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  • Press and Reuters. It is the largest French news agency. Founded by Charles ... in 110 countries. It transmits news in French, English, Arabic, Spanish ...
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  • A villanelle is a poetic form which entered English language poetry in the late 1800s from the imitation of French models. Although it is one ...
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  • The Fox tribe of Native Americans are an Algonquian language-speaking ... schools that prohibited the use of their language and religion, and were taught ...
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  • YAZyka—Society for the Study of Poetic Language), one of the two groups ... #039;s major contentions was that poetic language is fundamentally different ...
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  • the most striking document of that anti-French nationalism which in the ... translator, he used his knowledge of French and German to translate fables ...
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  • same passage of writing in two Egyptian language scripts and in classical ... where it arrived in August 1799. The French language newspaper Courrier de ...
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  • The name malachite derives (via Latin and French) from the Greek word molochitis, meaning "mallow-green stone." That, in turn, may ...
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  • any word that modifies any other part of language: verbs, adjectives (including ... Spanish, Italian) or '-ment' (French, Catalan). Other adverbs ...
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  • educated, and his mastery of the French language led to a number of innovations ... of the most influential poets in the French language, and his influence extends ...
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  • were written in a form of continental French that was copied by Anglo ... Her works are mostly dedicated to members of the French court at the ...
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  • twenty-six (26) hours of schooling. French language and literature occupy ... philosophy courses in terminale, while French language classes end in the première ...
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  • time of innovations and change for the French language, especially in its written ... of the authors who has enriched the French language in the most significant way. ...
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  • Comparative law (French: droit comparé, German: Rechtsvergleichung ... "to determine which of those systems [i.e. the French and English ...
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  • Tahiti is the largest island of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago ... Wallis was followed in April 1768 by the French explorer Louis-Antoine ...
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  • semantic function. For example, such a language might have a verb that means ... There are six classes of adjectives in the English language: ...
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  • battle fought on July 21, 1798 between the French army in Egypt under Napoleon ... a relationship with France and with French culture that irrevocably ...
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  • at least four different translations into French were made, and at least two ... editions include Latin, German, French, Spanish and Dutch versions ...
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  • editions. Some 545 Latin and about 900 French editions are known to exist. The book was written in Latin, but only a French translation from ...
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  • . The fertile valley of the Rhône and the French Riviera produce fruits and ... area was at its height. The Provençal language, (see langue d'oc and ...
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  • States who speak Wichita, a Caddoan language. They were known as the ... have been undertaken to preserve their language, although few fluent speakers ...
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  • the highest film honor in France, the French film industry's equivalent ... * Best French Language Film (1984–1986) * Best Documentary Short ...
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  • implemented by the French state, the French language has progressed significantly ... advancement. With French schooling and French-language television, many young ...
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  • center of Madagascar. It was known by its French name Tananarive or the colonial ... In the late seventeenth century, the French established trading posts ...
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  • Maurice Blanchot (September 27, 1907 – February 20, 2003) was a ... where he befriended the Lithuanian-born French phenomenologist, Emmanuel ...
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  • other Romance-speaking languages such as French and Spanish; however, it ... it to Tuscany where he adapted it to his language when he founded the Neo ...
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  • focused on modern languages, including (French, Italian and English). Nevertheless ... . In Strasbourg, he immersed himself in French literature and political ...
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  • people speaking Algonquin, an Anishinaabe language. Culturally and linguistically ... Europeans. They were initially met by the French, with whom they became trading ...
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  • particularly the Passamaquoddy whose language is almost identical to theirs. They were closely allied with the French, and inter-marriage was not ...
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  • Africa and numerous books published in the French language, Fortes was greatly respected in the Anglo-Saxon world. His work on political systems exerted ...
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  • VII of Denmark Histoire de Nader Chah, a French translation of a work originally ... Greek and Latin. In The Sanscrit Language (1786) he suggested that ...
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  • the reformation of the Russian literary language, preferring the easy style ... essays by foreign writers into his native language. He also met Jakob Michael ...
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  • The 1635 invasion and seizure by the French military of the island ... had moved in and begun to threaten the French and Spanish colonies. In ...
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  • and the VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language) authoring tool for viewing ... are bilingual—available in both French and English. While the content ...
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  • for Arthurian legends in the English language. Malory's position ... and Maleore. The name comes from the Old French adjective maleüré (from ...
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  • Russian poetry and the Russian literary language, Derzhavin's works ... meal. He believed that the melodious French language was a language of harmony ...
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  • of teaching children in their native language. Instruction occurs in the ... immersion students with no previous French language training, usually beginning ...
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  • René Samuel Cassin (October 5, 1887 – February 20, 1976) was a ... and war orphans and promoted education and French culture internationally. ...
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  • Foie gras (French for "fat liver") is the liver of a goose ... Another French delicacy, Confit d'oie, requires goose meat macerated ...
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  • The Prague Linguistic Circle (French: Cercle linguistique de Prague; ... be applied both synchronically, to a language as it exists, and diachronically ...
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  • |langs= Wendat, French, English |rels=Animism, Roman Catholicism, Other ... with other tribes and the colonial French, they were almost completely ...
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  • the Mexican Army's victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla ... the Mexican Army's victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla ...
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  • His works, all of which were written in French, were privately printed and distributed; it has not yet been determined whether Hemsterhuis offered ...
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  • and television personality who brought French cuisine and cooking technique ... her 1961 cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking as well as for her ...
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  • The Grote Markt (Dutch) or Grand Place (French) is the central market ... , Cologne, and France. English wool, French wines and German beer were ...
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  • French Polynesia, or as it is known in Tahitian language, Porinetia Farani, is a French "overseas country" in the southern Pacific ...
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  • The territorial collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (French: ... seventeenth century there were permanent French residents on the islands ...
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  • * A French-language lycée in Santiago, Chile. * A French-language lycée in Madrid, Spain * A French-language lycée ...
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  • #039; in many Romance languages, such as French (phare), Italian (faro), Portuguese (farol), Spanish (faro), Romanian (far), and Greek (φάρος). ...
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  • In fact, the words for mermaid in Spanish, Siren, French, Sirène, Italian, Sirena, Polish, Syrena, and Portuguese, Sereia, show the connection between ...
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  • December 6, 1961) was a Martinique-born French author and essayist. He was ... Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, then a French ...
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  • Paul-Émile Botta (December 6, 1802 – March 29, 1870) was a French ... Botta joined the French diplomatic corps, and was initially sent to ...
