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Populäre Musik - Musik.
5 SCHLAGER UND POPMUSIK IN DEUTSCHLAND Bereits Johann Strauߒ Donauwellen-Walzer von 1857 bekam von der Wiener Presse das handelssprachliche Erfolgsetikett „Schlager” verliehen. Seitdem wurde unter diesem Begriff eine immense Vielfalt unterschiedlicher eingängiger Melodien zusammengefasst. Meilensteine der Unterhaltungskultur waren beispielsweise Johann Strauß’ OperetteDie Fledermaus (1874), Karl Millöckers Bettelstudent (1882), Carl Zellers Vogelhändler (1891), Paul Linkes Frau Luna (1...
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Civil Rights Movement in the United States - U.
The Great Depression of the 1930s increased black protests against discrimination, especially in Northern cities. Blacks protested the refusal of white-owned businessesin all-black neighborhoods to hire black salespersons. Using the slogan “Don't Buy Where You Can't Work,” these campaigns persuaded blacks to boycott thosebusinesses and revealed a new militancy. During the same years, blacks organized school boycotts in Northern cities to protest discriminatory treatment of blackchildren. The bla...
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Ethiopia - country.
constitute about 6 percent of the population. The Somali, who live in the east and southeast, notably in the Ogadēn region, are about equal in number to the Shangalla.The Denakil inhabit the semidesert plains east of the highlands. The nonindigenous population includes Yemenis, Indians, Armenians, and Greeks. B Political Divisions Ethiopia is divided into nine regions composed of specific ethnic groups. The regions, which have a significant degree of autonomy, are Tigray; Afar; Amhara; Oromia;S...
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Qui se,ninant in lacrymis in exultatione metent
Qui sème dans les larmes moissonne en chantant
11 s'agit d'un verset d'un...
Qui se,ninant in lacrymis in exultatione metent Qui sème dans les larmes moissonne en chantant 11 s'agit d'un verset d'un Psaume ( 12S, 5 ; c>i o,r~{povTeç- Èv 6ciKpuoLv Èv àyaÀÀLCIOfl 8EpLoûoLv dans la version des Septante) qui oppose la joie du retour aux larmes du départ et qui utilise une métaphore agricole évoquant les angoisses liées aux aléas climatiques qui accompagnent toujours les semailles (cf. Ravasi 3, 584 sq. ). Ce passage est repris et cité en gre par de nombreux auteurs chrétiens...
- Le contre transfert est-il un cadre ? Caroline Thompson
- Préface Poème Rimbaud
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Les « thèses d'avril » de Lénine.
DÉVELOPPEMENT Introduction • En avril 1917, l'immense Russie vit, depuis près de six semaines, dans la fièvre révolutionnaire. L'autorité légale estdévolue au gouvernement provisoire (le G.P.) sous la présidence du prince Lvov; les libéraux K.D. y exercent uneinfluence prépondérante. Mais le pouvoir légal du G.P. est surveillé et sans cesse contesté par le « pouvoir de fait »des soviets, assemblées populaires permanentes, qui se sont constituées dans presque tout le pays et où lesmenchev...
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En vous basant sur l'étude du recueil Demeny de Rimbaud et des lettres envoyées à Georges Izambard et Théodore de Banville par Rimbaud, vous étudierez les centres d'intérêt et les thèmes de prédilection du poète Arthur Rimbaud.
mystérieux tombe des astres d'or » qui se l'approprie : « mes étoiles », comme son seul amour « Par la Nature, -heureux comme avec une femme » et comme une force protectrice (cf « Ma Bohème »). On observe de nombreusespersonnifications de la Nature, qui est associée à l'image de la Femme. Dans « Soleil et Chair », il emploiel'expression « la Nature vivante » et la nature est personnifiée à travers Cybèle.· la Passion : ce thème est très présent puisqu'il se retrouve dans neuf poèmes ainsi...
