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  • in producing the UDHR, Cassin worked in France on behalf of disabled war ... BoCassin was born in Bayonne, in the south of France, into a family ...
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  • The Treaty of Brussels was signed by the United Kingdom, France, Belgium ... Rapid Force) creation was made by France, Italy, Spain and Portugal ...
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  • Louis Havas and later known as Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Bernhard ... Havas' news agency, the future Agence France-Presse. ...
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  • * Dependent territories, including the overseas departments of France ... |Mayotte (overseas territory of France)||Mamoudzou |- |Morocco||Rabat ...
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  • representing 3.5 million voters. In France, 10 percent of the electorate ... section is the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire of France. ...
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  • File'. The World Heritage Centre offers advice and help in ... sites; followed by China with 57, then France and Germany with 52 each ...
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  • in both religious and political affairs in France. However, with the French ... to language or regional origin, those of France, Normandy, Picard, and England ...
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  • Jules G. Verne was born in Nantes, France, to Pierre Verne, an attorney ... successful of these include: Voyage au centre de la terre (Journey to the ...
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  • Denmark and other countries, like England, France, Germany and the Netherlands ... The Schoole of Musicke. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche ...
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  • around the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in northeast France. ... of the bloodiest in World War I. In both France and Germany, it has come ...
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  • turn towards reliance on nuclear power as France's main energy source ... great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses ...
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  • the European colonial powers of Portugal, France, England, Prussia/Germany ... company. By 1763, the British had expelled France from the West African coast ...
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  • Alain Robbe-Grillet was born in Brest (Finistère, France) into a ... . In addition Robbe-Grillet also led the Centre for Sociology of Literature ...
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  • *[http://www.open.ac.uk/about/inclusion-and-curriculum/ Centre for ... *The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance *[http://crc ...
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  • (the name was not generally popular; in France, where reference to the English ... March 13, 2008. a street in Paris, France bears his name. ...
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  • between Bruges (in Flanders), Cologne, and France. English wool, French wines ... his sisters, Eleanor of Austria, Queen of France and Mary of Hungary. The ...
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  • in Denguin, (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) in France, where his grandfather was ... the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France (held before him by Raymond ...
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  • He was born Harry Sinclair Lewis in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, in 1885 ... killed by a sniper in Piedmont Valley, France (near Alsace-Lorraine) during ...
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  • of the Council of Europe is in Strasbourg, France and English and French are ... that day by ten states: Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg ...
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  • Saintes. Some months later, he returned to France, published a Mémoire justificatif ... Fort Royal with the reinforcements from France in April. ...
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  • animals and the third largest garden in France, containing many rare and ... 1, 1580, in the Castle of Belgentier, Var, France, where his father, a wealthy ...
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  • from World War I. Soon after arriving from France, Marcel Duchamp and Francis ... Dada retrospective was held in Paris, France. In 2006, the Museum of Modern ...
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  • with the help of donations from all over France, began almost immediately ... of extremely high vaults, the highest in France at the time of construction ...
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  • also joined the faculty of the College of France. In 1811, he published the ... seven years later he was made a peer of France, not for political reasons ...
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  • *Les Quatre Cents Coups (France - 1959) *The Night of the Hunter (KUS ... programs. In recent years the Conservation Centre has completed a number of ...
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  • operated from Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport in France by the company Novespace, while the aircraft is operated by the Centre d'essais en Vol (CEV - ...
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  • of Eric Liddell from the Eric Liddell Centre website. [http://www.eric ... early in a 400-meter race in a Scotland-France dual meet and made up a 20 ...
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  • Australia, Canada, England, Fiji, France, Ireland, New Zealand, Romania ... the game being in New Zealand in 1891 and France ten years later. In the past ...
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  • and Antonio da Canale in support. The Centre Division consisted of 62 ... Bey, 61 galleys and 32 galliots in the Centre under Ali Pasha in the Sultana ...
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  • in the Languedoc region of southwestern France. It is known internationally ... The story achieved national fame in France, and was then enhanced and ...
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  • from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; and to France, where she received the Médaille de la Chancellerie des universités de Paris, La Sorbonne ...
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  • hopes for a quick victory came to an end. France suffered over 30,000 casualties ... year had been a year of success for France and her allies, most particularly ...
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  • *Bibliothèque nationale de France *National and University Library ... by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the National Library ...
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  • another front in the war against Louis XIV of France. He had formerly been a Marshal of France, but had been expelled in ...