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  • Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606 – October 1, 1684) was a French tragedian ... dealt with efforts to standardize the French language, Richelieu himself ordered ...
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  • it "dephlogisticated marine acid." French chemist Claude Louis Berthollet, noting the bleaching properties of chlorine, invented hypochlorite ...
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  • and perfected his knowledge of English, French, and German, all the while ... was Viennese Classical music and the language spoken by educated Hungarians ...
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  • The Triple Entente ("entente"—French for "agreement") was the alliance formed in 1907 among the United Kingdom of Great ...
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  • September 17, 1743 - March 28, 1794) was a French philosopher, mathematician ... to the Académie royale des Sciences (French Royal Academy of Sciences). ...
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  • Many Omaha speak their native language, which is taught in their ... The Omaha speak a Siouan language which is very similar to that spoken ...
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  • time it was part of Tonga and shared its language and customs. Futuna has ... Samuel Wallis visited Wallis in 1767. The French were the first Europeans ...
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  • quot; is the usual English rendition of a French slogan, "l'art ... The concept was adopted by a number of French, British and American ...
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  • This French-language reference book first appeared in 1905 and was ... the use of words and the development of the French language. ...
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  • who, after being uprooted by the French Revolution, became a great ... De Maistre developed a theological view of the French Revolution as ...
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  • – 1932), a Vietnamese man working for French colonialists. Ngô Văn Chiêu ... can be conducted in Vietnamese, Chinese, French, or English, depending on ...
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  • the presentation of a musical composition. French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully ... written their initial tempo marking in some other language. ...
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  • culture, including fluent use of the French language and conversion to Christianity ... The French empire has ensured that the French language remains one of the most ...
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  • to at least 30 languages, including French, Spanish, Welsh, Afrikaans ... human voice: adapted also to the English language as a complete system of ...
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  • Latin, the creature is basiliscus, and in French, it is basilique, both of ... and Early languages of Europe, the Old French cocatris was adopted into ...
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  • philosopher and psychologist of the French Enlightenment. He systematized ... His ideas held sway among French intellectuals for fifty years, and ...
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  • [[Image:Interp.jpg|thumb|right|400 px|Two sign language Interpreters ... A sign language (also signed language) is a language which uses manual ...
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  • 26, 1909 – March 29, 1994) was a French-Romanian playwright and dramatist ... to a Romanian father and a mother of French and Greek-Romanian heritage ...
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  • and transcription) for the Mandarin language used in Beijing. It developed ... are still used interchangeably in English-language texts in both countries. ...
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  • powers during the turmoil following the French Revolution and to stop seditious ... as a natural ally. Following the French Revolution of 1789, many ...
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  • (Les) Cahiers du cinéma (Notebooks on Cinema) is an influential French ... français" ("a certain trend in French cinema")—arguably ...
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  • ] in French) (May 10, 1788 – July 14, 1827), was a French physicist ... In 1814, because he was a supporter of the French monarchy, he lost his appointment ...
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  • in the creation of American Sign Language, which was later recognized ... methodology under Sicard, learning sign language from Massieu and Clerc, ...
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  • familiar with the work of the famous French organ builder Aristide Cavaillé ... a century, and laid the groundwork for the French symphonic organ style. In ...
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  • the basis for a common chemical "language" essential in this ... quot; for "potassium," and the French prefer the obsolete but historic ...
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  • 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951) was a French author and winner of the ... in 1891, The Notebooks of Andre Walter (French: Les Cahiers d'André ...
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  • Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition [http://dictionary ... years. The usual combination is English, French, and Latin, although sometimes ...
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  • Technically, lead-glazed earthenware, such as the French sixteenth ... The name faience is simply the French name for the town of Faenza ...
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  • William of Normandy (French: Guillaume de Normandie) (1028 – September ... was that for several centuries, French was the language of the rulers ...
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  • a village named Nkuna by the Italian born French explorer, Pierre Savorgnan ... The area came under French sovereignty in the 1880s. Franco-Italian ...
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  • Paul Ricœur (February 27, 1913 – May 20, 2005) was a French philosopher ... was at the Sorbonne that Ricoeur met the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel ...
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  • The Fédération internationale de football association (FIFA, French ... was founded in Paris on May 21, 1904—the French name and acronym persist ...
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  • quot; is the Russian term, derived from French "lycee"), offering ... classes in Greece and Cyprus. The French word for an upper secondary ...
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  • In 1952, Poulet became a professor of French Literature at Johns Hopkins ... Prix de la Critique littéraire and the French Academy’s Prix Durchon ...
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  • ) It is also the most populated city in French-speaking Western Africa. ... me bidjan," which in the Ebrié language means "I've just ...
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  • ) is a casserole-style dish of Spanish and French influence originating in ... Rice stews have a long lineage in the culinary traditions of the French ...
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  • He was a gifted linguist (fluent in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian ... Tyndale introduced new words into the English language: ...
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  • The French campaign against Korea of 1866, known as Byeonginyangyo ... control of the government in 1864, twelve French Jesuit priests living and ...
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  • 31, 1867) was one of the most influential French poets and critics of the ... moral anomie, was labeled obscene by the French government and Baudelaire ...
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  • * Curcuma in Portuguese and French * Куркума (kurkuma) in Macedonian * Kurkuma in Finnish * Gurkmeja in Swedish * 欝金 (ukon) in Japanese ...
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  • |langs=The Tuareg language(s) (Tamasheq, Tamajeq, Tamahaq) ... The Tuareg (sometimes spelled Touareg in French, or Twareg in English ...
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  • Vanuatu was the location of a unique Anglo-French government system, it operates ... between English language and French language speakers. The legal system ...
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  • 23, 1873 – 1957) was a German-born, French ethnographer and folklorist ... Germany, into a family of mixed Dutch-French immigrants. When he was six ...
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  • Lake Geneva or Lake Léman (French Lac Léman, le Léman, or Lac de ... Roman culture, eventually developing the French language. ...
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  • educated elites from the West generally spoke French or German. On arriving into some villages dressed appropriately and singing and dancing, putting ...
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  • him to be one of the greatest Spanish-language poets in history. He experimented ... vigor to the stale, monotonous Spanish-language poetry of the time. He is ...
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  • to King James V of Scotland and his French wife, Marie de Guise. In ... to Inchmahome Priory, and turned to the French ambassador Monsieur D'Oysel. ...
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  • that of Pushkin, though the domination of French, the language of the Russian ... His duel with a son of the French ambassador led to his being returned ...
