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Millard Fillmore
B Vice President of the United States During the first half of 1850, Fillmore as vice president presided over the United States Senate (the upper chamber of Congress) as angry debates raged betweenNorthern and Southern sectionalists over the status of slavery in the recently acquired lands. His fairness and sense of humor in the chair were not enough to restorepeace among the contending senators. The antislavery faction, led by Senator Seward (the former governor of New York) and Senator Salmon...
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Republican Party.
the reaction to the depression that the Republican Party controlled Congress for only 4 of the 48 years between 1932 and 1980. The Republicans did win the presidencyfour times during that period—in 1952, 1956, 1968, and 1972—when the Democratic Party split or when some unusual combination of circumstances occurred. Fromthe 1930s through the 1970s, however, the Democratic Party was the dominant party in the United States. The response of the Republicans to this new situation was confusion, anger,...
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Reconstruction (U.
Instead, Congress began a lengthy debate over Reconstruction policy. The program eventually enacted resulted from a series of compromises among Republicanfactions; the Radicals were never powerful enough to gain everything they sought. Still, fueled by anger at the president's refusal to compromise and at the appearanceof former Confederates returning to power throughout the South, members of Congress moved increasingly toward the Radicals. The key Reconstruction measuresenacted aimed to produce...
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George Herbert Walker Bush.
Lebanon. More troubling was the disclosure that agents operating under direct White House supervision used profits from the arms sales to buy weapons for thecontras, a group of anti-government Nicaraguan rebels, despite an explicit congressional ban on such aid. Bush later claimed that he opposed the arms-for-hostagesdeal, but offered little evidence to back his claims ( see Iran-Contra Affair). C 1988 Presidential Election While the Reagan-Bush program helped produce prosperity for the wealth...
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George Herbert Walker Bush - USA History.
Lebanon. More troubling was the disclosure that agents operating under direct White House supervision used profits from the arms sales to buy weapons for thecontras, a group of anti-government Nicaraguan rebels, despite an explicit congressional ban on such aid. Bush later claimed that he opposed the arms-for-hostagesdeal, but offered little evidence to back his claims ( see Iran-Contra Affair). C 1988 Presidential Election While the Reagan-Bush program helped produce prosperity for the wealth...
- Gates (William Henry, dit Bill)
- Clinton (William Jefferson, dit Bill)
- 1993 Bill Clinton et le 1er ministre turc Tansu Ciller (Photographie)
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- Brandt (Bill) Photographe anglais (Londres, 1904 - id.
- Bill Clinton en Chine : un tournant politique majeur
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Alexandre Jardin Bille en tête - Sujet non corrigé
ROMAN • SUJET 1 • Questions (15 points) 1. REGARD DU NARRATEUR SUR LA PENSION 6 POINTS • 1. Donnez le sens des trois mots ou expressions soulignés: -«Je dépérissais» (ligne 3) ; « les garçons s'étaient faits loups pour survivre » (ligne 8) ; -«souffre-douleur» (ligne 9). (3 points) • 2. Quelle atmosphère règne à la pension ? Relevez quatre expressions justifiant votre réponse. (3 points) Il. REGARD DU NARRATEUR SUR LE PASSÉ...
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Supreme Court of Canada.
whether the leave to appeal will be granted and the case heard by the Court. The Court has no specified criteria by which it determines whether to grant leave, and the Court does not give reasons for its decision. The key factor appears to be acase’s degree of national importance. Other factors might include the impact of uncertainty in the challenged law, the case’s appropriateness for developing the law torespond to changing social needs, and the presence of a split decision at the court of ap...
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Martin Van Buren.
political ambitions. The Clintonians cited as one example of Van Buren's unscrupulous methods his support of a convention in 1821 to revise the state's constitution. Van Buren and hisBucktails said they wanted to make the constitution more democratic. The Clintonians retorted that the real aim was to oust them from office. Both sides were right. Therevised constitution introduced a needed extension of voting rights and improved the operation of the state government. However, it also removed many...
