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• Square (geometry).

• square dance - danse.

• Innocents (square des).

• Red Square and Kremlin - geography.

• Corrigé Commentaire de Trafalgar Square la nuit de Valéry Larbaud

  La rencontre avec une « jeune mendiante » apporte au poète la possibilité de jouer les magiciens, de devenir le maitre éphémère, le dispensateur du sens de la beauté nocturne de la cité. Une rencontre nocturne avec un tel type d'individu rejeté par la vie organisée (et de jour) semble normale. Que la femme ait demandé aide et charité aussi. Mais le poète construit autour de cet être pitoyable un véritable conte de fées. Dès le 1 er vers, le lecteur connait la situation misérable de l...

• Red Square and Kremlin - geography.

• Albert ANDRÉ: LE SQUARE DES BATIGNOLLES.

• Albert ANDRÉ: LE SQUARE DES BATIGNOLLES (ANALYSE DU TABLEAU).

• WASHINGTON SQUARE.

• HANGOVER SQUARE

• Chess.

  There are two standard methods of recording chess moves: the algebraic system and the descriptive system. In both systems, the pieces are designated by capitalinitials: K for king, Q for queen, R for rook, B for bishop, and N for knight. The initial P for pawn is used in the descriptive system only. Castling is noted as either 0-0(“short” castling on the king’s side) or 0-0-0 (“long” castling on the queen’s side). Each square is part of both a file and a rank, and in the algebraic system, that u...

• Madison Square Garden.

• Puzzle.

  Visual puzzles involve searching a picture to find hidden or disguised figures or answering a question about some part of a visual illusion. For instance, the popular 19th- century prints of American lithographic company Currier & Ives featured hidden people, animals, and other objects. A 16th-century painting from Bukhara, Uzbekistan,of a camel includes hidden figures of 17 people, 10 rabbits, a monkey, and a dragon (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City). B Mathematical Puzzles and Logic...

• Paris (city, France) - geography.

  and its vibrant public square, frequented by street performers, soon became among the most popular landmarks in the city. West of the Pompidou Center is Les Halles, the site of the central market of Paris from the 12th century until 1969. The market was subsequently replaced by the Forum LesHalles, a multilevel underground complex featuring a shopping mall, museums, the Paris film library ( vidéothèque ), and a sports center. The street level of Les Halles features a garden, the Jardin des Halle...

• Paris (city, France) - geography.

  Théâtre Musical de Paris and the Théâtre de la Ville. Just north of the Hôtel de Ville is the Pompidou Center, also known as Beaubourg, an arts complex devoted to modern and contemporary art and design. The structure,in steel and glass and featuring brightly colored, exposed pipes and ducts, is the work of Italian architect Renzo Piano and British architect Richard Rogers. Itscontroversial pop-art design contrasts sharply with the overall gray hue of the city, and was criticized by many followin...

• Beijing - geography.

  other polluting materials contributes to the city’s severe air and water pollution. V EDUCATION AND CULTURE Beijing has more colleges and universities than any other Chinese city. The most prominent institutions are Peking University, founded in 1898; and Tsinghua University,founded in 1911, which is the most prestigious scientific and technical institution in the country. Both institutions are located in the northwest suburbs, an areaassociated with higher education and research. Also in this...

• Ship. I INTRODUCTION Ship, vessel that is buoyant in the water and used

  B1 Biremes Experience soon proved that longer ships posed a new set of problems: They were weaker structurally, more difficult to maneuver, and presented a larger target to anyenemy ship with a ram. In the 8th century BC Mediterranean shipbuilders eliminated these problems with the bireme , a war galley built to accommodate two levels, or banks , of oarsmen. Oarsmen on the lower level rowed oars from ports cut into the side of the vessel, while those above rowed from the deck. This arrangemen...

• Le Ventre de Paris en les compromettant, par mechancete.

  —J'ai un sou, dit-il. La vue du sou calma Pauline. Il tenait le sou du bout des doigts, devant elle, si bien qu'elle descendit sur la chaussee, sans y prendre garde, pour suivre le sou. Decidement, le petit Muche etait en bonne fortune. —Qu'est-ce que tu aimes? demanda-t-il. Elle ne repondit pas tout de suite; elle ne savait pas, elle aimait trop de choses. Lui, nomma une foule de friandises: de la reglisse, de la melasse, des boules de gomme, du sucre en poudre. Le sucre en poudre fit beaucoup...