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  • The word "gravel" comes from the French gravelle, meaning "coarse sand." == Size range == As noted above, the term gravel ...
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  • ===Pre-French Protectorate era=== The area which is today Casablanca ... around 12,000 within a few years of the French conquest and arrival of French ...
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  • code where the word premier, ([[French language|French]] for "first ... is an exception to this pattern. The French language did not make use of ...
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  • The word camphor derives from the French word camphre, itself from ... would call to buy camphor. In the Indian language Sanskrit, the word karpoor ...
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  • Gabriel Urbain Fauré May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French ... years. He studied with several prominent French musicians, including Camille ...
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  • the source of the Niger River. Although French efforts at pacification began ... became an autonomous state within the French Community, and it reached ...
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  • is divided into two parts, between the French Republic and the Kingdom ... retains its own distinct flavor, with the French side reflecting quiet elegance ...
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  • quot; first entered the English Language around 1912. Derived from ... was witnessing a general strike on the French railroads. Tired of waiting ...
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  • ) is the oldest major work of French literature. It exists in various ... best manuscript is written in Anglo-Norman French and the Latinized name of ...
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  • Since her classes were taught in classic French rather than the local Gascon ... #039; or 'it' in the Gascon language. |right|250px|Saint ...
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  • However, the term shallot also is used for other plants. The French ... Allium oschaninii, the French Gray shallot, has a long bulb, covered ...
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  • system. The conquest changed the English language and culture, and set the ... Viking settlement. In the year 911, French Carolingian ruler Charles ...
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  • joining the British and the Choctaw the French. During the American Civil ... are related to the Choctaws, who speak a language very similar to the Chickasaw ...
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  • in the seventeenth century, originally a French word that combined the Latin ... of c. 1800 B.C.E. to the Hittite language. When the cuneiform script ...
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  • |langs=English, Míkmaq, French |related=other Algonquian peoples ... Mi'kmaq comes from a word in their language meaning "allies." ...
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  • ravaged their population, and when the French and Indian Wars led to increasing ... of the Dawn Land" in the Abenaki language—from wôban ("dawn ...
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  • appearing in Robert de Boron's French poem, Merlin (late twelfth ... Merlin, part of the Post-Vulgate Cycle of French Arthurian literature of the ...
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  • encouraged by the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Napoleon ... in the German image in the way that the French and the British tried to ...
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  • the latter consciously modeled on the French Encyclopedie. His collaborators ... rejeced the positivist treatment of language in general and, in particular ...
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  • philosophy" were introduced by French philosopher Claude-Henri ... French philosopher Auguste Comte (1789-1857)—for seven years a student ...
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  • independent of the Academies). The French Academy regions are similar ... body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially ...
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  • for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, wide-ranging vocabulary ... he worked as a civil servant for the French Ministry of the Interior ...
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  • ;In French [[Image:KomponistOffenbach(Photographie).jpg|French composer ... Operetta grew out of the French opéra comique around the middle of ...
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  • one travels from the coast, the less that French, the official language, is ... status as the regional power." The French took over the area in 1892 ...
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  • The catacombs in Paris were surely used by French resistance during World War II. ... catacumba in Spanish, and catacombe in French. It is most likely that from ...
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  • identical synthetic variety, often called French ultramarine, became available. ... century, with the chemical synthesis of French ultramarine and the discovery ...
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  • Dr. John Willinsky in the Department of Language and Literacy EducationThe ... community members, with Croatian, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese ...
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  • : Sometimes, especially in Thai language documents, King Mongkut might ... Siam’s sovereignty from British and French imperial powers. In 1855 ...
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  • [Goethe, 550]. Hegel remarked: "The French have a saying: Le stile c ... Lay Styles (Volume III in the English language translation of The Glory ...
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  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: La ... are of constitutional value in present-day French law and may be used to oppose ...
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  • Alain Robbe-Grillet (French alɛ̃ ʁɔb gʁiˈje ) (August 18, 1922 – February 18, 2008), was a French writer and ...
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  • eighteenth century by Antoine Galland, a French orientalist, who claimed ... written in Arabic was a translation into French (1704–1717) by Antoine ...
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  • used to tease her by commenting that French women were better than African ... Coleman took French language class at the Berlitz school in Chicago ...
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  • The Pendjari National Park (French: Parc National de la Pandjari) ... is a large semi-protected zone known in French as La zone cygnetique de ...
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  • Countries and the Summit Conference of the French and African Heads of State ... of La Francophonie, an organization of French-speaking nations. From 2003 ...
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  • ; November 15, 1757 – March 24, 1794) was a French journalist, the ... followers were known as the Hébertists (French Hébertistes). He was one ...
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  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty (March 14, 1908 – May 4, 1961) was a French ... === Language and Art=== The highlighting of corporeality as intrinsically ...
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  • *Towards the end of the seventeenth century, the French fables of ... *Jean de La Fontaine, the French poet, took his inspiration from the ...
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  • 28, 1908 - October 30, 2009), was a French anthropologist who became ... Though thought of as French, Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Bruxelles ...
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  • derived word chapulín is used instead. French presents an inverse case: ... In contemporary French usage, langouste is used almost exclusively ...
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  • one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is ... there was for Latin to become his first language. His intellectual education ...
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  • poems would be a major inspiration for the French Symbolist poets of Rimbaud ... have been a major and lasting influence on French literature for over a century. ...
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  • and Uranus, which she then translated into French. Theodore Flournoy, a professor ... Pierre Janet, a French psychologist, was one of the first to pioneer ...
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  • which is in turn derived from the French fr|administration, itself ... in 1969, the HEC School of Management (in French, the École des Hautes Études ...
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  • Its English name, chive, derives from the French word cive, which was derived ... are one of the "fines herbes" of French cuisine, which also include ...
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  • Foie gras (French for "fat liver") is the liver of a duck (or goose) that has been specially fattened. Foie gras is one of the most ...
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  • neighboring countries, was known as French Sudan or the Sudanese Republic ... of the country, but many laws of the French era remain in effect. The ...
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  • but also, often of the English language itself. Chaucer's writings ... of his early period (sometimes called his French and Italian period) Troilus ...
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  • prince or governor, or a derivate in a local language. One of the newly ... Djallon state lasted until 1898, when French colonial troops defeated ...
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  • at home. Inspired by his teachers of French language and literature, young ... * [http://lib.ru/PROZA/BABEL/ Prose] in original Russian language ...
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  • In physics, a lever (from French lever, meaning "to raise") is a rigid object that is used with an appropriate fulcrum (pivot point ...
