535 résultats pour "king"
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Vienna - geography.
V HISTORY Throughout its existence Vienna has been a frontier post. Originally a Celtic settlement (Vindobona), it was taken over by the Romans in the 1st century BC and fortified by Emperor Augustus as part of the defenses against the Germanic tribes that lived north of the Danube. In the 5th century AD, however, the Romans evacuated thearea. In the 9th century Austria became part of the renewed Roman Empire of Charlemagne, and in 976 Emperor Otto II granted it to the Babenberg family. By the...
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Samuel de Champlain.
From 1616 to 1620 Champlain spent most of each year in France, with brief summer visits to Québec. In France he had to struggle to keep the Canadian enterprisealive, raise capital, and enlist workers. He also had to fight to keep his command over Québec. In 1618 he presented reports on the future of the French colonies inAmerica to the king and to the French Chamber of Commerce. In these reports he proposed that 300 settler families and 15 Récollets be established at Québec, with 300 soldiers to...
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Samuel de Champlain - explorer.
From 1616 to 1620 Champlain spent most of each year in France, with brief summer visits to Québec. In France he had to struggle to keep the Canadian enterprisealive, raise capital, and enlist workers. He also had to fight to keep his command over Québec. In 1618 he presented reports on the future of the French colonies inAmerica to the king and to the French Chamber of Commerce. In these reports he proposed that 300 settler families and 15 Récollets be established at Québec, with 300 soldiers to...
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Bangkok - geography.
the decline of the canal system that once so distinguished the city, Bangkok's famous floating market has had to move from the city to the western suburbs. Themarket features vendors selling their wares from boats in the early-morning hours. Since the 1960s, high-rise buildings have been erected all over the city. Typical housing in the core of the city now consists of apartments on the second through fourthfloors of a shophouse; the building’s only recreational space is the rooftop. In the subu...
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John Milton
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John Milton
Seventeenth-century writer John Milton ranks as one of the greatest poets in the history of English literature.
liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” In Of Education (1644) Milton advocated an education combining classical instruction, to prepare the student for government service, with religious training. The third group of pamphlets includes those Milton wrote to justify the execution of Charles I. The first of these, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649), deals with constitutional questions and particularly with the rights of the people a...
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Commentaire de l’ouverture de l’acte I de King Arthur
Commentaire de l’ouverture de l’acte I de King Arthur L’extrait que nous venons d’entendre est l’ouverture (à la française) d’une pièce dramatique interprétée par un quatuor à cordes et un quatuor à vent. La pièce dont est extraite cette ouverture date de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle, est d’esthétique baroque et d’école française. Cette ouverture est construite en deux parties à 4/4, la première, grave et solennelle, de tempo andante et la seconde, plus légère, de tempo allegro. En...
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From Hamlet - anthology.
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shapeThat I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet,King, father, royal Dane. O, answer me!Let me not burst in ignorance, but tellWhy thy canonized bones, hearséd in death,Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchreWherein we saw thee quietly interredHath oped his ponderous and marble jawsTo cast thee up again. What may this meanThat thou, dead corse, again in complete...
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Lima (Peru) - geography.
home to a wide range of museums, many focusing on Peru’s indigenous heritage. These include the National Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, the GoldMuseum of Peru, the Museum of the Central Reserve Bank, and the Rafael Larco Herrera Museum, which specializes in pre-Hispanic ceramics. Art and history museumsare also found in metropolitan Lima, including the National Museum of the Republic, the Museum of Peruvian Culture, and the Museum of the Inquisition, in the buildingwhere colonial Cathol...
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Vikings .
Wessex (England) and Charles II the Bald and Louis III in France could command their resources to move to fortify their towns, station fleets and naval patrols alongthe coasts, and organize localized and mobile military forces. Some Christian leaders paid ransom to the larger Viking armies of the 10th and early 11th centuries.Taxing their people to pay the “danegeld,” the tribute to the Vikings, became a regular defensive strategy. But in return for the cash, the Vikings often negotiatedpeaceful...
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Richard Wagner.
which took place in August 1876. Wagner completed his final opera, Parsifal (which he called a 'festival drama of dedication' for the Festspielhaus), in 1882, and it premiered that July. In September Wagner moved to Venice, where in February 1883, after a heated argument with Cosima, he suffered a fatal heart attack. He was buried in Bayreuth. III MUSIC AND THOUGHT In the early 19th century, an opera was structured as a succession of conventional self-contained forms such as aria (a vocal so...
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Barbados - country.
