Cours

Cours is a French word that can refer to:

Places

Cour is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:

Other

See also

Cours (Byzantine general)

Cours or Curs (Greek: Κούρς or Κοῦρσος) was an East Roman (Byzantine) general of the 6th century.

Biography

Cours is recorded as being a "Scythian", which in effect implies most probably a Hunnic (or perhaps Gothic) origin. Nothing is known of his early life, except that he served in Italy in the 550s under Narses.

He first appears in 574, after the outbreak of a new war with Sassanid Persia in 572, when he was placed, along with general Theodorus, in command of the Byzantine army of Armenia. Probably late in the same year, or in 575, they invaded Caucasian Albania, taking hostages from the Albani, Sabiri, and other tribes to ensure their loyalty. They resumed operations in Albania in the next year, but their absence from Armenia was exploited by the Persian shah Khosrau I (r. 531–579), who passed through Armenia unmolested and invaded Byzantine territory, reaching as far as Sebastea; there, however, he was confronted by the converging armies of Curs and the magister militum per Orientem, Justinian. While Khosrau, confronted by a larger army than he expected, refused to offer battle, Curs on his own initiative attacked, drove part of the Persian army back, and captured most of the Persian baggage train.

Television in Japan

Television broadcasting in Japan started in 1950, making the country one of the first in the world with an experimental television service, although the first television tests were conducted as early as 1926 using a combined mechanical Nipkow disk and electronic Braun tube system, later switching to an all-electronic system in the 1930s using a domestically developed iconoscope system. In spite of that, because of the beginning of World War II in the Pacific region, this first full-fledged TV broadcast experimentation lasted only a few months. Regular television broadcasts only started several years after the war, in 1953, when the public NHK General TV and the commercial Nippon Television were launched in the span of a few months.

A modified version of the North American NTSC system for analog signals, called NTSC-J was used for analog broadcast until 2011. Starting July 24, 2011, the analog broadcast has ceased and only digital broadcast using the ISDB standard is available.