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• CAPTIEUX, -EUSE, adjectif.

• ACUMINÉ, -ÉE, participe passé et adjectif.

• Nijinski Vaslav Fomitch, 1889-1950, né à Kiev, danseur et chorégraphe russe d'origine polonaise.

• 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...

• Confucianism.

  IV NEO-CONFUCIANISM After centuries of intellectual and cultural dominance by Buddhism, China began to experience a revival of Confucian thought during the Tang dynasty ( AD 618-907). It was led by poet and essayist Han Yu (Han Yü). Han Yu attacked Buddhism and Daoism, which he believed had kept government officials from seeing how they couldhelp the people. To further public welfare, he urged them to study the way of the ancient sages through the Five Classics . Han Yu almost lost his life f...

• Et cependant, pour celui-ci, Boulogne ne sera pas à terme une si mauvaise affaire.

  vertu dumême principe quecelui surlequel vousavezposé laroyauté d'aujourd'hui. » Tout étaitdit. Cela nepouvait évidemment serviràgrand-chose. LouisNapoléon devaitêtrecondamné; ille fut. Dumoins eut-il lasatisfaction deconstater queprès delamoitié despairs s'était abstenue. Lesautres s'étaient résolusà innover dansledomaine juridique, eninventant pourLouis Napoléon lapeine deladétention perpétuelle en forteresse. Le 7octobre, leregistre d'écroudufort deHam, danslaSomme, nonloindes limites del'Ais...

• le portrait de Vautrin

• Saussure, Ferdinand - Cours de Linguistique Générale

• 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...

• Charles Dickens.

  The Old Curiosity Shop broke hearts across Britain and North America when it first appeared. Later readers, however, have found it excessively sentimental, especially the pathos surrounding the death of its child-heroine Little Nell. Dickens’s next two works proved less popular with the public. Barnaby Rudge, Dickens’s first historical novel, revolves around anti-Catholic riots that broke out in London in 1780. The events in Martin Chuzzlewit become a vehicle for the novel’s theme: selfishne...

• Liberia - country.

  West Atlantic, or Kwa linguistic groups. D Education Education is free and compulsory for children between the ages of 6 and 15. However, a scarcity of educational facilities means that few Liberians progress beyondprimary school. Almost all children of primary school-age attend school, but the figure drops to 23 percent (1999–2000) for secondary school-age children. Just 60percent of the population was literate in 2005. Higher education is provided by the University of Liberia (1862), in Monro...

• Essai : Le rythme, dans Double assassinat dans la rue morgue de Edgar Allan Poe

• Thomas Edison.

  While Edison was working on the electric light, he made a scientific discovery that would become important to future generations. Edison noticed that particles of carbonfrom the filament blackened the insides of his light bulbs. This effect was caused by the emission of electrons from the filament, although Edison made the discoverybefore he and other scientists knew the electron existed. Not until 1897 did British physicist J. J. Thomson prove that the blackening observed by Edison was caused b...

• Thomas Edison - USA History.

  While Edison was working on the electric light, he made a scientific discovery that would become important to future generations. Edison noticed that particles of carbonfrom the filament blackened the insides of his light bulbs. This effect was caused by the emission of electrons from the filament, although Edison made the discoverybefore he and other scientists knew the electron existed. Not until 1897 did British physicist J. J. Thomson prove that the blackening observed by Edison was caused b...

• Geoffrey Chaucer.

  Chaucer the father of English poetry. Since the founding of the Chaucer Society in England in 1868, which led to the first reliable editions of his works, Chaucer'sreputation has been securely established as the English poet best loved after Shakespeare for his wisdom, humor, and humanity. Contributed By:Alfred DavidMicrosoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• Greek Art and Architecture - USA History.

  The struggle between these two city-states and their allies ultimately led to the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which Sparta won. Despite this conflict, the 5th century, often called the Classical period, is usually considered the culmination of Greek art, architecture, and drama, with its highest achievements being the Temple ofZeus at Olympia, the Parthenon in Athens, and the plays of Athenian dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. The 4th century, or Late Classical p...