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  • substantial influence on Twentieth-Century French Philosophy. His lectures ... After World War II, Kojève worked in the French Ministry of Economic Affairs ...
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  • harsh jungles of Central Africa were the French, who gained complete control ... the Bantu group within the Niger-Congo language family, a wide variety of ...
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  • of science. The name derives from the French phrase, Système International ... The metric system was officially adopted in France after the French ...
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  • Emmanuel Lévinas (January 12, 1906 – December 25, 1995) was a French ... in France. It was there that he met the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot ...
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  • Charles VI the Well-Beloved, later known as Charles VI the Mad (French: ... as English oppression personifies the French spirit and the French sense ...
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  • which occurs many times in modern English-language popular culture. ... of modern literature, most famously in French poet Jean de La Fontaine’s ...
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  • state in Western Europe located along the French Riviera between the Mediterranean ... for a brief period (1793 - 1814) under French control. Designated as a ...
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  • Robert Schuman (June 29, 1886 - September 4, 1963) was a noted French ... would remove "war" from human language. Schuman's contribution ...
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  • its income comes from the spending of the French governmental salaries, as ... Pointe-à-Pitre. French language, [http://www.ville-pointeapitre.fr/ ...
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  • Georges-Pierre Seurat (December 2, 1859 – March 29, 1891) was a ... aspects of paintings and a theoretical language by which to paint. ...
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  • Immanuel Kant; to read Latin and French classics and Arabic and Syriac books. After suffering a breakdown from overwork in 1808, he went to Lemberg ...
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  • Jacques Cartier (December 31, 1491 – September 1, 1557) was a French ... At the time of his death, no permanent French settlements had yet ...
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  • in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language. ... Webster always admired French radical thought, and unlike most Federalists ...
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  • Neiges is extinct. Despite its name, snow (French: neige) practically never ... from Port Louis, Mauritius. Although the French flag was hoisted in 1638 ...
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  • While his governess taught him Russian, German, French, and geography, he also received instruction on the piano and the violin. At the age of ...
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  • The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old East Slavic language: Слово ... that the document contained transitional language between a) earlier fragments ...
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  • members. Clifford studied Greek, German, Spanish, French, Arabic and Sanskrit, as well as Morse code and shorthand. He was responsible for the translation ...
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  • volume. In 1944, he became professor of French literature at the National ... main influences were Surrealism and the French Nouveau roman as well as ...
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  • was for a time the location of the Free French government of General Charles ... The city consists of three sections. The lower part, the French area ...
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  • His prose works, written in the Hebrew language, made accessible to the ... were later translated into Latin, Spanish, French, English and German. Ibn ...
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  • was one of the most distinguished of the French Jansenists. He affiliated ... considerable influence on the formation of French prose. Niceron (Mèmoires ...
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  • There has even been disagreement about what language Tatian used for ... to provide paraphrased Gospel versions in language closer to the vernacular ...
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  • is the most populous city of Romandie (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). ... Geneva is covered by the various French language radio networks of ...
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  • 1926) is generally considered the German language's greatest twentieth ... Rilke attempted in his poetry to create language that, in his own ...
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  • the range of Ancient Egyptian culture (language, literature, history, religion ... the Mediterranean did not occur until the French occupation of the Nile Valley ...
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  • Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628 – May 16, 1703) was a French ... unpublished books and articles, in the French language, dealing with children ...
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  • The battle was waged during the period when the British and French ... ===Growing French influence=== Growing on the sidelines was the French ...
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  • Beginning in 1719, French settlers cultivated coffee, tobacco, indigo ... crushed a revolt fomented by the French radical Victor Hugues. More ...
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  • called in Wolof (the most widely spoken language in the West African nation ... Saint-Louis news and culture portal. French Language Site. ...
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  • to be applied particularly to a number of French philosophers who differed ... to be applied particularly to a number of French philosophers who differed ...
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  • for everyone with great compassion. Such language has deep resonances in other ... * Bournouf, Eugène. Le lotus de la bon loi. 1852 [French Translation ...
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  • Their struggle for purity of the Russian language had something in common ... and developed a strong distaste for French atheism. He felt so passionately ...
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  • connotes, dialogue implies the use of language. A dialogue is distinguished ... Two French writers of eminence borrowed the title of Lucian’s most ...
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  • are based on Catalonian law, its language is Catalan, as is a large ... marriage, and a dispute arose between the French Count and the Catalan bishop ...
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  • They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language, a member of the Algonquian ... as middlemen for the fur trade between the French and various Great Lakes Tribes ...
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  • André-Marie Ampère (January 20 1775 – June 10 1836), was a French ... he also attempted to establish the proto-language from which all human tongues ...
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  • a nation in West Africa formerly known as French Guinea. Guinea's territory ... spelled Fuuta Jalon; Fouta Djallon is a French spelling; in English it is ...
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  • several other related concepts such as: language, logic, consciousness, knowledge ... The English term “reason” is derived from the French word raison ...
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  • it is a translation of Descartes' original French statement: "Je pense, donc je suis," which occurs in his Discourse on Method (1637). ...
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  • Nicholas or Nicolaus of Autrecourt (in French: Nicholas d'Autrécourt) (c. 1295 – 1369) was a French medieval philosopher, theologian ...
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  • the exact translation is disputed. The French called them the Puans, translated ... The Ho-Chunk language is part of the Siouan language family, and is ...
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  • 9, 1585 – December 4, 1642), was a French clergyman, noble, and statesman ... to be the official authority on the French language. Richelieu served as ...
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  • a Common Community Commission, Flemish and French community commissions, 19 ... Community have been devolved to the French language Walloon Region, and ...
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  • the task. The name musquash comes from the Cree language, while French speaking Canadians call the muskrat rat musqué (Musgrave 2007; MU 2007). ...
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  • support of creating an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal ... unreasonable criticism of Germany in the French, British, and American media. ...
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  • He also taught courses in Greek, Latin, French, German, and natural history ... For this purpose, he studied the Polish language, established contacts within ...
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  • in much of Europe's history from the French Revolution through the World ... has given several phrases to the English language, including the "Curate ...
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  • (July 29, 1805 – April 16, 1859) was a French political thinker, historian ... body of official authorities on the French language.Oxford Companion, [http://www ...
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  • The portrait's Italian (La Gioconda) and French (La Joconde) ... France have owned the Mona Lisa since the French Revolution. ...