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martiaux (arts).
mot face à la force brutale. Par ailleurs, on désigne sous le nom d'armes d'Okinawa les arts martiaux qui regroupent les ko-budo , techniques d'armes provenant de l'île d'Okinawa. D'origine agraire, celles-ci comprennent le nunchaku , fléau de bois dont les tronçons sont reliés par une corde ou une chaîne, le tonfa , manche de bois issu d'une meule de pierre, et le bo , bâton d'environ 1,80 m, normalement utilisé comme balancier pour le transport des charges. Des disciplines devenues...
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Commentaire critique des Fêtes Galantes de Verlaine
Omme sa voix fait le parfum ! Pourrait servir d'épigraphe au vers verlainien qui développe ce thème de manière plus subtile La traduction d'un ravissement complexe Vers 2 préfigure le titre du 4 ième recueil de Verlaine Vers 3 même mouvement que dans le poème à une femme poèmes saturniens Vers 11 candeur répond à pâleur vers 10 ambivalent et établit une correspondance entre le monde des sentimentset des sensations Vers 17 almes est aussi présent dans les poèmes saturniens Une connexité grandio...
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Ape - biology.
previous infant has been weaned. This process—like all aspects of ape development—takes a remarkable length of time. A gibbon is weaned by the age of about 2years, while chimps take more than 4 years. Like young monkeys, young apes are carried by their mothers. They either cling to the mother's belly or, in the case ofolder chimps, ride on her back. In great apes, infant care is largely the job of the females, while in some gibbons the mother hands over responsibility to the fatherwhen the infan...
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Hercules (mythology)
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Pollaiuolo's Hercules et Antaeus
In a wrestling match, Hercules triumphed over the mighty giant Antaeus, who received his strength from his mother, the
Earth goddess Gaia.
Pollaiuolo’s Hercules and the HydraAmong his 12 labors, the mythological hero Hercules had to kill the nine-headed Hydra. Each time Hercules cut off onehead, two more grew in its place. Hercules solved the problem by, as soon as he cut off one head, burning with a torchthe spot where it had been to stop its regrowth. Hercules and the Hydra (about 1460, Uffizi, Florence, Italy) was paintedby Italian artist Antonio Pollaiuolo. Hercules is shown wearing the skin of the Nemean lion, which he had kil...
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Judicial Branch.
courts or from state courts, and a handful come from other parts of the Court’s jurisdiction ( see Supreme Court of the United States: Selecting Cases). The Court typically issues written decisions in fewer than a hundred cases a year. All cases are heard and decided by the entire Court, except in rare cases when a justice choosesnot to participate because of a conflict of interest or other potential prejudicial interest in a case. As with all other federal judges, members of the Supreme Court a...
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Lettre a une disparu
Mélina écrit désespérément à sa fille qui est décédée. Cette dernière a en effet disparu depuis trois ans. Mais en digne mère, Mélina refuse de croire à une éternelle disparition et rêve de retrouvailles. Le temps passant, elle apprend que sa petite- Nina serait vivante. Le temps brouille les cartes et Mélina n'est pas certaine que la petite fille repérée par Pablo et les amis de la famille soit Nina. Après avoir fait des recherches, ils découvrent que l'enfant en question a été adoptée et débap...
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Victoria (queen)
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Victoria (queen) (1819-1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (1876-1901).
Queen Victoria never truly recovered from Albert’s death in December 1861 at the age of 42. For almost a decade she remained in strict mourning. She rarely set footin London, and she avoided most public occasions, including the state opening of Parliament. She made an exception, however, for the unveiling of statues dedicated toPrince Albert and, after a few years, for attendance at army reviews. Behind the scenes, she continued to correspond with and talk to her ministers, and she took comfort...
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Victoria (queen).
Queen Victoria never truly recovered from Albert’s death in December 1861 at the age of 42. For almost a decade she remained in strict mourning. She rarely set footin London, and she avoided most public occasions, including the state opening of Parliament. She made an exception, however, for the unveiling of statues dedicated toPrince Albert and, after a few years, for attendance at army reviews. Behind the scenes, she continued to correspond with and talk to her ministers, and she took comfort...
