20 résultats pour "holiday"
- Holiday.
- Holidays
- Billie Holiday Billie Holiday (1915-1959), one of the greatest jazz singers of all time.
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Holiday Inn
est retiree. Le succes de Holiday Inn est, des le debut, foudroyant. Appartenir a la chatne est une garantie de pourcentages d'occupation Moves. La chatne en vient inaugurer un hotel tous les trots Ours (une chambre de plus toutes les 35 minutes). 6 Deux ordinateure situes a Memphis rendent possible un systerne de reservation, le Hoildex, qui constitue le plus vaste reseau civil de ce genre. Holiday Inn a organise sa propredivision de fabrication (meubles, equipement hotelier, produits alimentai...
- Billie Holiday.
- Billie Holiday - Musik.
- Holiday (Eleanora Gough MacKay, dite Billie)
- Holiday (Eleanora Gough MacKay, dite Billie) Chanteuse américaine
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- Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993), Belgian-born actor and humanitarian, who became one of Hollywood's best-known stars with her leading roles in films such as Roman Holiday (1953), Funny Face (1957), and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).
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Christmas.
The new custom of Christmas gift giving allowed the marketplace to exert an unprecedented influence on holiday celebrations. Commercial innovations such asdepartment stores and mass advertising further expanded the custom of exchanging Christmas gifts. Seasonal retail sales helped fuel the economy, causing merchantsand advertisers to become some of the season’s most ardent promoters. Many holiday celebrants regretted these changes, however, and began voicing the nowcommon lament that Christmas h...
- Holiday (Eleanora, dite Billie), 1915-1959, née à Baltimore (Maryland), chanteuse américaine.
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Halloween.
Halloween traditions in southern colonies such as Virginia and Maryland. Irish immigrants helped popularize Halloween traditions throughout the United States in themid-19th century. As belief in many of the old superstitions waned during the late 19th century, Halloween was increasingly regarded as a children’s holiday. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, young people often observed Halloween by perpetrating minor acts of vandalism, such as overturning sheds or breaking windows.Beginning in th...
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ÉTRANGER — GROUPE 1, SESSION DE JUIN 1995 LANGUE VIVANTE 1- SÉRIES L ET ES/S
dals as if ready to walk straight off the plane on to the beach. There 30 was a rising babble of drawling, twanging accents, loud laughter, shouts and whoops. "An artificial cheerfulness," said Sheldrak:e. "Fuelled by double martinis in many cases, I wouldn't be surprised. They know how people going on vacation are supposed to behave. They have lear- 35 ned how to do it. Look deep into their eyes and you will see anxiety and dread 6." [ •••...
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Uruguay (country) - country.
Freedom of religion is guaranteed by the constitution of Uruguay. Three-quarters of the people belong to the Roman Catholic Church. There are also sizable Protestantand Jewish congregations. The official language is Spanish, which in Uruguay has been influenced by Italian vocabulary and pronunciation. C Education Uruguay has one of the highest rates of literacy in Latin America, at 98.2 percent of the adult population. Six years of primary education is compulsory, and Uruguay isone of the few n...
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Thanksgiving Day.
shifted to an even earlier day, the second Monday in October. Contributed By:Brent LanfordMicrosoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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bac blanc anglais
every street. In addition the mother of Mary Ann is overprotective; Mary Ann is twentyfive years old but her mother stills treat her like a little girl. (83 words) b) Mary Ann’s parents were also in San Francisco. Her mother tells to Ann that they were in the Top of the Mark which is a famous rooftop bar in San Francisco. Mary Ann’s parents spent a good evening. So San Francisco must be a good memory for the Mary Ann’s mother. But paradoxically the mothers have a negative opinion of t...
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- Labor Day.
- Veterans Day.
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Culture.
form of knowledge, such as scientific discoveries; objects, such as works of art; and traditions, such as the observance of holidays. C1 Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism Self-identity usually depends on culture to such a great extent that immersion in a very different culture—with which a person does not share common ways of life orbeliefs—can cause a feeling of confusion and disorientation. Anthropologists refer to this phenomenon as culture shock. In multicultural societies —societies s...
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Greece - country.
minerals, such as chromium, copper, uranium, and magnesium, are relatively small. Greece’s small petroleum deposits, located under the Aegean Sea near the island ofThásos, are rapidly being depleted. There are no significant reserves of natural gas. Greece’s forests, probably abundant in ancient times, have been significantly depleted. Subsequent soil erosion has made reforestation efforts difficult. Although muchof Greece’s soil is rocky and dry, the country’s mountains are interspersed with sm...