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UO Virtual Tour Virtual Tour of the University of Oregon; Eugene, OR. tour.uoregon.edu   (9 words)

Encyclopedia: Popmart Tour Popmart was a parody of consumerism; the band kicked off the tour by holding a press conference at a Kmart store. Among the tour's highlights was a heavily emotional (and heavily bootlegged) show in Sarajevo were they were the first major band to perform after the war. Popmart was a parody of consumerism; the band kicked off the tour by holding a press conference at a K-Mart store. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Popmart-Tour   (1391 words)

Tour skating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sweden's largest tour skating association is SSSK - on their start page you can find many beautiful photographs from skating tours in Sweden (reload the start page for a new image to appear; click on the image for a larger image). Special skates which are longer than regular ice skates are used, as well as various types of safety equipment: a pair of ice prods, an ice pike or a pair of them, a throwing line, and a rucksack with waistband and groin strap, containing exchange clothes in plastic bags as buoyancy aid. In late autumn/early winter the small lakes freeze first, some years already in late October but usually in November, and the skating season has started. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tour_skating   (1391 words)

Tour Montparnasse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tour Montparnasse (Montparnasse Tower), a skyscraper at 33, avenue du Maine, in the Montparnasse area of Paris, France, constructed from 1969 to 1972, is the only skyscraper office building in Paris proper (the City of Paris). Built on top of the Paris Metro station "Montparnasse-Bienvenüe", the 58 floors of the tower are mainly occupied by offices, while two floors are open to the public for viewing the city; the 56th floor with a restaurant, and the terrace on the top floor. Tour Montparnasse viewed from the top level of the Eiffel Tower. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tour_Montparnasse   (421 words)

Warped Tour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The tour also features many booths creating a flea-market like atmosphere, with a tent from each band (to sell their own merchandise) along with independent record labels, non-profit organizations, and sponsors looking to market their products and brands to the tour's audience. The skateboarding shoe manufacturer Vans has sponsored the tour every year since 1995, so it is often referred to as the Vans Warped Tour. List of bands previously on the Warped Tour en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warped_Tour   (368 words)

Package holiday -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article Some travel agents are owned by tour operators, others are independant. Package holidays are organised by a (additional info and facts about tour operator) tour operator and sold to a consumer by a (Someone who sells or arranges trips or tours for customers) travel agent. The latest trend in package holidays is dynamic packaging, consumers are able to build their own package of flights, accommodation and a hire car instead of a pre-defined package. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/package_holiday.htm   (212 words)

Eiffel Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Eiffel Tower ( French: la Tour Eiffel) is a metallic tower built on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France, and is nowadays the most famous landmark and symbol of Paris. Originally, Eiffel had a permit to leave the tower standing for 20 years, more than recouping his expenses, but, as it proved valuable for communication purposes, it was allowed to stay after the end of the permit. Woodwards Building, Vancouver, Canada - A small reproduction on the roof of the building is topped by a signature neon "W". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eiffel_Tower   (212 words)

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Nationwide Tour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School (the main tour's qualifying tournament, popularly referred to as "Q-School") or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level. The earlier "satellite tour" was formalised by the PGA Tour in 1990 and was initially called the Ben Hogan Tour in honor of late golfing great Ben Hogan. Challenge Tour - the analogous tour in Europe operated by the PGA European Tour en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nationwide_Tour   (233 words)

Professional golf tours - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The other tours are effectively "feeder" tours: any player who succeeds on them is likely to move to a richer tour as soon he or she can. A number of players win more than a million dollars in prize money each season, and once endorsements and other business activities are taken into account, a few of the "legends of golf" in this age group earn more or less as much as any of the younger PGA Tour pros, other than Tiger Woods. Some of the players will also play on other tours when they are able to and others will be club or teaching professionals who play tournament golf part time. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Professional_golf_tours   (233 words)