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  • France, it must have originated in the French language. The "Hugues hypothesis ... followed by the whole Bible in the French language, in 1528. William Farel ...
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  • official biographer. As the first English-language practitioner of psychoanalysis ... London hospitals. His extensive reading of French and German literature in ...
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  • He first attended a French Christian Brothers school in Haifa, then ... to mastering English—adding this language to the Arabic, French, Persian ...
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  • Celan's poetry was primarily influenced by the French Surrealists ... who insisted that German be the language spoken in their house. After ...
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  • forms as crau, cro, crouè are found in French dialects, and all probably ... * Magnon is almost certainly the augmentative form of the Old French ...
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  • In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural ... to the grammar of all the speakers of the language), in which case the term ...
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  • is part of the Mascarene Islands, with the French island of Réunion 200 km ... The French, who controlled the neighboring islands of Rodrigues and ...
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  • (June 23, 1846 - June 30, 1916) was a French Egyptologist who served as ... a teacher (répétiteur) of Egyptian language and archaeology at the École ...
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  • occasionally used by pirates until the French began to take control of ... The British contested control over the islands with the French between ...
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  • Bornu peoples created a new people and language, the Kanuri. ... Sultanate. It was at this time that the French entered the region, having ...
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  • Loyset Compère (c. 1445 – August 16, 1518) was a French composer ... Prez. Indeed the area around the current French-Belgian border produced an ...
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  • rivers and the Red Bank, Oil, and French creeks. Its tributaries reach ... by Oil Creek at Oil City; from the west by French Creek at Franklin; from the ...
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  • July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870), was a French writer, best known for the ... was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a French General, and of Marie-Louise ...
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  • was given all of the artifacts. He hired a French architect to design and construct ... Arabic, and the Ancient Egyptian writing language of hieroglyphs. The coins ...
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  • written in Russian and translated into French by Bella Chagall; he also wrote articles and poetry in Yiddish, published mainly in newspapers ...
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  • |languages=Egyptian language |fam1=(Proto-writing) |children=Hieratic ... quot; to refer to both the language as a whole and the individual ...
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  • in the Comoro archipelago that remains a French Overseas Territory. Comorian (Shikomor), Arabic, and French. Its name derives from the ...
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  • concepts and expressing them with language. Theories of concepts are ... of symbolic thought (in particular, language) is a prerequisite for conceptual ...
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  • of the specimens. The word peridot comes from the French word for olivine, and chrysolite, from the Greek words for gold and stone. ...
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  • Originally inspired by the French Revolution and the social changes ... the Alps and Italy. He fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, who ...
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  • Maecenas. From that time on, his poetic language was distinguished from that ... This is hardly surprising, however, as French was the language of the Russian ...
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  • ) (April 1, 1929 - July 1, 2023) was a Czech and French writer of ... Kundera wrote in both Czech and French. He revised the French translations ...
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  • Formerly Haute-Volta it was a colony of French West Africa, before becoming ... In 1896, the Mossi kingdom of Ouagadougou became a French protectorate ...
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  • used on maps until the mid-1600s. To the French, the island was known as ... settlement by the English failed, but the French fought and conquered the ...
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  • – September 29, 1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important ... greatest novels ever written in the French language, the novel—an uncompromisingly ...
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  • were rife for the next two centuries. French General Gardanne thought ... and translated the Babylonian writing and language, working independently of ...
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  • that were outcomes of twentieth-century French philosophy. The prefix "post ... 1968, nearly causing the downfall of the French government. At the same time ...
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  • ) (October 9, 1835 – December 16, 1921) was a French composer and ... in order to promote a new and specifically French music. After the fall of ...
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  • Boccaccio's form was mimicked by the French Queen Margerite de Navarre ... In the English language, the earliest well-known example of novella ...
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  • Algiers, and officially from the Arabic language word al-jazā’ir which ... before the arrival of the Arabs and, later, the French. ...
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  • #039;s main colony in Northern Africa. The French, controlled Kairouan until ... Violent resistance to French rule boiled up in 1954. Independence ...
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  • Undaunted, he drafted his own manual in French. His aides often worked late ... When the Continental Army paraded on May 6, 1778, to celebrate the ...
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  • I. Although rooted in the classical French comedy of Jean-Baptiste Molière ... line of the comedy has become part of the language, and proverbs from Griboyedov ...
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  • Christian alliance designed to stop a French conquest of Europe, supported ... James also enjoyed the support of the French King, Louis XIV, who did ...
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  • Local tradition, his intimacy with a number of French ecclesiastics ... Grosseteste wrote a number of early works in Latin and French while ...
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  • #039;s main colony in Northern Africa. The French occupied Tunis from 1881 ... Violent resistance to French rule boiled up in 1954. Independence ...
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  • cities, owing to more than a century of French rule. Dakar is a major transit ... on January 23, 1664, and finally to the French in 1677. Though under continuous ...
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  • had attempted to prevent the German-language border areas that had formerly ... political and military assistance from the French government, as they had an ...
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  • of mathematics, basic sciences, language skills, geography, government ... only publicly funded option would be a French-language school. This requirement ...
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  • (September 4, 1896 - March 4, 1948) was a French playwright, poet, actor, ... art form, and for refusing to join the French Communist Party along with ...
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  • is a presidential republic. It is a former French colony of western-central ... The Teke Kingdom of the interior signed a treaty with the French in ...
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  • Dutch, Spanish, British, German, and French all sailed the coastal region ... the new independent nation of Ghana, and French Togoland became an autonomous ...
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  • been destroyed and rebuilt following the French incursions of 1866, and was ... *French Campaign against Korea, 1866 *Ganghwa Island incident ...
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  • incorporating the Pomeranian War and the French and Indian War which was ... it lost all of its possessions except French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique ...
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  • published in English (translated from the French 1994 publication, Histoire ... Some psychologists suggest irregularities of numerals in a language ...
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  • (April 4, 1846 – November 24, 1870), a French poet whose only works, Les ... De Lautreamont is usually counted as a poète maudit (French: Accursed ...
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  • Shawnee generally joined forces with the French against the British during ... of five divisions which shared a common language and culture. These division ...
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  • Cannes is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes ... years later, when the island was retaken by the French. ...
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  • sole English proponent of the ideas of the French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche ... sole English proponent of the ideas of the French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche ...
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  • and poet. His proficiency in the Greek language (which was rare at the time ... and the position he occupied at the French court. The king having asked ...
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  • Irish, Scottish, and English descent; her French paternal ancestry is distant ... D.C., where she graduated with a degree in French literature. ...
