1860 résultats pour "longa"

• Parakeet - biology.

• Excerpt from Measure for Measure - anthology.

  PROVOST. Who's there? Come in. The wish deserves a welcome. DUKE. Dear sir, ere long I'll visit you again. CLAUDIO. Most holy sir, I thank you. ISABELLA. My business is a word or two with Claudio. PROVOST. And very welcome. Look, signor, here's your sister. DUKE. Provost, a word with you. PROVOST. As many as you please. DUKE. Bring me to bear them speak, where I may be concealed. Duke and Provost retire CLAUDIO. Now, sister, what's the comfort? ISABELLA. Why,As all comforts are: most good, most...

• Dictionnaire en ligne: DEVANT2, substantif masculin.

  m'attendant chaque matin à ce qu'elle eût parlé, crucifié par cette attente et incapable de prendre les devants moi-même et de quitter le château! PAUL BOURGET, Le Disciple, 1889, page 161. C.— Locutions. 1. Au-devant, locution adverbiale. a) Sur le devant Au-devant, dans l'enfoncement sombre d'un angle de mur, (...), brûlent de petits cierges (EDMOND DE GONCOURT, JULES DE GONCOURT, Soeur Philomène, 1861, page 55 ). b) [En construction avec un verbe de mouvement] À la rencontre : Ø 6. Quand Ju...

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• Russie

• Russie

  Pour autant, n'y a-t-il pas d'autres peurs, II) La peur nous préserve de multiples dangers : la crainte d'une douleur peut guider nos actions et institue donc unecertaine sécurité. Exemple : face à une flamme, la peur de la brûlure nous incite à nous tenir a une distanceadéquate du feu. Dans l'enfance, les premières expériences de la douleur suffisent à ce qu'on ai peur, et que l'onreconnaisse le danger les prochaines fois. Cette peur rationnelle de la douleur serait alors protectri...

• Le cinéma, pour vous, est-il un art à part entière ou un simple divertissement ?

• climat 1 PRÉSENTATION climat, ensemble des phénomènes météorologiques terrestres caractéristiques d'une région et moyennés sur plusieurs décennies.

  puis désertiques. C’est à ce niveau que l’on rencontre les grands déserts de la planète, que ce soit au niveau du tropique Nord (Sahara en Afrique, désert mexicain) ou dutropique Sud (Kalahari en Afrique, Grand Désert Victoria en Australie). Les précipitations y sont extrêmement faibles (inférieures à 250 mm par an), avec des températuresdiurnes toujours élevées (maximales de 40-50 °C) et des températures nocturnes relativement froides en raison de l’importante perte de chaleur sous un ciel clai...

• climat - géologie et géophysique.

  puis désertiques. C’est à ce niveau que l’on rencontre les grands déserts de la planète, que ce soit au niveau du tropique Nord (Sahara en Afrique, désert mexicain) ou dutropique Sud (Kalahari en Afrique, Grand Désert Victoria en Australie). Les précipitations y sont extrêmement faibles (inférieures à 250 mm par an), avec des températuresdiurnes toujours élevées (maximales de 40-50 °C) et des températures nocturnes relativement froides en raison de l’importante perte de chaleur sous un ciel clai...

• BIOSPHÈRE LES BIOMES GÉNÉRALITÉS La surface de la Terre n'est pas uniforme, mais

  2 régions les plus arides de la Terre. Dans les déserts chauds, les températures diurnes dépassent 38 °C et il ne pleut jamais, car les masses d’air en mouvement ont perdu toute la vapeur d’eau qu’elles contenaient. Les savanes sont des prairies tropicales plus ou moins arides, où des arbres poussent parfois çà et là. Ces étendues herbacées plus ou moins arborées caractérisent les régions tropicales et subtropicales où la température est constamment élevée, et où il existe des variations saison...

• l'Etrangers Albert Camus

• Lifehack

• Affirmative Action.

  hiring, purchasing, and other government business. In 1998 Washington State voters passed Initiative 200, a measure that banned affirmative action in state and localgovernment hiring, contracting, and education. Around the same time, federal courts began considering lawsuits from white students denied admission to state universities with affirmative action programs. In somecases, the courts have invalidated such programs on the grounds that they promote reverse racial discrimination. For example...