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One Hundred Years of Olympics.
Getting over the Hurdles The next three Olympics attracted more athletes and saw stronger performances but otherwise did not measure up to Athens. The 1900 Paris Olympics were upstagedby the concurrent Exposition Universelle and were spread out over two months. The 1904 games in remote St. Louis were subordinated to the Louisiana PurchaseExhibition; over three-fourths of the competitors were Americans, and even Coubertin did not attend. The 1908 London Olympics were also overshadowed byanother...
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Indianapolis - geography.
Amateur athletic competitions are frequent in Indianapolis. Each summer it is the site for the finals of the Hoosier State Games, with athletes of all ages and skill levelscompeting in 21 sports. In 1987 Indianapolis hosted the Tenth Pan American Games, and is often the site for numerous Olympic trials and collegiate sportschampionships. Among the many sports facilities are those for tennis, bicycle racing, skating, and track and field. The city’s professional football team, the Indianapolis Col...
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Courts in the United States.
The term circuit derives from the original structure of these courts. Under the Judiciary Act of 1789, trials of certain cases were required to be held before three-judge circuit courts consisting of two Supreme Court justices and the federal trial judge in the district court. In addition to their regular duties, Supreme Court justices were required to ride circuit, traveling from district to district within their assigned circuit, often covering great distances. In 1891 Congress establishe...
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"A Modest Proposal" - anthology.
I SHALL now therefore humbly propose my own Thoughts; which I hope will not be liable to the least Objection. I HAVE been assured by a very knowing American of my Acquaintance in London; that a young healthy Child, well nursed, is, at a Year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome Food; whether Stewed, Roasted, Baked, or Boiled; and, I make no doubt, that it will equally serve in a Fricasie, or Ragoust. I DO therefore humbly offer it to publick Consideration, that of...
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Pittsburgh - geography.
College of Allegheny County (1966), with branches in the city and suburbs. Pittsburgh has many outstanding cultural institutions. The Oakland district is where Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh are located. The CarnegieMuseums of Pittsburgh include The Carnegie Museum of Art (including the Scaife Galleries), which holds a distinguished motion-picture and video collection and a uniquestudy of architecture; the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which displays an extensi...
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Chicago (city, Illinois) - geography.
VI EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Chicago has one of the largest public school systems in the United States. The Chicago Board of Education administers the system in a centralized fashion; in recentyears it has been experimenting with local school councils as a means of partial devolution of authority. These councils, established in 1989, have authority in severalareas, including the ability to approve budgets and curriculum. In addition, Chicago has many private schools, including larg...
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Horse Racing.
interested parties claim the same horse at the same price, lots are drawn to determine the winning offer. Knowledgeable owners and trainers may use claiming races toobtain, at bargain prices, horses whose former owners underestimated the potential of their animals. Two other types of contests are match races and walkovers. A match race pits only two horses, almost always that season’s most successful racers, in a head-to-headduel. A walkover occurs when only one horse has not been scratched (w...
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Soccer's Big Show Comes to the United States.
There were many doubters, both overseas and within the United States. Some U.S. sportswriters derided the idea of holding the World Cup in the United States asakin to staging the World Series in India—how could there be any local interest? Foreign critics felt that money was the sole reason for FIFA's decision and that thesport was about to be cheapened to make it acceptable to Americans. The rumors flew: FIFA was going to enlarge the goals, it would allow timeouts (unheard of inthe sport) to ac...
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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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Reformation .
Saxony, he made war against the Schmalkaldic League, a defensive association of Protestant princes. The Roman Catholic forces were successful at first. Later,however, Duke Maurice went over to the Protestant side, and Charles V was obliged to make peace. The religious civil war ended with the religious Peace of Augsburg in1555. Its terms provided that each of the rulers of the German states, which numbered about 300, choose between Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism and enforcethe chosen faith up...
