229 résultats pour "halles"
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Islamic Art and Architecture
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Córdoba Mosque Courtyard
This mosque and courtyard with its repeated horseshoe arches was built between the 8th and 10th centuries in Córdoba,
Spain.
Süleymaniye MosqueThe Süleymaniye Mosque in İstanbul was built in 1550. The architect, Sinan, based his design on Byzantine churches, inparticular the Hagia Sophia. The large central dome above a square opens to smaller spaces vaulted by buttressing half-domes. The four tapering minarets with balconies are characteristic of the architectural style of later Islamic mosques.Gian Berto Vanni/Art Resource, NY The few and relatively simple rituals of the Islamic faith gave rise to a unique religious...
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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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Berlin - geography.
boroughs of Wedding and Tiergarten. Other important central areas include Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain, now united as the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough, andPrenzlauer Berg, now incorporated as a part of the Pankow borough. Tiergarten contains a large wooded park, a zoo, and a variety of public monuments as well as the large, modern Congress Hall and the Reichstag building, which wasbuilt from 1884 to 1894. The Reichstag and the surrounding area have undergone renovation to accommodate the Bun...
- ABC. music-hall parisien ouvert, en 1934, au 11 boulevard Poissonnière.
- Broadway L'une des principales artères de New York, célèbre par ses théâtres, ses cinémas et ses music-halls.
- Cayley (sir George) Ingénieur anglais (Scarborough, Yorkshire, 1773 - Brompton Hall, 1857).
- Heydrich Reinhard, 1904-1942, né à Halle (près de Leipzig), homme politique allemand.
- McCormick Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884, né à Walnut Grove (Virginie), industriel américain.
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- Tom Pouce Tom Pouce (1838-1883), artiste de music-hall américain, devenu célèbre en raison de sa petite taille.
- TATI, Jacques Tatischeff, dit Jacques (1907-1982) Sportif professionnel avant la guerre, artiste de music-hall après, il réalise son premier film, Jour de fête, en 1949.
- Cantor (Georg) Mathématicien allemand d'origine russe (Saint-Pétersbourg, 1845 - Halle, 1918).
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Adam de La Halle
Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques
Berlioz, Hector
Bizet, Georges
Boucher, François
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Braque,
Klein, Yves Le Brun, Charles Le Corbusier Le Nôtre, André Lescot, Pierre Lully, Jean-Baptiste Lumière, Auguste et Louis Machaut, Guillaume de Maillol, Aristide Manet, Edouard Mansart, Jules Hardouin Matisse, Henri Méliès, Georges Messiaen, Olivier Millet, Jean-François Nostradamus Offenbach, Jacques Palissy, Bernard Perret, Auguste Picasso, Pablo Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste Poiret, Paul Poussin, Nicolas Rameau, Jean-Philippe Ravel, Maurice Renoir, Jean Rodin, Auguste Rouget de Lisle, Claude Rude, Fra...
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Tennis: Medaillengewinner der Olympischen Sommerspiele.
1920 GBR: Winifred McNair,Kitty McKane GBR: Geraldine Beamish,Dorothy Holman FRA: Suzanne Lenglen,Elisabeth d'Ayen 1924 USA: Hazel Wightman,Helen Wills GBR: Phyllis Covell, KittyMcKane GBR: Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, Evelyn Colyer 1988 USA: Pamela Shriver,Zina Garrison TCH: Jana Novotná, HelenaSuková AUS: Elizabeth Smylie,Wendy TurnbullFRG: Steffi Graf, ClaudiaKohde-Kilsch 1992 USA: Mary JoeFernandez, GigiFernandez ESP: Arantxa SánchezVicario, Conchita Martínez GUS: Natalja Zwerewa,Lejla Meschki...
- Ziegfeld, Florenz Ziegfeld, Florenz (1867-1932), producteur de revues de music-hall américain, célèbre pour l'extravagance de certains de ses spectacles musicaux.
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1948, « Notes sur l'histoire primitive des grandes religions égyptiennes », BIFAO 47, 59-150.