• New Orleans - geography.

  levees bordering Lake Pontchartrain. On the 17th Street Canal, a section about 90 m (about 300 ft) wide collapsed, allowing a torrent of water to enter the city. The rapidlyrising waters flooded more than 80 percent of New Orleans. The disaster prompted a mandatory evacuation of the entire city. A week after the storm, the U.S. Army Corpsof Engineers finished patching the 17th Street Canal levee and began pumping water out of the city. But by then the damage was catastrophic. The city’s low-lyin...

• Athens (Greece) - geography.

  At the heart of the modern city is Syntagma (Constitution) Square, located east of the Acropolis. The square is bordered by the national Parliament Building, originally aroyal palace completed in 1842 for King Otto I. Nearby is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which features a daily changing of the guard. Several of the city’s principalhotels as well the offices of major banks and airline companies also face the square. Behind the Parliament Building is the National Gardens, a public park that i...

• Eisenstaedt (Alfred), VJ Day, Times Square - photographie.

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  Frankreich. Wir konnen schwimmen oder wandern. Wir konnen auch am der Square Saint roch mit freund gehen. Wenn es warm ist, ist es schön an verschidenen Orten zu sitzen wie die Rathaus und der Strand. Le Havre ist die zweite französisch Hafen.   Le Havre hat ein sehr schön Stadtzentrum. Es ist sehr luftig und harmonisch. Es hat ein groB einkaufszentrum. Es gibt viele Geschaft. Le Havre hat ein kieselstrand mit ein Skate-Park. Es ist die größte Outdoor-Skatepark in Frankreich. Wir konnen schwimme...

• Statistics I INTRODUCTION Statistics, branch of mathematics that deals with the collection, organization, and analysis of numerical data and with such problems as experiment design and decision making.

  frequency, column (d), is the ratio of the frequency of an interval to the total count; the relative frequency is multiplied by 100 to obtain the percent relative frequency.The cumulative frequency, column (e), represents the number of students receiving grades equal to or less than the range in each succeeding interval; thus, thenumber of students with grades of 30 or less is obtained by adding the frequencies in column (c) for the first three intervals, which total 53. The cumulative relativef...

• Physics I INTRODUCTION Physics, major science, dealing with the fundamental constituents of the universe, the forces they exert on one another, and the results produced by these forces.

  Starting about 1665, at the age of 23, Newton enunciated the principles of mechanics, formulated the law of universal gravitation, separated white light into colors,proposed a theory for the propagation of light, and invented differential and integral calculus. Newton's contributions covered an enormous range of naturalphenomena: He was thus able to show that not only Kepler's laws of planetary motion but also Galileo's discoveries of falling bodies follow a combination of his ownsecond law of m...

• Cleveland (Ohio) - geography.

  Cleveland Children’s Museum. Also located in University Circle is Severance Hall, the home of the world-acclaimed Cleveland Orchestra. Nearby is the Cleveland PlayHouse, with three large, restored theaters and one of the largest non-profit professional theaters in the country. Downtown is Playhouse Square Center, with fourrecently restored theaters, home to the Cleveland Opera and the Great Lakes Theater Festival. On the waterfront is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum,opened in 1995 and...

• Geometry I INTRODUCTION Geometry, branch of mathematics that deals with shapes and sizes.

  Conic sections, a commonly studied topic of geometry, are two-dimensional curves created by slicing a plane through a three-dimensional hollow cone. A Euclid’s Postulates Euclid, who lived about 300 BC, realized that only a small number of postulates underlay the various geometric theorems known at the time. He determined that these theorems could be deduced from just five postulates. 1. A straight line may be drawn through any two given points. 2. A straight line may be drawn infinitely or be...

• Native American Architecture.

  B Relationship to the Universe and Nature A more profound difference between European American and Native American perceptions lay in how human beings saw themselves in relationship to the universe andin what they believed their responsibilities were to the natural world and to each other. Most European Americans saw themselves as separate from creation andadversaries of nature, ever struggling to conquer and subdue nature and force it to yield to their will. Native Americans saw themselves as...