Barbados is served by a public library system centered in Bridgetown. B Culture The culture of Barbados combines English institutions, which evolved through more than three centuries of English rule, with a folk culture of African origin. Because ofits English traditions, Barbados is sometimes called “Little England.” Cricket has traditionally been the national game, and the island has produced some of the sport’sgreatest players. Water sports including surfing, swimming, snorkeling, and sailin...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an 18th-century Austrian classical composer and one of the most famous musicians of all time,
came from a family of musicians that included his father and sister.
The opera, Mitridati, rè di Ponto (Mithridates, King of Pontus), was produced in 1770 in Milan under Mozart’s direction with success. Also that year the pope made Mozart a knight of the Order of the Golden Spur. A Salzburg and Germany From 1775 to 1780 Mozart was based mainly in Salzburg working for the archbishop Hieronymous von Colloredo. Although dissatisfied with the low pay and limitedopportunities his employment offered, Mozart composed many works during this period, including his first...
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Benjamin Franklin.
Copley Medal for distinguished contributions to experimental science. Franklin also exerted a great influence on education in Pennsylvania. In 1749 he wrote thepamphlet Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania; its publication led to the establishment in 1751 of the Academy of Philadelphia, later to become the University of Pennsylvania. The curriculum he suggested departed considerably from the study of the Greek and Roman classics then in vogue. Instead itemphasized Engl...
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Benjamin Franklin - USA History.
Copley Medal for distinguished contributions to experimental science. Franklin also exerted a great influence on education in Pennsylvania. In 1749 he wrote thepamphlet Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania; its publication led to the establishment in 1751 of the Academy of Philadelphia, later to become the University of Pennsylvania. The curriculum he suggested departed considerably from the study of the Greek and Roman classics then in vogue. Instead itemphasized Engl...
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Rome (Italy) - geography.
country’s best, and in the summer at the Baths of Caracalla. The city also has some 20 theaters and 6 major concert halls, which offer a varied repertory during the fall,winter, and spring. The museums of the city deal with all aspects of the arts and sciences and are among the world’s finest. The oldest art collection in Rome, housed in the CapitolineMuseum, was established in 1471 and contains exceptional antiquities. Among other Roman museums are the National Museum of the Villa Giulia, which...
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Warfare.
organizations as the League of Nations in 1920 and the United Nations in 1945, and détente (suggested for scaling down the cold war). See Arms Control. Modern antiwar sentiment and organized peace movements are derived in large part from the beliefs of religious sects such as the Society of Friends and the MennoniteChurch. The first peace societies in history were established in the U.S. in 1815, and since then pacifists have actively opposed wars and conscription, and promoted thecause of con...
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American Music
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American Music, the folk, popular, and classical music of the United States--created by American-born or American-trained composers, or originating in American
culture, or written primarily for American audiences.
The country's first permanent orchestra was the New York Philharmonic Society, founded in 1842. Among the first symphonic and operatic composers the mostprominent was William Henry Fry, who composed the first opera by an American ( Leonora, 1845). Fry is best remembered, however, for four symphonies written in the 1850s and 1860s. George F. Bristow wrote the first opera on an American theme; his Rip Van Winkle was performed in New York City in 1855. Town bands, a popular form of community mu...
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St. Louis (city) - geography.
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St. Louis (city) or Saint Louis,
Between 1940 and 1990 the black population in metropolitan St. Louis nearly tripled. Blacks are most heavily concentrated in three areas in the St. Louis metropolitanregion: East Saint Louis, the North Side close to downtown, and an east-west belt extending from the waterfront to beyond Forest Park. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, areas to the north and south of the central business district were settled by immigrant working families from Germany, Ireland,and many Eastern European countrie...
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Canadian Forces.
As the Land Force Command component of the CF, the Canadian army is responsible for land combat and for physically protecting people and land-based resources. Itis the component of the CF most often called on to support international military operations and peacekeeping missions and to maintain order in times of civil unrest. A Organization The 20,900 personnel who comprise the army’s regular force are organized into four geographically based areas. Land Force Atlantic includes the provinces of...
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Boston - geography.
The neighborhoods of Allston and Brighton occupy the northwest corner of the city to the west of Fenway. The Allston-Brighton area is bordered to the east, north, andwest by the Charles River and to the south by the Massachusetts Turnpike and the town of Brookline. It is an industrial and residential neighborhood that is also thelocation of Boston College and Harvard University Business School. Boston has been unsuccessful in annexing Brookline, the birthplace of U.S. president John F.Kennedy an...
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Thomas Jefferson
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Washington (state) - geography.
