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Geant (other)
Geant may refer to: * Giant puppet festivals: ** Géant du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France ** Philippines: Higantes Festival ** Venlo: * Géant Casino, a European hypermarket chain based in France * GÉANT, a European computer network for research and education * Dent du Géant, a mountain in the Alps * GEANT, acronym for GEometry ANd Tracking, a series of software toolkit platforms developed by CERN ** GEANT-3 ** Geant4 * Hipermercado Géant, Uruguay's largest supermarket * Géant Ferré, French language name of André the Giant André René Roussimoff (; 19 May 1946 – 28 January 1993), better known by his ring name André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. Dubbed "the Eighth Wonder of the World", Roussimoff was known for his great size, which ... See also * Les géants (other), film and novel {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Nord-Pas-de-Calais (; ; West Flemish: ''Nôord-Nauw van Kales'') was a former regions of France, administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new Regions of France, region Hauts-de-France. It consisted of the departments of France, departments of Nord (French department), Nord and Pas-de-Calais. Nord-Pas-de-Calais bordered the English Channel (west), the North Sea (northwest), Belgium (north and east), and Picardy (south). Until the 17th century, the history of the North was largely shared with the history of Belgium (the Celtic Belgae, Belgians during Antiquity were a multitude of Celts, Celtic peoples from the north of Gallia Belgica, Gaul), that of a land that "for almost a thousand years served as a battlefield for all of Europe." The majority of the region was once part of the historical Southern Netherlands, but gradually became part of France between 1477 and 1678, particularly during the reign of King Louis XIV. The historical Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Higantes Festival
The Higantes Festival is a local festival held annually In Angono, Rizal, Philippines, where hundreds of giant papier-mâché puppets are paraded, representing the common people's mockery of the bad ''hacienda'' (land) owners of the past during Spanish colonial rule. Origin The origin of the festival dates back to Spanish colonial rule, around the late 1800s, where the wealthy ruling class who ruled Angono as their ''hacienda'' strictly prohibited the common people from celebrating, except for one single festival in the entire year. The hardworking common people used the ''higantes'' puppets in their once-a-year festival, rendering the papier-mâché giants to look like the ''hacienderos'', mocking the owners throughout the festivity. The art of papier-mâché was said to have been learned by the common folk from Spanish friars through unstated means. The giant puppets depict a man or woman in multiple costumes, with their faces making commands, while their hands on their waist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géant Casino
Géant Casino () was a hypermarket chain based in Saint-Étienne, France, part of the French retailing giant Groupe Casino. In 2022, the brand was gradually replaced by Casino #hyperFrais. Between June 2023 and October 2024, in the grip of a financial crisis linked to its debt, the group closed or sold all of its hypermarkets in France to competitors. During this crisis, the brand is also gradually being replaced by competitors in various countries. History Géant opened its first hypermarket in 1970. In December 2015, Géant Casino had about 142 hypermarkets all over the world. The concept is, like most hypermarkets, to have all kinds of items available under one roof. A loyalty card system has been introduced by Géant, with a price discount on certain groceries. In June 2022, with the aim of re-emphasizing the food side of hypermarkets, and after the transfert of 29 hypermerkets to the brand Casino (supermarket), Casino Supermarchés. The Groupe Casino announce the discount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GÉANT
GÉANT (''Gigabit European Academic Network'') is the pan-European data network for the research and education community. It interconnects national research and education networks (NRENs) across Europe, enabling collaboration on projects ranging from biological science, to earth observation, to arts and culture. The GÉANT project combines a high-bandwidth, high-capacity 50,000 km network with a growing range of services. These allow researchers to collaborate, working together wherever they are located. Services include identity and trust, multi-domain monitoring perfSONAR MDM, dynamic circuits and roaming via the eduroam service. Together with European NRENs, GÉANT connects 50 million users in over 10,000 institutions. Through links to research networks in other regions (such as Internet2 and ESnet in the US, AfricaConnect in Africa, TEIN in Asia-Pacific and RedCLARA in Latin America), GÉANT enables collaboration between researchers in over half the world's countries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dent Du Géant
The Dent du Géant ( It.: Dente del Gigante, "giant's tooth") (4,013 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in France and Italy. The Dent du Géant remained unclimbed during the golden age of alpinism, and was a much-coveted peak in the 1870s, repelling many parties who attempted it mostly from the Rochefort ridge. In 1880 the strong team of Albert F. Mummery and Alexander Burgener tried to force a passage via the south-west face but were repelled by a band of slabs, causing Mummery to exclaim, 'Absolutely inaccessible by fair means!' The mountain has two summits, apart and separated by a small col (an 'extremely awkward notch' according to W. W. Graham): :*''Pointe Sella'' (4,009 m), first ascent via the south-west face by Jean Joseph Maquignaz with son Baptiste Maquignaz and nephew, Daniel Maquignaz on 28 July 1882. Over a period of four days they placed iron stanchions and fixed ropes,Willy Blaser and Glyn HughesKabru 1883, a reassessment, ''Alpine Journal'', 2009, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GEANT-3
GEANT is the name of a series of simulation software designed to describe the passage of elementary particles through matter, using Monte Carlo methods. The name is an acronym formed from "GEometry ANd Tracking". Originally developed at CERN for high energy physics experiments, GEANT-3 has been used in many other fields. History The very first version of GEANT dates back to 1974, while the first version of GEANT-3 dates back to 1982. Versions of GEANT through 3.21 were written in FORTRAN and eventually maintained as part of CERNLIB. Since about 2000, the last FORTRAN release has been essentially in stasis and receives only occasional bug fixes. GEANT3 was, however, still in use by some experiments for some time thereafter. Most of GEANT-3 is available under the GNU General Public License, with the exception of some hadronic interaction code contributed by the FLUKA collaboration. GEANT-3 was used by a majority of high energy physics experiments from the late 1980s to the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hipermercado Géant
Hipermercado Géant is Uruguay's largest supermarket and is owned by Grupo Disco Casino (composed 50% by Grupo Casino and 50% by Supermercados Disco del Uruguay) and is the only supermarket under the Géant brand in Uruguay. It is located just outside the capital city Montevideo on the east, and over one of the most important access streets to Montevideo, Giannattasio Avenue, which connects Montevideo with the so call Ciudad de la Costa, the fastest growing area in Uruguay in the recent years. Although the surrounding is not very highly populated, it attracts buyers from both the east part of Montevideo and the Ciudad de la Costa due to being relatively close to both areas, being easily accessible by car and its low prices. History Hipermercado Géant traces its history back to the 19th century, when Groupe Casino was formed in France, in 1898. In 1901, Groupe Casino became officially incorporated as a company. On September 29, 1999, Hipermercado Géant Uruguay opened its first br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André The Giant
André René Roussimoff (; 19 May 1946 – 28 January 1993), better known by his ring name André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. Dubbed "the Eighth Wonder of the World", Roussimoff was known for his great size, which was a result of gigantism caused by excess human growth hormone. Beginning his career in 1966, Roussimoff relocated to North America in 1971. From 1973 to the mid-1980s, Roussimoff was booked by World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) promoter Vincent J. McMahon as a roving "special attraction" who wrestled for promotions throughout the United States, as well as in Japan for New Japan Pro-Wrestling. During the 1980s wrestling boom, Roussimoff became a mainstay of the WWWF (by then renamed the World Wrestling Federation), being paired with the Heel (professional wrestling), villainous manager Bobby Heenan and André the Giant–Hulk Hogan rivalry, feuding with Hulk Hogan. The two headlined WrestleMania III in 1987, and in 1988, he defeated H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
