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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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• Directory:Article Heaven/Synergology
  The word « synergology » is taken from the Greek « syn », « ergon » and « logo » meaning the idea of « toge ...red the fact that inter-personal communication is part of a unit. When two people communicate there is a common area of speech. We no longer think in terms o
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• Directory:Minnesota
  ...h century, the area became part of the United States through the Treaty of Paris (1783) and the Louisiana Purchase (1803). St. Paul is the capital and Minne ...ves Louisiana Territory (includes Minnesota west of the Mississippi River) from France in compensation for its loss of Florida during the Seven Years War.
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• Directory:Akahele/In the eye of the beholder
  ...p://www.kirilove.com Vic Kirilove] is the latest enigma to come out of the Paris Art scene. Arriving unannounced at prestigious art galleries and openings ...where the fake camera is actually a real camera recording the events that people are creating for the "performance".
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• Directory:The Walt Disney Company
  ...rightful legal owners, or removed as other Directory listings are authored from scratch and can serve as basic demonstration examples. If you wish to edit *1977: [[Roy Edward Disney]], son of Roy and nephew of Walt, resigns from the company citing a decline in overall product quality and issues with man
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• Chess
  ...summary has been compiled basing on the <br>fair use of snippets extracted from original articles, found through the <br>Google web search.</small></td></t
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• Directory:Kentucky
  ...made the first permanent settlement in the area in 1775. By the Treaty of Paris (1783) the territory became part of the United States. Frankfort is the cap ...e stone and wooden hunting tools. Archaic people grew squash, and Woodland people expanded by growing corn and beans. The development of pottery in the Woodl
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• Directory:Logic Museum/Nullo homine (1230-50)
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• Directory:Sweden
  | valign="middle" bgcolor="#cccccc" | '''People''' | <div align="right">HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:</div>
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• Employment
  ...realist-influenced events of [[May 1968]] the walls of the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] were covered with anti-work graffiti. .... The [[Online Etymology Dictionary]] explains that the origin of "job" is from the obsolete phrase "jobbe of work" in the sense of "piece of work", and mo
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• Directory:Thomas Zeumer
  ...], [[Germany]]. After receiving his Abitur, he then attended and graduated from the <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.modeaparis.com/va/ecoles/index.htm ...Joop!]] lines as well as licensing their labels, which were sold directly from the showroom to many upscale clients. One year later he joined the famous G
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• Directory:Zachary Taylor
  ...to have been born after the end of the Revolutionary War and the Treaty of Paris. This makes him the first President born to the undisputed, self-governed A ...riff of 1842]] were vain. There would never again be surplus federal funds from public land sales to distribute to the states, and internal improvements "w
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• Directory:Finland
  ...In the subsequent half century, the Finns made a remarkable transformation from a farm/forest economy to a diversified modern industrial economy; per capit ...manufacturing and power plants contributing to acid rain; water pollution from industrial wastes, agricultural chemicals; habitat loss threatens wildlife
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• Directory:Jon Faddis
  From 1992 to 2002, Faddis led the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band (CHJB) at [[Carnegie H ...llespie Alumni All-Stars and the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars Big Band from their inception through 2004, when he was appointed artistic director of th
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• Directory:Plot of Les Miserables
  ...ested. In this state of mind, he encounters a young boy and steals 40 sous from him, without realising it before finding the coin under his foot. He's unab ...oung working women and their student boyfriends are enjoying themselves in Paris. They are all experienced in love, accustomed to brief affairs. The except
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• Nobel Prize
  The '''Nobel Prizes''' are [[prize]]s awarded annually to people (and, in the case of the [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace Prize]], sometimes to or ...ver a year before he died. He signed it at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in [[Paris]] on [[November 27]], [[1895]]. Nobel's work had directly involved the crea
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• Cybernetics
  ...with the study of sociotechnical systems. The term ''cybernetics'' stems from the Greek &#922;&#965;&#946;&#949;&#961;&#957;&#942;&#964;&#951;&#962; (''k ...governance of people. The words govern and [[governor]] are also derived from the same Greek root.