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Martin Van Buren
political ambitions. The Clintonians cited as one example of Van Buren's unscrupulous methods his support of a convention in 1821 to revise the state's constitution. Van Buren and hisBucktails said they wanted to make the constitution more democratic. The Clintonians retorted that the real aim was to oust them from office. Both sides were right. Therevised constitution introduced a needed extension of voting rights and improved the operation of the state government. However, it also removed many...
- Brandt Bill, 1905-1983, né à Hambourg, photographe britannique.
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Microsoft Corporation (entreprise).
3.5 Diversification des activités Au milieu des années 1990, Microsoft élargit son activité vers les médias, les loisirs et les industries de la communication en lançant MSN (Microsoft Network) en 1995 etMSNBC en 1996. La même année, la société introduit également Windows CE, un système d’exploitation pour assistants personnels. En 1997, elle achète WebTV Network (fabricant de composants permettant de relier la télévision à l’Internet) pour 425 millions de dollars (soit environ autant d’euros)...
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- Bill (Max) Sculpteur, architecte, peintre et essayiste suisse (Winterthur, 1908).
- Clinton ( William Jefferson, dit Bill), né en 1946 à Hope, homme d'État américain.
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Etude de l'entreprise Apple
Etude d’une entreprise : « Apple » 1. Nationalité de la marque Apple est une multinationale Américaine. Elle a été créée le 1 er avril 1976 à Cupertino. A l’époque, Bill Fernandez et son voisin Steve Wozniak décidèrent de monter leur premier ordinateur dans le garage de Bill à partir de pièces que jetaient les entreprises locales. Ils se sont très vite rendu compte que ce nouvel engin pouvait devenir révolu...
- Comme vous voudrez, répondit tranquillement Bill, en jetant un coup d'oeil sur une nouvelle bouteille, apportée par Simon. Eugène Dick, le Roi des étudiants
- Bille (Stéphanie Corinna) Écrivain suisse d'expression française (Neuchâtel, 1912 - Veyraz-sur-Sierre, 1979).
- Holiday (Eleanora, dite Billie), 1915-1959, née à Baltimore (Maryland), chanteuse américaine.
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Définition du terme:
CUVETTE, substantif féminin.
tilleuls, 1832, page 191 ). B.— [Par analogie de forme] 1. Partie concave (creuse et évasée) de divers instruments et appareils. Cuvette d'un moulin à café (ANATOLE-FRANÇOIS THIBAULT, DIT ANATOLE FRANCE, Le Lys rouge, 1894, page 319 ). — Domaines techniques. a) ARMÉE. " Pièce qui garnit l'ouverture du fourreau du sabre pour empêcher la lame de sortir trop aisément " (Grand Larousse encyclopédique en dix volumes). b) CORDONNERIE. Cuvette du talon. " Surface concave du dessous du talon, destinée à...
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Aussi bien que jamais, vous pouvez en être sûr, dit Gandalf.
CHAPITRE HUIT LE NETTOYAGE DE LA COMTÉ La nuit était tombée quand, mouillés et las, les voyageurs finirent par atteindre le Brandevin, et ils trouvèrent le chemin barré. À chaque extrémité du Pont, il y avait une grande grille garnie de point es, et ils purent voir que, de l’autre côté de la rivière, de nouvelles maisons avaient été construites : à deux étages avec d’étroites fenêtres aux côtés verticaux, nues et faiblement éclairées, tout cela était assez lugubre et répondait pe...
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Stem Cell.
The medical profession used adult stem cells to treat diseases long before anyone isolated one. In 1968 scientists performed the first successful bone marrowtransplant, a procedure in which a patient receives an infusion of healthy bone marrow cells. The purpose of such transplants is to restore the blood-making capabilitiesof the patient’s diseased bone marrow after extremely strong chemotherapy has destroyed that bone marrow. From the beginning investigators suspected that stemcells in the inf...
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Excerpt from Bleak House - anthology.
patience, courage, hope; so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart; that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give—who does notoften give—the warning, 'Suffer any wrong that can be done you, rather than come here!' Who happen to be in the Lord Chancellor's court this murky afternoon besides the Lord Chancellor, the counsel in the cause, two or three counsel who are never inany cause, and the well of solicitors before mentioned? There is the registrar below...
