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• Byzantine Art and Architecture I INTRODUCTION Archangel Michael This depiction of the archangel Michael, in Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice, Italy, is an example of ancient enamel art.

  This Byzantine ivory relief shows Christ the Pantocrator, or ruler of the world, raising his hand in a gesture of blessing. Itcomes from the cover of a lectionary, or book containing portions of the scriptures, and dates from the second golden ageof Byzantine art, the late 10th century. The relief is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Mosaics were the favored medium for the interior adornment of Byzantine churches. The small cubes, or tesserae, t...

• Qui court deux lièvres à la fois n’en prend aucun

  O 8uo Il I iacas 8LMICC011 Où&ÉTEpoll KGTaAa11,1ki11EL Qui court deux lièvres à la fois n'en prend aucun Ce proverbe, répertorié par Apostolius ( 12, 33 ), et qu'Erasme traduit par Lepores duos insequens neutn1m capit (Adagia, 3, 3. 36, fo1111'1le qui figure également dans le recueil de Walther. cf. 13669), sera repris dans l'Apparatus eroditionis de Michael Pexenfelder (NOmberg, 1670. 97) ; citons aussi la variante : Qui binos lepores una sectabitur hora, I non uno sa/lem, sed saepe care...

• Louis Stephen St.

  St. Laurent brought to office a new concept of government. His broad, all-national view firmly rejected Québec's traditional isolationism. He made his decisions with coolimpartiality, giving first consideration to the welfare of Canada as a whole. St. Laurent's foreign policy involved Canada in world politics. He supported the UN, fully endorsing the initiatives proposed by Pearson, his representative there. St.Laurent actively sponsored and subsequently cooperated with the North Atlantic Treaty...

• Louis Stephen St.

  St. Laurent brought to office a new concept of government. His broad, all-national view firmly rejected Québec's traditional isolationism. He made his decisions with coolimpartiality, giving first consideration to the welfare of Canada as a whole. St. Laurent's foreign policy involved Canada in world politics. He supported the UN, fully endorsing the initiatives proposed by Pearson, his representative there. St.Laurent actively sponsored and subsequently cooperated with the North Atlantic Treaty...

• Feudalism I INTRODUCTION Feudalism, contractual system of political and military relationships existing among members of the nobility in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages.

  lord”; thus, it was not rebellion for a subvassal to fight against his lord’s lord. In England, however, William the Conqueror and his successors required their vassals’vassals to take oaths of fealty to them. B Duties of a Vassal Military service in the field was basic to feudalism, but it was far from all that the vassal owed to his lord. When the lord had a castle, he might require his vassals togarrison it, a service called castle-guard. The lord also expected his vassals to attend his cour...

• Babylonia - USA History.

  Pharmacology, too, doubtless had made considerable progress, although the only major direct evidence of this comes from a Sumerian tablet written several centuriesbefore Hammurabi. C Legal System and Writing Law and justice were key concepts in the Babylonian way of life. Justice was administered by the courts, each of which consisted of from one to four judges. Often theelders of a town constituted a tribunal. The judges could not reverse their decisions for any reason, but appeals from their...

• Andrew Jackson.

  against a resolution praising President George Washington’s administration. Jackson claimed that Washington’s policy toward Native Americans was too lenient and thatJay’s Treaty, concluded with the British under Washington’s administration, was too damaging to American interests. After one year in the House, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate, the other chamber of the Congress of the United States. He servedfrom September 1797 to April 1798 and then retired to p...

• Andrew Jackson

  against a resolution praising President George Washington’s administration. Jackson claimed that Washington’s policy toward Native Americans was too lenient and thatJay’s Treaty, concluded with the British under Washington’s administration, was too damaging to American interests. After one year in the House, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate, the other chamber of the Congress of the United States. He servedfrom September 1797 to April 1798 and then retired to p...

• Andrew Jackson - USA History.

  against a resolution praising President George Washington’s administration. Jackson claimed that Washington’s policy toward Native Americans was too lenient and thatJay’s Treaty, concluded with the British under Washington’s administration, was too damaging to American interests. After one year in the House, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate, the other chamber of the Congress of the United States. He servedfrom September 1797 to April 1798 and then retired to p...