• Native American Architecture I INTRODUCTION Native American Architecture, traditional architecture of the peoples of who lived in North America before Europeans arrived.

  Mound Builders who resided in the area.John Elk III/Bruce Coleman, Inc. Another mound building culture, named Hopewell, also appears to have originated in Ohio but expanded west to Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma, south to Louisiana,Mississippi, and Alabama, east to Georgia and the Appalachian Mountains, and north to Wisconsin, Michigan, and lower Ontario in Canada. The Hopewell culture lastedfrom about 200 BC to 400 AD. Hopewell people built large, linear mounds to create enclosures in geometrical...

• Latin American Architecture I INTRODUCTION Oldest Cathedral in the Western Hemisphere The oldest cathedral in the Western hemisphere is the Cathedral of Santa Maria la Menor, constructed between 1512 and 1541 in Santo Domingo, now the capitol of the Dominican Republic.

  Colonial FortressThe imposing fortress of San Felipe de Barajas, in the foreground, was built in the mid-17th century to defend the colonialport settlement of Cartagena. Modern day Cartagena, Colombia, can be seen in the background.Dave G. Houser/Post-Houserstock/Corbis The use of architecture and urban planning as tools of European conquest is a recurrent theme in Latin American history. King Philip II of Spain ordered town plannersto use a grid or checkerboard plan for the layout of new towns...

• Sound I INTRODUCTION Sound, physical phenomenon that stimulates the sense of hearing.

  A fundamental law of harmony states that two notes an octave apart, when sounded together, produce a pleasant-sounding combination. Other combinations of notescan also be pleasing. Physically, an interval of a fifth consists of two notes, the frequencies of which bear the arithmetical ratio 3 to 2, and a major third, the ratio 5 to4. Fundamentally, the law of harmony states that two or more notes sound pleasant when played together if their frequencies bear small, whole number ratios; if thefreq...

• Gemstones.

  In the late 1960s a method was developed for “growing” diamonds by heating a diamond particle to a high temperature and subjecting it to methane gas. The gasdecomposes into carbon atoms, which adhere to the diamond crystal. The crystal structure of the enlarged diamond is identical to that of a natural diamond. Diamondsof about 1 carat (200 mg or 0.007 oz) have been produced by this method, but their cost is still considerably higher than that of naturally occurring diamonds. Sapphires are made...

• Isaac NewtonIINTRODUCTIONIsaac Newton (1642-1727), English physicist, mathematician, and natural philosopher, considered one of the most important scientists of all time.

  B Calculus (Newton’s “Fluxional Method”) In 1669 Newton gave his Trinity mathematics professor Isaac Barrow an important manuscript, which is generally known by its shortened Latin title, De Analysi . This work contained many of Newton’s conclusions about calculus (what Newton called his “fluxional method”). Although the paper was not immediately published, Barrowmade its results known to several of the leading mathematicians of Britain and Europe. This paper established Newton as one of the...

• Isaac Newton.

  B Calculus (Newton’s “Fluxional Method”) In 1669 Newton gave his Trinity mathematics professor Isaac Barrow an important manuscript, which is generally known by its shortened Latin title, De Analysi . This work contained many of Newton’s conclusions about calculus (what Newton called his “fluxional method”). Although the paper was not immediately published, Barrowmade its results known to several of the leading mathematicians of Britain and Europe. This paper established Newton as one of the t...

• Portrait de l'Artiste en jeune homme (extrait) James Joyce Ils se tournèrent en direction de Merrion Square et marchèrent quelque temps en silence.

  — La connotation de ce mot, dit Stephen, est assez vague. Saint Thomas emploie ici un terme qui paraît inexact. Son sens m'a échappé pendant longtemps. Nous pourrions être portés à croire qu'il entendait par là le symbolisme ou l'idéalisme, la suprême qualité du beau étant la lumière venue de quelque autre monde, l'idée dont la matière n'est que l'ombre, la réalité dont elle n'est que le symbole. Je pensais qu'il pouvait entendre par claritas la découverte et la représentation artistique du des...

• Algebra I INTRODUCTION Algebra, branch of mathematics in which symbols (usually letters) represent unknown numbers in mathematical equations.

