| Arc de Triomphe The Arc de Triomphe is a historical treasure in Paris, France that stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle, also known as the Place de l'Étoile (Star Square). It is at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. Arc_de_Triomphe
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| BSD licenses | OSI approved = Yes BSD_licenses
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| Dumnonii The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a Celtic tribe who inhabited the farther parts of the South West peninsula of Britain, during the Iron Age and the early Roman period. Dumnonii
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| Évariste Galois |birth_place = Bourg-la-Reine, France Évariste_Galois
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| Erdoğan Atalay Erdoğan Atalay (born on September 22 1966 in Hanover, Germany) is a Turkish-German actor. After making his first appearance as a minor actor in "Aladdin and the miracle lamp" at the National Theatre of Hanover, he took part in several television series such as Music Groschenweise, Employment for Lohbeck, Double Employment and The Guard. Erdoğan_Atalay
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| Finance Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses, and organizations raise, allocate, and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. The term "finance" may thus incorporate any of the following: Finance
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| Gustave Flaubert | birth_place = Rouen, France Gustave_Flaubert
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| Gross domestic product The gross domestic product, or GDP, of a country is one of the ways of measuring the size of its economy. GDP is defined as the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a given country in a given period of time (usually a calendar year). Gross_domestic_product
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| Hebrew grammar Hebrew grammar is partly analytical, expressing such forms as dative, ablative, and accusative using prepositional particles rather than morphological cases. However, inflection plays a decisive role in the formation of the verbs, the declension of prepositions (i. Hebrew_grammar
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| Joan of Arc |feast_day=May 30 Joan_of_Arc
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| Logical fallacy Talk:Logical_fallacy
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| Milgram experiment The Milgram experiment was a series of seminal social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Full-text PDF. Milgram_experiment
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| Mouse gesture In computing, a mouse gesture is a way of combining computer mouse movements and clicks which the software recognizes as a specific command. Mouse gestures can provide quick access to common functions of a program. Mouse_gesture
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| O Canada Talk:O_Canada
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| Transport in Réunion This article concerns the modes of transport in Réunion. Réunion possesses a network of highways, which cover a total distance of 2,784km. Transport_in_Réunion
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| Roman road The Roman roads were essential for the growth of the Roman Empire, by enabling the Romans to move armies. At its peak, the Roman road system spanned 53,819 miles (85,004 km) and contained about 372 links. Roman_road
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| Rumors about the September 11, 2001 attacks Talk:Rumors_about_the_September_11,_2001_attacks
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| Strasbourg |region= Alsace Strasbourg
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| Zeno's paradoxes Talk:Zeno's_paradoxes
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| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea () is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870. It is about the fictional Captain Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus, as seen by one of his passengers, Professor Pierre Aronnax. Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Sea
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| Brachiopod Brachiopods (from Latin bracchium, arm + New Latin -poda, foot) are a small phylum of benthic invertebrates. Also known as lamp shells (or lampshells), "brachs" or Brachiopoda, they are sessile, two-shelled, marine animals with an external morphology superficially resembling pelecypods (for instance, clams) of phylum Mollusca to which they are not closely related. Brachiopod
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| Georges Perec Georges Perec (7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a highly-regarded French Jewish novelist, filmmaker and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. Georges_Perec
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| Cîteaux Abbey Cîteaux Abbey (French: abbaye de Cîteaux) is a Catholic abbey located in Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux, south of Dijon, France. Today it belongs to the Order of the Trappists, the Cistercians of the Strict Observance; the Cistercian order takes its name from this mother house of Cisteaux, near Nuits-Saint-Georges. Cîteaux_Abbey
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| Carthusian The Carthusian Order, also called the Order of St. Bruno, is a Roman Catholic religious order of enclosed monastics. Carthusian
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| Wavelet A wavelet is a kind of mathematical function used to divide a given function or continuous-time signal into different frequency components and study each component with a resolution that matches its scale. A wavelet transform is the representation of a function by wavelets. Wavelet
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| Joan Baez |Died = Joan_Baez
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| Vichy |alt moy=249 m Vichy