• Fiji Islands - country.

  the early 1990s. Fishing is done mainly at a subsistence level, but commercial fishing is increasing. The country also receives income from the sale of licenses to foreignvessels to fish in Fiji’s exclusive economic zone. Industry, including mining, manufacturing, and construction, employs 34 percent of Fiji’s wage earners and, in 2006, contributed 26 percent of GDP. The governmentinstituted tax-free incentives in 1988 that created a flourishing garment industry. Ready-made garments are now the...

• Maya Civilization.

  destruction was directed mostly at temples in the ceremonial precincts; it had little or no impact on the economy or population of a city as a whole. Some city-states didoccasionally conquer others, but this was not a common occurrence until very late in the Classic period when lowland civilization had begun to disintegrate. Until thattime, the most common pattern of Maya warfare seems to have consisted of raids employing rapid attacks and retreats by relatively small numbers of warriors, most o...

• Maya Civilization - History.

  destruction was directed mostly at temples in the ceremonial precincts; it had little or no impact on the economy or population of a city as a whole. Some city-states didoccasionally conquer others, but this was not a common occurrence until very late in the Classic period when lowland civilization had begun to disintegrate. Until thattime, the most common pattern of Maya warfare seems to have consisted of raids employing rapid attacks and retreats by relatively small numbers of warriors, most o...

• Astronomie ASTRONOMIE LE GLOBE TERRESTRE, LE JOUR ET LA NUIT I.

  Astronomie II. MOUVEMENTS APPARENTS DANS LE CIEL 1) Mouvement diurne du Soleil 2 méthodes principales peuvent être employées pour repérer et garder en mémoire les positions successives du Soleil dans le ciel au cours de la j ournée. · L’utilisation du gnomon, instrument déjà connu des Grecs, composé d’un bât on planté verticalement. On peut alors repérer et tracer sur le plan horizontal l’ombre du bâton à différents moments de la jou...

• Ulysses S.

  In the autumn of 1862, Grant began planning the drive on Vicksburg, Mississippi, the Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River, which was to yield one of hisgreatest military successes. After several unsuccessful attempts on Vicksburg during the winter, Grant devised a new strategy of attack. In April 1863 he marched hisarmy south along the west side of the river to a point well below the heavily defended city. There, with the aid of the Union river fleet, he crossed the river and began as...

• Ulysses S.

  In the autumn of 1862, Grant began planning the drive on Vicksburg, Mississippi, the Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River, which was to yield one of hisgreatest military successes. After several unsuccessful attempts on Vicksburg during the winter, Grant devised a new strategy of attack. In April 1863 he marched hisarmy south along the west side of the river to a point well below the heavily defended city. There, with the aid of the Union river fleet, he crossed the river and began as...

• Thomas Jefferson I INTRODUCTION Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), third president of the United States (1801-1809) and author of the Declaration of Independence.

  Jefferson was a poor speaker, but his literary talents made him a highly valued member of committees when resolutions and other public papers were drafted. Heemerged as the recognized author of the patriot cause in Virginia and indeed in the whole of the colonies. Jefferson's first public paper, however, was considered toostiff and formal, and it was rewritten. The paper was a response to the greeting of the new governor, Lord Botetourt, to the General Assembly. Jefferson, who nevertook criticis...

• Thomas Jefferson.

  Jefferson was a poor speaker, but his literary talents made him a highly valued member of committees when resolutions and other public papers were drafted. Heemerged as the recognized author of the patriot cause in Virginia and indeed in the whole of the colonies. Jefferson's first public paper, however, was considered toostiff and formal, and it was rewritten. The paper was a response to the greeting of the new governor, Lord Botetourt, to the General Assembly. Jefferson, who nevertook criticis...

• Thomas Jefferson

  Jefferson was a poor speaker, but his literary talents made him a highly valued member of committees when resolutions and other public papers were drafted. Heemerged as the recognized author of the patriot cause in Virginia and indeed in the whole of the colonies. Jefferson's first public paper, however, was considered toostiff and formal, and it was rewritten. The paper was a response to the greeting of the new governor, Lord Botetourt, to the General Assembly. Jefferson, who nevertook criticis...