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Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901).
homesteaders against pressure from the powerful railroads. He fought vigorously for Civil War veterans, supported high taxes on imports (called tariffs), payments todisabled and opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which stopped Chinese immigration to the U.S. for 10 years ( see Immigration: From 1840 to 1900 ). He also introduced 101 special pension and relief bills in six years. Harrison's name was well known by the Republican National Convention in 1884. In spite of this, Congressman and forme...
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Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) - Histoire
homesteaders against pressure from the powerful railroads. He fought vigorously for Civil War veterans, supported high taxes on imports (called tariffs), payments todisabled and opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which stopped Chinese immigration to the U.S. for 10 years ( see Immigration: From 1840 to 1900 ). He also introduced 101 special pension and relief bills in six years. Harrison's name was well known by the Republican National Convention in 1884. In spite of this, Congressman and forme...
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Jasir Mohammed Arafat - Geschichte.
Einen schweren diplomatischen Fehlgriff, dessen Resultat eine zeitweise Isolierung sowohl auf internationaler Ebene als auch innerhalb der arabischen Welt war, begingArafat 1990/91, als er sich während der irakischen Invasion in Kuwait (2. Golfkrieg) mit dem irakischen Staatschef Saddam Hussein solidarisierte. Dennoch wurde imOktober 1991 auf Vermittlung der USA und der Sowjetunion in Madrid eine erste multilaterale Nahostkonferenz eröffnet; Arafat verzichtete allerdings auf eine persönlicheTeil...
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Nahostkonflikt - Geschichte.
Seit dem Regierungsantritt Benjamin Netanjahus in Israel 1996 kam der Friedensprozess von israelischer Seite her zum Erliegen, was zu (vergeblichen) internationalenProtesten und einer zeitweiligen Entfremdung zwischen Israel und den USA führte. Nach wiederum langwierigen Verhandlungen zwischen Israel und den Palästinensern kamim Januar 1997 ein Abkommen über den israelischen Abzug aus Hebron zustande. Umgesetzt wurde das Abkommen jedoch vorerst nicht; vielmehr erschwerte Israel denFriedensprozes...
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Les équations du premier degré
et du côté droit : 15/5 = 5 On en déduit donc : x=5 le volume de chaque bille du sac est donc de 5 cm'. CAs G tNtRAL les mathématiciens aiment bien étudier les objets mathématiques sous leur forme la plus générale possible. Cela leur permet de découvrir l'ensemble de leurs propriétés, propriétés qui n'ont p lus qu'à être ensuite appliquées aux cas particuliers qu'ils rencontrent. la forme générale des équations du premier degré est la suivante...
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1998 - Amérique (Chronologie)
Fidel Castro achève sa tournée triomphale d'une semaine qui l'a conduit en Jamaïque, à la Barbade et à la Grenade, sa premièrevisite dans la région depuis 20 ans. 13-14 février 1998 - Cuba:299 prisonniers, dont des détenus politiques, sont libérés, à la suite de l'appel lancé par Jean-Paul II lors de sa visite dans l'île. Le24, Fidel Castro est réélu pour cinq ans par le Parlement cubain. 6 août 1998 ETATS-UNIS:Ayant obtenu une totale immunité judiciaire de la part du procureur indépendant Kenne...
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Tennis Tournament Winners
Australian Open: Men.
1981 Johan Kriek 1982 Johan Kriek 1983 Mats Wilander 1984 Mats Wilander December 1985 Stefan Edberg January 1987 Stefan Edberg 1988 Mats Wilander 1989 Ivan Lendl 1990 Ivan Lendl 1991 Boris Becker 1992 Jim Courier 1993 Jim Courier 1994 Pete Sampras 1995 Andre Agassi 1996 Boris Becker 1997 Pete Sampras 1998 Petr Korda 1999 Yevgeny Kafelnikov 2000 Andre Agassi 2001 Andre Agassi 2002 Thomas Johansson 2003 Andre Agassi 2004 Roger Federer 2005 Marat Safin 2006 Roger Federer 2007 Roger Federer 2008 Nov...
