Category: France

Nespresso Falling Piano Heaven

Nespresso is the brand name of Nestlé Nespresso S.A., an operating unit of the Nestlé Group, based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, activist, businessman, and philanthropist. Clooney has appeared in commercials outside the U.S. for Fiat, Nespresso, Martini vermouth, and Omega.

Pearly gates is an informal name for the gateway to Heaven according to some Christian denominations. The image of the gates in popular culture is a set of large, white or wrought-iron gates in the clouds, guarded by Saint Peter (the keeper of the “keys to the kingdom”). Those not fit to enter heaven are denied entrance at the gates, and descend into Hell.

John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, director, and producer. He has appeared in more than 70 films. In November 2009, Malkovich appeared in an advertisement for Nespresso with fellow actor George Clooney.

The requirement of structural strength, fulfilled by stout hardwood and thick metal, makes a piano heavy. Even a small upright can weigh 136 kg (300 lb), and the Steinway concert grand (Model D) weighs 480 kg (1,060 lb).

Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American filmmaker. Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film El Mariachi, which was a commercial success after grossing $2 million against a budget of $7,000.

McTimber vs. McFarmer

A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock.

A lumberjack is a worker in the logging industry who performs the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into forest products. The term usually refers to a bygone era (before 1945 in the United States) when hand tools were used in harvesting trees.

“Eye of the Tiger” is a song by American rock band Survivor. It was released in May 1982 as a single from their third album Eye of the Tiger. It was written at the request of actor Sylvester Stallone, who was unable to get permission for Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust”.

In order to cater to local tastes and culinary traditions, and often in respect of particular laws or religious beliefs, McDonald’s offers regionalized versions of its menu among and within different countries. As a result, products found in one country or region may not be found in McDonald’s restaurants in other countries.

Evian Water Babies

“Rapper’s Delight” is a 1979 single by American hip hop trio The Sugarhill Gang. While it was not the first song to feature rapping, it is the first song made by a hip hop or rap group, and is generally considered to be the first true hip hop release, followed closely by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five’s “Superrappin”. In July 2009, Evian Water used the song in their roller-skating baby commercial, “Evian’s Roller Babies (Live Young)” which is especially popular on YouTube with over 3.7 million hits in a week.

Roller skates are devices worn on the feet to enable the wearer to roll along on wheels, consisting of a boot with four wheels with ball bearings, arranged in the same way as those of a typical car. The first patented roller skate was introduced in the year 1760.

Evian is a French brand of mineral water coming from several sources near Évian-les-Bains, on the south shore of Lake Geneva. In popular culture, Evian is portrayed as a high-end and pricey bottled water, making it popular among Hollywood celebrities.

Berlitz Toupée

French is today spoken around the world by 72 to 130 million people as a native language, and by about 190 to 600 million people as a second or third language, with significant speakers in 54 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France, where the language originated, Canada, Belgium and Switzerland.

The Berlitz school teaches languages using what it claims to be its own “Berlitz Method of language instruction.” This “method” is, in fact, a variation on the direct method and what later became popularised as the audio lingual method

A toupée is a hairpiece or partial wig of natural or synthetic hair worn to cover partial baldness.

My Mother Said I Could

The rubber vulcanization process was patented by Charles Goodyear in 1844, and the first rubber condom was produced in 1855. These early rubber condoms were 1-2mm thick and had seams down the sides. Although they were reusable, these early rubber condoms were also expensive.

Beiersdorf AG is a multinational corporation based in Hamburg, Germany, manufacturing personal care products. Its brands include Hansaplast.

Salvador Dalí is crazy over Lavin Chocolate

Je suis fou de Chocolate Lanvin!
I’m crazy over Lavin Chocolate!

Much of the chocolate consumed today is made into bars that combine cocoa solids, fats like cocoa butter, and sugar. Chocolate has become one of the most popular flavours in the world. Chocolate lovers are known as “chocoholics.”

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), was a Spanish (Catalan) surrealist painter. Some critics alleged Dalí was motiviated not by art but greediness, which led [leader of the surrealist movement, André] Breton to nickname him “Avida Dollars” (an anagram).

The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “Choral” is the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. By the time the composer began work on the symphony, he was completely deaf.