• Thomas Jefferson - USA History.

  Jefferson was a poor speaker, but his literary talents made him a highly valued member of committees when resolutions and other public papers were drafted. Heemerged as the recognized author of the patriot cause in Virginia and indeed in the whole of the colonies. Jefferson's first public paper, however, was considered toostiff and formal, and it was rewritten. The paper was a response to the greeting of the new governor, Lord Botetourt, to the General Assembly. Jefferson, who nevertook criticis...

• Vocabulaire: CHEMIN, substantif masculin.

  abrupt; un chemin poudreux, sablonneux, caillouteux, pierreux, rocailleux; un chemin d?fonc?, accident?, verglac?; un chemin facile, rude. Un chemin (peu) fr?quent?, passant (Dictionnaire de l'Acad?mie Fran?aise 1835-78), (im)praticable, carrossable; un chemin familier. Un chemin muletier; un chemin bord? (de peupliers, de fleurs); un chemin en pente, en lacets; un chemin de c?te, de cr?te, de montagne; la boue, les cahots du chemin; ? la crois?e, ? l'embranchement, au carrefour des chemins; ouv...

• Qing Dynasty - History.

  The Manchus also dealt with the problem of Russian expansion into northeastern Asia. In 1689 the Treaty of Nerchinsk was signed by an envoy from the Manchu courtand a Russian representing Peter the Great. The treaty, the first between China and a Western country, established territorial boundaries and defined rules ofcommerce for the two powers. Through the mid-18th century, the Manchus continued to consolidate their power. In 1720 the Qing ruler sent forces to fight the Mongols in Tibet and the...

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

  disorder that local white officials would be forced to end segregation to restore normal business relations. The strategy did not work in Albany. During months ofprotests, Albany’s police chief jailed hundreds of demonstrators without visible police violence. Eventually the protesters’ energy, and the money to bail out protesters,ran out. The strategy did work, however, in Birmingham, Alabama, when SCLC joined a local protest during the spring of 1963. The protest was led by SCLC member FredShut...

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

  disorder that local white officials would be forced to end segregation to restore normal business relations. The strategy did not work in Albany. During months ofprotests, Albany’s police chief jailed hundreds of demonstrators without visible police violence. Eventually the protesters’ energy, and the money to bail out protesters,ran out. The strategy did work, however, in Birmingham, Alabama, when SCLC joined a local protest during the spring of 1963. The protest was led by SCLC member FredShut...

• Police.

  body. In larger agencies, executive officers may be selected through a civil service or merit system, after moving through the ranks from patrol officer to sergeant,lieutenant, captain, and (in still larger agencies) deputy or assistant chief. At the county level, the head of the agency usually holds the title sheriff. The sheriff is almost always elected and has the power to appoint deputies. Sheriffs'departments often provide law enforcement services for unincorporated areas of counties and ar...

• La dame de Monsoreau v.

  Toute cette cavalerie quitta la route de Fromenteau, prit a travers terre pour joindre Choisy, puis, passant la Seine au pont de Charenton, rentra par la porte Saint-Antoine pour aller se perdre, comme un essaim d'abeilles, dans l'hotel de Guise, qui semblait n'attendre que leur arrivee pour se refermer sur eux. —Bon! dit Chicot en s'embusquant au coin de la rue des Quatre-Fils, il y a non-seulement du Mayenne, mais encore du Guise la-dessous. Jusqu'a present ce n'etait que curieux, mais cela va...

• Chinese Literature I INTRODUCTION Chinese Literature, writings of the Chinese people, with a continuous history of more than 3,000 years.

  (Huang) River basin region in the north. The verses are in lines of four characters (or syllables) and use rhyme and alliteration (repetition of the initial letter). Confuciusquoted them in his works. Because he described them as “without depraved thoughts,” all the verses in the Shi jing have been treated as moral allegories. (4) The Li ji (Book of Ritual ) contains detailed discussions of the principles of conduct at court and in private ceremonies. Although the Han dynasty and later ruler...

