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Ancel

Ancel was a brand under which Uruguayan government-owned telecommunications company Antel provided mobile phone services since 1 September 1994. As of 2015, Ancel is no loger in use, having been replaced by Antel.

Ancel (name)

Ancel is both a French surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

  • Jacques Ancel (1879–1943), French geographer and geopolitician
  • Michel Ancel (born 1972), French video game designer

Given name:

  • Ancel Henry Bassett (1809–1886), American Methodist minister, writer, editor and historian
  • Ancel Keys (1904–2004), American scientist

Usage examples of "ancel".

Shamesey camp, Ancel Harper recognized the threat lurking about the edges of the message.

Guil told what he knew: a whack in the head from a winch cable, a partner dead, Gerry Harper going off from Ancel in a fit of rage, the Harper brothers not dealing with each other any more for years.

Perhaps she had not told the king of the words Grainne my mother had said over her belly, but my mother had told them to me in sun and moon and firelight, and I knew that whatever the queen might say and the people believe, the child Ancel lived.

Isle of Glass seeking the cup, but to find my brother, but though there were many acolytes among the White Priests, Ancel was not among the acolytes.

I brought Ancel back to Caliburn with me to toil in the kitchens, for he had only his own word that his blood was proud, and there were many who might say the same and have more proof of it.

The court looked to call its new knight Ancel, for that he had once served in the kitchens, and no one gave any more thought to his naming than that, for the days of the False Janiffer were long passed.

I saw them sotted with each other and reckless, until the Queen talked of making Ancel War King, and meant a different crown entirely.

They brought their black horses south to join with the Queen and those princes who had rallied to her standard, and then, when I saw that the Queen and Ancel were truly set upon this course, I rode to where the King lay camped.

Indeed, since Ancel Keys started advocating low-fat diets almost 50 years ago, the science of fat and cholesterol has evolved from a simple story into a very complicated one.

The eastern Finns, for instance, whose lofty heart disease rates convinced Ancel Keys and a generation of researchers of the evils of fat, live within 500 kilometers of the Arctic Circle and rarely see fresh produce or a green vegetable.

The House declares an ancient interest in the land of Kellarin, by virtue of the investment in goods, coin and people made by Sieur Ancel Den Rannion in the days of Nemith the Last, even up to the cost of his own life.

Sieur had been naming the settlements to honour the original founders: VithrAncel for Ancel Den Rannion, Hafreinsaur for Hafrein Den Fellaemion.