Dietrich WILDUNG 1969a, DieRolle ägyptischer KönigeimBewusstsein ihrerNachwelt, I,MÄS 17. 1969b, «Zur Deutung derPyramide vonMedûm »,RdE 21,133-145. 1969c, «Zur Frühgeschichte desAmun-tempels vonKarnak »,MDAIK 25,212-219. 1972, «Ramses, diegrosse SonneÄgyptens »,ZÄS 99,33-41. 1974, «Aufbau undZweckbestimmung derKönigsliste vonKarnak »,GM 9,41-48. 1977a, Imhotep undAmenhotep. Gottwerdung inalten Agypten, MÄS36. 1977b, Egyptian Saints.Deification inPharaonic Egypt,HagopKevorkian SeriesonNear Easte...
- Baker Joséphine , 1906-1975, née à Saint Louis (Missouri), artiste de music-hall française d'origine américaine.
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- Chevalier Maurice, 1888-1972, né à Paris, chanteur de music-hall et acteur de cinéma français.
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Adam de La Halle
Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques
Berlioz, Hector
Bizet, Georges
Boucher, François
Boulez,
Klein, Yves Le Brun, Charles Le Corbusier Le Nôtre, André Lescot, Pierre Lully, Jean-Baptiste Lumière, Auguste et Louis Machaut, Guillaume de Maillol, Aristide Manet, Edouard Mansart, Jules Hardouin Matisse, Henri Méliès, Georges Messiaen, Olivier Millet, Jean-François Nostradamus Offenbach, Jacques Palissy, Bernard Perret, Auguste Picasso, Pablo Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste Poiret, Paul Poussin, Nicolas Rameau, Jean-Philippe Ravel, Maurice Renoir, Jean Rodin, Auguste Rouget de Lisle, Claude Rude, Fra...
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Abélard, Pierre
Adam de La Halle
Ader, Clément
Ailly, Pierre d'
Aliénor d'Aquitaine
Ampère, André
Blanqui, Louis Auguste Blériot, Louis Blum, Léon Boileau, Nicolas Boucher, François Bougainville, Louis Antoine de Bouillon, Godefroi de Boulanger, Georges Boulez, Pierre Brantôme, seigneur de Braque, Georges Brassens, Georges Brazza, Pierre Savorgnan de Breton, André Briand, Aristide Brissot Brosse, Salomon de Brunehaut Budé, Guillaume Buffon, comte de Bugeaud, Thomas Cadoudal, Georges Callot, Jacques Calvin Cambacérès, Jean-Jacques de Camus, Albert Carnot, Marie François Sadi Cartier, Jacques...
- Peel (sir Robert), 1788-1850, né à Chamber Hall, près de Bury, homme politique anglais.
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Roman Art and Architecture - History.
Racecourses or circuses were also built in many cities for holding chariot races and horse races. Rome’s circus-shaped Piazza Navona occupies the site of one that wasbuilt during the reign ( AD 81-96) of the emperor Domitian. The largest circus in Rome, the Circus Maximus, held about 200,000 spectators. E Public Baths Large cities and small towns alike also had public baths ( thermae ); under the Republic they were generally made up of a suite of dressing rooms and bathing chambers with hot- ,...
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Adolf Hitler
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Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), German political and military leader and one of the 20th century's most powerful dictators.
A Economic Collapse At the end of World War I, the Allies (those countries who had fought against Germany) had demanded that Germany pay reparations—that is, payments for wardamages. The government refused to pay all that was demanded by the Allies. When Germany failed to pay enough, France and Belgium occupied the coal mines in theRuhr industrial area in west central Germany in January 1923. In protest, the German government halted all reparation payments and called for passive resistance by a...
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Adolf Hitler.
A Economic Collapse At the end of World War I, the Allies (those countries who had fought against Germany) had demanded that Germany pay reparations—that is, payments for wardamages. The government refused to pay all that was demanded by the Allies. When Germany failed to pay enough, France and Belgium occupied the coal mines in theRuhr industrial area in west central Germany in January 1923. In protest, the German government halted all reparation payments and called for passive resistance by a...