• Chinese Literature I INTRODUCTION Chinese Literature, writings of the Chinese people, with a continuous history of more than 3,000 years.

  (Huang) River basin region in the north. The verses are in lines of four characters (or syllables) and use rhyme and alliteration (repetition of the initial letter). Confuciusquoted them in his works. Because he described them as “without depraved thoughts,” all the verses in the Shi jing have been treated as moral allegories. (4) The Li ji (Book of Ritual ) contains detailed discussions of the principles of conduct at court and in private ceremonies. Although the Han dynasty and later ruler...

• Cambodia - country.

  The population of Cambodia is 14,241,640 (2008 estimate). Population growth per year is estimated at 1.8 percent, one of the highest rates in Asia. The rate of infantmortality is also high. The population density is 81 persons per sq km (209 per sq mi), with the densest concentrations on the heavily cultivated central plain. Themountainous regions of the country, where malaria is widespread, are thinly populated, as are the poorly watered northern provinces. During the late 1970s, under thebruta...

• Je suis à la tête d'un Etat qui est en situation de faillite sur le plan financier, je suis à la tête d'un Etat qui est depuis 15 ans en déficit chronique, je suis à la tête d'un Etat qui n'a jamais voté un budget en équilibre depuis 25 ans. Ça ne peut pas durer. François Fillon, 2007, peu après sa nomination à Matignon

  marché (nous citeront la Suède et le Canada), ont porté à prêt de 80% la baisse des dépenses publiques. Le plan social prend le dessus sur le plan d’austérité à cause de la politique électoraliste ce qui risque d’aggraver les perspectives économiques en repoussant le problème. De plus, on peut voir que les prévisions portent justement à baisser tout ce qui est social, on pourra parler en premier lieu de l’âge légal de la retraite à 62 ans qui était prévu pour 2018 a été avancé à 2017 vo...

• Discipline olympique depuis 1924 pour les épreuves nordiques et depuis 1936 pour les épreuves alpines, le ski est un sport dont les techniques et les spécialités se sont renouvelées au fur et à mesure des incessants progrès de l'équipement.

  ski nautique Voiron La technique Outre les schuss (descente en trace directe avec recherche de vitesse), les principales techniques sont, par ordre de difficulté croissante : le chasse-neige (freinage et virages réalisés avec les spatules rapprochées et les talons écartés), le dérapage (freinage avec les skis parallèles), le stem-christiania (virage avec les skis parallèles), la godille (succession rapide de virages courts, skis parallèles). L'analyse de ces techniques figure dans le Ski f...

• oiseaux.

  Les oiseaux ont une ouïe très développée, malgré l’absence d’oreille externe (pavillon). La structure de l’oreille interne est également différente de celle des mammifères.Elle leur permet de percevoir deux sons séparés par un intervalle de deux millièmes de seconde, ce qui est dix fois mieux que la performance humaine. La gamme des sonsaudibles par les oiseaux est la même que celle de l’homme : les oiseaux ne perçoivent ni les infrasons, ni les ultrasons. 2.6. 3 Odorat et goût L’odorat des ois...

• New France - Canadian History.

  the colony now consisted of a governor-general, an intendant , and a Sovereign Council, all located at Québec, with local governors at Trois-Rivières and Montréal, and law courts for all three districts. The senior official was the governor-general, responsible for military matters and for relations with the indigenous nations and theEnglish colonies. The intendant, a noble trained in law, was the official responsible for civil affairs: justice, law enforcement, and the maintenance of the colon...

• Kazakhstan - country.

  mismanagement. Between 1949 and 1991 the Soviet government conducted about 70 percent of all of its nuclear testing in Kazakhstan, mostly in the northeastern area near the city ofSemipalatinsk (now Semey). Nearly 500 nuclear explosions occurred both above and below ground near Semipalatinsk, while more than 40 nuclear detonationsoccurred at other testing grounds in western Kazakhstan and in the Qyzylqum desert. More than 1 million of Kazakhstan’s inhabitants were exposed to dangerous levelsof ra...