• d'ouvrage qu'ils en veulent et que leur journée se paie le double juste de ce qu'elle valait il y a dix ans.

  déchiraient. Quedefois nem'a-t-il pasditdans nosconversations intimes:"Tâchez doncdeme proposer quelque chosedansl'intérêt dupeuple". » Concrètement, lapolitique conduite s'articule endeux volets quelalogique, maisnonlachronologie, conduità distinguer l'undel'autre. Premier volet,lapolitique «paternaliste ».Souvent financée pardes prélèvements surlaliste civile, voiresurla cassette personnelle, elleestlatraduction desentiments decompassion enverslespetites gens.Lebut de Louis Napoléon atoujours...

• l'époque.

  Cette sombre histoiresemet enplace auxAntilles danslapremière moitiéduxviie siècle. Ellecesse en1848. Elle aura donc durédeux siècles. Onnepeut, danscelivre, tourner lapage surcette immense tachesurnotre mémoire sans évoquer lesquelques réflexions qu’ellesuscite. L’esclavage, plaieuniverselle L’esclavage n’estpasune spécialité réservéeparl’Europe occidentale auNouveau Mondequ’ellevenaitde conquérir. Laplupart dessociétés humaines enont faitusage. L’Afrique leconnaissait bienavant l’arrivée du pr...

• Le Lys dans la vallée

• Music I INTRODUCTION World Music Tour Click on the instruments to hear music from around the world.

  Duke EllingtonAmerican composer, bandleader, and pianist Duke Ellington endures as perhaps the most important pioneer in big-bandjazz. Ellington and his orchestra shared a special interdependent relationship: Using the band as his musical workshop,Ellington derived his orchestra’s tone coloring from the unique sound qualities of the group’s individual players. Thisparticular style was later dubbed the “Ellington Effect” by jazz arranger Billy Strayhorn, who also wrote one of the band’ssignature...

• Définition: AUTOCRATE, substantif masculin.

  1845, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe. siècle (Pierre Larousse) (et Nouveau Larousse illustré). Dictionnaire de la langue française (Émile Littré), Dictionnaire des dictionnaires (sous la direction de Paul Guérin) 1892 ainsi que Dictionnaire encyclopédique Quillet 1965 notent le féminin autocratrice à côté du masculin autocrate. Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe. siècle (Pierre Larousse) consacre à autocratrice une vedette indépendante sous laquelle il indique : " féminin peu usité du mo...

• mangerai une poire dure comme une pierre, un custard glaireux, puisque je dois payer du sacrifice d'un ananas le auvetage moral d'un être humain.

  fallait unequantité denourriture trèssupérieure àcelle quisuffit àun homme ordinaire. Voyageant danslescollines deChittagong, surlafrontière birmane, aveclefrère d’unrajah localdevenu fonctionnaire, je me suis viteétonné delasollicitude aveclaquelle ilme faisait gaverparsesserviteurs : àl’aube le palancha, c’est-à- dire le« thé aulit » (sitant estque leterme pûts’appliquer auxélastiques planchersdebambous tresséssurquoi nous dormions dansleshuttes indigènes) ; deuxheures plustard, unsolide break...

• ROMANTISME

• Confucian philosophy, Chinese

  occupies a pre-eminent place in the history of Chinese philosophy. The core of Confucian thought lies in the teachings of Confucius (551-479 BC) contained in the Analects ( Lunyu ), along with the brilliant and divergent contributions of Mencius (372?-289 BC) and Xunzi ( fl. 298-238 BC), as well as the Daxue (Great Learning) and the Zhongyong (Doctrine of the Mean), originally chapters in the Liji (Book of Rites). Significant and original developments, particularly along a quasi-metaphysica...

• Leonard De Vinci

• Excerpt from Our Mutual Friend - anthology.