• The Alchimist

• Crafts.

  VI POTTERY Ceramic objects can be molded completely by hand or thrown (shaped) on a potter's wheel, a device with a rotating horizontal disk. When the clay hardens, it is fired ina high-temperature oven, or kiln, to strengthen it. To make the object waterproof, glazes may then be applied and the piece fired again. Although hand construction iseasy to master, throwing on the potter's wheel requires practice. Several simple tools are used by potters, including sponges, trimming tools, wooden sha...

• Alternative Medicine.

  The field of chiropractic was founded by David Daniel Palmer in the 1890s. He believed that joint subluxation, or a partial dislocation, is a causal factor in disease andthat removal of the subluxation by thrusting on the bony projections of the vertebrae restores health. In addition to manipulating and adjusting bone and tissue, particularly in the spinal column, chiropractors use a variety of manual, mechanical, and electrical treatments.Chiropractors are most widely recognized for providing d...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Druids - anthology.

  Besides these two great annual festivals, the Druids were in the habit of observing the full moon, and especially the sixth day of the moon. On the latter they soughtthe Mistletoe, which grew on their favourite oaks, and to which, as well as to the oak itself, they ascribed a peculiar virtue and sacredness. The discovery of it was anoccasion of rejoicing and solemn worship. 'They call it,' says [1st-century Roman encyclopedist] Pliny [the Elder], 'by a word in their language, which means 'heal-a...

• Euthanasia.

  permission from the family. B In Other Countries In 1995 the Northern Territory of Australia became the first jurisdiction to explicitly legalize voluntary active euthanasia. However, the federal parliament of Australiaoverturned the law in 1997. In 2001 The Netherlands became the first country to legalize active euthanasia and assisted suicide, formalizing medical practices that thegovernment had tolerated for years. Under the Dutch law, euthanasia is justified (not legally punishable) if the...

• ARTICLE DE PRESSE: L'Organisation mondiale du commerce

  Article IV. Structure de l'OMC 1. Il sera établi une Conférence ministérielle composée de représentants de tous les Membres qui se réunira aumoins une fois tous les deux ans. La Conférence ministérielle exercera les fonctions de l'OMC et prendra les mesuresnécessaires à cet effet . La Conférence ministérielle sera habilitée à prendre des décisions sur toutes les questionsrelevant de tout Accord commercial multilatéral, si un Membre en fait la demande, conformément aux prescriptionsspécifiques...

• Leonardo da Vinci I INTRODUCTION Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci was known not only as a masterful painter but as an architect, sculptor, engineer, and scientist.

  and conservation program made use of the latest technology to reverse some of the damage. Although much of the original surface is gone, the majesty of thecomposition and the penetrating characterization of the figures give a fleeting vision of its vanished splendor. The Virgin of the RocksThe Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci was actually painted twice. The first version, done in 1485, wascommissioned to be an altarpiece but was evidently rejected. That painting now hangs in the Louvre,...

• Excerpt from Hard Times - anthology.

  Mr Bounderby, the two gentlemen at this present moment walking through Coketown, and both eminently practical, who could, on occasion, furnish more tabularstatements derived from their own personal experience, and illustrated by cases they had known and seen, from which it clearly appeared—in short it was the onlyclear thing in the case—that these same people were a bad lot altogether, gentlemen; that do what you would for them they were never thankful for it, gentlemen; thatthey were restless,...

• la_peste

• Ludwig van Beethoven I INTRODUCTION Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), German composer, considered one of the greatest musicians of all time.

  dedication after learning that Napoleon had taken the title of emperor. Beethoven’s other instrumental works from the period of the Eroica also tend to expand the formal framework that he inherited from Haydn and Mozart. The Piano Sonata in C major op. 53 ( Waldstein ) and the Piano Sonata in F minor op. 57 ( Appassionata ), completed in 1804 and 1805 respectively, each employ bold contrasts in harmony, and they use a broadened formal plan, in which the meditative slow movements flow directly...