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Gewinner der Grand-Slam-Turniere (Damen).
2004 Justine Henin-Hardenne Belgien 2005 Serena Williams USA 2006 Amélie Mauresmo Frankreich 2007 Serena Williams USA 2008 Maria Scharapowa Russland . French OpenJAHR SIEGERIN LAND 1897 Adine Masson Frankreich 1898 Adine Masson Frankreich 1899 Adine Masson Frankreich 1900 Yvonne Prevost Frankreich 1901 P. Girod Frankreich 1902 Adine Masson Frankreich 1903 Adine Masson Frankreich 1904 Katie Gilou Frankreich 1905 Katie Gilou Frankreich 1906 Katie Gilou Frankreich 1907 Clarissa de Kermel Frankreich...
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Canadian Parliament.
government’s legislative program. Members of Commons can also present a motion in response to the Budget Speech, which reviews the government’s economicrecord, taxation, and expenditure plans, and to Supply Motions, which concern budgets for individual departments. If a majority of MPs support a no-confidence motion,the government must resign. Also, if Parliament rejects a significant government proposal, the government is expected to resign and request the governor-general to call an election....
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Définition:
BRICOLE, substantif féminin.
· " Sangle qui sert à soulever les glaces d'un carrosse " (Dictionnaire de technologie (DE CHESNEL) 1857). — " Partie du harnais d'un cheval de trait contre laquelle s'appuie son poitrail lorsqu'il marche en avant " (Dictionnaire de technologie (DE CHESNEL) 1857) : Ø 7. Un homme crasseux, barbu, le « palefrin », apparaît, portant des bricoles. Il harnache les chevaux, les pousse dans les brancards. EUGÈNE DABIT, L'Hôtel du Nord, 1929, page 76. · Par métaphore : Ø 8.... si les vrais représenta...
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écriture, techniques d' - informatique.
idéalement aux traits de l'écriture japonaise, traditionnellement exécutée avec un pinceau à encre taillé en pointe. Contrairement à ses prédécesseurs, le stylo à pointe en fibre utilise une teinture comme liquide d'écriture. Il est par conséquent possible de produire une large palette de couleurs qui ne sont pas disponibles avec les encres des stylos à bille et à plume. La pointe est faite de nylon fin ou d'autres fibres synthétiques étirées pour former une pointe et attachées au corps du stylo...
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Rock - Música.
2 ELVIS, EL ELEGIDO La fortuna esperaba a Elvis Presley, nacido en Tupelo, Mississippi, en enero de 1935. Pertenecía a una familia humilde del sur de Estados Unidos ( white trash, 'basura blanca' para los herederos de los ideales esclavistas de la Confederación Sudista) que se estableció en Memphis en 1948, pero en 1954 ya cantaba y grababa temas deArthur Crudup y Bill Monroe, oscilando entre el blues, el gospel y el country rural. Por aquella época, el propósito de algunas compañías discográf...
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Proche-Orient : la paix en fuite
les négociations butèrent sur les positions de principe, jusqu'à l'annonce en août 1993 - qui prit de court tout le monde, lesdélégués palestiniens en premier - d'un accord israélo- palestinien intérimaire, négocié dans le plus grand secret à Oslo. Il s'agitde la fameuse Déclaration de principes, qui allait être signée en grande pompe le 13 septembre 1993 sur la pelouse de la MaisonBlanche. Dans l'intervalle, Israël s'était doté d'un nouveau premier ministre, le travailliste Itzhak Rabin, au...
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National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Doby, Larry Outfielder 1998 Doerr, Bobby Second baseman 1986 Dreyfuss, Barney Executive 2008 Drysdale, Don Pitcher 1984 Duffy, Hugh Outfielder 1945 Durocher, Leo Ernest Shortstop; manager 1994 Eckersley, Dennis Pitcher 2004 Evans, Billy Umpire 1973 Evers, John Joseph Second baseman 1946 Ewing, Buck Catcher 1939 Faber, Red Pitcher 1964 Feller, Bob Pitcher 1962 Ferrell, Rick Catcher 1984 Fingers, Rollie Pitcher 1992 Fisk, Carlton Catcher 2000 Flick, Elmer Outfielder 1963 Ford, Whitey Pitcher 1974...
