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versailles
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
place outside Paris, of uncertain origin; perhaps from Latin versus "slope." Louis XIII built a hunting lodge there; made into a palace 17c. by Louis XIV.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1195
Land area (2000): 2.300115 sq. miles (5.957269 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007541 sq. miles (0.019532 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.307656 sq. miles (5.976801 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75922
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.431254 N, 92.844436 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 65084
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Housing Units (2000): 1109
Land area (2000): 1.746345 sq. miles (4.523012 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.746345 sq. miles (4.523012 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79912
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.222964 N, 84.485077 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 45380
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Housing Units (2000): 259
Land area (2000): 0.922449 sq. miles (2.389133 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005307 sq. miles (0.013746 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.927756 sq. miles (2.402879 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77720
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.883896 N, 90.657630 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62378
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Housing Units (2000): 803
Land area (2000): 1.526211 sq. miles (3.952867 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.526211 sq. miles (3.952867 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78974
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.067624 N, 85.255026 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 47042
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Housing Units (2000): 937
Land area (2000): 0.491011 sq. miles (1.271713 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.046731 sq. miles (0.121032 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.537742 sq. miles (1.392745 sq. km)
FIPS code: 80040
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.316869 N, 79.833414 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Housing Units (2000): 3330
Land area (2000): 2.814498 sq. miles (7.289517 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.814498 sq. miles (7.289517 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79482
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.054651 N, 84.730909 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 40383
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Wikipedia
Versailles refers to the Palace of Versailles, a royal in Versailles in the region of France.
Versailles may also refer to:
- Treaty of Versailles, signed there in 1919, ending World War I
- Treaty of Versailles (disambiguation), various other treaties
- Lincoln Versailles, American luxury automobile produced 1977-1980
- Versailles wedding hall disaster , a 2001 building collapse that killed 23 in Talpiot, Jerusalem, Israel
- Versailles (film), a 2008 French film
- Versailles (TV series), a 2015 Franco-Canadian historical television series
- Versailles 1685, a video game
-
(born 1984), a Haitian footballer
Versailles (known as Versailles -Philharmonic Quintet- in the United States) is a Japanese visual kei metal band formed in 2007 by vocalist Kamijo and guitarist Hizaki. After recruiting bassist Jasmine You, drummer Yuki and guitarist Teru, they performed their first show on June 23. Their key characteristics are their Rococo-esque costumes, dueling guitars and heavy but melodic arrangements. The group gained a significant worldwide following soon after forming as their debut EP Lyrical Sympathy (2007), released by Kamijo's own label Sherow Artist Society, received a simultaneous European release and they performed in Europe and the United States the following year. Their first full-length album, Noble released in 2008, was also released in North America in 2009.
Versailles signed to major label Warner Music Japan in mid-2009, however, on August 9, days after announcing he would be suspending activities for health reasons, Jasmine You died. Their major debut album Jubilee (2010) was completed with Hizaki performing the unfinished bass tracks. They went on a world tour that took them to Latin America and Europe and ended with new bassist Masashi officially joining. 2011 began with the whole band starring in their own television show titled , that ran from January to March. Their third album Holy Grail (2011) was their highest charting, reaching number 12 on the Oricon, and was supported by their second world tour. On July 20, 2012, Versailles announced they would be stopping all activities at the end of the year. They released their last album, the self-titled Versailles, on September 26 and after a short tour, performed their last concert at NHK Hall on December 20. The band has reunited for a concert on December 28, 2015 at Zepp DiverCity in Tokyo and has planned another one in 2016 also.
Versailles is the self-titled fourth, and final, studio album by Versailles. It was released on September 26, 2012.
Dianna St. Hilaire better known as Versailles is an American dark wave/ synthpop artist from Los Angeles, California. She was born in Modesto, California and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Teaching herself how to read music and play the piano at age 8, she spent most of her younger years in school choirs and friends bands. She temporarily gave up the idea of pursuing music, but began to write again at age 18 after leaving home. In 2001 she was in the movie Lockdown. Actress Dianna St. Hilaire, created Versailles Suicide in 2001 and later changed the name in 2003 to Versailles.
Versailles is a historic home located at Burgess, Northumberland County, Virginia. It was built between 1853 and 1857, and is a 2 1/2-story, five-bay, frame I-house dwelling with Greek Revival style design elements. It measures approximately 46 feet by 30 feet, and is topped by a gable roof. The front facade features a two-story pedimented entrance porch with a classical entablature and second floor balcony.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
Versailles is a 2014 play by the Welsh playwright Peter Gill. It deals with the aftermath of World War One and the Treaty of Versailles, marking the centenary of the war's outbreak.
The premiere production will be at the Donmar Warehouse from 20 February to 5 April 2014, directed by the playwright himself and with a cast including Gwilym Lee, Helen Bradbury, Barbara Flynn, Tom Hughes, Tamla Kari, Josh O'Connor, Simon Williams and Eleanor Yates.
Versailles is a British-Franco-Canadian television series set during the construction of Versailles Palace during the reign of Louis XIV that premiered on November 16, 2015 on Canal+ in France and Super Channel in Canada, and in June 2016 on BBC2 in Britain. A second season was already ordered ahead of the premiere. Filming for the second season began in January 2016 and its story will take place four years after that of the first season. The show will premiere in the U.S. on Ovation on October 1, 2016.
Usage examples of "versailles".
I only wondered at her having used some paint for the face, but it rather pleased me because she had applied it according to the fashion of the ladies of Versailles.
To-morrow the manner in which I have been treated will be known to the diplomatic bodies at Versailles and Paris, and in a few days it will be in all the newspapers.
I was not going to start for Versailles at midday, but ministers in Paris are always talking in this style, as if Versailles were at the end of the street.
Eon had deserted the embassy on account of ten thousand francs which the department of foreign affairs at Versailles had refused to allow him, though the money was his by right.
They will be saying at Versailles and Madrid, and maybe at Rome itself, that the Cardinal de la Cerda is a miser.
Versailles was a beautiful spot, but I had only compliments and not invitations to expect there, so after leaving M.
His lordship, to make a parade of his own politeness and importance, assured the bench, he was no stranger to the family of the Fathoms, and, with a compliment, gave Ferdinand to understand he had formerly seen him at Versailles.
Delighted above all things at a success gained over the English, who had for centuries been victorious in every battle in which England and France had met as enemies, the citizens of Paris organized a succession of brilliant fetes, which were responded to by entertainments of all kinds at Versailles.
Unhappily, their followers, with their hopeless superficiality, flung medieval guilds and State interference into the same sack, making no distinction between a Versailles edict and a guild ordinance.
It is also decreed that the mortuary act of the aforesaid de Lamotte the younger, dated the sixteenth day of February last, in the register of deaths belonging to the parish church of Saint-Louis at Versailles, be amended, and his correct names be substituted, in order that the said Sieur de Lamotte, the father, and other persons interested, may produce said names before the magistrates if required.
The Presidential Palace, which Mondschein remembered as a compact, somewhat austere building in vaguely Roman style, had expanded in the course of a quarter of a century into an incomprehensible mazelike edifice that seemed consciously intended to rival Versailles in ostentatious grandeur.
Versailles, and the dauphine has not been delivered either of a prince or of a princess.
He enquired from the painter whether the original could be brought to Versailles, and the artist, not supposing there would be any difficulty, promised to attend to it.
But the artist, having been summoned to Versailles, shewed that delightful painting with several others, and M.
He wishes to take us himself to Versailles, and promises to procure some employment for me.