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• Directory:ÃŽle-de-France
  ...is still popularly referred to by French people as the Région Parisienne ("Paris Region") or RP.
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• Directory:France
  ...hannel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. French people often refer to Metropolitan France as L'Hexagone (The "Hexagon") because of ...ance has played an important role for centuries as a cultural center, with Paris as a world center of high culture.
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• January 18
  ...wis and Clark expedition. Jefferson officially asked for $2,500 in funding from Congress, though some sources indicate the expedition ultimately cost close * 1919, the Paris Peace Conference, held to negotiate peace treaties ending World War I, open
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• Holdfast Gaines
  :''Significant content that contributed to this summary came from the [http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA436396&Location=U2&doc=GetT ...eek]] messenger [[Phidippides]], who in just a few hours ran over 25 miles from the battle site of Marathon to [[Directory:Athens, Greece|Athens]], to spit
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• Directory:Vocalcom
  | location = [[Directory:Paris, France|Paris]], [[Directory:France|France]] | contact = [[Address:=7, Rue Tilsitt]]<br>Paris, [[Zip:=75017]]<br>[[Phone:=33155373555]]<br>[[Web:=www.vocalcom.com|[http:
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• Directory:Francine Neago
  ...tal for 10 years, and pioneered a number of relief projects for Indonesian people. In 1977 she lived for six months inside a cage at the Singapore [http://en ...ngle jungle] of Costa Rica [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa Rica], and from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996 1996] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1
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• January 25
  * 1919, in Paris, delegates to the peace conference formally approve the establishment of a ...fornia|California]] of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate
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• William of Sherwood
  ...reswood, Shireswood) (c1190 &ndash; c. 1266), was a [[medieval]] [[English people|English]] [[logician]] and teacher. ...]] in 1252, and that he was treasurer of [[Lincoln, Lincolnshire|Lincoln]] from 1254/8 onwards, and a [[rector]] of [[Aylesbury]].
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• Walter Burley
  ...ris]] from before 1310, and by c.1320 he was a [[doctor of theology]] at [[Paris]]. He was a fellow of the [[Sorbonne]] by 1324. After studying [[William * Weijers, Olga: Le travail intellectuel à la faculté des arts de Paris. Textes et maîtres (ca. 1200-1500), III, Turnhout (Brepols) 1998 [Studia A
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• Directory:Kingdom Bound
  ...estival]] that began in [[1986]]. It usually attracts approximately 70,000 people, and is one of the largest and longest-running events of its kind in the wo ...s at Kingdom Bound 1987 included [[Mylon LeFevre & Broken Heart]], [[Twila Paris]], [[Steve Taylor]], [[White Heart]], and [[Randy Stonehill]].
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• Slogan
  Slogans vary from the written and the visual to the chanted and the vulgar. Often their simpl The word "slogan" comes from ''sluagh-ghairm'' (pronounced ''slogorm''), which is Scottish Gaelic for "b
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• New Year's Eve
  |observedby=people around the world New Year's Eve is a separate observance from the observance of [[New Year's Day]]. In 21st-century [[Western culture|Wes
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• Directory:Justin G. Godfrey
  ...h he coined "LACS." Justin has performed at Cite International Threatre in Paris, France.<ref>{{Cite news ...at age 7. Once Justin moved to the U.S., he continued taking piano lessons from a Russian music teacher (who influenced his later style) and also at the [[
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• Directory:Musik Fabrik Music Publishing/Il etait un petit navire
  ...a production at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées was announced in “Le Cri de Paris”. This production did not take place, and finally the work was première ...th of three acts. According to the manuscript of the piano/vocal score in Paris Opera Library, the expanded version was finished in December 1948, just six
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• Air Midwest Flight 5481
  ...ht 5481''' operating as '''US Airways Express Flight 5481''', was a flight from [[Charlotte/Douglas International Airport]] in [[Charlotte, North Carolina| ...e on the flight because the Beech 1900D aircraft, with 19 seats, is exempt from US Federal regulations requiring a flight attendant. Operating without a f
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• Directory:Vietnam/Vietnam Historical Background
  independence, lasting from the late tenth century until the second half of the nineteenth century, Chi Minh's communist government ruling the North from Hanoi and Ngo Dinh Diem's regime,
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• Charles Allan "Lanny" Lutz
  ...eering in both churches for years. Lanny got his love of France and French from his mother, who had lived in France as a high society young woman. ...he Sorbonne, a study terminated prematurely by the 1929 stock market crash from which the family suffered significant losses.
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• Directory:Mississippi
  ...sissippi. This led to the French and Indian War (1754-1763). The Treaty of Paris, signed after the war, gave England all the land east of the Mississippi Ri ...egained possession of Florida and occupied Natchez. In 1783, the Treaty of Paris made the 31st parallel as the northern boundary between Spanish Florida and
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• Participatory grantmaking - Wikipedia
  ...s that the funding body is not making decisions without some participation from those affected by the programmatic work the grant is funding. ...luding grantee programmatic staff and volunteers, to including individuals from the affected communities, or even (rarely) the general public (by making th
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• Directory:Ohio
  ...Ohio was part of the vast area ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and became part of the Old Northwest by the Ordinance of 1787. It b === From the Settlement of the Old Northwest to Statehood ===
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