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other | "Beautiful People" reached No. | ||||||
other | 72 on the UK Singles Chart, and No. | ||||||
other | 36 on the BBC's Heavy Metal/Rock chart. | ||||||
other | The song's music video was directed by Roger Pomphrey and shot at Peckham, London. | ||||||
other | Speaking to the Big Country fanzine "Inwards" in 1991, Adamson said of the song: "This is about how you can find cool things in the most fucked-up places." | ||||||
other | Upon release, Peter Kinghorn of "Newcastle Evening Chronicle" described "Beautiful People" as a "gently rolling singalong tune" with "plinking banjo and piano". | ||||||
other | Craig McLean of "Vox" felt the song's piano "honks and tonks agreeably". | ||||||
other | Steve Stewart of "The Press and Journal" considered "No Place Like Home" to present "a different style of music" from Big Country. | ||||||
other | He commented: "There is a slower, more relaxed feel to their sound, as displayed in "Beautiful People"." | ||||||
other | In a review of one of the band's 1991 concerts, David Sinclair of "The Times" noted the song's "honky-tonk piano, mandolin and mellow sentiments". | ||||||
other | John Peel, reviewing the single for "New Musical Express", commented: "It sounds like Mungo Jerry. | ||||||
other | My dad would have described it as half-baked piffle and he'd have been right. | ||||||
other | Sorry, Stuart." | ||||||
other | In a retrospective review of the single, JT Griffith of AllMusic felt "Return to the Two Headed King" and "Fly Like An Eagle" were "unimpressive", with "Beautiful People" being "by far [the] strongest song". | ||||||
other | Big Country | ||||||
other | Production | ||||||
other | Other | ||||||
other | José Andrés Martínez | ||||||
other | José Andrés Martínez Torres (born 7 August 1994) is a Venezuelan footballer who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer club Philadelphia Union. | ||||||
other | Hocquart Lake | ||||||
other | The lac Hocquart is a freswater body crossed by the Pika River on the watershed of the Pikauba River and the Saguenay River. | ||||||
other | Lac Hocquart is located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Achouakan, in the Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. | ||||||
other | This lake is located in the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve. | ||||||
other | This small valley is served indirectly by the route 169 and a few secondary routes for forestry, recreational tourism activities. | ||||||
other | Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreotourism activities, in second. | ||||||
other | The surface of Lake Hocquart is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, but safe circulation on the ice is generally made from mid-December to mid-March. | ||||||
other | The main watersheds near Lake Hocquart are: | ||||||
other | Hocquart Lake is in the shape of a pallet hat, a width of and an altitude of . | ||||||
other | This lake is mainly fed by the Pika River (coming from the west), by the Gobeil stream (coming from the east) and by the outlet (coming from the south) of Lac Larivière. | ||||||
other | The mouth of this lake is located at: | ||||||
other | From the mouth of Lake Hocquart, the current follows the course of the Pika River consecutively on to the north, the course of the Pikauba River on north to the confluence with Kenogami Lake; it crosses this lake on north-east to Barrage de Portage-des-Roches; the course of the Chicoutimi River on to the east, then the northeast and the course of the Saguenay River on east to Tadoussac where it merges with the Saint Lawrence estuary. | ||||||
other | This toponym evokes the life work of Gilles Hocquart (1694-1783), born in Mortagne-au-Perche (France). | ||||||
other | After having been controller of the port of Rochefort, he came in 1729 to settle in Quebec (city), as authorizing commissioner and interim intendant of New France, in order to replace Claude -Thomas Dupuy; he was confirmed in his functions in 1731. | ||||||
other | In about twenty years, Gilles Hocquart advanced settlement and agriculture, notably by granting seigneuries in the region of lac Champlain and in Nouvelle-Beauce. | ||||||
other | He ensured the completion of chemin du Roi, on the left bank of St. Lawrence River, in addition to encouraging shipbuilding, export development, industrial production at Forges du Saint-Maurice, while maintaining a fairly good balance in public finances. | ||||||
other | Returning to France in 1748, he was first, until 1763, steward of the port of Brest and, as such, he remained in contact with the colony by helping several Acadians deported to establishing themselves in France and ensuring the fitting out of ships bound for Quebec (city) during the Seven Years' War. | ||||||
other | Gilles Hocquart was appointed State Councilor in 1764 and, until his death, he was entrusted with the stewardship of the Navy classes. | ||||||
other | One of his main achievements was the construction of a depot at the Intendant's palace in Quebec (city), where all of the colony's timed registers and documents are stored. | ||||||
other | Despite the refusal of the king of France, Gilles Hocquart arranged for this place to keep the official documents of the colony in a safe place. | ||||||
other | Several historians of French Canada emphasize that his stubbornness in front of the king would have made it possible to preserve a substantial part of the archives written in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. | ||||||
other | The toponym "Lac Hocquart" was formalized on December 5, 1968 by the Commission de toponymie du Québec. | ||||||
other | Brian Macready | ||||||
other | Brian Leslie Macready (25 March 1942–2017) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Mansfield Town and West Bromwich Albion. | ||||||
other | Claudine at School (film) | ||||||
other | Claudine at School (French: Claudine à l'école) is a 1937 French comedy film directed by Serge de Poligny and starring Max Dearly, Pierre Brasseur and Suzet Maïs. | ||||||
other | It is an adaptation of the 1900 novel of the same title by Colette. | ||||||
other | The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. | ||||||
other | Alok Kumar Chaurasiya | ||||||
