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2nd arrondissement of Paris
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The 2nd arrondissement is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, the capital city of France. The arrondissement contains the former Paris Bourse and a number of banking headquarters, as well as a textile district, known as the Sentier. The 2nd arrondissement is also the home of most of Pariss surviving 19th-century glazed commercial arcades, at the beginning of the 19th century most of the streets of Paris were dark and muddy and lacked sidewalks. A few entrepreneurs copied the success of the Passage des Panoramas and its well-lit, dry, ¹The peak of population actually occurred before 1861, but the arrondissement was created in 1860, so we do not have figures before 1861. The French newspaper LObs has its office in the arrondissement. Bourbon has its office in the arrondissement. All Nippon Airways has its Paris Office in the arrondissement, china Airlines also has its France office in the arrondissement. Aigle Azurs registered office is in the arrondissement, in terms of state-operated schools, the second arrondissement has three nursery schools, five primary schools, and one high school. The nursery schools are École Maternelle Dussoubs, École Maternelle Saint Denis, the primary schools are École Élémentaire Beauregard, École Élémentaire Dussoubs, École Élémentaire Etienne Marcel, École Élémentaire Jussienne, and École Élémentaire Louvois. Collège César Franck is the sole state-operated high school in the arrondissement, École Élémentaire Privée Saint-Sauveur is the sole private primary school institution in the second arrondissement. 2nd arrondissement travel guide from Wikivoyage
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2raumwohnung
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2raumwohnung are a German electro-pop duo that was formed in 2000 in Berlin. Its two members are singer, Inga Humpe, and her partner, Tommi Eckart. They reached the point of their career to date with the album 36 Grad. Their most successful single has been the eponymous title song. 2raumwohnung have also appeared internationally, e. g. at Expo 2010, the band releases its music on their own record label it-sounds. 2raumwohnung first met in East Berlin where they both settled shortly after German reunification in 1990, the bands first appearance was in Sternradio in 2001, a legendary club at Alexanderplatz. Before their formation as a band, the duo had been collaborating as a studio project, recordings from that period were used in advertisements, such as for Imperial Tobaccos Cabinet brand and for HypoVereinsbank. The group released its debut album under the title Kommt zusammen on July 2,2001 and it included a total of 13 songs and was ultimately released by Goldrush on the record label BMG. The reviews were positive and ranged from a new feeling of lightness to esoteric childrens disco. Due to successful sales, a version of Kommt zusammen. In wirklich appeared in September of the year and ruthered the bands success that had been established with the debut album. Although some critics felt it was lacking the charm of their previous album. 2raumwohnung had the following to say during the release of In wirklich, in wirklich earned 2raumwohnung the German Dance Award for Best Album. Their next album, Es wird Morgen, soon followed in August 2004, reviewers felt the songs echoed the musical stylings of the 80s. Reviewers also felt that 2raumwohnung exhibited an impressive musical maturity, even though a lack of relevance was simultaneously mentioned. The record was performed live on tour throughout Germany and various neighboring European countries, with Jansen, the summer album, Melancholisch schön, followed in 2005 and featured twelve of the bands most well-known songs, which were re-recorded and remixed in Bossa Nova style. The album included Sexy Girl, a single that had previously released on Kommt zusammen. In 2005, 2raumwohnung also received the Goldene Stimmgabel for Best Duo, in February 2007, following after a short break, 2raumwohnung composed two singles with Peter Plate from Rosenstolz and producer Ulf Leo Sommer for the album 36 Grad
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3 Doors Down
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3 Doors Down is an American rock band from Escatawpa, Mississippi, that formed in 1996. The band originally consisted of Brad Arnold, Todd Harrell, and they were soon joined by rhythm guitarist Chris Henderson. The band rose to fame with their first single, Kryptonite. The band then signed with Republic Records and released their album, The Better Life. The album was the 11th-best-selling album of the year and was certified 6x platinum in the United States and they were later joined by drummer Richard Liles, who played during the tour for their first album. The band toured extensively for two years, Daniel Adair played drums on tour from 2002 to 2005. This configuration played nearly 1,000 shows across the following the