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Elephant - biology.
B Trunk An elephant's nose and upper lip are combined in a long, limber trunk, an exceptionally supple appendage with an estimated 150,000 muscles. The versatile trunk actslike a hand for grasping low-growing shrubs and other food and placing it into the mouth; an arm for breaking off tree branches; or a snorkel for breathing when theelephant's body is submerged. Elephants also use their trunks to suck up water and squirt it into their mouths for drinking or over their bodies for bathing. Nostr...
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North Korea - country.
IV EDUCATION AND CULTURAL ACTIVITY Education and culture in North Korea are under state control and are utilized by the governing Korean Workers’ Party regime to indoctrinate and foster its ideology. A Education Education is free and compulsory in North Korea for the first ten years of schooling. In the late 1980s, some 1.5 million pupils were enrolled annually in elementaryschools, and another 2.8 million students attended vocational and secondary schools. Statistics for subsequent years are...
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Human Nutrition.
is one of the most preventable types of cancer. Nutritionists caution that most Americans need to eat more complex carbohydrates. In the typical American diet, only 40 to 50 percent of total calories come fromcarbohydrates—a lower percentage than found in most of the world. To make matters worse, half of the carbohydrate calories consumed by the typical American comefrom processed foods filled with simple sugars. Experts recommend that these foods make up no more that 10 percent of our diet, bec...
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Slovakia - country.
The country is divided informally into the three regions of Western Slovakia, Central Slovakia, and Eastern Slovakia, corresponding to administrative divisions that wereabolished in 1989. Most of Slovakia’s 600,000 Hungarians live in the southern parts of Western and Central Slovakia, which served as the cultural center of Hungary forseveral centuries after Hungary proper was invaded by the Ottomans in the 16th century. The Ruthenian and Ukrainian minorities are concentrated in the northernregio...
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Jean Chrétien.
In 1969, when Chrétien introduced policy proposals based on this principle, indigenous peoples reacted with such hostility that he ultimately had to withdraw theproposals. Despite this and other clashes with indigenous leaders, Chrétien continued to work at improving the government relations with them. By the time he left theDepartment of Indian and Northern Affairs in 1974, he had earned their respect and appreciation for his efforts. Following the 1974 election, Trudeau appointed Chrétien pres...
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Jean Chrétien - Canadian History.
In 1969, when Chrétien introduced policy proposals based on this principle, indigenous peoples reacted with such hostility that he ultimately had to withdraw theproposals. Despite this and other clashes with indigenous leaders, Chrétien continued to work at improving the government relations with them. By the time he left theDepartment of Indian and Northern Affairs in 1974, he had earned their respect and appreciation for his efforts. Following the 1974 election, Trudeau appointed Chrétien pres...
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Telephone.
digits is dialed. The development of inexpensive and reliable amplification provided by the introduction of the transistor in the 1960s made practical the design of adialing system based on the transmission of relatively low power tones instead of the higher-power dial pulses. Today most telephones have push buttons instead of a rotary dial. Touch-Tone is an optional service, and telephone companies still maintain the ability to receive pulsedialing. Push-button telephones usually have a switch...
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Manhattan Project - U.
other possible uses of nuclear energy, such as using uranium to operate large power plants or, perhaps, as power sources for ships or submarines. Then Nazi Germanyinvaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and Europe plunged into war. The scientists realized that any plans to build large-scale nuclear power plants would have to waituntil the war was over. Two weeks after the invasion of Poland, Hitler made a radio speech in which he threatened Britain with “a weapon against which there is no defense.”...
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Congress of the United States.
senator, a person must be at least 30 years old, a citizen for nine years, and a resident of the state from which he or she is elected. Most members of Congress haveserved in state legislatures, city councils, or other elected bodies. See United States Senate: Campaigning for the Senate ; United States House of Representatives: Campaigning for the House. The 435 House seats are divided among the states in proportion to each state’s population. Every state is guaranteed at least one seat. State...
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