Georges de La Tour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The known information on George de La Tour's life begins in 1620 when he established his studio in Luneville, painting religious and genre scenes. La Tour's work went unrecognized after his death in 1652 but was rediscovered by a German scholar in 1915. Georges de La Tour (1593–1652) was a French painter. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georges_de_La_Tour   (149 words)

Grand Tour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Grand Tour was responsible for creating situated knowledges in a generation of young British adults. During the Tour, young men learned about the politics, culture, art and antiquities of neighboring countries. In the 18th century, the Grand Tour was a kind of education for wealthy British noblemen. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Tour   (398 words)

Grand Tour (cycling) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The most contested ones are the individual general classification (Maillot jaune (yellow jersey) in the Tour de France), king of the mountains classification (Polka dot jersey in the Tour de France), and points classification (Maillot vert in the Tour de France). Eddy Merckx; Belgium; 5 Tours (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974), 5 Giros (1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974), 1 Vuelta (1973) Jacques Anquetil; France; 5 Tours (1957, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964), 2 Giros (1960, 1964), 1 Vuelta (1963). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Tour_(cycling)   (360 words)

Tour Initiale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 105 m (344 ft) Tour Initiale was the first office tower built in the La Défense district with its construction being completed in 1966. The Tour Initiale was designed by architects Jean de Mailly and Jacques Depussé and engineer Jean Prouvé who designed the building's glass facade. Tour Initiale (Initiale Tower, originally known as Nobel Tower) is an office building located in La Défense district of Paris, France. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nobel_Tower   (163 words)

Tour puzzle -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article In tour puzzles the player makes a trip around a (not necessarily two-dimensional) board using a token which represents a traveller. Some tour puzzles demand that certain points on the board have to be visited on the way. Often there is a given start- and finish-position for the player's token. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tour_puzzle.htm   (246 words)

G3 (tour) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia G3 is an almost annual live music show and guitar tour featuring three select guitarists of the generation; hence its name. The October 21st, 2003 show at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City was recorded and released as G3 Live: Rockin In The Free World in 2004. For the first time, the audio of the DVD and CD version are from the same concert. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/G3_(tour)   (141 words)

PGA Tour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Note also that there is a PGA European Tour, which is totally separate from either the PGA Tour or the PGA of America; this organization runs a tour, mostly in Europe but with events throughout the world outside of North America, that is second only to the PGA Tour in worldwide prestige. The PGA Tour does not run the women's tours in the United States, which are controlled by the independent LPGA. Players are eligible in their first season of PGA Tour membership; several of the winners had a good deal of international success before their PGA Tour rookie season, and some have been in their thirties when they won the award. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PGA_TOUR   (2221 words)

Farewell Tour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Farewell Tour is the first live album by American rock band The Doobie Brothers, released in 1983. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Farewell_Tour   (2221 words)

Planetary Grand Tour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Conceived by Gary Flandro of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Grand Tour would have exploited the alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, an event that would occur in the late 1970s, and not recur for 176 years. However, most elements of the Grand Tour were added to the Voyager program, which visited all the outer planets except Pluto, and Voyager 2's mission has specifically come to be regarded as the "Grand Tour." NASA budget cuts eventually doomed the Grand Tour missions, as well as later proposals for a "mini grand tour". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Planetary_Grand_Tour   (276 words)

Encyclopedia: Glidden Tour The Glidden Tours were revived in 1946 by the Veteran Motor Car Club of America (VMCCA) and have continued since with antique cars traveling premarked routes and stopping in local towns to show off their vehicles, many people dressed in period costume. They were named after Charles J. Glidden, a financier and automobile enthusiast, who presented the AAA with a trophy first awarded to the winner of the 1905 tour. The tours went several hundred miles in the US and occasionally into Canada with time limits between check points and a point scoring system to determine a winner of each event. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Glidden-Tour   (276 words)