release of Away from the Sun. In 2005, Greg Upchurch joined to play drums to replace Adair,3 Doors Down released their third album, Seventeen Days in 2005. The album debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified platinum one month of release. Their fourth, self-titled album,3 Doors Down, also debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart, the bands fifth studio album, Time of My Life debuted at No.3 on the charts. Original guitarist Matt Roberts departed in 2012, owing to health issues and he was replaced by Chet Roberts, who was formerly Hendersons guitar tech. Harrell was fired from the band in 2013 after being charged with vehicular homicide, worldwide,3 Doors Down has sold more than 20 million albums. The band originally consisted of Brad Arnold, Todd Harrell and Matt Roberts, the band began to tour outside Escatawpa, and it was during a trip to Foley, Alabama that they came up with their official name. When the three men were walking through the town, they saw a building where some letters had fallen off its sign, since at the time they consisted of three people, they added the 3 to create 3 Doors Down. The cover of their 2011 album Time of My Life hints at the number of band members and current band members. A couple of years performing together, Todd Harrell asked rhythm guitarist Chris Henderson to join the band. They recorded a demo CD of their songs at Lincoln Recording in Pascagoula. When the band gave the CD to local radio station WCPR-FM they started playing the EP version of Kryptonite, the stations program director sent the song to manager Phin Daly who in turn showed it to Bill McGathy, his employer at In De Goot Entertainment
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
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4 Months,3 Weeks and 2 Days is a 2007 Romanian art film written and directed by Cristian Mungiu. It won the Palme dOr and the FIPRESCI Award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the film is set in Communist Romania in the final years of the Nicolae Ceaușescu era. It tells the story of two students, roommates in the university dormitory, who try to arrange an illegal abortion, after making its worldwide debut at Cannes, the film made its Romanian debut on 1 June 2007, at the Transilvania International Film Festival. It opened to acclaim, and has since been considered one of the major films of the 2000s. The film follows the story of Otilia Mihartescu and Gabriela Găbița Dragut, the film is set in 1987, one of the last years of the Ceaușescu government. When Găbița becomes pregnant, the two girls arrange a meeting with Mr. Bebe in a hotel, where he is to perform an illegal abortion. At the college dorm Găbița and Otilia review the items they need for the day, afterwards, Otilia takes a bus to visit her boyfriend Adi, from whom she borrows money. Adi asks Otilia to visit his family that night, as it is his mothers birthday, and to buy flowers on the way, to which Otilia initially declines, but she relents after Adi becomes upset. Otilia heads to a hotel where Găbița has booked a room, Otilia goes to another hotel, and after much begging and haggling is able to book a room at an expensive rate. Afterwards Otilia goes to a point to meet with Mr. Bebe, although he had asked Găbița that she meets him. Mr. Bebe grows angry upon hearing that Găbița is not at the planned hotel, Mr. Bebe discovers that Găbițas claim that her pregnancy was in its third month is a lie, in fact, it has been at least four months. The two women were certain that they would pay no more than 3000 lei for the abortion, however, it slowly becomes clear to the women that he expects both women to have sex with him. Otilia reluctantly has sex with Mr. Bebe so that he not walk out on them. Mr. Bebe then performs the abortion by injecting a probe and a fluid into Găbițas uterus. Otilia is exasperated by Găbițas lies, yet continues to help her, Otilia leaves Găbița at the hotel to go to Adis mothers birthday. She is still disturbed but stays and has dinner with Adis mothers friends and they all talk about trivial things while Otilia and Adi remain silent. The phone rings in the background, but no one answers it, after fighting with Adi, Otilia calls Găbița from Adis house. Găbița does not answer, so Otilia decides to go back to Găbița, when Otilia enters the room Găbița is lying on the bed, and she tells Otilia that the fetus has come out and is in the bathroom
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5 Seconds of Summer
