 turboje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concorde TSP Solver
The Concorde TSP Solver is a program for solving the travelling salesman problem. It was written by David Applegate, Robert E. Bixby, Vašek Chvátal, and William J. Cook, in ANSI C, and is freely available for academic use. Concorde has been applied to problems of gene mapping, protein function prediction, vehicle routing, conversion of bitmap images to continuous line drawings, scheduling ship movements for seismic surveys, and in studying the scaling properties of combinatorial optimization problems. According to , Concorde “is widely regarded as the fastest TSP solver, for large instances, currently in existence.” In 2001, Concorde won a 5000 guilder prize from CMG for solving a vehicle routing problem the company had posed in 1996. from the Concorde web site, retrieved August 26, 2008.
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Ants From Up There
''Ants from Up There'' is the second studio album by British rock band Black Country, New Road, released on 4 February 2022 on Ninja Tune. Recorded at Chale Abbey on the Isle of Wight, the album was produced by the band's live sound engineer Sergio Maschetzko, and is the final album to feature lead vocalist and guitarist Isaac Wood, who announced his departure from the band on 31 January 2022, four days prior to the album's release. Written during COVID-19 lockdowns and road-tested during brief touring stints in support of their debut album, '' For the First Time'' (2021), the album was released almost exactly a year after their debut, and was preceded by four singles: "Chaos Space Marine", "Bread Song", "Concorde" and "Snow Globes". The album received unanimous critical acclaim upon its release. It became Black Country, New Road's highest-charting album, debuting at No. 3 on the UK Albums Chart and also reaching the top ten in Australia, Germany and the Netherlands. Background ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Concorde
"" () is the national anthem of Gabon. Written and composed by politician Georges Aleka Damas, it was adopted upon independence in 1960. History In a speech in Port-Gentil on 15 March 1962, President Léon M'ba Gabriel Léon M'ba (9 February 1902 – 28 November 1967) was a Gabonese politician who served as both the first Prime Minister (1959–1961) and President (1961–1967) of Gabon. A member of the Fang ethnic group, M'ba was born into a rel ... stated his intention to have the national anthem translated into the various Gabonese dialects "so that in the remotest village in the country everyone will be able to understand its meaning." Lyrics French lyrics Translations Notes References External links Gabon: ''La Concorde'' - Audio of the national anthem of Gabon, with information and lyrics [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Concorde (band)
Le Concorde is a Los Angeles-based synthpop musical project by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Stephen Becker, Ph.D. Discography Studio albums * ''Le Concorde EP'' (2004) * ''Universe and Villa'' (2005) March Records / What Are Records? * ''Suite EP'' (2007) Le Grand Magistery * ''House'' (2010) Le Grand Magistery Le Grand Magistery is an independent record label operating out of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan since 1996. They have been home to a number of artists including A Cuckoo, A Girl Called Eddy, Always, Baxendale, The Blood Group, Cinéma Vérité, C ... References http://www.allmusic.com/album/house-r1955945/review http://issuu.com/bayareareporter/docs/march_17_2011 http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/134586-20-questions-le-concorde/ http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/134926-le-concorde-house/ http://www.pandora.com/music/artist/le+concorde http://www.seattlepi.com/default/article/I-Hear-Sparks-Le-Concorde-House-1021094.php Electronic music groups from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concorde Contemporary Music Ensemble
The Concorde Contemporary Music Ensemble (often simply Concorde), founded in 1976, is an Irish contemporary music ensemble. The group's purpose is stated as " romotingnew music on a regular basis." It has released three full length albums and has gone on several international tours through Europe and North America. The group debuted in the American Embassy in Dublin. It is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Concorde also promotes an annual series at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery in Dublin, which has been running for over 20 years. Performers *Jane O'Leary - director, pianist *Madeleine Staunton - flute, alto flute, piccolo *Paul Roe - clarinet, bass clarinet *Elaine Clark - violin *David James - cello *Tine Verbeke - vocals *Richard O'Donnell - percussionist A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concorde (album)
''Concorde'' is an album by the Modern Jazz Quartet, recorded in New York on July 2, 1955, and first released that year as an LP, Prestige 7005, with liner notes by Ira Gitler. The album was reissued in 2008 as part of the Rudy Van Gelder Remasters collection. The album is the first to feature drummer Connie Kay, who replaced Kenny Clarke in 1955. It is also the first Modern Jazz Quartet LP conceived from the beginning as a long playing record; previous MJQ recordings had been released as 78's, 10 inch 33's or reissues of these formats on a 12-inch LP. The liner notes acknowledge the additional playing time of the LP format by asking the listener to regard this album as a performance set "at one of America's leading jazz rooms". Reception Writing for AllMusic, Lindsay Planer described the transition between percussionists as "both smooth and sensible". He highlighted the interpretation of the songs in the Gershwin medley as "nothing short of definitive", saying that "All man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swissôtel
Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts, commonly known as Swissôtel, is a Swiss chain of luxury hotels which operates 37 properties in 17 countries. The chain is owned by Accor, which acquired FRHI Hotels & Resorts in 2015. The corporate offices for Swissôtel are located in the Prioria Business Center on the property of Zurich Airport in Kloten, Switzerland, near Zürich. Corporate history Swissôtel was founded in 1981 as a joint venture between the Swissair and Nestlé groups, with its headquarters in the Swiss city of Zurich. Initially, hotels were operated in Berne, New York City, Geneva and Zurich. In 1990, the hotel group became a fully owned subsidiary of the Swissair group, and in 1996, its head office moved from Zurich to New York. In 2001, with the parent airline in the serious financial difficulties due to the events of 9/11 that year in the United States that eventually lead to its demise, Swissôtel was sold to Raffles Holdings Limited, the owner of the famous Raffl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huai Khwang District
Huai Khwang ( th, ห้วยขวาง, ) is one of the Districts of Bangkok, 50 districts (khet) of Bangkok, Thailand. It is east of the city centre. Neighbouring districts are Chatuchak district, Chatuchak, Wang Thonglang district, Wang Thonglang, Bang Kapi district, Bang Kapi, Suan Luang district, Suan Luang, Watthana district, Watthana, Ratchathewi district, Ratchathewi, and Din Daeng district, Din Daeng. History Huai Khwang district was established in an area formerly part of Phaya Thai district, Phaya Thai in 1973. Adjustments to the district were made in 1978, adjusting boundaries with neighboring districts Phaya Thai and Bang Kapi, and again in 1993, creating the new Din Daeng District. The name "Huai Khwang" literally meaning 'barricaded creek' (''huai'' means 'stream, creek' and ''khwang'' means 'barricaded'). Because the terrain here in the past consisted of wetlands and creeks; waterways were the main means of transport. Today, the district has attracted a new gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