other | Alok Kumar Chaurasiya is an Indian politician and an MLA elected from Daltanganj block of Jharkhand state as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party 2019. | ||||||
other | A Rubber Band Christmas | ||||||
other | A Rubber Band Christmas is a 1996 instrumental Christmas novelty album featuring traditional and popular Christmas songs played entirely on rubber bands, staplers and other office equipment. | ||||||
other | The album is noted for its comic effects and has been described as one of the "weirdest" and most novel releases of its type. | ||||||
other | The album came about when two artists, Jeff St. Pierre and Philip Antoniades, found themselves bored one evening at the office and began creating Christmas music out of rubber bands, staplers, tape and other office supplies to hand. | ||||||
other | After entertaining themselves through the night with this diversion, they forwarded the results as a "seasonal thank you" to friends and associates. | ||||||
other | The recording was sufficiently well received that Artist Development Associates of Framingham, Massachusetts, decided to release it as a CD, under the title "A Rubber Band Christmas", with St. Pierre and Antoniades going by the name "The Rubberband Band". | ||||||
other | The CD was re-released on October 24, 2000. | ||||||
other | The album's fourteen tracks typically feature a rubber band twanging out the melody, while a ruler struck at different lengths adds a bass accompaniment. | ||||||
other | Rhythm is sometimes supplied through the use of "quickly-yanked frosty tape". | ||||||
other | The tracks featured are a selection of traditional and popular Christmas carols and ballads, with the word "rubber" substituted at some point in the title, yielding names such as "Rubber Bells" (for Jingle Bells), "Rudolph the Rubber-nosed Reindeer" (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) and "Feliz Rubberdad" (Feliz Navidad) etc. | ||||||
other | "AllMusic" states that in spite of the unusual instrumentation, the tracks are "still recognizable as—and a whole lot sillier than—the original carols." | ||||||
other | The reviewer concludes that while the 14 tracks "may be too much of a good thing", the release constitutes "easily the most novel holiday novelty album in a long while. | ||||||
other | It must be heard to be believed." | ||||||
other | Scott Frampton of "CMJ New Music Monthly" wrote that the album would have strong appeal to "aficionados of the pop-culturally weird". | ||||||
other | Kyle Brown of "Rubber and Plastic News" wrote that "The snaps and twangs aren't always pitch-perfect, but a lot of spirit comes through. | ||||||
other | Even the off notes sometimes sound catchy in new and interesting ways." | ||||||
other | Canadian broadcaster and columnist MC Gilles included the album at number three in a list of his five top Christmas novelty albums, describing it as "unbearable, but nice." | ||||||
other | Brian Boyd of the "Irish Times" included the album at number four on a list of "5 weirdest albums of all time", describing it as "a unique listening experience ... | ||||||
other | Criminally out of print, it can only be listened to in [short] intervals" but "you sort of want it in your collection all the same." | ||||||
other | Tracks from the album have been featured on both the BBC and on the ABC's Radio National websites, the latter in a "Christmas surprise cracker." | ||||||
other | Tarek Eltayeb | ||||||
other | Tarek Eltayeb (born 1959) is an Egyptian-Sudanese writer. | ||||||
other | He was born to Sudanese parents in Cairo. | ||||||
other | He has been a resident of Vienna since 1984, where he studied at the Vienna University of Economics. | ||||||
other | He now teaches at university level. | ||||||
other | As a writer, he has published novels, short story collections, volumes of poetry, and drama. | ||||||
other | He has been anthologized widely and his books have been translated into numerous European languages. | ||||||
other | His poems have appeared in different languages in various literary anthologies, magazines, and journals worldwide. | ||||||
other | Jordan Oguntayo | ||||||
other | Jordan Oguntayo (born 8 January 2009) is an English-Nigerian child model famous for casting as a fashion model for Calvin Klein, Burberry,Tommy Hilfiger, Ted Baker,Zara,Mango,and Marks & Spencer. | ||||||
other | He was also cast in an video advertisement for Volkswagen. | ||||||
other | Oguntayo was born on 8 January 2009 in the United Kingdom to a British mother Margaret Adeoye and his father Temitope Oguntayo. | ||||||
other | His sister, Agnes Oguntayo, is also a fashion model. | ||||||
other | He started his modeling career in July 2017, and did his first work for Burberry. | ||||||
other | Later he worked for the German automotive company Volkswagen, for which he was cast in a advertisement shoot. | ||||||
other | In 2018, he modeled for several worldwide fashion designers and companies, including Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Mango, Marks & Spencer, Primark, and Amazon. | ||||||
other | He was also appeared in the London Fashion Week. | ||||||
other | He also appeared on covers of several fashion magazines, including MilK Magazine. | ||||||
other | Isabelle Jonckheere | ||||||
other | Isabelle Jonckheere is a Belgian amateur snooker player. | ||||||
other | She was runner-up to Wendy Jans at the 2006 EBSA European Snooker Championship for women. | ||||||
other | She has won the Belgian national women's snooker title three times, in 2005, 2006 and 2011. | ||||||
other | Harry Middleton (footballer, born 1937) | ||||||
other | Henry Middleton (born 18 March 1937) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Mansfield Town, Portsmouth, Scunthorpe United, Shrewsbury Town, Walsall and Wolverhampton Wanderers. | ||||||
other | 2019 World Para Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres | ||||||
other | The men's 5000 metres at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships was held in Dubai on 13 November (T54) and 14 November 2019 (T11 and T13). | ||||||
other | Senator Kyle | ||||||
other | Senator Kyle may refer to: | ||||||
other | Fadi Zaghmout | ||||||
other | Fadi Zaghmout is a Jordanian writer and blogger. | ||||||
other | He is best known for his debut novel "Aroos Amman" (2012) which was translated into English by Ruth Kemp. |
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