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  • Dutch and the Netherlands was probably the centre of production, as with most ... printed in both Switzerland, at Basel, and France, at Lyon, which used the ...
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  • activity from the Soufriere Volcanic Centre (SVC). This SVC, centred ... and geochemistry of the Soufriere Volcanic Centre, Saint Lucia with implications ...
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  • now The Lighthouse - Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design ... and design and moved to the south of France with Margaret where he concentrated ...
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  • the birds through force-feeding. Today, France is by far the largest producer ... are a specialty of the southwest of France (Toulouse, Dordogne, etc ...
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  • Montparnasse and in 1920 moved to Paris, France. There, under the influence ... in Saint-Paul-en-Forêt, France, which was completed in 1964. ...
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  • a deciding moment in the conflict between France and Britain over the fate ... In the wake of the battle, France's remaining military force ...
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  • an important telecommunications hub, and a centre of tourism in Toronto. Toronto ... venues include the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, ...
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  • Earth, or at its closest, the equation of the centre (measure of how far a planet is from the position it is to be predicted to be in by assuming it ...
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  • by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and the United Kingdom is ... Charles de Gaulle's presidency of France from 1958 onward. De Gaulle ...
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  • with the first Island Conservation Centre opened at Alphonse Atoll ... James Mancham, replacing him with France Albert René. The 1979 constitution ...
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  • set off for Europe on the Grand Tour of France and Italy, studying classical ... Adam: His Interiors. London: Paul Mellon Centre BA, 2001. ISBN 0-300-08129-4 ...
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  • The family emigrated from Poland to France in 1936 when he was 11 ... II, when his family then moved to Tulle, France. He was helped by Rabbi David ...
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  • In the spring of 1881, France invaded Tunisia, claiming that Tunisian ... rule boiled up in 1954. Independence from France was achieved on March 20 ...
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  • George Steiner was born in 1929 in Paris, France to Jewish Viennese ... had moved his family from Austria to France to escape the growing threat ...
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  • 1976, after the victory of Viet Minh over France in the battle of Dien Bien ... jpg|left|thumb|Hoàn Kiếm Lake in the centre of Hanoi, with the streets ...
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  • Federation, which gained independence from France on June 20, 1960. Senegal ... the nations of Hungary, Austria, Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, Mauritania ...
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  • and others from the United States, Canada, France, South Africa, United Kingdom ... Stadium, Al-Arabi Stadium, Hamad Aquatic Centre, Khalifa International Stadium ...
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  • established an air service with mainland France and rounded up British servicemen ... Islands on the scale of that in mainland France. This has been ascribed to ...
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  • best for Paris would be best for all of France, while the Girondins generally ... King Louis XVI after his attempt to flee France on June 20, 1791. Some of ...
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  • fiercely opposed to this development. In France, this was represented by ... #039;s of Russia; Zimmerwald Left Wing of France; the Czech, Bulgarian, Yugoslav ...
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  • In the late eighteenth century, Louis XVI of France charged a group ... specific object that is kept in a vault in France. However, there are efforts ...
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  • Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, ... had made it one of the principal cities of France by the tenth century, endowed ...
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  • Early in the eighteenth century, a technique developed in Limoges ... and the area rapidly became Japan’s main centre of cloisonné production ...
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  • | Brittany, France | March 16, 1978 | 223,000 | |- | Amoco Haven tanker ... * [http://www.cedre.fr/index_gb.html www.cedre.fr Centre of Documentation ...
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  • * New Caledonia – Collectivity of France * Papua New Guinea – Commonwealth ... * French Polynesia – "Overseas country" of France ...
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  • western peninsula (Armorica) of Gaul (France), forming what is now Brittany ... to settle in England. An important Viking centre was York, called Jorvik by ...
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  • called "crèches," appeared in France about 1840, mainly as a charitable means of caring for the infants of working class women. The ...
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  • Over the next three months, with help from France, the military and Interahamwe ... [[Image:Kigali Memorial Centre 7.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Entrance to ...
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  • such as L'Equipe in France, La Gazzetta dello Sport ... In France, L'Auto, the predecessor of L'Equipe, had already ...
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  • in the world along with the AP, Agence France-Presse, and UPI. Reuters ... Havas' news agency, the future Agence France Presse. Reuter noticed that ...
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  • cobbler). In the nineteenth century, in France, arcades were invented, which ... 250 px|The Mall, an out-of-town shopping centre at Patchway, near Bristol ...
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  • At this time, Rome was the religious centre of western Europe, and Paris ... (named after a monastery in south-central France, which contains the best ...