• Ludwig van Beethoven.

  dedication after learning that Napoleon had taken the title of emperor. Beethoven’s other instrumental works from the period of the Eroica also tend to expand the formal framework that he inherited from Haydn and Mozart. The Piano Sonata in C major op. 53 ( Waldstein ) and the Piano Sonata in F minor op. 57 ( Appassionata ), completed in 1804 and 1805 respectively, each employ bold contrasts in harmony, and they use a broadened formal plan, in which the meditative slow movements flow directly...

• eaux usées (faune & Flore).

  4.2 Composition La composition des eaux usées s’analyse par le biais de diverses mesures physiques, chimiques et biologiques. Les analyses les plus fréquentes comportent des mesures dedéchets solides, de la demande biochimique en oxygène mesurée après 5 jours (DBO5), de la demande chimique en oxygène (DCO) et du pH. Les déchets solidescomprennent les solides dissous et en suspension. Les solides dissous sont les matériaux qui passent à travers un papier filtre et les solides en suspension sont...

• Émile Zola LA CURÉE (1872)

• I Au retour, dans l'encombrement des voitures qui rentraient par le bord du lac, la calèche dut marcher au pas.

  mondaines envoiture découverte, menaçaitdeseterminer parune soirée d’unefraîcheur aiguë. Un moment, lajeune femme restapelotonnée, retrouvantlachaleur deson coin, s’abandonnant aubercement voluptueux de toutes cesroues quitournaient devantelle.Puis, levant latête vers Maxime, dontlesregards déshabillaient tranquillement lesfemmes étaléesdanslescoupés etdans leslandaus voisins : – Vrai, demanda-t-elle, est-cequetulatrouves jolie,cette Laure d’Aurigny ? Vousenfaisiez unéloge, l’autre jour,lorsqu’o...

• Introduction Écrire une Histoire de l'Égypte pharaonique ne présente plus, de nos jours, l'aspect aventureux qu'une pareille tentative conservait encore au tournant du XXe siècle.

  dernière renforcel'aspectmystérieux delavieille civilisation, avançantdanslemême sensquelaphilosophie : le néoplatonisme donnenaissance aucourant hermétique, àtravers lerenouveau dupythagorisme quimarque en Orient lesdébuts del'Empire. L'hermétisme sera,avecplustardlaKabbale, lemoyen principal d'accèsà une civilisation renduedéfinitivement incompréhensible parl'exclusive chrétienne. Cecourant versl'ésotérisme est conforté parlamontée descultes égyptiens quisuit l'extension del'Empire enpopularis...

• Poetry I INTRODUCTION Phyllis McGinley American poet and author Phyllis McGinley composed light, witty verse, much of which deals with family life.

  repetition of certain lines and the rhyming of certain lines. The Provençal sestina features a set of six words that end lines (end-words), repeated in a dizzyingly complexpattern. The range of effects created by the poetic line varies tremendously depending on its length, its patterns of repetition, and whether the sentence stops at the end of theline (end-stopped) or carries over the end of the line (enjambed). Many of the earliest examples of Old English poetry feature an accentual line with...

• Texas - geography.

  D Climate Eastern Texas has a humid subtropical climate, while a semiarid low latitude climate prevails in central areas, and an arid low latitude climate in the extreme west. Alongthe coast the climate is much milder, with fewer extremes in temperatures. Hurricanes sometimes hit the coastal areas of Texas from late July through September, andtornadoes are common in north-central Texas in April and May. D1 Temperature Summers are hot throughout the state, and temperatures exceeding 35°C (95°F)...

• Texas - USA History.

  D Climate Eastern Texas has a humid subtropical climate, while a semiarid low latitude climate prevails in central areas, and an arid low latitude climate in the extreme west. Alongthe coast the climate is much milder, with fewer extremes in temperatures. Hurricanes sometimes hit the coastal areas of Texas from late July through September, andtornadoes are common in north-central Texas in April and May. D1 Temperature Summers are hot throughout the state, and temperatures exceeding 35°C (95°F)...