• Native Americans of Middle and South America.

  A line that snakes across central Mexico near the Tropic of Cancer forms the northern boundary of Mesoamerica; north of this line rainfall sharply declines and theclimate is much drier. The ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica all arose and developed in the area between this line and the Guatemalan highlands far to the south. Richvolcanic soils are found throughout much of the region. A2 People and Languages Mesoamerica was a great melting pot, home to many peoples and interrelated cultures. In...

• Dictionnaire en ligne: ÉCOURTER, verbe transitif.

  cérémonieusement devant Mlle. Verdure, qui lui fit une révérence écourtée (ANDRÉ GIDE, Isabelle, 1911, page 607) : Ø 3. Tu leur as déjà entendu réciter [aux prêtres de Thèbes] la formule? Tu as vu ces pauvres têtes d'employés fatigués écourtant les gestes, avalant les mots, bâclant ce mort pour en prendre un autre avant le repas de midi? JEAN ANOUILH, Antigone, 1946, page 177. 3. Au figuré. Notre esprit incline sans cesse (...) à rétrécir et à écourter les réalités qu'il touche (PIERRE TEILHA...

• gauthier

  13 nouveaux épisodes de la série télévisée Les aventure de la courte échelle. Polyvalent dans ses thématiques et lui-même amateur de romans d'horreur, Bertrand Gauthier signe aussi 3 romans d'épouvante pour les jeunes de 9 à 12 ans.    Le Ministère a présenté une objection préliminaire concluant que l'appel était devenu sans objet parce qu'il n'y avait plus de nomination imminente ou proposée dans ce processus de sélection puisque le seul candidat reçu apparaissant sur la liste d'admissibilité...

• Article 39 quaterdecies du Code général des impôts : commentaire

  Depenses d'entre- tien et de reparation : Les depenses d'entretien et de reparation des locaux professionnels, du materiel et du mobilier sont en prin- cipe deductibles pour la determination du benefice imposable. La jurisprudence refuse la deductibilite immediate aux depenses qui ont pour resultat soit l'entrée d'un nouvel element dans I'actif immobilise, soit une aug- mentation de la valeur pour laquelle une immobi- lisation est inscrite au bilan, soit la prolongation de la duree d'utilisation...

• Maupassant (Exposé – Art & Littérature – Collège/Lycée)

  UNE NOUVELLE VIE LE Mtnn D'tcRIVAIN • Les principaux quotidiens- Gif BltJs, mr.~• -=~r ~ Le Gaulois , Le Figaro­s'arrachent les services de Maupassant auquel ils commandent des récits -qui seront plus tard réunis ._;......:;;o..;.;._...,. en volume-, des feuilletons ou des chroniques d'actualité, qui sont publiés au jour le jour dans leurs pages . • Maupassant partage dès lors sa vie entre la littérature , le journalisme et les voyages, des voyages d...

• Grand oral du bac : LE TENNIS

  Le tennis à ce que l'adversaire ne puisse la renvoyer (ou ait du mal à la retourner). L'américain Arthur Ashe, l'un des plus grands joueurs du XX" siècle, aimait à dire : gagner au tennis, c'est facile, il suffit de faire passer par-dessus le filet la balle une fois de plus que son adversaire. Tout le monde sait que le principal piment du rugby vient du rebond incertain du ballon ovale. Ce que les spectateurs, même assidus, des tour­ nois de ten...

• L'apologue, Forme d'argumentation efficace ?

  homme naif, plein de candeur et d'illusions C'est une façon pour le narrateur de poser un regard neuf sur le monde,dénonçant des absurdités ou des injustices. Par exemple, dans Micromégas, le héros du même nom va découvrir lecontraste saisissant résidant dans la petitesse des humains qui semblent non-proportionnels à leur intelligence, maisaussi à leur capacité de nuisance. Voltaire nous expose cette réalité à travers le regard étranger du personnage. Le conte philosophique est associé à Voltai...

• Excerpt from All's Well That Ends Well - anthology.