  The Podsnaps lived in a shady angle adjoining Portman Square. They were a kind of people certain to dwell in the shade, wherever they dwelt. Miss Podsnap's lifehad been, from her first appearance on this planet, altogether of a shady order; for, Mr Podsnap's young person was likely to get little good out of association withother young persons, and had therefore been restricted to companionship with not very congenial older persons, and with massive furniture. Miss Podsnap's earlyviews of life be...

• Ballet I INTRODUCTION Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker The Nutcracker is a classic ballet with music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

  Joffrey Ballet SchoolTraining for classical ballet dancers must begin when the students are very young. Here, teacher Dorothy Lister workswith her pre-ballet class of six-year-olds at the Joffrey Ballet School. These students are learning the five basic positions ofclassical ballet.Susan Kunklin/Photo Researchers, Inc. Different systems of ballet training have evolved, named after countries (Russia, France) or teachers (Italian dancer Enrico Cecchetti, Danish choreographer AugustBournonville). T...

• Le Rapport de Brodeck de Philippe Claudel

  Brodeck est alors chargé contre son gré de relater les faits, pour justifier cet acte impardonnable qu'il n'a même pascommis. Durant la rédaction de son rapport et des notes qu'il prend parallèlement et en secret, Brodeck est espionné,menacé, traqué. Témoin passif des comportements ignobles de tous les villageois, le lecteur est un peu plus « ravagé d'horreur » aufur et à mesure qu'il s'enfonce dans le livre et que le livre s'enfonce en lui, à l'image d'un couteau à la lame aigui...

• drame et art dramatique.

  Par la suite, les comédies traitant d’un sujet athénien, aussi bien que les tragédies à thème philosophique, perdent de leur attrait. On voit alors se développer une forme de comédie locale (appelée comédie nouvelle), dont il ne subsiste qu’un seul exemple complet : l’Avare ou le Misanthrope (317 av. J.-C.), de Ménandre. Ces pièces sont construites autour d’une situation familiale mêlant amour, argent et quiproquos, et de types sociaux fortement dessinés et faciles à identifier : le père avare...

• drame et art dramatique - littérature.

  Par la suite, les comédies traitant d’un sujet athénien, aussi bien que les tragédies à thème philosophique, perdent de leur attrait. On voit alors se développer une forme de comédie locale (appelée comédie nouvelle), dont il ne subsiste qu’un seul exemple complet : l’Avare ou le Misanthrope (317 av. J.-C.), de Ménandre. Ces pièces sont construites autour d’une situation familiale mêlant amour, argent et quiproquos, et de types sociaux fortement dessinés et faciles à identifier : le père avare...

• Dictionnaire en ligne: ÉJECTION, substantif féminin.

• Dictionnaire en ligne: DYSENTERIE, substantif féminin.

• Dictionnaire en ligne: DÉCROCHEUR, substantif masculin.

  STATISTIQUES?: Fr?quence absolue litt?raire?: 2

• Dictionnaire en ligne: DÉBRINGUÉ, -ÉE, participe passé et adjectif.

• Définition du terme: CRÉOSOTER, verbe transitif.

• Vocabulaire: CHAUSSURE, substantif féminin.

• Carbon - chemistry.

  Graphite is black and slippery and conducts electricity. In graphite, the atoms form planar, or flat, layers. Each layer is made up of rings containing six carbon atoms.The rings are linked to each other in a structure that resembles the hexagonal mesh of chicken wire. Each atom has three sigma bonds (with 120° between any two ofthe bonds) and belongs to three neighboring rings. The fourth electron of each atom becomes part of an extensive pi bond system. Graphite conducts electricity,because th...

• White House - geography.

  Each Thanksgiving, the pardoning of the turkey takes place in the Rose Garden. This ceremony of rescuing a turkey and sending it to a petting zoo began during HarryTruman’s term, although Abraham Lincoln is said to have set a precedent by sparing his son’s pet turkey from the oven. III INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE A large complex is needed for the many activities that take place at the White House. The White House has 132 rooms, 4 dining rooms, 35 bathrooms, 8 staircases, 3elevators, a clinic, a den...