• From Paradise Lost, Book I - anthology.

  At once as far as angels ken he viewsThe dismal situation waste and wild,A dungeon horrible, on all sides roundAs one great furnace flamed, yet from those flamesNo light, but rather darkness visibleServed only to discover sights of woe,Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peaceAnd rest can never dwell, hope never comesThat comes to all; but torture without endStill urges, and a fiery deluge, fedWith ever-burning sulphur unconsumed:Such place Eternal Justice had preparedFor those rebellious,...

• Gold - chemistry.

  producers of gold during this period. Spain's domination in South America resulted, in the 16th century, in a large increase in gold produced in the New World; someresulted from simple seizure of gold from the Native Americans, who had long mined the metal. In the same century Mexico contributed about 9 percent of the totalworld production. Gold was discovered in Australia in February 1851, and rich fields were found there. By the middle of the 19th century the United States produced a considera...

• droit des affaires

  usages adaptés au métier ; ces corporations mettent aussi en œuvre des règles qui régissent l’entrée d’un individu dans la profession.  Résulte de ces corporations un encadrement strict et rigide de l’accès à la profession et de l’exercice de la profession . Apparaissent différents évènements : - Découverte du nouveau monde (continent américain)  commerce qui s’intensifie, qui porte sur des objets nouveaux (mé...

• navette spatiale - astronomie.

  utilisé lors de nombreuses missions pour positionner ou récupérer différents satellites scientifiques ou de communication. Des carreaux de céramique et des feuilles souples de matériau isolant constituant un système de protection thermique ( thermal protection system, TPS) tapissent le ventre, le dessous des ailes et d’autres surfaces de l’orbiteur soumises à une forte chaleur, et le protègent ainsi lors de sa rentrée dans l’atmosphère. Contrairement au matériau utilisé pour les précédents va...

• Unemployment.

  set up to monitor the economy and provide advice to the president and Congress. Between 1945 and 1990 nine cyclical swings in unemployment occurred; all weresmaller than the 1930s depression. During this period the unemployment rate was as low as 2.9 percent (1953) and as high as 9.7 percent (1982). Because of cutbacksin the unemployment insurance program and changes in the nature of employment during the 1980s, however, only 37 percent of jobless workers received benefits in1990. Fears that the...

• victor hugo

• chinoise, littérature.

  conditionné par une bonne maîtrise des classiques confucianistes. Cette pratique, qui se perpétuera presque sans discontinuer jusqu’au début du XXe siècle, a contribué naturellement à figer la tradition littéraire nationale. 3 LA PÉRIODE CLASSIQUE ( III E-XII E SIÈCLE) À partir du début de la période classique et jusqu’au VII e siècle, la Chine est non seulement morcelée en différents États engagés dans des conflits perpétuels, mais elle a en outre à subir les invasions répétées des tribus b...

• la nuit des temps de rené barjavel

• Afrique noire, littérature d'.

  4. 1 Littérature écrite d’Afrique orientale 4.1. 1 Éthiopie et Somalie L’Éthiopie et la Somalie, aux confins des cultures nilotiques de l’Afrique noire ( voir Nil) et du monde arabe, constituent un cas à part. En effet, les Éthiopiens disposent très tôt, pour écrire leur langue — le guèze —, d’un alphabet sémitique original, inspiré des écritures sud-arabiques du Ier millénaire av. J.-C. Venues d’Égypte, l’influence de la culture grecque puis celle du christianisme, à partir du IVe siècle...

• The Record Jump.

  circuit in the United States before retiring from competition. Eventually he would complete a degree in sociology and go on to be a coach and educator. It tookanother 15 years before his successors even reached the 8.53 m (28 ft) mark. And until 1991, when Mike Powell of the United States jumped 8.95 m (29 ft 4 1/2 in),Bob Beamon's extraordinary record had stood unsurpassed. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• Drug Dependence.

  these drugs develops rapidly, no withdrawal syndrome is apparent when they are discontinued. Phencyclidine, or PCP, known popularly by such names as “angel dust” and “rocket fuel,” has no medical purpose for humans but is occasionally used by veterinarians asan anesthetic and sedative for animals. It became a common drug of abuse in the late 1970s, and is considered a menace because it can easily be synthesized. Itseffects differ from those of other hallucinogens. LSD, for example, produces deta...