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| Vauban Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban and later Marquis de Vauban (May 15, 1633–March 30, 1707), commonly referred to as Vauban, was a Marshal of France and the foremost military engineer of his age, famed for his skill in both designing fortifications and in breaking through them. He also advised Louis XIV on how to consolidate France's borders, to make them more defensible. Vauban
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| Life: A User's Manual Life: A User's Manual (the original title is La Vie mode d'emploi) is Georges Perec's most famous novel, published in 1978, first translated into English by David Bellos in 1988. Its title page describes it as "novels", in the plural, the reasons for which become apparent on reading. Some critics have cited the work as an example of postmodern fiction, though Perec himself preferred to avoid labels and his only long term affiliation with any movement was with the Oulipo or OUvroir de LIttérature POtentielle. Life:_A_User's_Manual
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| Fats Waller | Died = Fats_Waller
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| Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (, anglicised ) (French for 'new art') is an international style of art, architecture and design that peaked in popularity at the turn of the 20th century (1890―1905)Sterner, Gabriele. Art Nouveau. Art_Nouveau
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| Lingala language Lingala is a Bantu language spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) and a large part of the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), as well as to some degree in Angola and the Central African Republic. It has over 10 million speakers. Lingala_language
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| Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák (, often anglicized DVOR-zhak; September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of his native Bohemia and Moravia in symphonic, oratorial, chamber and operatic works. Antonín_Dvořák
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| XBasic XBasic is a variant of the BASIC programming language that was developed in the late 1980s for the Motorola 88000 CPU and Unix by Max Reason. In the early 1990s it was ported to Windows and Linux, and since 1999 it has been available as open source software with its runtime library under the LGPL license. XBasic
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| Réunion Réunion (French: Réunion or formally La Réunion; previously Île Bourbon), is an island located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 km (130 miles) south west of Mauritius, the nearest island. Réunion
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| Passe-dix Passe-dix, also called passage in English, is a game of chance using dice. It was described by Charles Cotton in The Compleat Gamester (1674) thus: Passe-dix
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| Napoleon (coin) The Napoleon is the colloquial term for a former French gold coin. The coins were minted (at various times) in denominations of 5, 10, 20, 40, 50 and 100francs. Napoleon_(coin)
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| Heraldry Talk:Heraldry
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| Lady Ottoline Morrell The Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (June 16, 1873 – April 21, 1938) was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers such as Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. Lady_Ottoline_Morrell
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| Free French Forces The Free French Forces (, FFL) were French fighters in World War II, who decided to continue fighting against Axis forces after the surrender of France and subsequent German occupation. Gaullist mythology claimed they had responded to General Charles de Gaulle's Appeal of 18 June in 1940, but historians later showed that the call had been heard by a small group of people. Free_French_Forces
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| Battle of New Orleans The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815, and was the final major battle of the War of 1812.Also known as the "Battle of Chalmette Plantation". Battle_of_New_Orleans
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| Psychedelic trance Psychedelic trance or psytrance is a form of electronic music that evolved from Goa trance in the early 1990s when it first began hitting the mainstream. Psychedelic_trance
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| Lifespring |origins = Lifespring
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| Captain Nemo Captain Nemo is a fictional character featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874). "Nemo" is Latin for "no one". Captain_Nemo
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| Alexis de Tocqueville Verneuil-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France | Alexis_de_Tocqueville
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| Hayao Miyazaki Talk:Hayao_Miyazaki
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| Telemark skiing Telemark skiing is a term used for skiing using the Telemark turn, which is a technique invented by Norwegian Sondre Norheim. It is also known as "free heel skiing. Telemark_skiing
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| Behavioral economics Behavioral economics and behavioral finance are closely related fields which apply scientific research on human and social cognitive and emotional biases to better understand economic decisions and how they affect market prices, returns and the allocation of resources. The fields are primarily concerned with the rationality, or lack thereof, of economic agents. Behavioral_economics
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| Renée Vivien Renée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn [http://www.academie-renee-vivien. Renée_Vivien
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| Land art Land Art, Earthworks or Earth Art is an art movement which emerged in America in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked. Sculptures are not placed in the landscape, rather the landscape is the very means of their creation. Land_art
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