| French Algeria French rule of Algeria lasted from 1830 to 1962, under a variety of governmental systems. One of France's longest-held overseas territories, Algeria became a destination for hundreds of thousands of European immigrants, known as colons who eventually took on the name of pieds-noirs. French_Algeria
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| Ebla Ebla (Arabic: عبيل، إيبلا, modern Tell Mardikh, Syria) was an ancient city about 55 km southwest of Aleppo. It was an important city-state in two periods, first in the late third millennium BC, then again between 1800 and 1650 BC. Ebla
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| Libération Libération (affectionately known as Libé) is a French daily newspaper founded in Paris in 1973 by Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Victor alias Benny Lévy and Serge July in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Broadly speaking, Libérations editorial point of view is currently center-left. Libération
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| Ladislas Starevich Vladislav Starevich (August 8, 1882 - February 26, 1965), born Władysław Starewicz, was a Polish stop-motion animator who used insects and animals as his protagonists. (His name can also be spelled Starevitch, Starewich and Starewitch. Ladislas_Starevich
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| Ornithopter An ornithopter (from Greek ornithos "bird" and pteron "wing") is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings. Designers seek to imitate the flapping-wing flight of birds, bats, and insects. Ornithopter
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| Guevenatten Guevenatten () is a village-street and commune in Alsace, in the Haut-Rhin département in France. Guevenatten
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| Saint Piran's Flag Saint Piran's Flag is the flag of Cornwall. The banner of Saint Piran is a vertical white cross on a black background. Saint_Piran's_Flag
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| Goa trance Talk:Goa_trance
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| Skyclad (band) Skyclad are a British heavy metal band with heavy Folk influences in their music. They are considered one of the inventors of folk metal, the other major influence on the genre being Bathory. Skyclad_(band)
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| Hora (dance) Hora is a type of circle dance originating in the Balkans but now found in a number of countries, most of which use slightly different spellings. The name is cognate to the Greek χορός : 'dance' which is cognate with the ancient Greek art form of χορεία; see Chorea. Hora_(dance)
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| Hexomino A hexomino is a polyomino of order 6, that is, a polygon in the plane made of 6 equal-sized squares connected edge-to-edge. As with other polyominoes, rotations and reflections of a hexomino are not considered to be distinct shapes and with this convention, there are thirty-five different hexominoes. Hexomino
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| Vincent d'Indy Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy (March 27, 1851 – December 2, 1931) was a French composer and teacher. Vincent_d'Indy
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| Żagań | subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship Żagań
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| Milly-la-Forêt Milly-la-Forêt is a town and commune of about 5,000 inhabitants (Milliaçois), in the Essonne département, in France. Milly-la-Forêt
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| Courrières Courrières is a commune and chief town of a canton in the Pas-de-Calais département in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. Courrières
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| Maure A Maure, since 11th Century, is the symbol of an African head. Maure
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| Yeti/Archive 1 Talk:Yeti/Archive_1
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| Catastrophe theory In mathematics, catastrophe theory is a branch of bifurcation theory in the study of dynamical systems; it is also a particular special case of more general singularity theory in geometry. Catastrophe_theory
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| Harpsichord Talk:Harpsichord
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| Laurent Cassegrain Laurent Cassegrain was a Catholic priest born in the region of Chartres around 1629 and died at Chaudon (Eure-et-Loir) on August 31, 1693. At the time of his death he was working as a teacher giving science classes at the Collège de Chartres, a French lycée. Laurent_Cassegrain
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| Lino Ventura Lino Ventura (born Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura) (July 14, 1919 - October 22, 1987), was an Italian actor who starred in French movies. Lino_Ventura
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| History of the Armée de l'Air (1909–1942) The Armée de l'Air (literally, "army of the air") is the name of the French Air Force in its native language. It has borne this name only from August 1933 when it was still under the jurisdiction of the army. History_of_the_Armée_de_l'Air_(1909–1942)
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| Sword dance Sword dances are recorded from throughout world history. There are various traditions of solo and mock battle (Pyrrhic) sword dances from Greece, the Middle East, India, China, Korea, and Japan, while all known linked ("hilt-and-point") sword dances are from Europe. Sword_dance
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| Quasar Talk:Quasar
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| February 26 Incident The , or "2-2-6 incident" Princess Chichibu, The Silver Drum, Global Oriental, 1991, p.127, was an attempted coup d'état in Japan, on 26–29 February 1936, launched by the radical ultranationalist Kōdō-ha faction of the Imperial Japanese Army. February_26_Incident
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| Krak des Chevaliers Talk:Krak_des_Chevaliers