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Adolf Hitler .
A Economic Collapse At the end of World War I, the Allies (those countries who had fought against Germany) had demanded that Germany pay reparations—that is, payments for wardamages. The government refused to pay all that was demanded by the Allies. When Germany failed to pay enough, France and Belgium occupied the coal mines in theRuhr industrial area in west central Germany in January 1923. In protest, the German government halted all reparation payments and called for passive resistance by a...
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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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Abélard, Pierre
Adam de La Halle
Ader, Clément
Ailly, Pierre d'
Aliénor d'Aquitaine
Ampère, André
Blanqui, Louis Auguste Blériot, Louis Blum, Léon Boileau, Nicolas Boucher, François Bougainville, Louis Antoine de Bouillon, Godefroi de Boulanger, Georges Boulez, Pierre Brantôme, seigneur de Braque, Georges Brassens, Georges Brazza, Pierre Savorgnan de Breton, André Briand, Aristide Brissot Brosse, Salomon de Brunehaut Budé, Guillaume Buffon, comte de Bugeaud, Thomas Cadoudal, Georges Callot, Jacques Calvin Cambacérès, Jean-Jacques de Camus, Albert Carnot, Marie François Sadi Cartier, Jacques...
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MONTAND, Ivo Livi, dit Yves (1921-1991)
Acteur d'origine italienne émigré à Marseille, il débute dans le music-hall, remarqué et chaperonné par Edith Piaf, et rencontre le succès en chantant du Prévert.
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- Curzon of Kedleston ( George Nathaniel , lord), 1859-1925, né à Kedleston Hall (Derbyshire), homme d'État britannique.
- Cendrars (Frédéric Sauser-Hall, dit Blaise) Poète et romancier français d'origine suisse (La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1887 - Paris, 1961).
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Biographie de WOLFF (Johann-Christian, baron von).
Christian Wolff et la systématisation de la raison A travers son œuvre monumentale en plus de quarante volumes, Christian Wolff (1679-1754) a donné un véritablecadre de pensée aux Lumières. Celui que Hegel désignait comme « le maître des Allemands » proposa de concevoir la philosophie comme une sagesse pratique, se reflétant dans l'action, mais aussi comme sagesse « mondaine »(Weltweisheit , en allemand), capable d'attirer un plus large public - noble et bourgeois - dans les univer...
- TATI, Jacques Tatischeff, dit Jacques (1907-1982) Sportif professionnel avant la guerre, artiste de music-hall après, il réalise son premier film, Jour de fête, en 1949.
- CHEVALIER, Maurice (1888-1972) Chanteur gouailleur, portant smoking et canotier, le " gars de Ménilmontant " impose durant cinquante ans " sa pomme " sur les scènes du music-hall du monde entier.
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- MONTAND, Ivo Livi, dit Yves (1921-1991) Acteur d'origine italienne émigré à Marseille, il débute dans le music-hall, remarqué et chaperonné par Edith Piaf, et rencontre le succès en chantant du Prévert.
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FIN
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Nanterre était alors un village de maraîchers, dont toute la production se trouvait absorbée par le grand marché de
Paris.
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Wayne Gretzky.
and 1991. He was captain of the national team for the 1996 World Cup and made his first Olympic Games appearance as a member of Canada’s ice hockey team duringthe 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. In 1999, just a few months after his retirement from the NHL, Gretzky was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The board of directors of the Hall of Fame waived thenormal three-year waiting period as a way of honoring Gretzky for all his contributions to the sport of hockey. Gretzky remained active...
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Wayne Gretzky
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Wayne Gretzky, born in 1961, Canadian professional ice hockey player, nicknamed The Great One, who is the National Hockey League (NHL) career leader in goals,
assists, and points (goals and assists combined).
and 1991. He was captain of the national team for the 1996 World Cup and made his first Olympic Games appearance as a member of Canada’s ice hockey team duringthe 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. In 1999, just a few months after his retirement from the NHL, Gretzky was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The board of directors of the Hall of Fame waived thenormal three-year waiting period as a way of honoring Gretzky for all his contributions to the sport of hockey. Gretzky remained active...