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  • was also influenced by the motet and the French chanson of the Renaissance ... quot; (The War) by Clement Janequin, a French Renaissance composer, followed ...
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  • Order of the Legion of Honour) is a French order established by Napoléon ... The royal orders of the Kings were all abolished after the French ...
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  • a number of technical terms into the French language. He did not agree with ... economy, and reveal his mastery of the French language. Oresme created a number ...
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  • In Norman schools (following the French practice), the habit was to anglicize Latin names by dropping their Latin endings, hence "Virgil." ...
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  • April 7, 1719 in Saint-Yon, Rouen) was a French priest and educational reformer ... reading in Latin, using the vernacular language familiar to young learners ...
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  • The English "cumin" came from the the French "cumin ... quot; has the same meaning as the English language phrase "carrying coals ...
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  • English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French (plus a monthly edition in ... The Vatican has no set official language, it can be changed at any ...
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  • and governments including the British, French, and Polish, had all contemplated ... in France imminent, it was clear that all French colonies would soon come ...
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  • 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist ... him one of the most protean figures in French literature. He left behind ...
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  • The revolt was initially assisted by the French. When French support weakened ... and together they resumed contact with the French court. ...
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  • A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or ... a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of language that has a meaning, even ...
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  • on." The word came into the English language as epigraph, which was used ... same passage of writing in two Egyptian language scripts and in classical ...
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  • operations, which it shared with mostly French private investors. In 1882 ... the First World War, the British and French closed the canal to non-Allied ...
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  • Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Chinese Language, Classics, Computer Science ... Club, Drew Men's Rugby Football Club, French Club, German Club and Drew ...
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  • British forces in North America during the French and Indian War. Lord Amherst ... and Latin, instead focusing on English, French, Spanish, chemistry, economics ...
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  • Following Jewish emancipation after the French Revolution, Jewish communities ... where local words were used (e.g. Juif in French, Jood in Dutch). ...
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  • is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely ... Moscow State University, Russian Language Centre - [http://www.rlcentre ...
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  • of nature. It elevated folk art, language, and custom, as well as ... of the Enlightenment. It drew upon the French Revolution's rejection ...
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  • by an admixture of eighteenth-century French, Spanish, and African cultures ... In the late seventeenth century, French expeditions established a ...
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  • France. He came from a long line of devout French Jews—both his father and ... meant the first of many conflicts with the French academic system, which had ...
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  • Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) was a French ... his aunt and grandmother raised him in the French city of Bayonne where he ...
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  • * Sint Maarten borders the French overseas collectivity of Saint-Martin ... #039;s Day, hence the name). In 1638 French pirates took control of the ...
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  • forces of the recently formed First French Empire against the armies ... Austerlitz, Prussian worries about growing French influence in Central Europe ...
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  • (September 6, 1757 – May 20, 1834) was a French aristocrat and military officer ... a key figure in the early phases of the French Revolution, serving in the ...
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  • or 1681. In 1764–1783 they were under French occupation. After the American ... of all British citizens. Spanish and French forces seized the Turks in ...
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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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  • was later developed by Husserl and French phenomenologist, Maurice ... In his Phenomenology of Perception (first published in French in 1945 ...
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  • the name is probably derived from the Anglo-French gobelin (medieval Latin gobelinus), which is probably a diminutive of Gobel, a name related to ...
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  • Déjà vu (from French, meaning "already seen;" also called ... Jamais vu is a term in psychology (from the French, meaning "never ...
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  • of Edmund Burke's pamphlet on the French Revolution, and A Vindication ... to make girls marriageable and ladylike; French, needlework, music, dancing ...
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  • father was a tradesman, who, during the French occupation, found new prospects ... a book entitled Französische Zustände (French Affairs) and published in ...
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  • Amantis, three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively ... His earliest works were probably ballads in the Anglo-Norman language ...
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  • from a British company and gas from a French one, the city thrived on ... After French engineers established a modern harbor in 1894, and a ...
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  • based on linguistic similarities. The language variations found throughout ... Africa also became a battle ground for French and British forces. In an ...
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  • to speak universally across boundaries of language and culture. ... the inception of the ballet tradition, the French enabled it to blossom. Incorporating ...
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  • when describing monks from East Asia and French Indochina. This term is derived via Portuguese and French from the Japanese word bonsō for a ...
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  • A former French colony, Haiti became the first independent black republic ... good" or "noble" in their language. A system of cacicazgos ...
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  • (“Noo-na-voot” in both English and French) means "our land" ... is the name of the varieties of Inuit language spoken in Canada. It is ...
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  • Trévières – February 16, 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer ... the influence of Dostoyevsky to appear in French literature; the text featured ...
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  • poet to have ever written in the Scots language. Burns, however, was much ... both Robert and his brother Gilbert Latin, French, and mathematics. With all ...
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  • 25,000, many of whom speak the Yaqui language in addition to Spanish and/or ... Mexican military in the war against the French occupation, even participating ...
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  • prisoner at Vaucouleurs, he remained in French captivity for three months ... and social criticism of contemporary French fiction to the conditions ...
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  • ) was a German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic ... Canetti already spoke Ladino (his native language), Bulgarian, English, and ...
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  • started in 1881. Conder borrowed from the French Renaissance style, and used ... The Rokumeikan hosted elaborate banquets, with menus written in French ...
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  • Mars gallicus (1635), a violent attack on French ambitions generally, and ... to the judgment of the faculty. When the French Parliament prevented the ...
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  • Beni Hassan tribe, became the dominant language among the largely nomadic ... of the Senegal River. Educated in the French language and customs, many of ...
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  • The French Pyrenees are also part of the following départements, ... range between the Spanish Pyrenees and French Pyrenees. ...
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  • of Europe, because of the accessibility, language, knowledge and methods that ... practicing and condemning necromancy. The language, execution and format of ...
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  • and languages (he spoke both German and French) and graduated after only three years of study. While at Harvard, Lippmann became a socialist ...
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  • citadel, high structure") via Old French tor, which became Modern ... from a pre-Indo-European Mediterranean language, connected with the Illyrian ...
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  • , as President of Mexico.For resisting the French occupation, overthrowing ... Spain and Britain soon withdrew, but the French Emperor Napoleon III used ...
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  • " a term derived from the French escalope. Traditionally, ... in German Flammkuchen, or, in French, tarte flambée. In Italy, bacon ...
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  • This legal situation lasted until the French conquest of Cologne in 1798. ... === French occupation === French troops occupied Cologne in 1798, and ...