• Eukaryote - biology.

  The waste is then expelled through a hole in the fused membrane. In complex animals, cells generate wastes such as urea when nutrients are broken down within cells.These wastes are transported by blood to the kidneys. The kidneys process the waste and produce urine, which is removed from the body through the bladder.Undigested food travels through the tubelike intestines and is eliminated through the digestive system. V EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS Eukaryotes evolved much later than prokaryotes, whose...

• British Empire .

  B1 The Seven Years’ War During the Seven Years’ War in Europe (1756-1763), Britain made large imperial gains at the expense of France. The North American segment of the Seven Years’ Warwas known as the French and Indian War. It was launched by the British against French possessions in North America in 1754, and in 1758 the British captured theFrench fortress of Louisbourg, which gave them access to French territory in the St. Lawrence Valley. In the following year Québec was captured, marking t...

• ESTHETIQUE

  émergentes au niveau de la conscience. Lorsque ces informations sortantes possèderont des qualités esthétiqueson pourra être tenté de dire que les informations entrantes appartiennent à un objet d'art. Mais il faut alorsdistinguer entre les attributs et les propriétés de l'objet. Une distinction a laquelle nous a habitué la physique, laphysique quantique en particulier. L'attribut est une caractérisation ontologique de l'objet. Il appartient à l'objet enpropre. Contrairement à ce que s...

• Les chaises d'Eugène Ionesco

• UNIVERSITE MONTESQUIEU - BORDEAUX IV ECOLE DOCTORALE DE DROIT (E.

• QUÉBEC (littérature du — et de l'Acadie).

  dre ou un quelconque nivellement, ils s'engagent désor­ mais dans une pratique libre et même libertaire du lexi­ que québécois. Dans sa Défense et illustration de la langue québécoise ( 1979), Michèle Lalonde tient à préci­ ser que « par langue québécoise, en somme, elle n'entend pas autre chose que la langue françoyse elle-même, telle qu'elle s'est tout naturellement déterminée en Nouveau­ Monde, à cent lieues de la mère patrie mais sans horrible comple...

• Pascal, Blaise - philosophie.

  Ses travaux ont porté sur la pesanteur, le vide et la pression, l'hydrostatique ( voir Fluides, mécanique des), la géométrie, l'arithmétique, les probabilités et les mathématiques. Dès son Essay pour les coniques (1640), Pascal utilisa la méthode projective pour déduire les propriétés des coniques du théorème sur l'hexagramme. À la suite de Torricelli, disciple de Galilée, il se livra à l'étude de la question du vide : « la nature a horreur du vide » pensait-on depuis le Moyen Âge. En 16...

• Lithuania - country.

  pollution. III PEOPLE Ethnic Lithuanians constitute about 80 percent of the country’s population. The proportion of Lithuanians increased slightly in the first years after the dissolution of theSoviet Union—many Lithuanians returned to their homeland from that country and abroad while some Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians left the country. Russiansand Poles constitute the country’s largest minority groups, each accounting for roughly 7 percent of the population. Jews were the largest mino...

• La naissance fut longtemps un mystère pour de nombreuses civilisations.

  vitellus zygote Les médias reproduction - la reproduction humaine La gastrulation C'est le premier mouvement de mise en place des feuillets embryonnaires : lorsque les blastomères sont de taille presque égale, le pôle végétatif s'invagine dans le pôle animal ; lorsque macromères et micromères sont de tailles très différentes, ces derniers se multiplient plus rapidement et viennent recouvrir les premiers. Il se forme ainsi une poche à double paroi, la gastrula (ce mot signifie en latin «...

• germain sylvie

• Droit commercial

• Comment Balzac a su rendre le Père Goriot plus saisissant ?