  B Order of Operations and Grouping Algebra relies on an established sequence for performing arithmetic operations. This ensures that everyone who executes a string of operations arrives at the sameanswer. Multiplication is performed first, then division, followed by addition, then subtraction. For example: 1 + 2 · 3 equals 7 because 2 and 3 are multiplied first and then added to 1. Exponents and roots have even higher priority than multiplication: 3 · 2 2 = 3 · 4 = 12 Grouping symbols override...

• Frank Lloyd Wright I INTRODUCTION Robie House The Frederick C.

  Hills/DeCaro HouseAmerican architect Frank Lloyd Wright, a pioneer of modern architecture, lived and worked in the Chicago area during thelate 19th and early 20th centuries. He designed many single-family houses, known as prairie houses. The Hills/DeCarohouse in Oak Park, west of Chicago, is one of more than 20 houses Wright designed while living in the town between 1890and 1910.© 2007 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Photo: Mary Ann Hemphill/Photo Researc...

• Light - astronomy.

  Each different frequency or wavelength of visible light causes our eye to see a slightly different color. The longest wavelength we can see is deep red at about 700 nm.The shortest wavelength humans can detect is deep blue or violet at about 400 nm. Most light sources do not radiate monochromatic light. What we call white light,such as light from the Sun, is a mixture of all the colors in the visible spectrum, with some represented more strongly than others. Human eyes respond best to greenlight...

• Antarctica - Geography.

  The maximum area of sea ice surrounding Antarctica each winter varies from year to year. A marked decline during the 1970s appears to have reversed in more recentdecades, except in the Antarctic Peninsula area. This area has lost almost 40 percent of its sea ice since the start of the 1980s. Sea ice is important to marine life. Krillfeed on algae that live under the sea ice and are released when the ice melts in spring and summer. In turn, many marine animals feed on krill. Emperor penguinsbreed...

• Trafalgar square la nuit

  “Trafalgar square la nuit”, Les poésies de A.O. Barnabooth, Valéry Larbaud, 1913 1. Ne sens-tu pas, jeune mendiante, qu'il est beau, 2. Que c'est une chose précieuse, d'être là, 3. Errant dans ce désert architectural 4. Au milieu de la plus grande ville du monde, sous les astres 5. Perpendiculaires, astres malins, clignotants, 6. Réverbères embués de la cité céleste? 1. Ne songe plus à ta faim, mais joue 2. A deviner les lions couchés dans le brouillard bleu, 3. Au bord des terrasses...

• Moscow (city, Russia) - geography.

  V RECREATION About 30 percent of Moscow’s territory is occupied by parks and public gardens, which were important elements of Soviet city planning. Gorky Park, which providesactivities such as amusement rides and boating, sits on the right bank of the Moscow River; the park’s display of a retired Soviet space shuttle dominates the riverside.The Moscow Zoo is located just west of the city center. The Botanical Gardens, administered by the Russian Academy of Sciences, offers a diverse display of...

• Salt Lake City - geography.

  adding a runway to the city’s airport. V GOVERNMENT Salt Lake City is governed by a mayor and a seven-member council, which is presided over by a chair. Voters elect each of these officials to four-year terms. Salt LakeCounty is governed by a county mayor elected to a four-year term and a nine-member county council. Council members—six elected from districts and three elected at-large—serve terms ranging from two to six years. The Utah Transit Authority, located in Salt Lake City, oversees publ...

• Trafalgar Square la nuit - Valéry LARBAUD, Poésies d'A.O. Barnabooth

  dédiée à la ville». * * * Le titre est précis : Trafalgar Square la nuit. Non moins exacte est l'indication locale du 4e vers, vaste comme cettecité : le jardin public est « au milieu de la plus grande ville du monde». Ce premier élément du vers — ou plutôtverset comme dans les textes de Cendrars ou de Claudel, les contemporains —, violemment séparé du reste par lacoupe, est véritablement prosaïque dans sa construction syntaxique et le vocabulaire utilisé. On pourrait y voir unephrase du célèbre...

• New Orleans - geography.

