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Demoiselle (other)
Demoiselle may refer to: * Demoiselle crane, a crane (bird) of central Asia * Demoiselle, Calopterygidae, a family of damselflies, in the suborder Zygoptera * Demoiselle Stakes, a horse race held in New York * Demoiselle Creek, New Brunswick * Santos-Dumont ''Demoiselle'', an early aircraft * Some species of fish in the damselfish family (''Pomacentridae''), especially: ** The New Zealand demoiselle, ''Chromis dispilus'' * Memeskia, Miami Indian chief (c. 1695 – 1752), known by the French as "La Demoiselle" See also * Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a 1907 painting by Pablo Picasso * ''Les Demoiselles de Rochefort'', a 1967 musical film * The Damoiselle, a 17th-century play by Richard Brome * Mademoiselle (other) * Damsel (other) Damsel may refer to: * Damsel in distress a female stock character * Unmarried lady-in-waiting * Damsel, Missouri, USA * ''Damsel'' (2018 film) * ''Damsel'' (2024 film) * ''Damsel'', a young adult novel by Elana K. Arnold * Damsel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demoiselle Crane
The demoiselle crane (''Grus virgo'') is a species of crane found in central Eurosiberia, ranging from the Black Sea to Mongolia and Northeast China. There is also a small breeding population in Turkey. These cranes are migratory birds. Birds from western Eurasia will spend the winter in Africa while the birds from Asia, Mongolia and China will spend the winter in the Indian subcontinent. The bird is symbolically significant in the culture of India, where it is known as ''koonj'' or ''kurjaa''. Taxonomy The demoiselle crane was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his ''Systema Naturae''. He placed it with the herons and cranes in the genus '' Ardea'' and coined the binomial name ''Ardea virgo''. He specified the type locality as the orient but this has been restricted to India. Linnaeus cited the accounts by earlier authors. The English naturalist Eleazar Albin had described and illustrated the "Numidian crane" in 1738. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calopterygidae
Calopterygidae is a Family (biology), family of damselfly, damselflies, in the suborder Zygoptera. They are commonly known as the broad-winged damselflies, demoiselles, or jewelwings. These rather large damselflies have wingspans of 50–80 mm (compared to about 44 mm in the common bluetail damselfly, ''Ischnura elegans''), are often metallic-coloured, and can be differentiated from other damselflies by the broader connection between the wings and the body, as opposed to the abrupt narrowing seen in other damselfly families. The family contains some 150 species. The Calopterygidae are found on every continent except Antarctica. They live along rivers and streams.Córdoba-Aguilar, A. & Cordero-Rivera, A. (2005)Evolution and ecology of Calopterygidae (Zygoptera: Odonata): status of knowledge and research perspectives.''Neotrop. Entomol'' 34(6), 861-879. Etymology The name is derived from Greek ''kalos'' meaning beautiful and ''ptery'' meaning winged. Characteristics The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demoiselle Stakes
The Demoiselle Stakes is a stakes race for thoroughbred horses open to two-year-old fillies who are willing to race the one and one-eighth miles on dirt. The Grade II event is run at Aqueduct Racetrack every November for a current purse of $250,000. The Demoiselle is part of the Road to the Kentucky Oaks, a points system developed by Churchill Downs to determine eligibility for the Kentucky Oaks. The Demoiselle is one of the most important races for juvenile fillies, rivalling the Spinaway Stakes, the Oak Leaf Stakes and the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies in establishing the early favorite for the Oaks. The Demoiselle, named for the French word for young woman, was run at Empire City Race Track at its inauguration in 1908, then in 1910, 1914, and from 1917 to 1942. It then moved to Jamaica Racetrack from 1943 to 1953 and from there to Aqueduct. Since inception, the Demoiselle Stakes has been contested at various distances: * 5.5 furlongs: 1908–1936 * 5.75 furlongs: 1936†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demoiselle Creek, New Brunswick
Demoiselle Creek is a Canadian rural community in Albert County, New Brunswick. Located in Hillsborough Parishsource), the community derives its name from the creek that runs through it. With approximately 50 residents, the community is bordered by the communities of Curryville and Albert Mines. The cave known as the "Underground Lake" is also located in this community. The cave is 141 m long and 13.1 m deep. History The community was originally called Cape Demoiselle (or one of about 6 variations of the name "Demoiselle") and now covers an area of approximately . The actual geographic feature known as Cape Demoiselle was renamed Hopewell Cape. The name "Demoiselle" means "little girl" in French. It was named by a ship captain for a rock formation that resembled a young woman's figure. Like many rural communities, Demoiselle is small and sparsely populated. Notable people See also *List of communities in New Brunswick This is a list of communities in New Brunswick, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santos-Dumont Demoiselle
The Santos-Dumont ''Demoiselle'' is a series of aircraft built in France by the Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. They were light-weight monoplanes with a wire-braced wing mounted above an open-framework fuselage built from bamboo. The pilot's seat was below the wing and between the main wheels of the undercarriage. The rear end of the boom carried a tailwheel and a cruciform tail. The name is a contraction of mademoiselle and is a synonym for "jeune fille"—young girl or woman—but also the common name in French for a Damselfly. No. 19 The first aircraft of the type was the Santos-Dumont No. 19, which was built in 1907 to attempt to win the ''Grand Prix d'Aviation'' offered for a one kilometre closed-circuit flight. Powered by a 15 kW (20 hp) air-cooled Dutheil & Chalmers flat-twin engine mounted on the leading edge of the wing, it had a wingspan of 5.1 m. (16 ft 9 in), was 8 m (26 ft 3 in) long and weighed only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Demoiselle