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  • In 1764, Fuseli went to London to work as a translator of French, ... His range of perception was large. He was a thorough master of French ...
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  • awarded the Best Foreign Novel Prize by the French Academy in 1972. *Dagon was the title of a movie in 2002, based on the Lovecraft short story. ...
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  • familiarity with Latin, Greek, Dutch, and French. Interestingly, he gave the ... Williams' career as an author began with A Key into the Language ...
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  • from a vernacular dialect within the French language, meaning "verse ... twentieth centuries, primarily in the French culture. This idea is what ...
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  • Cubans, Dominicans, Ecuadorans, French, Germans, Greeks, Guatemalans ... the Miami area is home to large French, French Canadian, German ...
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  • However, Syriac remains the liturgical language of the Maronite Church. ... Antiochene Rite. Syriac is the liturgical language, instead of Latin which ...
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  • as an early feminist who efficiently used language to convey that women could ... function of sexuality, and that such language was inappropriate for female ...
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  • has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems ... war, art, literature, architecture, and language in the Western world, and ...
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  • youngest is named Beauty (sometimes Belle (French) or Bella (Italian), depending ... A French version of La Belle et la Bête was made in 1946, directed ...
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  • by major events in Europe, including the French Revolution and the Napoleonic ... Pitt sought European alliances to restrict French influence, forming ...
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  • seldom eats fish; the name may originate from the French word fichet, which referred to the pelt of a European polecat. In some regions, the fisher ...
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  • There he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day. As a naturalistic writer, he was among the first English-language ...
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  • ) Renan defined a nation, not by common language or common culture, but by ... and the proclamation of the Second French Republic in France in February ...
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  • the United States, Australia, France, French Guiana, and Canada. Others ... intelligible dialects of the Hmong language, with some differences in ...
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  • Investigator (1897), Ramón y Cajal cites French naturalist and zoologist ... many of which were translated into French and German. Among his most ...
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  • failed to capture Dominica. In 1635 the French claimed the island and sent ... remained; rival expeditions of British and French foresters were harvesting ...
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  • (March 23, 1749 – March 5, 1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer ... procured a letter of introduction to famed French mathematician Jean le Rond ...
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  • Today, the Crow tribe maintain their lifestyle and language on their ... Absaroke), had been mistranslated by early French interpreters as gens des ...
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  • Shoa (1839-1842) marked the beginning of French interest in the African shores ... This growing French interest in the area took place against a backdrop ...
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  • townsmen with their neglect of the Hebrew language. Sometime after his mother’s ... In 1846, the French scholar Solomon Munk discovered among the Hebrew ...
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  • The surviving first part was translated into French by René Basset and published 1897-1901. Richard Pankhurst made a partial translation into English ...
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  • 039;s name derives from a Native American language. Native Americans in the ... meaning "big turtle." The French used a version of the original ...
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  • It may have been derived from the old French word charbon, meaning "charcoal ... age of wood': Fuel and fighting in French forests, 1940–1944.] published ...
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  • The family spoke Russian, English, and French in their household, and Nabokov ... Department, offering courses in Russian language and literature. His classes ...
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  • in Haitian Voodoo, derived from the language of the African slaves who ... dances like the English country dance, French contredanse, and Spanish ...
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  • The French court of the troubadour Duke William IX was an early center ... or a spiritual one, using erotic language allegorically. ...
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  • only the second American pupil of the French realist painter famous as ... as the classical pretensions of the French Academy. By age 24, he developed ...
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  • the priority and autonomy of poetic language in the study of literature. ... JAZyka, Society for the Study of Poetic Language) in Saint Petersburg and ...
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  • Longobards, the Frankish Empire, the French, Austrians, and Spanish, ... the city's name is Milán, similar to the French. ...
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  • The official language is Arabic. English is used widely in commerce and government and among educated people. Arabic and English must be taught ...
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  • dialect of Eastern Abenaki (an Algonquian language) spoken by the Penobscot people. They adopted Christian teachings from the French Jesuits. When the British ...
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  • history. It goes back to the Mycenaean language (an early form of Greek ... References to Copts in the Coptic language are both Greek and Coptic ...
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  • city is also known by an older English-language name, Canton. It is a port ... "Canton" was the convenient Portuguese or French romanization ...
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  • epithets must be in a modern vernacular language to distinguish them from ... Wonder' (post-1959 name, English language) :Pinus densiflora ...
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  • he also translated some stories by the French writer Theophile Gautier ... Democrat. He contributed translations of French authors; original stories ...
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  • beginning of the university. Its primary language of instruction is English ... Délit français is the Daily's French-language counterpart.McGill Foreign ...
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  • ; May 22, 1808 – January 26, 1855) was the pen name of the French ... wife, Étienne took part in the disastrous French invasion of Russia. He was ...
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  • Commedia dell'arte appeal to the masses, without regard for language ... parts of Europe, taking on a significant French influence. ...
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  • main_interests = Language, Epistemology, Ethics, Meaning | ... positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth and Logic (1936) ...
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  • such as James Joyce's playing with language, and the use of stream of ... well schooled in languages, fluent in both French and German, and had some ...
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  • of the first Japanese to study the German language and German philosophy. After ... one of the first Japanese to study German language and German philosophy. ...
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  • French: [ʒiʁɔ̃dɛ̃], or Girondists, were a group of loosely affiliated ... to describe "a loosely knit group of French deputies who contested the ...
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  • The former French colony was a major shipping point for the slave ... island of Gorée next to modern Dakar. A French fort was built at Saint Louis ...
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  • the new. The conquest changed the English language and culture. It also weakened ... William's forces as the result of a French (not Norman) feigned retreat ...
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  • Mystery plays arose early in France, with French being used instead of Latin after 1210. It was performed on a large scale throughout the fifteenth ...
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  • to his native Korean, Ban speaks English, French, German, and Japanese. There ... states that he speaks both English and French, the two working languages ...
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  • 7, 1889 – October 8, 1973) was a French philosopher, playwright, ... served as an editor for Plon, the major French Catholic publisher. Though ...
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  • Logic and philosophy of language were central strands of analytic ... #039;s small but highly influential book, Language, Truth, and Logic can be ...
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  • Zirids from the Petite Kabylie, a faction from the French colonies ... to destroy the corsairs, and British and French fleets repeatedly bombarded ...
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  • where officials worked. The original French meaning of the word bureau was the baize used to cover desks. The Greek suffix kratia or kratos ...
