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Lafarge Coppée
La Farge, LaFarge or Lafarge can refer to: People * Antoinette LaFarge (1966–), American artist and writer * Christopher Grant LaFarge (1862–1938), American architect and partner in the firm Heins & LaFarge * Christopher Grant La Farge (author) (1897–1956), American author * Daisy Lafarge (1992–), British poet and writer * Guy Lafarge, songwriter for France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1957 * Henri Pavin de Lafarge (1889–1965), French businessman and politician * Jean-Baptiste Lafarge, actor in ''La Crème de la crème'' * John La Farge (1835–1910), American stained glass artist and writer * John LaFarge, Jr. (1880–1963), American Jesuit priest * L. Bancel LaFarge (1900–1989), American architect * Marie Lafarge (1816–1852), French murderer * Oliver La Farge (1901–1963), American writer and anthropologist * Paul La Farge (1970–2023), American novelist * Peter La Farge (1931–1965), American folk singer * Pokey LaFarge (1983–), American musician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pokey LaFarge
Pokey LaFarge (born Andrew Heissler, June 26, 1983) is an American musician and singer-songwriter. Early life LaFarge was born Andrew Heissler in Bloomington, Illinois. The nickname "Pokey" was coined by his mother, who would scold him to hurry when he was a child. LaFarge took an interest in history and literature during his childhood, and was greatly influenced by his grandfathers. One was a member of the St. Louis Banjo Club who gave him his first guitar and tenor banjo. The other, an amateur historian, taught him about the American Civil War and World War II. In his early teens, he discovered an appreciation for older blues musicians like Skip James, Robert Wilkins, and Sleepy John Estes. After hearing Bill Monroe at age 16, LaFarge traded the guitar his grandfather had given him for a mandolin. He adopted the name "Pokey LaFarge" because it sounded like what he was looking for musically during the time he was moving around the country. After graduating from Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lafarge Rocks
Coupvent Point () is a point, with several off-lying rocks, projecting north from Trinity Peninsula, southwest of Lafarge Rocks. Location Coupvent Point is near the east end of the north shore of Trinity Peninsula, which itself is the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It faces the Bransfield Strait. It is east of the Duroch Islands and Schmidt Peninsula, north of the Mott Snowfield and west of Caleta Thornton and Prime Head. Nomad Rock, Lafarge Rocks and Casy Island are north of the point. Name The name "Roche Coupvent" (Coupvent Rock) was given by Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville to a feature in the vicinity. The present name revives the d'Urville naming, given for Aimé Coupvent-Desbois, an officer on the ''Zélée'' and later the ''Astrolabe''. Nearby features Nearby features, from west to east, include: Kevin Islands . A cluster of small islands and rocks which lie close to the northern coast of Trinity Peninsula, midway between Halpern Point and Coupvent Point. Named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lafarge Lake
Lafarge Lake is a five-hectare man-made lake, located in Town Centre Park in central Coquitlam, British Columbia. The Evergreen Cultural Centre lies on the southwest corner of the lake, and the Water's Edge Festival is held on the lake shore for 25 continuous hours in March. The area was originally a quarry, but in the 1970s the land was transferred to the city of Coquitlam, and a successful reclamation project ensued. The lake is home to many species of waterfowl, as well as beavers, common carp, brown bullhead, bluegill, and is stocked with rainbow trout in the spring and fall. See also *List of lakes of British Columbia This is an incomplete list of lakes of British Columbia, a province of Canada. Larger lake statistics * List of lakes 1 *101 Mile Lake *103 Mile Lake *105 Mile Lake *108 Mile Lake A *Adams Lake *Albreda Lake *Alouette Lake *Alic ... References External links Lafarge LakeFishing in Lafarge Lake w/map* Landforms of Coquitlam La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lafarge Falls
The city of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada is home to more than 100 waterfalls and cascades, most of which are on or near the Bruce Trail as it winds through the Niagara Escarpment. Ontario's internationally recognized Niagara Escarpment provides perfect geological conditions for waterfalls to occur, from Tobermory to Niagara Falls. With its crest, Webster's Falls is the largest waterfall within the city. Tew's Falls is a ribbon waterfall, and is the tallest waterfall found in Hamilton. Both Webster's and Tew's Falls are located at the Spencer Gorge / Webster's Falls Conservation Area. Albion Falls was once seriously considered as a possible source of water for Hamilton. Rocks from the Albion Falls area were used in the construction of the Royal Botanical Gardens' Rock Garden. There used to be more waterfalls in Hamilton than exist today. Many of the waterfalls in central Hamilton slowly vanished as population and construction on Hamilton Mountain increased. As well, in the ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Farge, Wisconsin
La Farge is a village along the Kickapoo River in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States. Its population was 730 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Geography La Farge is located at (43.576572, -90.638239). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which is covered by water. The Kickapoo River flows through the village. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, 746 people, 332 households, and 186 families lived in the village. The population density was . The 375 housing units had an average density of . The Race (U.S. Census), racial makeup of the village was 97.1% White, 0.3% African American, 1.6% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 0.1% from other races, and 0.8% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 0.4% of the population. Of the 332 households, 24.7% had children under 18 living with them, 38.0% were married couples living together, 11.7% had a female householder with no husband present, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gare De Lafarge