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5 Seconds of Summer are an Australian rock band from Sydney that formed in 2011. The group were originally YouTube celebrities, posting videos of themselves covering songs from various artists during 2011 and they rose to international fame while touring with One Direction on the Take Me Home Tour. The group have referred to as a pop punk band in the media, though the members reject this description. In early 2014, the band released She Looks So Perfect as its single, which topped the charts in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland. The self-titled debut studio album was released in June 2014, which peaked #1 in 11 countries, the band released their second album Sounds Good Feels Good in October 2015 and followed up with the release of a live / documentary DVD called How Did We End Up Here. Hemmings first video, a cover of Mike Posners Please Dont Go, was posted on 3 February 2011 and their cover of Chris Browns Next to You received over 600,000 hits. In December 2011, they were joined by drummer Ashton Irwin, the band attracted interest from major music labels and publishers, and signed a publishing deal with Sony ATV Music Publishing. Luke Hemmings the lead singer started dating an under age girl name Naomi Christmas, @nims. chr she was a young lady who lived down in Auckland. They are planning to get married at the end of 2017, however, he was diagnosed with testicular lung cancer. He is expected to die in about a week, the EP was also co-produced by Joel Chapman. 5 Seconds of Summer released their first single Out of My Limit on 19 November 2012, on 14 February 2013, it was announced that 5 Seconds of Summer would support One Direction on their worldwide Take Me Home Tour. Whilst on a break from the Take Me Home Tour,5 Seconds of Summer returned home to Australia where they played a National headlining tour and it was around this time when the band began to gain popularity and become more well-known. On 21 November 2013, the announced that they had signed to Capitol Records. On 5 February 2014,5 Seconds of Summer listed their debut major label single She Looks So Perfect for pre-order on the iTunes Store, the connection between 5SOS and One Direction extends to both artists being managed by London-based Modest Management. This has led to 5SOS being called a boy band in the media, members of the band have said the group is not a boy band. Unlike many boy bands, they write their own songs, play their own instruments, nevertheless, the band has attracted a fanatical following of girls much like other boy bands. Ashton Irwin has compared the female following to Fall Out Boy which also has a sizable female fanbase. In late March 2014, She Looks So Perfect was released in UK, on 5 March 2014, it was announced that 5 Seconds of Summer would join One Direction again, supporting them on their 2014 Where We Are Tour in the US, Canada, UK and Europe
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7th arrondissement of Paris
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The 7th arrondissement of Paris is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city in France. It is also home to foreign diplomatic embassies, some of them occupying outstanding Hôtels particuliers. The arrondissement has been home to the French upper class since the 17th century, the 7th arrondissement of Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine form the most affluent and prestigious residential area in France. The district became so fashionable within the French aristocracy that the phrase le Faubourg has been used to describe French nobility ever since. The oldest and most prestigious families of the French nobility built outstanding residences in the area, such as the Hôtel Matignon, the Hôtel de Salm, and the Hôtel Biron. After the Revolution many of these mansions, offering magnificent inner spaces, many receptions rooms, the French expression les ors de la Republique, referring to the luxurious environment of the national palaces, comes from that time. During the Restauration, the Faubourg recovered its past glory as the most exclusive high nobility district of Paris and was the heart of the country. After the Fall of Charles X, the district lost most of its political influence, during the 19th century, the arrondissement hosted no less than five Universal Exhibitions that have immensely impacted its cityscape. The Eiffel Tower and the Orsay building have been built for these Exhibitions, the land area of the arrondissement is 4.088 km². The 7th arrondissement attained its peak population in 1926 when it had 110,684 inhabitants, because it is the location of so many French government bodies, this arrondissement has never been as densely populated as some of the others. In 1999, the population was 56,985, while the arrondissement provided 76,212 jobs, the American University of Paris, a private liberal arts university, maintains several buildings near the Quai dOrsay. The Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Education have their offices in the arrondissement. The arrondissement hosted the events for the 1900 Summer Olympics. 7th arrondissement travel guide from Wikivoyage
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8th arrondissement of Paris