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  • Gazette), and to keep the accent in French-language usage (Montréal). This ... The city is Canada's center for French language television productions ...
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  • divided into four nationes according to language or regional origin. This ... significantly involved in, however, the French higher education system was ...
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  • Empire. Byblos and all of Lebanon was placed under French Mandate from 1920 until 1943, when Lebanon achieved independence. {| |+ |- ...
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  • -whatever I could in either English or French--I came to the conclusion that almost all of them, including my grandfather, were engaged in an ...
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  • began, with illustrations for an English-language textbook. She also began ... 039;s Gazeta Wyborcza. She also translated French literature into Polish, in ...
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  • grandfather in Orléans. He soon learned French and excelled in his studies ... , Atuona, Hiva ‘Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. ...
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  • of a human heart (Herz in German language). This unit was originally ... * French, A. P. Vibrations and Waves. The M.I.T. Introductory Physics ...
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  • (also: Ohrkneifer, "ear pincher"), French perce-oreille, Danish ørentviste, Slovak ucholak (ucho = ear, lak = scare), and Hungarian fülbemászó ...
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  • Bajjah. Sub-Saharan Africa had no written language or sacred writings, so it ... Sub-Saharan Africa did not have a written language or sacred writings to preserve ...
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  • requested protection from Britain against French attack. In 1888, after further ... from the islands, efforts to preserve language and culture are underway ...
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  • the Hundred Years' War (against the French peace of Margaret of Anjou). ... alliance was considered fruitful, with the French alliance lost to Suffolk ...
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  • Philip IV (1268 – November 29, 1314), called the Fair (French: le ... by his contemporaries. His reign marks the French transition from a charismatic ...
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  • vitiate. He moved to England to learn the language and succeeded so well that ... paraphrases from the seventeenth century French poet, Jean de La Fontaine ...
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  • Robert Bresson (September 25, 1901 – December 18, 1999) was a French ... Bresson's original directorial language can be detected through ...
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  • The Manitoba French-language Services Policy of 1999 is intended to ... * Hebert, Raymond M. 2004. Manitoba's French-Language Crisis: ...
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  • in British English developed based on the French aubergine (as derived from ... to Spain. It is often stewed, as in the French ratatouille, the Italian ...
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  • the steel industry, losing their native language and culture and being assimilated ... The name of the Mohawk people in the Mohawk language is Kanien'kehá:ka ...
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  • (or the Malay Archipelago) (Indonesian language: Nusantara). ... established the Dutch East Indies; the French Indochina; and the British ...
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  • He tutored engineering students in French for a semester, and worked ... translated into German (then the leading language for chemistry) by Wilhelm ...
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  • the fae of medieval Western European (Old French) folklore and romance. Even ... The English word "fairy" is derived from the Old French ...
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  • Édouard Manet (January 23 1832 – April 30 1883) was a French, modernist ... and his father, Auguste Manet, was a French judge. His father wanted ...
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  • western arts in particular on many modern French artists such as Claude Monet ... Auguste Dominique Ingres, director of the French Académie de peinture, painted ...
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  • Symbolism was a late nineteenth century art movement of French and ... greatly admired and translated into French, were a significant influence ...
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  • or bouchot technique: pilings, known in French as bouchots, are planted ... Netherlands, where they are consumed with french fries (moules frites). In ...
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  • about 540 B.C.E. According to a French historical account of the ... that he took "Ouija" from the French and German words for yes ...
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  • Latin, Syriac, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Danish and Arabic. ... They speak Soqotri, an unwritten Semitic language related to other Modern ...
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  • Esox is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish, whose members are known as pike, pickerel, and muskellunge, and are characterized by a pronounced ...
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  • Early Spanish or French explorers gave the state its name, which is ... The early Spanish or French explorers of the state gave it its name ...
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  • the English author Thomas More, the French writer Francois Rabelais ... *Vartanian, Aram. Science and Humanism in the French Enlightenment ...
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  • the shorter one called p arm (from the French petit, small) and the longer ... quot; means "cry of the cat" in French, and the condition was so ...
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  • Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 – October 24, 1655) was a French ... he was sent to Paris for the assembly of French clergy, and taught philosophy ...
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  • New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of Canada's ... New Brunswick constitutes part of the historic heartland of the French ...
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  • The first European to discover the Platte was the French explorer ... The Platte lay in a gray area between Spanish and French claims in ...
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  • gained control of the Lake during the French and Indian Wars while the ... and in smaller type "Ondiara." A French map produced in 1712, created ...
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  • part of the great west African empires, a French colony until independence ... In 1883, the region was occupied by French troops, at which time it ...
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  • by factors which define a nation, such as language or common descent. The nation ... dialects and languages into the French language, and also by the means ...
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  • tales known as the Mabinogion. The French writer Chretien de Troyes ... and was translated into Norman French verse by Wace, who introduced ...
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  • dance; this was especially true of French opera for much of its history. ... which matched the contours of the French language. In the eighteenth century ...
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  • As Sokal revealed the hoax, French philosopher Jacques Derrida was ... for the texts we criticize." The French-language list, however, included ...
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  • Malvinas," is derived from the French name "Îles Malouines ... descent. However, a few Islanders are of French, Portuguese, and Scandinavian ...
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  • six more times. The record belongs to a French astronomer, Pierre Lemonnier ... ; his proposal was readily adopted by French astronomers. Prosperin, of ...
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  • International d'Unités" in French, hence "SI") has ... to be used with the units of time of the French Republican Calendar, but ...
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  • and for his strong opposition to the French Revolution in Reflections ... ==Response to the French Revolution== Given his record as a strong ...
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  • was reportedly a keen reader of banned French literature and an avid nonconformist ... read the anti-clerical works of the French Encyclopedic philosophers ...
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  • a collection of short stories in radiant language about the peasant life of ... #039; Innocente, admirably translated into French by Georges Herelle, brought ...
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  • English transliteration, taken from the French "Cambodge," while ... 1863 to 1953, administered as part of the French colony of Indochina. After ...
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  • "Father of the Stenograph." A French version was created by Marc ... a person who is trained in the phonetic language, English punctuation, and ...
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  • By then, he had gained fluency in French, Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, Japanese, and English, in addition to his native Vietnamese. In 1963, he ...
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  • people now live in the United States, French Guiana, France and Australia ... until the 1900s, when they entered into French colonial politics in Indochina. ...
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  • Easter Island, known in the native language as "Rapa Nui" ... James Cook stopped briefly in 1774, and a French admiral and explorer, Comte ...
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