The crest of the Cascade Range divides Washington into two distinct climatic regions. The area west of the Cascades, which is exposed throughout the year to rain-bearing winds from the Pacific Ocean, has a temperate marine type of climate that is characterized by mild wet winters and cool summers. The Cascades prevent themoist air blowing in from the Pacific from reaching eastern Washington. The Rocky Mountains on the eastern border also represent a climatic barrier. As a result, thesevere winte...
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Washington (state) - USA History.
The crest of the Cascade Range divides Washington into two distinct climatic regions. The area west of the Cascades, which is exposed throughout the year to rain-bearing winds from the Pacific Ocean, has a temperate marine type of climate that is characterized by mild wet winters and cool summers. The Cascades prevent themoist air blowing in from the Pacific from reaching eastern Washington. The Rocky Mountains on the eastern border also represent a climatic barrier. As a result, thesevere winte...
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Constitution of the United States.
chief executive should have the power to veto legislation, should be elected by Congress or the people, should be eligible to run for reelection, and should command thearmed forces. Some delegates even hoped for a limited monarchy. Not until September 8, more than three months after the convention started, did the final shape ofthe presidency emerge: a single leader, elected to a four-year term and eligible for reelection, with authority to veto bills enacted by Congress. The president was alsog...
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Constitution of the United States - U.
chief executive should have the power to veto legislation, should be elected by Congress or the people, should be eligible to run for reelection, and should command thearmed forces. Some delegates even hoped for a limited monarchy. Not until September 8, more than three months after the convention started, did the final shape ofthe presidency emerge: a single leader, elected to a four-year term and eligible for reelection, with authority to veto bills enacted by Congress. The president was alsog...
- TOUCH OF ZEN (analyse du film).
- VICTOR/VICTORIA
- English Revolution I INTRODUCTION English Revolution, also called the Puritan Revolution, general designation for the period in English history from 1640 to 1660.
- English Revolution .
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- Article de presse: La fin d'un rêve ?
- Perseus
- Peleus
- Theseus
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Rustin (Bayard)
Invite par le Part! du Congres, pour etudier les methodes de Gandhi. En 1958, II participe en Angieterre a la march. contre la bombe atomique puts, en 1960 proteste au Sahara contre les eseals nuclealres francals. Aux Etats- Unis, Ewes avoir etarun des fondateurs du CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), 11aide Martin Luther King a organiser la SCLC (Southern ChristianLeadership Conference) et figure pendant sept ans parmi ses dirk geants, en compagnie de Ralph Abernathy (le pasteur de la Premiere...
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LAIS MARIE DE FRANCE
toujours d'accepter son identité jusqu'à ce qu'elle révèle la ceinture de chasteté. Elle lui dit alors de son voyage douloureux. Mériaduc tente de garder la reine sous son contrôle, mais il est contrarié et finalement tué par Guigemar. "Équitan" est un lai breton, un type de poème narratif, écrit par Marie de France dans le courant du 12ème siècle. Le poème fait partie de ce qui est collectivement connus comme Les Lais de Marie de France. Comme les autres lais dans la coll...
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L'oeuvre de Waugh
sépulcral, perdra son âme et la paix pour avoir pactisé avec le Malin, Joseph Staline, jugé à l'époque plus nuisible que Benito Mussolini. Tous les personnages de Waugh, excentriques ou naturels, malicieux ou lourds, qu'ils s'ébattent à Londres ou sur l'annexe continentale, dans des royaumes ou des républiques farfelus, Azania ou Neutralia, dans un antique comté ou aux États-Unis, tous gesticulent, confabulent, s'amusent dans un con...
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AcheLousLAbyrinth
d’abord, puis les relations professionnelles et amicales partagées tout au long de cette année passée ensemble. • Sommaire [pic] [pic] Introduction générale L’entreprise, dés lors que son activité augmente, nécessite le recours à des salariés. Cette situation justifie la mise en place d’une gestion sociale, dans toute structure économique. Bien évidemment, le développement de cette structuration sociale va passer par des seuils qu’ils soient historiques ou liés à la taille de l’entrep...
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AcheLouspALAmedes
nation. Il en découle un deuxième aspect de la contrainte extérieure : les marges de manœuvres des politiques économiques sont écoule réduites. Prenons l'exemple d'un gouvernement qui cherche à réduire le chômage en relançant l'économie par une augmentation des dépenses publiques et une reprise de la consommation et de l'investissement grâce à une baisse des ntation taux d'intérêt. On peut craindre que sa politique échoue. En effet, la relance risque d'être inflationniste, la demande...