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| Bureau des Longitudes The Bureau des Longitudes is a French scientific institution, founded by decree of June 25 1795 and charged with the improvement of nautical navigation, standardisation of time-keeping, geodesy and astronomical observation. During the 19th century, it was responsible for synchronizing clocks across the world. Bureau_des_Longitudes
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| CSS Alabama CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead, United Kingdom, in 1862 by John Laird Sons and Company. Alabama served as a commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, during which she never laid anchor in a Southern port. CSS_Alabama
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| Gwenc'hlan ---- Gwenc'hlan
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| Ivo of Kermartin Saint Ivo of Kermartin (17 October, 1253 at Kermartin, a manor near Tréguier, Brittany, France - 19 May, 1303 at Louannec, Brittany), also known as Erwann (in Breton) and Yves (in French), Yvo, Ives, or Ivo. He is a saint and patron of lawyers and abandoned children. Ivo_of_Kermartin
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| Etaonish User_talk:Etaonish
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| Venus of Laussel The Venus of Laussel is a Venus figurine, a 1.5 foot high limestone bas-relief of a nude female figure, painted with red ochre, and is approximately 20,000 years old (Aurignacian). Venus_of_Laussel
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| Venus figurines Venus figurines is an umbrella term for a number of prehistoric statuettes of women sharing common attributes (many depicted as apparently obese or pregnant) from the Aurignacian or Gravettian period of the upper Palaeolithic, found from Western Europe to Siberia. These items were carved from soft stone (such as steatite, calcite or limestone), bone or ivory, or formed of clay and fired. Venus_figurines
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| Moons of Saturn Saturn has 60 confirmed moons. Moons_of_Saturn
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| Ramakrishna Mission The Ramakrishna Mission is a philanthropic, volunteer organization founded by Sri Ramakrishna's chief disciple Swami Vivekananda on May 1, 1897. The Mission conducts extensive work in healthcare, disaster relief, rural management, tribal welfare, elementary and higher education and culture through its 114 centers spread across India. Ramakrishna_Mission
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| Jacek Kaczmarski Jacek Kaczmarski (March 22, 1957, Warsaw - Jacek_Kaczmarski
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| Bugis Singapore Bugis
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| Jean Calas Jean Calas (1698 – 1762) was a merchant living in Toulouse, France, famous for having been the victim of a biased trial due to his being a Protestant. In France, he is a symbol of Christian religious intolerance, along with Jean-François de la Barre and Pierre-Paul Sirven. Jean_Calas
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| Gounki Gounki is an abstract strategy game in which pieces can combine and disperse to affect their movement possibilities. Played on an eight-by-eight square grid, the goal is to move one of your own pieces off the opposite end of the board while preventing your opponent from doing the same. Gounki
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| Emiko Shiratori Emiko Shiratori (白鳥 英美子 Shiratori Emiko, born March 16, 1950) is a Japanese singer. She sang in the Sapporo Winter Olympics (1972) and the Nagano Winter Olympics (1998). Emiko_Shiratori
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| François Gonnessiat François Gonnessiat (May 22 1856 (Nurieux-Volognat)–October 18 1934) was a French astronomer. François_Gonnessiat
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| Citadis The Citadis is a low-floor tram built by Alstom in La Rochelle, France, and Barcelona, Spain. 1,140 Citadis are currently in use in 28 cities , among others: Bordeaux, Lyon, Montpellier, Orléans, the Paris area, and Barcelona, Dublin, Gdańsk, Katowice, Melbourne and Rotterdam outside France. Citadis
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| Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (July 29, 1765-January 25, 1844) was a marshal of France and a soldier in Napoleon's Army. D'Erlon notably commanded the I Corps of the Armée du Nord at the battle of Waterloo. Jean-Baptiste_Drouet,_Comte_d'Erlon
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| History of Formula One Formula One has its roots in the European Grand Prix motor racing (q.v. History_of_Formula_One
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| Paul Diel Paul Diel (July 11, 1893 - January 5, 1972) was a French psychologist of Austrian origin who developed the method of introspective analysis and the psychology of motivation. Paul_Diel
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| Pgreenfinch User:Pgreenfinch
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| Reux Reux is a commune in the département of Calvados in the Basse-Normandie region of France. Its postal code is 14130. Reux
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| Mâcon Mâcon is a commune of France, préfecture (capital) of the Saône-et-Loire département, in the Bourgogne région. Mâcon
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| Hán tự Hán tự (; [meaning "Chinese character]") or chữ Nho ([[Viet|; [literally "script of Confucian scholars") is the Vietnamese] term for [[Chinese characters, which was used to write classical Chinese, in contrast to chữ Nôm, which was used to write the Vietnamese language. Hán_tự
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| Kampilan The kampilan is a long sword widely used in the pre-conquest Philippine Archipelago and still in use by many Filipino Muslims today, especially by the Maguindanao and Maranao moros. The term "kampilan" is known all over the archipelago, but it describes various types of swords. Kampilan
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