  SECOND LORD. Do not say so. COUNTESS. Think upon patience. Pray you, gentlemenI have felt so many quirks of joy and griefThat the first face of neither on the start soCan woman meun to't. Where is my son, I pray you! SECOND LORD. Madam, he's gone to serve the Duke of Florence.We met him thitherward, for thence we came,And, after some dispatch in hand at court,Thither we bend again. HELENA. Look on his letter, madam: here's my passport.(She reads the letter aloud)“When thou canst get the ring upo...

• Cours de Logistique Transport

  Evolution des différents modes de transport : VOIR GRAPHIQUE 4. En 2006 : - Routier est à la hausse - Fluvial est à la hausse - Ferroviaire est à la baisse , mais depuis 2 ans, on peut noter un regain grâce au TER / Tramway… Le transport routier est le principale bénéficiaire de la croissance. La croissance des transports terrestres s’affermit grâce au dynamisme du transport routier sous pavillon français (immatriculation française), notamment sur les marchés de courtes di...

• 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...

• Henry VIII I INTRODUCTION Henry VIII (1491-1547), king of England (1509-1547), the image of the Renaissance king as immortalized by German artist Hans Holbein, who painted him hands on hips, legs astride, exuding confidence and power.

  that was completed by 1540. The crown then took possession of all their property, paying small pensions to the approximately 10,000 monks and nuns who weredeprived of their homes. In a reversal of roles, many towns were forced to assist the same people who had once provided charity to the less fortunate. To pay for hiscontinued wars, Henry sold the former monastic lands to nobles and gentry, who thereby gained an interest in the success of Henry’s reformation and becamedependent upon the king. T...

• Henry VIII.

  that was completed by 1540. The crown then took possession of all their property, paying small pensions to the approximately 10,000 monks and nuns who weredeprived of their homes. In a reversal of roles, many towns were forced to assist the same people who had once provided charity to the less fortunate. To pay for hiscontinued wars, Henry sold the former monastic lands to nobles and gentry, who thereby gained an interest in the success of Henry’s reformation and becamedependent upon the king. T...

• Henry VIII .

  that was completed by 1540. The crown then took possession of all their property, paying small pensions to the approximately 10,000 monks and nuns who weredeprived of their homes. In a reversal of roles, many towns were forced to assist the same people who had once provided charity to the less fortunate. To pay for hiscontinued wars, Henry sold the former monastic lands to nobles and gentry, who thereby gained an interest in the success of Henry’s reformation and becamedependent upon the king. T...

• Excerpt from The Winter's Tale - anthology.

  Of all that hear me, and my near'st of kinCry fie upon my grave! LEONTES. I ne'er heard yetThat any of these holder vices wantedLess impudence to gainsay what they didThan to perform it first. HERMIONE. That's true enough,Though 'tis a saying, sir, not due to me. LEONTES. You will not own it. HERMIONE. More than mistress ofWhich comes to me in name of fault I must notAt all acknowledge. For Polixenes,With whom I am accused, I do confessI loved him as in honour he required:With such a kind of lov...

• Ronald Reagan.

  deposed shah of Iran to enter the United States for medical treatment, a group of Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehrān and held 53 Americansas hostages. United States media publicized the plight of the hostages and Carter’s failure to win their release. They were eventually released in January 1981, on theday of Reagan’s inauguration. The contrast between the television personalities of the two candidates was also very important. Carter’s stiff, nervous manner had never bee...

• Ronald Reagan - USA History.

  deposed shah of Iran to enter the United States for medical treatment, a group of Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehrān and held 53 Americansas hostages. United States media publicized the plight of the hostages and Carter’s failure to win their release. They were eventually released in January 1981, on theday of Reagan’s inauguration. The contrast between the television personalities of the two candidates was also very important. Carter’s stiff, nervous manner had never bee...

• Harry S.

  B2 Presiding Judge Political machines, such as the Pendergast organization, were common to both parties in the 1920s. They were based on the spoils system, in which winning politiciansgave government jobs to those loyal party members who had helped them get elected. Using government jobs as rewards, politicians created efficient (and oftenalmost unstoppable) vote-getting “machines,” in which party loyalty was often more important than doing any work. Without local machine support a political ca...