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  • France's major department stores are Galeries Lafayette and le ... Dublin city center site within the Jervis Centre. The opening of the Dundrum ...
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  • The Historic Centre of Lima was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site ... in 1821. Located in the Historic Centre of Lima, it is surrounded ...
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  • recoil at the execution of Louis XVI of France. He urged a neutral foreign ... during his year abroad in 1825 in Paris, France and at the University of ...
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  • the Netherlands was repeatedly occupied by France, and Great Britain moved ... of the Netherlands, Germany, and France, is most visible in Constantia ...
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  • **UNESCO-CEPES, the European Centre for Higher Education, established ... * 1st General Conference (Paris, 1946) - chaired by Léon Blum (France) ...
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  • The German peace delegation in France signed the Treaty of Versailles ... great political movements, the SPD, KPD, Centre, and the Nazis were in opposition ...
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  • independent coprincipality of Spain and France, it is located on the south ... Muslim Moors from advancing into Christian France. A strong affinity with Spain ...
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  • island in 1497. The island was claimed for France in 1603, by Samuel de Champlain ... Great Britain obtained the island from France under the terms of the ...
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  • business and residents back into city centre areas. It differs from the ... areas often involve ideas of downtown/city centre as an art and cultural hub ...
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  • were revived in the seventeenth century in France by the Daughters of Charity ... as the word hospice was already used in France to refer to nursing homes ...
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  • great centres of population in England, France and Spain. ... The church forms the nucleus, as the centre of the religious life of ...
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  • UNESCO World Heritage Centre, [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/956 Island ... *UNESCO World Heritage Centre. [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/956 ...
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  • short-term positions at institutes in France, Romania and Egypt. During ... chairing various faculty positions around France, and continuing to produce ...
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  • * Whitby Mental Health Centre. 2007. [http://www.whitbymentalhealthcentre.ca/newsOct15.htm New study demonstrates treatment of anxiety disorders ...
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  • year. On a day which has an equinox, the centre of the Sun will spend a nearly ... day of the "Republican Era" in France. The start of every year ...
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  • to improve transport and communication in France, its country of origin, as ... In 1899, sales hit 300; all of France only saw 1200 cars sold. ...
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  • seen an influx of Jewish immigrants from France and Argentina. Ashdod also ... asp?id=217 Ashdod Museum of Art - Monart Centre] is a newly opened performing ...
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  • to the French, and welcomed Napoleon I of France's troops when they arrived ... King and Inspector-General of Singing in France, to which was attached the ...
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  • controlled by Spain), and Huguenots from France who were persecuted for their ... controlled by Spain), and Huguenots from France (persecuted for their religion ...
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  • of the Napoleonic Wars, when Spain was an ally of France. ... Northern Italian speakers and some from France, Germany, and other European ...
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  • individually owned catamarans are built in France, South Africa, and Australia. ... if they don't have dagger boards or centre boards. All sailboats must ...
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  • and was a correspondent for The Times in France. In 1915, he published his ... She used Rideau Hall as a distribution centre for 40,000 books, which were ...
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  • No" of refusal, comes to the "Centre of Indifference," and ... and urges that inspired the events in France seemed powerfully relevant ...
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  • the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre of New Zealand of which he ... Hotel, the Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre and Alpine Guides, proposed ...
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  • of the labor movement in Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands ... In 1895, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) in France ...
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  • German states weakened both Austria-Hungary and France. ... he held it against a coalition of Austria, France, and Russia. Voltaire, a ...
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  • of borders, the remaining 103 are shared with France, with the Départment ... Louis XIV's persecution of Protestants in France. The eighteenth ...
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  • 55 just before Germany overtook his native France in World War I. ... Claude Debussy was born in St Germain-en-Laye near Paris, France. ...
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  • upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during ... governance, and in the following century, France would be governed variously ...
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  • or Selanik), which became the main Jewish centre of the empire. The Greeks ... no position to resist the will of Britain, France and Russia, who were largely ...
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  • in 2006), the United States, Italy, France, New Zealand, Mexico, Nicaragua ... district heating system in Chaudes-Aigues, France, has been operating since ...
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  • [[Image:AlfonsoVIII.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Alfonso VIII, centre, and ... 1188 – November 26, 1252), married Louis VIII of France ...
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  • Alexander (Aleksandr) II Nikolaevitch (Russian: Александр II Николаевич) (April 17, 1818 – March 13, 1881) was the tsar ...
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  • *UNESCO World Heritage Centre. [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/516 Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)] Retrieved July 7, 2019. ...
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