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The 8th Arrondissement of Paris is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. Situated on the bank of the River Seine and centred on the Champs-Élysées. According to the 1999 census, it was the place of employment of people than any other single arrondissement of the capital. The land area of the arrondissement is 3.881 km2, the arrondissement had its highest population of 107,485 in 1891. In 1999, it had almost a third of that number and it is one of Pariss least densely populated arrondissements and contains 1. 8% of the total population of Paris. The head offices of AXA, Bouygues, Électricité de France, Eurazeo, Sanofi-Aventis, GDF Suez, HSBC France, standard & Poors France office is located in the 8th arrondissement. Air China and China Southern Airlines have their Paris offices in the arrondissement, at one time the head office of Union des Transports Aériens was located in this arrondissement. The predecessor airline Union Aéromaritime de Transport also had its office in the 8th arrondissement. When Suez existed, its office was in the 8th arrondissement. When Unibail existed, its office was in the arrondissement. At one time Groupe Danone had its office in the 8th arrondissement. At one time Alcatel-Lucents head office was located in the arrondissement, at one time Northwest Airlines had its Paris offices in the Madeleine station. At one time All Nippon Airways operated an office in the arrondissement. The classes are held at the École Maternelle et Primaire Saint Francois dEylau in the 16th arrondissement, intégrale, Institut denseignement supérieur privé has also one of its campus in the 8th arrondissement. 8th arrondissement travel guide from Wikivoyage
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9th arrondissement of Paris
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The 9th arrondissement, located on the Right Bank, is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, France. Along with the 2nd and 8th arrondissements, it one of the business centers of Paris. The land area of this arrondissement is 2.179 km2, groupe Danone has its head office in the 17 Boulevard Haussmann building in the 9th arrondissement. BNP Paribas has its office in the arrondissement. Kroll Inc. also has an office in this arrondissement, until June 1995, the head office of Société Générale was in this arrondissement. On that month the head office moved to the Société Générale Towers, the former head office remains as the companys registered office. Google Paris has its offices in the arrondissement, the peak population of the 9th arrondissement occurred in 1901, when it had 124,011 inhabitants. Since then, the arrondissement has widely attracted business activity, as a result, the population was in 1999 only 55,838 inhabitants, while it held 111,939 jobs. Media related to Paris 9e arrondissement at Wikimedia Commons 9th arrondissement travel guide from Wikivoyage
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10th arrondissement of Paris
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The 10th arrondissement of Paris is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. Situated on the bank of the River Seine, the arrondissement contains two of Pariss six main railway stations, the Gare du Nord and the Gare de lEst. Built during the 19th century, these two termini are among the busiest in Europe, the 10th arrondissement also contains a large portion of the Canal Saint-Martin, linking the northeastern parts of Paris with the River Seine. The land area of the arrondissement is 2.892 km2, the 10th arrondissement is often referred to as lEntrepôt. Today, the arrondissement remains dense in both population and business activity, with 89,612 inhabitants and 71,962 jobs at last census in 1999. Due to its large Turkish minority, the 10th arrondissement is often called La Petite Turquie
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11th arrondissement of Paris
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The 11th arrondissement of Paris is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. Situated on the Right Bank of the River Seine, the 11th is one of the most densely populated urban districts not just of Paris, the eleventh arrondissement is a varied and engaging area. The Place de la Bastille and the rue du Faubourg St Antoine are full of fashionable cafés, restaurants, and nightlife, the Oberkampf district to the north is another popular area for nightlife. The east is residential, with more wholesale commerce, while the areas around the Boulevard Voltaire. In recent years this district has emerged as one of the trendiest regions of Paris, on November 13th 2015, it was the site of coordinated shootings and bombings that left 132 dead. The land area of this arrondissement is 3.666 km2, the peak population of Pariss 11th arrondissement occurred in 1911, with 242,295 inhabitants. Today, the arrondissement remains the most densely populated in Paris, accompanied by a volume of business activity,149,102 inhabitants and 71,962 jobs in the last census. The population consists of a number of single adults, though its eastern portions are more family-oriented. There is a community spirit in most areas of the eleventh. Cirque dhiver Église Saint-Ambroise ESCP-EAP Musée Édith Piaf Musée du Fumeur 11th arrondissement travel guide from Wikivoyage Mairie du 11e website