• Excerpt from The Tempest - anthology.

  When he comes back; you demi-puppets thatBy moonshine do the green, sour ringlets make,Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose pastimeIs to make midnight mushrumps, that rejoiceTo hear the solemn curfew, by whose aid—Weak masters though ye be—I have bedimmedThe noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds,And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vaultSet roaring war; to the dread rattling thunderHave I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oakWith his own bolt; the strong-based promontoryHave I m...

• Liechtenstein - country.

  principal crops are corn, potatoes, barley, wheat, and vegetables. Grapes are grown for wine production. Cattle and sheep are raised for meat and dairy products. B Manufacturing Liechtenstein has few raw materials and must import more than 90 percent of its energy sources. Consequently, Liechtenstein has no heavy industry. Instead, theprincipality has developed a number of efficient, small-scale industries that manufacture specialized goods such as false teeth and dental supplies, pharmaceutica...

• Dance I INTRODUCTION Dance Archive Films/BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.

  features in its dance styles. The ordinary potential of the body can be expanded in dance, usually through long periods of specialized training. In ballet, for example, the dancer exercises to rotate,or turn out, the legs at the hips, making it possible to lift the leg high in an arabesque. In India, some dancers learn to choreograph their eyeballs and eyebrows.Costuming can extend the body's capabilities. Toe or pointe shoes, stilts, and flying harnesses are a few of the artificial aids employe...

• Spain - country.

  B Natural Resources Spain has a number of mineral resources. The largest known deposits are of iron ore, zinc, and lead. Spain also produces significant quantities of copper and mercury.These deposits are mined mainly in Huelva province in southwestern Spain, around Cartagena on the Mediterranean, and at various points along the Bay of Biscay inthe north. Additionally, uranium is mined in the region of Extremadura, near the Portuguese frontier, where pyrites, fluorspar, gypsum, tungsten, and po...

• Anti-utopies et principe espérance dans Les Châtiments de Victor Hugo 

  évolue. Hugo, qui affirme dans Les Contemplations l'identité entre l'utopiste et le poète, est lui-même parfois sévère, notamment àl'égard des utopies régressives. Il n'envisage pas de revenir à l'âge des cavernes. Au XIXe siècle, l'utopie se fait rare, au contrairede l'utopisme que l'on peut assimiler au principe espérance défini par Ernst Bloch. L'uchronie de Louis-Sébastien Mercier, L'An2440, est passée par là. La philosophie du progrès, les utopismes programmatiques l'emportent sur les voyag...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Hercules - anthology.

  '…amidst the gardens fairOf Hesperus and his daughters three,That sing about the golden tree.' The poets, led by the analogy of the lovely appearance of the western sky at sunset, viewed the west as a region of brightness and glory. Hence they placed in it theIsles of the Blest, the ruddy Isle Erytheia, on which the bright oxen of Geryon were pastured, and the Isle of the Hesperides. The apples are supposed by some to bethe oranges of Spain, of which the Greeks had heard some obscure account...

• Emile Zola Thérèse Raquin

• Cubism I INTRODUCTION Cubism, movement in modern art, especially in painting, invented by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and French artist Georges Braque in 1907 and 1908.

  Mont Sainte-Victoire by CézanneFrench artist Paul Cézanne painted Mont Sainte-Victoire, a mountain near his home in Provence in southern France, onmany occasions. Over time, the images he produced became flatter, less realistic, and more abstract. In this late version,painted from 1902 to 1904, patches of color barely indicate the mountain, sky, and foreground, while creating a rhythmicpattern across the painting’s surface. The mountain and sky, both intensely blue, appear almost to merge.Philad...