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Gildas Bourdais
Gildas Bourdais (13 June 1939 – 25 September 2024) was a publishing executive, painter, and French ufologist writer, supporter of the "extraterrestrial hypothesis" (HET). Biography After preparatory classes at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he graduated from HEC Paris (1960–1962). His research focused in particular on the Roswell incident, on stories of extraterrestrial apparitions in major religious texts, and on the COMETA report. He translated several books on ufology by different authors, including American ufologists Roger Leir and Leslie Kean, into French. He collaborated with ''Top Secret'' magazine, and often appeared on the ''Ici et Maintenant!'' radio programme. Bibliography * 1990: ''Les modernes et les autres; Cent ans d'art moderne dans le monde'', Livre Total SA, Lausanne (Switzerland), 367p. * 1994: ''Enquête sur l'existence d'êtres célestes et cosmiques'', Filipacchi, Paris, 412p. * 1995: ''Sont-ils déjà là ? Extraterrestres, L'Affaire Roswell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nantes
Nantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. The city is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, sixth largest in France, with a population of 320,732 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitants (2020). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations. It is the administrative seat of the Loire-Atlantique Departments of France, department and the Pays de la Loire Regions of France, region, one of 18 regions of France. Nantes belongs historically and culturally to Brittany, a former Duchy of Brittany, duchy and Province of Brittany, province, and Reunification of Brittany, its omission from the modern administrative region of Brittany is controversial. Nantes was identified during classical antiquity as a port on the Loire. It was the seat of a bishopric at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hachette Filipacchi Médias
Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A. (HFM) is a magazine publisher. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Active, a division of the media conglomerate Lagardère Group of France. History '' Hachette'' was founded by Louis Hachette (French pronunciation: .ʃɛt ''Brédif''in 1826 when he purchased the ''Librairie Brédif''; the company later became L. Hachette et Compagnie. Hachette was purchased by Matra in 1980, a firm associated with Ténot & Filipacchi. Hachette Filipacchi was nationalised in 1981 but remained a publicly traded firm. It is a subsidiary of Lagardère Media, acquired in 2004. Publications Hachette Filipacchi Media publishes ''Parents'', and '' Le Journal du Dimanche''. It also published '' Paris Match'' until October 2024, when it was sold by Lagardère to LVMH. From 1985 the company also publishes various titles abroad. Hachette sold its international titles to Hearst in 2011. References Further reading *Madjar, Robert (1997). Daniel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century French Writers
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21st-century French Essayists
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Ufologists
This is a list of notable people who are ufologists (people who investigate whether UFOs are linked to extraterrestrial aliens). Argentina * Juan Posadas, (1912–1981), Trotskyist theorist who blended together Trotskyism and Ufology. Posadas' version of Trotskyism is regarded as its own strain, and called Posadism. * Fabio Zerpa, (1928–2019), parapsychologist and UFO researcher. Australia * Ross Coulthart, journalist and lawyer, interviewed the UFO whistleblower David Grusch on the US governmental cover-ups of the recovery programs of crashed UFOs. Brazil * Ademar José Gevaerd (1962–2022) Canada * Paul Hellyer (1923–2021), Canadian Defense Minister. * Stanton Friedman (1934–2019), U.S. born Canadian ufologist, former nuclear physicist, did early research on Roswell and also MJ-12 documents. Estonia * Jüri Lina (b. 1949) * Igor Volke (1950-2024), ufologist and researcher of environmental anomalies France * Jacques Bergier ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HEC Paris Alumni
HEC or Hec may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Hautes Études Commerciales (other), French-language business schools * Higher Education Commission (other) * Hongkong Electric Company * Hotel Ezra Cornell, a student-run hospitality leadership conference * Hydro Tasmania (formerly ''Hydro-Electric Commission'') * Hyundai Engineering (HEC), a Korean firm founded in 1974 Science, technology and mathematics Computing and communications * Hollerith Electronic Computer, Britain's first mass-produced business computer * Header Error Control, a method used in some telecommunication protocols * HDMI Ethernet Channel, an audiovisual technology Medicine * HEC syndrome, a condition * Human equivalent concentration * Hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp, a test of insulin resistance Other uses in science and mathematics * Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, in astronomy * Hyperelliptic curve, in algebraic geometry * Hydroxyethyl cellulose, a thickening agent * HEC-meeting, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycée Louis-le-Grand Alumni
In France, secondary education is in two stages: * ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 14. * ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for students between the ages of 15 and 19. Pupils are prepared for the ''baccalauréat'' (; baccalaureate, colloquially known as ''bac'', previously ''bachot''), which can lead to higher education studies or directly to professional life. There are three main types of ''baccalauréat'': the ''baccalauréat général'', ''baccalauréat technologique'' and ''baccalauréat professionnel''. School year The school year starts in early September and ends in early July. Metropolitan French school holidays are scheduled by the Ministry of Education by dividing the country into three zones (A, B, and C) to prevent overcrowding by family holidaymakers of tourist destinations, such as the Mediterranean coast and ski resorts. Lyon, for example, is in zone A, Marseille i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Births
This year also marks the start of the World War II, Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Events related to World War II have a "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Coming into effect in Nazi Germany of: *** The Protection of Young Persons Act (Germany), Protection of Young Persons Act, passed on April 30, 1938, the Working Hours Regulations. *** The small businesses obligation to maintain adequate accounting. *** The Jews name change decree. ** With his traditional call to the New Year in Nazi Germany, Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses the members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). ** The Hewlett-Packard technology and scientific instruments manufacturing company is founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, in a garage in Palo Alto, California, considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. ** Philipp Etter takes over as President of the Swiss Confederation. ** The Third Soviet Five Year P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Kean
Leslie Kean is an American Investigative journalism, investigative journalist and author of books about Unidentified flying object, UFOs and the afterlife. Early life and education Kean is the daughter of environmentalist and philanthropist Hamilton Fish Kean (1925–2016) and the granddaughter of Congressman Robert Kean. Her uncle is former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, and her cousin is New Jersey State Senator Thomas Kean Jr. The ''New Yorker'' reported in 2021 that she has "a modest family income" (income derived from inherited wealth). She grew up in New York City and attended Spence School and Bard College, and helped "to found a Zen center in upstate New York". Career Kean worked as a photographer at the Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University. After visiting Burma to interview political prisoners in the 1990s, she began working as an investigative journalist, producer, and on-air host at KPFA, a Berkeley, California-based radio station and the flagship station of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