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• Directory:Norway
  ...ests and adversely affecting lakes, threatening fish stocks; air pollution from vehicle emissions | valign="middle" bgcolor="#cccccc" | '''People'''
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• Directory:Cuba
  ...a during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The country is now slowly recovering from a severe economic downturn in 1990, following the withdrawal of former Sovi | bgcolor="#ffffff" | the east coast is subject to hurricanes from August to November (in general, the country averages about one hurricane ev
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• Directory:Missouri
  ...d as the 24th state in [[Year Admitted:=1821|1821]]. Under Spanish control from 1762 to 1800, the area passed to the United States through the Louisiana Pu ...French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet were the first white people to see the Missouri River in 1673, followed by Robert Cavelier, sieur de La
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• Directory:Illinois
  ...Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. They traveled the length of the state -- from what is now Chicago to the southernmost reaches of Illinois. ...dian Wars in 1763 at the close of the French and Indian War, the Treaty of Paris ceded to England all lands France had claimed east of the Mississippi River
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• Directory:Netherlands
  | bgcolor="#ffffff" | The Dutch United Provinces declared their independence from Spain in 1579; during the 17th century, they became a leading seafaring and ...ic compounds, and nutrients such as nitrates and phosphates; air pollution from vehicles and refining activities; acid rain
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• American Airlines Flight 191
  ...h 271 passengers and crew onboard, all of whom were killed, along with two people on the ground.<ref name="ntsb">{{cite web |url=http://amelia.db.erau.edu/re Aboard were 271 people, including flight and cabin crews. Among the passengers were a number of Ch
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• Directory:OmniMediaGroup/PLR/NYSE
  ...entrenched and the Internet and basic computer usage a fact of life, many people are taking a look at how computers are changing the workplace. Where most e ...inous move by many specialists who work at the exchange. Grasso, while far from an ideal leader, was famous for trying to keep the individual traders emplo
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• Whenwewerecasuals
  ...g the Bjorn Borg styles. Fila Vintage painstakingly recreates these styles from the archives, producing a truly authentic retro collection. We welcome you ...imilated into British youth culture when a whole generation of young men - from mods and skins to the Jamaican ‘Stickmen’ – created regional fashion
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• Directory:Logic Museum/sandbox
  ...vourite topic of the <i>modistae</i>, and whether ‘there is a man’ follows from ‘there is a dead man’, another favoured topic. This is one of a series Other texts from the late thirteenth century include work by Duns Scotus (<b>link to follow<
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• Directory:William McKinley
  ...1812 RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: McKinley Family].</ref> He graduated from Poland Academy and attended [[Allegheny College]] for one term in 1860, whe ...racticed law in Canton, and served as prosecuting attorney of Stark County from 1869 to 1871. He first became active in the Republican party when he made "
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• Directory:Iraq
  == People == * Independence: On October 3, 1932, Iraq gained independence from the League of Nations Mandate under British Administration. On June 28, 200
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• Directory:William Howard Taft
  ...election, 1912|1912]] that forced Roosevelt out of the GOP and left Taft's people in charge for decades. William Howard Taft remains the only U.S. President ...of War [[Elihu Root]] replied, "How's the horse?" In 1878, Taft graduated from Yale, ranking second in his class out of 121.<ref>[http://www.arlingtonceme
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• Tony Curtis
  ...He acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. In his later years, Curtis made numerous tel ...] (now [[Michalovce]], [[Slovakia]]); she later said she arrived in the US from Válykó (now Vaľkovo, [[Slovakia]]).<ref>[http://www.slovenskecentrum.sk/
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• Directory:Maine
  ...were descendants of Ice Age hunters. Little is known of these "Red Paint" people - so named because of the red clay with which they lined the graves of thei ...ons, the Micmacs of eastern Maine and New Brunswick were largely a warlike people, while the more numerous Abnakis (or Wabanakis) were a peaceful nation, giv
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