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Le Ventre de Paris
Suresnes, etait si bas sur l'horizon, que leurs ombres colossales tachaient la blancheur du monument,
tres-haut, plus haut que les statues enormes des groupes, de deux barres noires, pareilles a deux traits faits au
fusain.
regarda la nef toute nue, haute et severe, entre les bas-cotes peints de couleurs vives; elle levait un peu le menton, trouvant le maitre-autel trop simple, ne goutant pas cette grandeur froide de la pierre, preferant les dorures et les bariolages des chapelles laterales. Du cote de la rue du Jour, ces chapelles restaient grises, eclairees par des fenetres poussiereuses; tandis que, du cote des Halles, le coucher du soleil allumait les vitraux des verrieres, egayees de teintes tres-tendres, des...
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Le Ventre de Paris
d'une complaisance inepuisable; il feuilletait le code
garder comme une arme contre son ennemie. Elle la remit lentement dans l'enveloppe, en songeant que ce serait mal, et qu'elle la retrouverait toujours, d'ailleurs. Alors, feuilletant de nouveau les pages volantes, les rangeant une a une, elle eut l'idee de regarder au fond, a l'endroit ou Florent avait repousse le fil et les aiguilles d'Augustine; et la, entre le paroissien et la Clef des songes, elle decouvrit ce qu'elle cherchait, des notes tres-compromettantes, simplement defendues par une ch...
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Radsport
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Radsport, Sammelbegriff für alle sportlichen Disziplinen, die als Wettkampf oder in der Freizeit auf einem Fahrrad ausgeübt werden.
3.3 Radcross und Mountainbiking Radcrossrennen (auch Cyclocross- oder Querfeldeinrennen) finden auf abgesteckten Strecken im offenen Gelände statt. Im Wettbewerb starten die Fahrer wie beiStraßenrennen miteinander und fahren direkt gegeneinander. Radcrossrennen führen über unwegsame Pisten und verlangen von den Fahrern neben fahrerischem Könnenauch Kraft, Kondition und eine hohe Bereitschaft, gegen schweren Untergrund und widrige Witterungsbedingungen zu kämpfen. Mountainbiking (MTB) entstand i...
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House (architecture)
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Trulli in Alberobello, Italy
Alberobello, in the Apulia region of southeastern Italy, is noted for its unusual limestone houses known as trulli (from
Greek trullos, dome).
Fresco in the Villa of the Mysteries, PompeiiThe Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy (built about 50 bc), featured a large hall with this mural encircling it. The mural ispainted in the Second Style of Roman painting. (Historians of art recognize four periods or styles in Roman wall painting.)The mural in the Villa of the Mysteries is thought to depict the initiation rituals of a mystery religion. For this reason, it hasbeen conjectured that the hall was used for cult rituals.Bridgeman Art Li...
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New York (ville)
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New York (ville), en anglais New York City, ville du sud-est de l'État de New York, située dans le nord-est des États-Unis, à l'embouchure de l'Hudson, sur l'océan
Atlantique.
Les différents districts de New York sont reliés entre eux par de nombreux ponts et tunnels : Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel entre Manhattanet Brooklyn ; Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, l’un des plus longs ponts suspendus du monde, entre Brooklyn et Staten Island ; Queensboro Bridge entre Manhattan et leQueens ; Triborough Bridge entre Manhattan, le Queens et le Bronx ; enfin, le George Washington Bridge, les tunnels Holland et Lincoln, et la voie Port Authority Trans-Hudso...
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Beijing - geography.
other polluting materials contributes to the city’s severe air and water pollution. V EDUCATION AND CULTURE Beijing has more colleges and universities than any other Chinese city. The most prominent institutions are Peking University, founded in 1898; and Tsinghua University,founded in 1911, which is the most prestigious scientific and technical institution in the country. Both institutions are located in the northwest suburbs, an areaassociated with higher education and research. Also in this...