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Westerns
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INTRODUCTION
Gene Autry
Known as the Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry was the star of nearly 100 Westerns during his career as an actor.
James Fenimore CooperNineteenth-century American writer James Fenimore Cooper, famed for his adventure novels of American frontier life, wasalso an ardent social critic. Cooper wrote a series of five novels, known collectively as the Leather-Stocking Tales, in whichhe detailed the adventures of a fictional frontiersman named Natty Bumppo. In Bumppo, Cooper portrayed a man ofnature and a friend of the Native Americans. In addition to fiction, Cooper wrote several nonfiction works criticizingAmeri...
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George Bush.
1986 it was folded into Harken Energy Corporation, another Texas petroleum company. Bush served as a consultant and a member of Harken’s board of directors. In 1987 Bush relocated his family to Washington, D.C., to assist his father in his bid to become president. He worked as a campaign adviser at his father’s nationalcampaign headquarters, serving as a liaison to the media and to conservative and Christian leaders. He was a trusted confidant of his father and mother, whosometimes dispatched Bu...
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George Bush - USA History.
1986 it was folded into Harken Energy Corporation, another Texas petroleum company. Bush served as a consultant and a member of Harken’s board of directors. In 1987 Bush relocated his family to Washington, D.C., to assist his father in his bid to become president. He worked as a campaign adviser at his father’s nationalcampaign headquarters, serving as a liaison to the media and to conservative and Christian leaders. He was a trusted confidant of his father and mother, whosometimes dispatched Bu...
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James Madison.
In the spring of 1784 Madison again ran for election to the Virginia assembly, and won. He served nearly three years there, pursuing the same objectives he had foughtfor in Congress. He advocated strengthening the federal government, which was an unpopular position in Virginia, as it was in most of the states. He consistentlysupported measures, at both state and national levels, that would best safeguard the rights of the individual. Madison also continued to oppose any connection betweenchurch...
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James Madison
In the spring of 1784 Madison again ran for election to the Virginia assembly, and won. He served nearly three years there, pursuing the same objectives he had foughtfor in Congress. He advocated strengthening the federal government, which was an unpopular position in Virginia, as it was in most of the states. He consistentlysupported measures, at both state and national levels, that would best safeguard the rights of the individual. Madison also continued to oppose any connection betweenchurch...
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James Madison - USA History.
In the spring of 1784 Madison again ran for election to the Virginia assembly, and won. He served nearly three years there, pursuing the same objectives he had foughtfor in Congress. He advocated strengthening the federal government, which was an unpopular position in Virginia, as it was in most of the states. He consistentlysupported measures, at both state and national levels, that would best safeguard the rights of the individual. Madison also continued to oppose any connection betweenchurch...
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Banking.
loans, and some commercial loans in addition to checking accounts and time deposits. Credit unions, SLAs, and savings banks help encourage thriftiness by paying interest to consumers who put their money in savings deposits. Consequently, creditunions, SLAs, and savings banks are often referred to as thrift institutions. Of the various types of banks in the United States, commercial banks account for the greatest single source of the financial industry’s assets. In 2000 the 8,528commercial banks...
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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...
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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...
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Analyse du roman "Forbidden Experience"
solitaires fuyant la société font écho aux hikikomoris, mais surtout aux écrivains. En effet, si la figure de l’hikikomori et du Yéti reviennent si souvent, c’est parce qu’elles sont emblématiques de la personnalité attribuée aux talentueux auteurs recherchés par Bill Yeary.Les deuxième et troisième chapitres introduisent Deborah, qui, disparaissant ensuite pour ne plus réapparaître (laissant un flou autour de son destin ; est -elle devenue une encagée, ou l’une des acolytes de Yeary ?)...