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  • Emerald (from the Greek word smaragdos, through the French esmeralde ... a dull red when examined with long-wave ultraviolet light because ...
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  • amount of gas, which produces a pressure wave inside the gun barrel, sufficient ... speed, which produces a slower pressure wave less likely to damage the ...
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  • with its corners at Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand, and Easter Island ... was granted by royal proclamation to New Zealand as early as 1907, ...
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  • higher frequency signal (known as a carrier wave) before transmission. There ... drums. Drums were used by natives in Africa, New Guinea and South America whereas ...
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  • League who did not support the call for a new International. This group ... in 1933 but soon abandoned the call for a new International. ...
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  • Democrats began to form a separate party; new unaffiliated political clubs ... The occupation was followed by a wave of emigration, unseen before ...
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  • by the Americans, the Germans, the French (French Patent n° 788795 ... more portability, more features for that new defensive weapon. Post-war ...
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  • traditional era in art that gave way to the new forms of Modernism. ... Chase's teachers urged him to travel to New York to further his ...
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  • In 1889, Charles Renard, a French aeronautical engineer, became the ... flow properties before and after a shock wave. Jakob Ackeret led the initial ...
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  • of acid, technically called the mordant (French for "biting"), ... engravers, and Callot made full use of the new possibilities. ...
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  • is the most populous city of Romandie (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). was a favored destination for persecuted French and Italian Protestant refugees ...
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  • french horn, baritone horn, tuba, trombone), and (421 & 422) woodwind ... html |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times title = Τesting ...
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  • use of underwater hydrophones, while the French physicist Paul Langevin, ... greatly, particularly in the US. Many new types of military sonar were ...
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  • The Greek word for "spirit" in the New Testament is pneuma (air, ... ==The Holy Spirit in the New Testament== [[Image:Gagarin KreschenieHristovo ...
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  • between the British Army and Navy, and the French Army, on a plateau just outside ... successfully broke the column advance of French troops and New French militia ...
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  • was reportedly a keen reader of banned French literature and an avid nonconformist ... united by a general discontent against the new political realities in the ...
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  • the United States, Australia, France, French Guiana, and Canada. Others ... areas of Southeast Asia and China, the French occupiers of Southeast Asia ...
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  • speculations, before the problems of the French economy presented the opportunity ... In August 1717, he bought The Mississippi Company to help the French ...
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  • of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and New Zealand and to sight the Fiji ... world together. Humanity can only develop a new consciousness of the inter ...
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  • the two in 1937. In 1940 Japan invaded French Indochina in an effort to ... #039;s expansion into Manchuria and later French Indochina were greeted with ...
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  • the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia ... impressed with the tall straight trees and New Zealand flax-like plants. ...
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  • around 1807, in response to a wave of interest awakened in German ... publish collections of folktales. The 1697 French collection by Charles Perrault ...
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  • of thirteen. However, his father gave him a new trumpet and arranged lessons ... In 1944 Davis moved to New York City, to take up a scholarship at ...
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  • is Baton Rouge and its largest city is New Orleans. Both cities are located ... to operate their plantations. The port of New Orleans was the Southern United ...
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  • Lake," in the seventeenth century by French explorers because it was ... made themselves the middle-men between the French fur traders and other Native ...
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  • stories of rape and vengeance marked a new trend in the history of art ... in search of richer commissions. The French painter, Pierre Dumoustier ...
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  • Regatta held on June 22, 1876, off the New York Yacht Club's Staten ... Teaching for new sailors is usually carried out in monohulls as they ...
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  • The term "ammunition" is derived through French from the ... so that all the user has to do is insert a new, already-loaded clip of ammunition ...
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  • resulting in a plasma that produces short-wave ultraviolet light. This light ... will typically be half the brightness of a new lamp (although some manufacturers ...
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  • inspired dance interpretations opened new possibilities for dancers ... St. Denis founded Adelphi University's dance program in New York ...
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  • North Whitehead. Process and Reality. (New York: Free Press, 1978), 18 ... John Keely held, in an early version of the Wave-particle duality, that all ...
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  • memory" until Alphonse Bertillon, a French police desk clerk and anthropologist ... have replaced printer’s ink, and this new approach can be used as a ...
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  • Johann Bernoulli, who quickly discovered his new pupil's incredible talent ... for the post he would receive at his new assignment. At the same time ...
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  • a triple catastrophe of earthquake, tidal wave and fire (551), the students ... from a British company and gas from a French one, the city thrived on ...
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  • ) was the climactic battle of the First Indochina War between French ... As a result of blunders in the French decision making process, the ...
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  • in Urban's own homeland among the northern French. On a popular level, the first crusades unleashed a wave of impassioned ...
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  • translated several works of Aristotle into French and wrote numerous works ... Jean Buridan (often called founder of the French school of natural philosophy ...
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  • to influence a convert to renounce a new faith dates back to ancient ... In the New Testament, the mother and brothers of Jesus of Nazareth ...
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  • special status in Italy. In 1984, a new concordat between the Holy ... today offers short- medium- and long-wave and broadband service around ...
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  • Messiaen and also by other, primarily French, composers such as Andre Jolivet. ... used the tape recorder to develop a new technique for composition ...
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  • on October 10 2010, resulting in two new constituent countries, Curaçao ... * Sint Maarten borders the French overseas collectivity of Saint-Martin ...
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  • Its downfall came with the discovery of the wave-particle duality, that all ... A new twist was given to the ancient conundrum of the divisibility ...
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  • The term "Cartography" was coined in 1859, from the French ... A slightly different version finds the term deriving from Old French ...
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  • the sea estuaries of the Zeeland province. New risk assessments occasionally ... After being incorporated briefly in the First French Empire under ...
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  • pleasing terror it induced in the reader, a new extension of literary pleasures ... landscape gardening that inspired the first wave of gothic novelists. For example ...
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  • The Insurrection of August 10, 1792 was a defining event of the French ... Conflict between King Louis XVI of France and the country's new ...
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  • took a critical stance towards his new theories. Members of the Munich ... ===Sartre and French Existential Phenomenology=== During the Second ...
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  • was two, his mother went to live with her new husband, leaving her son in ... methods" (a root-finding algorithm) and new formulae for the value of ...
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  • such as that in Paris. Along with the French socialist Jean Jaurès, she ... was catapulted into power as rulers of the new republic alongside the SPD ...
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  • of the compound dissociates into two or more new molecules (generally gases ... in the initiation or propagation of the detonation wave. ...
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