The New Zealand demoiselle, ''Chromis dispilus'', is a damselfish of the genus '' Chromis'', found between North Cape and East Cape of the North Island of New Zealand to depths of about 60 metres, off rocky coasts. Its length is between 15 and 20 cm. Males are highly territorial as they defend their nesting area from other males and other species. These aggressive fish defend their eggs laid by their female counterpart. Spawning occurs between the months of December and March. The New Zealand demoiselle's territory and nesting grounds of this fish are usually the largest in a medium population density. Like most territorial fish they tend to spawn more in higher densities of the same species compared to lower densities. Aggression levels tend to be higher amount higher densities of the same species and lower levels in smaller densities. Aggression also tends to be higher during spawning then during egg defending. Elevated plasma levels of androgen testosterone Testoster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memeskia
Memeskia (in Miami-Illinois: Meemeehšihkia ′Dragonfly′, c. 1695 – June 21, 1752), known as "Old Briton" by the British and as "La Demoiselle" by the French, was an eighteenth-century Piankashaw chieftain who fought against the French in 1747. In November 1750, he signed a friendship treaty with the British Indian agent, George Croghan, which was cemented during a visit by Indian scout Christopher Gist in February 1751. He had acquired the nickname "La Demoiselle" from the French, which translates to "young lady" or "damselfly", but was supposedly a grandiloquent rendering of the meaning of ''meemeehšihkia'', Miami-Illinois for 'dragonfly', signifying "fickle" or "capricious". The English referred to Memeskia as "Old Briton" due to his steadfast attachment to the English and their trade goods.Kern, Kevin F.; Wilson, Gregory S''Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State'' Germany: Wiley, 2013. A prominent member of the Piankashaw tribe, Memeskia was one of the earliest opponents of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
(''The Young Ladies of Avignon'', originally titled ''The Brothel of Avignon'') is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. Part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it portrays five nude female Prostitution, prostitutes in a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó, a street in Barcelona, Spain. The figures are confrontational and not conventionally Femininity, feminine, being rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes, some to a menacing degree. The far left figure exhibits facial features and dress of Egyptian or southern Asian style. The two adjacent figures are in an Iberians, Iberian style of Picasso's Spain, while the two on the right have Traditional African masks, African mask-like features. Picasso said the ethnic primitivism evoked in these masks moved him to "liberate an utterly original artistic style of compelling, even savage force" leading him to add a shamanistic aspect to his project. Drawing from triba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Demoiselles De Rochefort
''The Young Girls of Rochefort'' () is a 1967 French musical comedy film written and directed by Jacques Demy. The ensemble cast is headlined by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac, and features George Chakiris, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Perrin, Grover Dale and Geneviève Thénier, along with Gene Kelly and Danielle Darrieux. Michel Legrand composed the score for the film, to Demy's lyrics. The most famous songs from the film are "A Pair of Twins" ("Chanson des Jumelles") and Maxence's Song ("Chanson de Maxence"), which was later relyricized by Alan and Marilyn Bergman as "You Must Believe in Spring". The dance sequences were choreographed by Norman Maen. The film was a success for Demy in his native France, with 1,319,432 admissions, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture — Original or Adaptation at the 41st Academy Awards. A stage musical based on the film was produced in France in 2003, adapted by Alain B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Damoiselle
''The Damoiselle, or the New Ordinary'' is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy by Richard Brome that was first published in the 1653 Brome collection ''Five New Plays'', issued by Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring. Date and performance No firm evidence for the original date of ''The Damoiselle'' has survived. The play is generally dated to 1637–38 on the basis of internal evidence, especially the Prologue's reference to poets who want to be called "Sir Laureate." After the death of Ben Jonson in 1637, there was competition among literary men (Sir William Davenant and Thomas May were prime candidates) for the honour of poet laureate. ''The Damoiselle'' was first acted by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Salisbury Court Theatre. Genre Like most of Brome's comic works, ''The Damoiselle'' can be placed in the broad category of "city comedy." Again like most of Brome's comedies, the influence of Ben Jonson is readily detectable. In the view of one critic, "Brome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mademoiselle (other)
(abbreviated as ''Mlle'' or ''M'') may refer to: * Mademoiselle (title), the French-language equivalent of the title "miss" Film and television * ''Mademoiselle'' (1966 film), a French-British drama directed by Tony Richardson * ''Mademoiselle'' (2001 film), a French comedy directed by Philippe Lioret * Mlle (TV channel), now MOI ET CIE, a Canadian French-language channel Music * "Mademoiselle" (song), by Styx, 1976 * "Mademoiselle", a song by Murray Head from '' Between Us'', 1979 * "Mademoiselle", a song by Eddy Howard, 1952 Other uses * Mademoiselle, a typeface designed by Tommy Thompson * ''Mademoiselle'' (magazine), a defunct American women's magazine See also * * *Damsel (other) *Demoiselle (other) *Fräulein ( , ) is the German honorifics, German language honorific for unmarried women, comparable to Miss in English and in French. Description ''Fräulein'' is the diminutive form of ''Frau'', which was previously reserved only for married wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