  D Metropolitan Region The New Orleans metropolitan region covers 8,800 sq km (3,400 sq mi) and includes the counties—known in Louisiana as parishes— of Orleans, Jefferson, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany, Saint James, and Plaquemines. At the center is the city of New Orleans, which is coextensive withOrleans Parish. It has a land area of 468 sq km (181 sq mi). Extending from this base are numerous suburban towns in the surrounding parishes. Metairie, Harahan...

• Marguerite Duras ou !'Appréhension du silence Un homme et une jeune fille font connaissance sur le banc d'un square. Ils...

  Marguerite Duras ou !'Appréhension du silence Un homme et une jeune fille font connaissance sur le banc d'un square. Ils échangent des banalités chargées de tristesse et d'espoir. Et lorsqu'ils se quittent, ils redoutent ce silence dans lequel ils vont retomber tous les deux : Marguerite Duras donne dans le Square (1955) le thème essentiel de son œuvre : l'ennui engendré par la solitude, le besoin de l'autre, la faim d'amour et de dialogue. Mais le besoin de l'autre révèle la difficulté de com...

• Cleveland (Ohio) - geography.

  III POPULATION According to the national census, the population of Cleveland was 505,616 in 1990, a decline of 11.9 percent from the 1980 population of 573,822. The decrease continuedinto the 1990s, falling a further 5.4 percent between 1990 and 2000. The population was 478,403 in 2000. By 2006, Cleveland's population was estimated at 444,313. Thedecrease was attributed to a continuing flight to the suburbs, begun before 1970 and fueled by racial polarization and public school problems. In 2000...

• Définition du terme: CROISSANT2, substantif masculin.

  qui s'étend de la mer Morte au golfe Persique en passant par le sud de la Turquie, le nord de l'Iraq et l'Iran occidental " et qui est abondamment irriguée par les principaux fleuves (d'après Grand Larousse encyclopédique en dix volumes Supplément 1975; confer aussi Dictionnaire de la politique (JEAN-NOËL AQUISTAPACE) 1966). Les pâturages doivent être recherchés dans la steppe du Croissant fertile ou à proximité du Tigre et de l'Euphrate (Maurice Wolkowitsch, L'Élevage dans le monde, 1966, page...

• Indianapolis - geography.

  nation to handle multiple railroad lines (thus the name “union”). Ringing the Mile Square are a number of historic districts such as Woodruff Place and Lockerbie Square. To the immediate northwest of downtown is Indiana Avenue, thehistoric center of the city’s black population. Some 6 km (4 mi) due north of Monument Circle is the North Meridian Street Historic District, a stretch of mansions built in the1920s and 1930s, including the Governor’s Residence. The district ends at the Central Canal,...

• Frank Lloyd Wright.

  C Usonian Houses Wright achieved his goal of low-cost, democratic American architecture with his Usonian houses of the 1930s. Usonia was Wright’s term for the United States of North America, with an i added for a pleasing sound. The Usonian house had a simple design, usually with an L-shaped floor plan. This plan separated the noisier living space on one leg of the L from the quieter bedroom space on the other leg. The floor was made of concrete slabs, typically in a square grid of 4 by 4...

• Tanz

  3.3 Ballett und Modern Dance Das Ballett entwickelte sich während der Renaissance an den Höfen Italiens und Frankreichs und wurde im späten 17. Jahrhundert zu einer Berufsdisziplin. Seit dieser Zeitist es eine der bedeutenden Kunstformen der abendländischen Kultur. Im ausgehenden 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert rebellierten die amerikanischen Tänzerinnen IsadoraDuncan und Ruth Saint Denis gegen das klassische Ballett. Auch der Schweizer Erzieher Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, der ungarische Tänzer Rudol...

• Temple (building) I INTRODUCTION Wat Phra Kaeo Thailand has nearly 18,000 Buddhist temples, called wats, throughout the country.

  colonnaded terraces connected by ramps. The surrounding area was planted with trees and flowers during Hatshepsut’sreign and for many years after.Gian Berto Vanni/Art Resource, NY In ancient Egypt, temples were grandiose, built of huge blocks and columns of stone. Often they were enlarged by successive rulers to form strung-out series of templeparts, as in the gigantic Temple of Amon (circa 1550-1070 BC) at Al Karnak. The Nile cliffs were used as settings for temples, such as the massive mortuar...