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Country Music
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Willie Nelson
Country singer and musician Willie Nelson gained national popularity during the 1970s for a string of country hits,
including the 1978 hits "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "Georgia On My Mind.
Singer and mandolin player Bill Monroe is known as the father of bluegrass music. A virtuoso mandolin player, Monroe combined traditional folk ballads and gospel songswith string-band music played at very fast tempos. Monroe, with his band The Blue Grass Boys, performed from the mid-1920s until Monroe’s death in 1996. Otherwell-known bluegrass performers include banjo player Earl Scruggs, who played with Monroe during the 1940s; the Osborne Brothers, a duo from Kentucky known forits work during...
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Honolulu - geography.
of Brigham Young University. The state’s largest museum, the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, is located in Honolulu. It contains a large collection of Polynesian archaeological artifacts, as well asmany exhibits on Hawaiian history and culture. The museum also has an extensive entomological collection with more than 13 million specimens. Other importantmuseums include the Honolulu Academy of Arts, known for its extensive collection of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean art; the Contemporary Museum, wit...
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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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Schwimmen (Frauen): Medaillengewinnerinnen der Olympischen Sommerspiele.
1968 Debbie Meyer, USA 9:24,0 Pamela Kruse, USA 9:35,7 Maria Teresa Ramirez,MEX 9:38,5 1972 Keena Rothhammer, USA 8:53,68 Shane Gould, AUS 8:56,39 Novella Calligaris, ITA 8:57,46 1976 Petra Thümer, GDR 8:37,14 Shirley Babashoff, USA 8:37,59 Wendy Weinberg, USA 8:42,60 1980 Michelle Fond, AUS 8:28,90 Ines Diers, GDR 8:32,55 Heike Dähne, GDR 8:33,48 1984 Tiffany Cohen, USA 8:24,95 Michele Richardson,USA 8:30,73 Sarah Hardcastle, GBR 8:32,60 1988 Janet Evans, USA 8:20,20 Astrid Strauß, GDR 8:22,0...
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New York (city) - geography.
The Bronx is the fourth largest and the northernmost of the five boroughs, and the only one on the American mainland. Even so, it is surrounded by water on threesides: Long Island Sound on the east, the Harlem and East rivers on the south, and Hudson River on the west. Encompassing 109 sq km (42 sq mi), it had 1,332,650inhabitants in 2000. Largely residential, the Bronx includes dozens of vibrant neighborhoods. Fieldston is particularly elegant, with great stone houses set among spacious lawns a...
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Oscar-Preisträger.
Beste RegieJAHR NAME ORIGINALTITEL DEUTSCHER TITEL 1929 Lewis MilestoneFrank Borzage Two Arabian KnightsSeventh Heaven SchlachtenbummlerIm siebenten Himmel 1930 Frank Lloyd The Divine Lady Die ungekrönte Königin 1930 Lewis Milestone All Quiet on the Western Front Im Westen nichts Neues 1931 Norman Taurog Skippy - 1932 Frank Borzage Bad Girl - 1934 Frank Lloyd Cavalcade Cavalcade 1935 Frank Capra It Happened One Night Es geschah in einer Nacht 1936 John Ford The Informer Der Verräter 1937 Frank C...
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Colleges and Universities.
and (3) large universities that include undergraduate programs in addition to graduate and professional schools. D Graduate and Professional Schools Professional schools are typically divisions of large universities. They offer specialized education in a variety of professional fields, such as education, business, medicine,law, social work, agriculture, journalism, architecture, fine arts, nursing, engineering, and music. Some professional schools offer four- or five-year programs leading toa b...
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Toronto - geography.
now a museum. In the far northeast side of the City is the Toronto Zoo, a modern zoo covering many acres and with well-designed animal displays. Originally known as the SkyDome, the Rogers Centre is a state-of-the-art stadium complex that opened in 1989. The stadium features a retractable roof that can openin 20 minutes to expose the playing field and most of the 50,000 seats to the open air. It is the home of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and theToronto Blue Jays of Majo...