Lafarge is a railway station in Lafarge, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The station is located on the Limoges-Bénédictins - Périgueux railway line. The station is served by TER (local) services operated by SNCF The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (, , SNCF ) is France's national State-owned enterprise, state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the Rail transport in France, country's national rail traffic along with th .... The station is primarily for Saint-Hilaire-les-Places, 2 km away. Train services The following services currently call at Lafarge: *local service (TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine) Limoges - Thiviers - Périgueux - Bordeaux References Railway stations in Haute-Vienne {{Limousin-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lafarge Tarmac
Tarmac is a British building materials company headquartered in Solihull, England. The company was formed as Lafarge Tarmac in March 2013, by the merger of Anglo American's Tarmac UK and Lafarge's operations in the United Kingdom. In July 2014, Anglo American agreed to sell its stake to Lafarge, to assist Lafarge in its merger with Holcim and allay competition concerns. Prior to 1999, Tarmac Plc was an aggregates to construction company dating from 1903. It was demerged in July 1999, with the Construction and Professional services arms forming Carillion plc. The aggregates and building materials side of the business retained the Tarmac name and was bought by Anglo American shortly afterwards. In February 2015, Lafarge announced that the business would be sold to CRH plc, once Anglo American had sold its stake. Anglo American completed the sale in July 2015, and the acquisition by CRH completed the following month. Following the purchase, Lafarge Tarmac was rebranded as Tarma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LafargeHolcim
Holcim is a Swiss-based global building materials and aggregates flagship division of the Holcim Group. The original company was merged on 10 July 2015 with Lafarge to form LafargeHolcim as the new company and renamed to Holcim Group in 2021. The Holcim brand remained active within the group when the merger was completed. Founded in 1912, the company expanded into France and Europe and the Middle East during the 1920s. They expanded in the Americas during the 1950s and went public in 1958. The company continued to expand in Latin America and added Asian divisions during the 1970s and 1980s. A series of mergers and buyouts made Holcim one of the two largest cement manufacturers worldwide by 2014, roughly tied with rival Lafarge. In April 2014, the two companies agreed to a US$60 billion "merger of equals". The company was the market leader in cement production in Australia, Azerbaijan, India, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Latin America. Overview Holcim is headquartered in Zug, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lafarge (company)
Lafarge is a French industrial company specialising in cement, construction aggregates, and concrete. It is the world's largest cement manufacturer. It was founded in 1833 by Joseph-Auguste Pavin de Lafarge and is a part of the Holcim Group. In 2015, Lafarge merged with Holcim and a new company was formed under the name of LafargeHolcim. It was renamed to Holcim Group in 2021. Lafarge was embroiled in the Lafarge scandal, in which it was convicted of financing terrorism and complicity in crimes against humanity by the US Department of Justice for paying $5.92 million to the terrorist groups Islamic State, ISIS and al-Nusra Front between 2013 and 2014 to keep its cement plant in Syria operating. History Foundation and development Lafarge was founded in 1833 by Joseph-Auguste Pavin de Lafarge in Le Teil, France (Ardèche), to exploit the limestone quarry in Mont Saint-Victor between Le Teil and Viviers, Ardèche, Viviers. The limestone is white and argillaceous, and yielded an em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drakon (novel)
''Drakon'' is a science fiction novel by Canadian-American writer S. M. Stirling, the fourth novel in the alternate history series The Domination. The novel was released in the United States on January 1, 1996. Plot introduction Set centuries since the last war between the Domination and the Alliance, the Domination has conquered the Earth and the Solar System, while the Alliance survivors have fled to the Alpha Centauri star system where they have started a new civilization called the United States of Samothrace. The two societies have traded technology and skirmished some, focusing most of their efforts on colonizing all new habitable worlds they discover. Space combat has been rare since faster-than-light (FTL) travel formerly has been impossible. Combat only occurred when colonists from both sides reached the same world, an incident that happened only once. (Stirling later said the Samothracians won due to their superior ship.) The Draka continued their enslaving any new int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Shot In The Dark (1964 Film)
''A Shot in the Dark'' is a 1964 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, who co-wrote the screenplay with William Peter Blatty. Filmed in Panavision, it is a standalone sequel to ''The Pink Panther'' (1963) and is the second installment in the eponymous film series. Peter Sellers reprised his role as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sûreté, with Elke Sommer, Herbert Lom and George Sanders co-starring in supporting roles. Clouseau's blundering personality is unchanged, but it was in this film that Sellers began to give him the idiosyncratically exaggerated French accent that was to later become a hallmark of the character. The film also marks the first appearances of Commissioner Dreyfus (Lom), Clouseau's long-suffering boss as well as André Maranne as Dreyfus's assistant François and Burt Kwouk as Clouseau's stalwart manservant Cato, all three of whom would become series regulars. Sommer portrays the murder suspect, Maria Gambrelli. The character of Gambrelli woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
