Benoît Sokal

Benoît Sokal (born 28 June 1954 in Brussels) is a Belgian comic artist and video game developer, best known for his comics series Inspector Canardo.

Biography

Benoît Sokal was born in Brussels in 1954. He studied at the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Brussels, together with many contemporary Belgian comic artists like François Schuiten. He began drawing for À Suivre magazine in 1978. He created the Inspector Canardo series, featuring a depressed anthropomorphic duck detective with a penchant for cigarettes, alcohol and femmes fatales, before working on other titles.

Later he joined the software developer Microïds and designed the adventure games Amerzone, Syberia and Syberia II (published by Microids, the adventure game label of Anuman Interactive). He then founded his own game company, White Birds Productions, where he created the adventure game Paradise published through Ubisoft.

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Sokal

Sokal (Ukrainian: Сокаль, translit. Sokal’) is a city located on the banks of the Bug River in Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Sokal Raion (district). Population: 21,386 (2013 est.).

Until 1951 the town was located in Poland, and then transferred to the Soviet Union in the framework of 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange.

History

First written mention of Sokal comes from 1377. In 1424, it received Magdeburg rights from prince of Mazovia Ziemowit, and in 1462, the town became part of Belz Voivodeship, Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown. On August 2, 1519, a Polish - Lithuanian army under Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski lost here a battle with Crimean Tatars, after which the town was completely burned by the invaders. Mikolaj Sep-Szarzynski later dedicated one of his poems to this battle.

The town remained in Poland until the first partition of Poland, when it was annexed by the Habsburg Empire, as part of Galicia. It was the capital of the Sokal district, one of the 78 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Austrian Galicia province (Crown land) in 1900. After World War One, the fate of this province was disputed between Poland and Soviet Russia, until the Peace of Riga in 1921, attributing Eastern Galicia to Poland. In the Second Polish Republic, Sokal was the seat of a county in Lwow Voivodeship.

Sokal (song)

"Sokal" (Belarusian: Сокал, English: Falcon) is a song by Belarusian singer Nadezhda Misyakova. It represented Belarus at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Marsa, Malta, placing 7th with 71 points."

The song is based on the Belarusian fairytale "Finis, the Fine Falcon."

Music Video

The music video for "Sokal" was mostly shot in a cornfield, in early summer 2014.

Plot

The video begins with a young girl visiting an art museum. The girl then finds a painting on the walled consisting of Misyakova. The painting then comes to life, which leads to the beginning of the song. The scenes shift between the forests and a wheat field throughout the video. Once the song ends, the scene then shifts back to the museum. This is where we learn that the girl in the beginning was actually Misyakova herself.

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Sokal (disambiguation)

Sokal is a city in the Ukraine.

Sokal may also refer to:

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