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Middle Ages .
Saints were very important in Late Antiquity. They were considered both models of virtue and powerful miracle workers. One of the most well-known saints of the periodwas Saint Anthony. Anthony gave away all his possessions and left his hometown in Egypt to live alone in the desert and pray. Anthony was one of the first Christianmonks. The word monk comes from a term meaning 'alone.' Gradually Anthony attracted followers, and he eventually became the center of a whole community of monks who wis...
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negro-spiritual ou gospel-song.
le Louis and the Good Book , de Louis Armstrong, ou A Love Supreme , de John Coltrane. Les grands pionniers du rock noirs ou blancs (Elvis Presley comme Little Richard) ont été d'abord des interprètes de gospel-songs. La soul n'en est que la forme profane, pratiquée hors des églises par les chanteurs de negro-spirituals (Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Al Green...). En fait, toute la musique populaire postérieure aux années quarante dérive (autant que du blues individualiste des t...
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From Bulfinch's Mythology: Beowulf - anthology.
help his aged monarch. Another rush of the dragon shattered Beowulf's sword and the monster's fangs sunk into Beowulf's neck. Wiglaf, rushing into the struggle,helped the dying Beowulf to kill the dragon. Before his death, Beowulf named Wiglaf his successor to the throne of Geatland and ordered that his own ashes be placed in a memorial shrine at the top of a highcliff commanding the sea. Beowulf's body was burned on a vast funeral pyre, while twelve Geats rode around the mound singing their...
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Kentucky Derby Winners.
1946 Assault 1947 Jet Pilot 1948 Citation 1949 Ponder 1950 Middleground 1951 Count Turf 1952 Hill Gail 1953 Dark Star 1954 Determine 1955 Swaps 1956 Needles 1957 Iron Liege 1958 Tim Tam 1959 Tomy Lee 1960 Venetian Way 1961 Carry Back 1962 Decidedly 1963 Chateaugay 1964 Northern Dancer 1965 Lucky Debonair 1966 Kauai King 1967 Proud Clarion 1968 Forward Pass* 1969 Majestic Prince 1970 Dust Commander 1971 Canonero II 1972 Riva Ridge 1973 Secretariat 1974 Cannonade 1975 Foolish Pleasure 1976 Bold Fo...
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Kentucky Derby Winners.
1946 Assault 1947 Jet Pilot 1948 Citation 1949 Ponder 1950 Middleground 1951 Count Turf 1952 Hill Gail 1953 Dark Star 1954 Determine 1955 Swaps 1956 Needles 1957 Iron Liege 1958 Tim Tam 1959 Tomy Lee 1960 Venetian Way 1961 Carry Back 1962 Decidedly 1963 Chateaugay 1964 Northern Dancer 1965 Lucky Debonair 1966 Kauai King 1967 Proud Clarion 1968 Forward Pass* 1969 Majestic Prince 1970 Dust Commander 1971 Canonero II 1972 Riva Ridge 1973 Secretariat 1974 Cannonade 1975 Foolish Pleasure 1976 Bold Fo...
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DAEDALus
La crise économique touche toutes les entreprises, aussi bien celles de la sphère financière que celles de la sphère réelle, entrainant une réactivation des politiques interventionnistes de la part des gouvernements. Devant le risque systémique qu’a fait peser sur le système financier mondial la faillite de Lehman Brothers, les gouvernements ont mis en œuvre des mesures d’aide à leurs banques nationales, prêts de plusieurs milliards d’euros aux grands établissements financiers de la place...
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echidnA
Mardonios, commandant l’armée perse, envahit de nouveau l’Attique et incendie Athènes, les Spartiates retardent le plus possible leur intervention, dans l’espoir de terminer un mur qui barre l’isthme péloponnésien. Puis, ils envoient finalement une armée qui combat au côté des alliés dans la bataille victorieuse de Platée. Dès 478, les Spartiates se retirent de la coalition et se recentrent sur les affaires strictement péloponnésienne, poussés par les alliés qui se plaignent de la cond...
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- cours civilisation
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Minos and Scylla
se retrouve donc à la fois avec une tradition dynastique, et la participation du peuple. Cela peut poser problème en cas de mauvais résultat à un plébiscite, ça peut fragiliser la dynastie. Le régime fait donc beaucoup référence aux plébiscites de 51 et 52, mais on se gardera bien d'en organiser d'autres jusqu'en 1870. b) Démocratie La constitution de 1852 maintient des institutions représentatives et remet au suffrage des électeurs la désignation des membres de l’une des assemblées, le nou...