Ice Skating - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch The skating rink regarded as the world's longest (about 8 kilometres long) is the Rideau Canal located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. A number of sports are based on the principle of ice skating: Ice skating is travelling on ice with skates, narrow (and sometimes parabolic) blade-like devices moulded into special boots (or, more primitively, without boots, tied to regular footwear). encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /ice_skating.htm   (276 words)

elfstedentocht.html The Elfstedentocht, or Eleven-cities Tour is a speed skating competition and leisure skating tour held irregularly in the province of Friesland, Netherlands. The tour is not held each year, mostly due to the fact that the Dutch winters do not permit skating on natural ice each year. The tour, almost 200 km in length, is conducted on frozen canals, rivers and lakes between eleven Frisian cities: Leeuwarden, Sneek, IJlst (mun. www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/e/el/elfstedentocht.html   (276 words)

Pollstar -- The Concert Hotwire Illness has caused the opening show on Aiken's holiday tour to be pushed back a few nights. Slowcore no more: Minnesota trio Low is turning up the amps in 2005. Touring his first original music album since 2000, guitar songwriter Steve Forbert is on stage all winter long. www.pollstar.com   (276 words)

Nationwide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nationwide, an ABC current affairs series from the 1980s Nationwide Building Society, a building society located in the United Kingdom. Nationwide Conference, a football conference sponsored by Nationwide Building Society for 1998-2007. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nationwide   (140 words)

The Realism of Georges de la Tour De la Tour is considered to be a follower of Caravaggio due to his dependency on specific elements of the Caravaggesque style (most notably the use of chiaroscuro and tenebristic techniques). La Tour's fortune-tellers, courtesans, gypsies, and cardsharps set about duping and fleecing their victims with all the sharp-witted precision of glance and gesture" (Feigenbaum 168). Georges de la Tour (1593-1652) was born on March 14, 1593, in Vic-sur-Seille, twenty miles from Nancy, the ducal capital of Lorraine in northeastern France. www.students.sbc.edu /vandergriff04/georgesdelatour.html   (2250 words)

Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia: Charles La Tour (1595-c.1665). La Tour sent his agents to France to line up a prospective wife and it was understood he would come along when the finishing details were to be worked out. Claude La Tour was of the French nobility, the House of Bouillon. 4 She and Charles La Tour and met and become heady over the "Parisian mixture of court, theatre, demimonde and mercantile society." But, a simple love relationship would not due: a hard bargain was driven by all, one which is reflected in a formal marriage contract. www.blupete.com /Hist/BiosNS/1600-00/LaTour.htm   (1250 words)

Biography Although the chronology of La Tour's output is uncertain, it is clear that he initially painted in a realistic manner and was influenced by the dramatic chiaroscuro of Caravaggio or his followers. The paintings of La Tour's maturity, however, are marked by a startling geometric simplification of the human form and by the depiction of interior scenes lit only by the glare of candles or torches. La Tour's work also exhibits a high degree of originality in colour and composition; the characteristic simplification of forms gives many of his pictures a deceptively modern appearance. www.wga.hu /bio/l/la_tour/georges/biograph.html   (295 words)

Tour CIBC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia La Tour CIBC (CIBC Building) is a skyscraper in the city of Montreal. Completed in 1962 only a few months before Place Ville-Marie, the CIBC Building was the tallest building in Canada and the entire Commonwealth of Nations when it was first built, until being surpassed later that year by Place Ville-Marie where a penthouse was added by the competing Royal Bank for that express purpose. Inside, levels 15 and 29 are transfer floors; level 16 is a triple-height mechanical floor that is skipped in the floor numbering of the passenger elevators. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tour_CIBC   (478 words)

sport.iafrica.com tennis atp tour The results will be flooding in every week on the ATP Tour as the busy schedule of tournaments ensures there is plenty of action all over the world. Roger Federer was streaks ahead of everyone on the ATP Tour in 2004, ending the season over 500 points ahead of second-placed Andy Roddick. The 2004 ATP Tour season will see some exciting action from the best players in the world. sport.iafrica.com /tennis/atptour   (478 words)

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