Dans la RueDans la Rue (formerly known as Le Bon Dieu Dans la Rue ) is a secular non-profit operating in English and French to meet the immediate needs of homeless and at-risk youth in the Centre-Sud area of Montreal. Dans la Rue was founded by in 1988 by Catholic priest Father Emmett "Pops" Johns, who sought to help homeless youth in a non-judgemental, open minded way . With a personal loan of $10 000, he purchased a used winnebago and began driving nightly shifts through the streets of downtown Montreal, serving hot dogs and distributing clothing, personal care products, and nonperishable foods.
Paul Vidal de La BlachePaul Vidal de La Blache (pɔl vidal də la blaʃ, Pézenas, Hérault, 22 January 1845 - Tamaris-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 5 April 1918) was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics. He conceived the idea of genre de vie, which is the belief that the lifestyle of a particular region reflects the economic, social, ideological and psychological identities imprinted on the landscape.
Éric WernerÉric Werner (born 1940) is a Swiss philosopher, journalist and essayist. He studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He is a retired professor of the University of Geneva. De la violence au totalitarisme, essai sur la pensée de Camus et de Sartre, Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1972. Mystique et politique : études de philosophie politique, L'Âge d'Homme, Lausanne et Paris, 1979, . Jan Marejko and Éric Werner, De la misère intellectuelle et morale en Suisse romande [nouvelle édition, avec une postface d'Éric Werner], L'Âge d'Homme, Lausanne et Paris, 1981, Le système de trahison, L'Âge d'Homme, Lausanne et Paris, 1986, .
Philippe LeveauPhilippe Leveau (born 1940 in Angoulême) is a 20th-century French historian and archaeologist, a specialist of the ancient world. Caesarea de Maurétanie : une ville romaine et ses campagnes, Éditions de l'École française de Rome, 1984, X + 556 pages (recension here) Ph. Leveau et J.-L. Paillet, L'alimentation en eau de Caesarea de Maurétanie et l'aqueduc de Cherchel (in collaboration with J.-L. Paillet), Ed. L'Harmattan, Paris 1976, 185 pages, 10 plans hors-texte. J. Gascou, Ph. Leveau et J.
Félix Rodríguez de la FuenteFélix Samuel Rodríguez de la Fuente (March 14, 1928 – March 14, 1980) was a Spanish naturalist and broadcaster. He is best known for the highly successful and influential TV series, El Hombre y la Tierra (1974–1980). A graduate in medicine and self-taught in biology, he was a multifaceted charismatic figure whose influence has endured despite the passing years. In 1960, he became one of King Saud of Arabia's personal falconers after impressing the Saudi Government with two attractive specimens on behalf of Franco, which allowed him to become popular and produce his first documentary programme, Señores del espacio (1965).
Dans le Noir ?Dans Le Noir ? (French for "in the dark") is a chain of restaurants where guests are served in total darkness, a concept called dark dining or blind dining. "Dans le Noir ?" also diversified its activities into shops and spas. Dans Le Noir was founded in 2004 in Paris by Edouard de Broglie, a French entrepreneur. Subsequent locations were opened in London, Barcelona, New York, St. Petersburg, New Zealand, Melbourne Australia, and Nairobi. The London location is featured in a key scene in the 2013 movie About Time.
The Dapper DansThe Dapper Dans are a barbershop quartet that performs at Disneyland in Anaheim, California (since 1959), at the Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort (since 1971), and at Hong Kong Disneyland in Lantau Island, Hong Kong (from 2005 to 2008). A quartet (from the UK) also performed at Disneyland Paris from the opening in 1992 until 1995 and were known as The Main Street Quartet. The Paris quartet, known as “Nickelodeon” before joining the park, comprised Martin Baker, Mark Grindall, Steve Green and Jim Mullen.
André Éric LétourneauAndré Éric Létourneau is a French Canadian media and transmedia artist, researcher, author, musician, composer, curator and professor based primarily in Montreal and Saint-Alponse-Rodriguez, Québec, Canada. He uses several pseudonyms, most notably Benjamin Muon and algojo)(algojo. His work has been associated with the development of performance art, radio art, process art, sound poetry and experimental music.
Paso de la AmadaPaso de la Amada (from Spanish: "beloved's pass") is an archaeological site in the Mexican state of Chiapas on the Gulf of Tehuantepec, in the Mazatán part of Soconusco region of Mesoamerica. It is located in farmland between the modern town of Buenos Aires and the settlement of El Picudo. This site was occupied during the Early Formative era, possibly the Mokaya from about 1800 BCE to 1000 BCE, and covered approximately 50 hectares of land. Paso de la Amada is the site of the oldest Mesoamerican ballcourt.
Josepha LarocheJosepha Laroche is a French professor of political science, specializing in international relations. She is professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, where she is Director of the master's program of research in international relations, and is also researcher at the UMR 201 Développement et sociétés (). She was also Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris) from 2004 to 2009. Her research is dedicated to globalization, global governance and global public goods.
School Strike for ClimateSchool Strike for Climate (Skolstrejk för klimatet), also known variously as Fridays for Future (FFF), Youth for Climate, Climate Strike or Youth Strike for Climate, is an international movement of school students who skip Friday classes to participate in demonstrations to demand action from political leaders to prevent climate change and for the fossil fuel industry to transition to renewable energy.
Lac-Mégantic rail disasterThe Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July6, 2013, at approximately 01:14 a.m. EDT, when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars. Forty-seven people were killed.
