• south-eastern France Boissy-aux-Cailles, a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region Butte-aux-Cailles, a neighbourhood of...
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    encampment that was occupied sporadically for perhaps 20 years at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland. No further European exploration...
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    the Philippines. In 1944, three full four-squadron A-20 groups were active in the campaign that led to the invasion of Luzon. After the Philippines were...
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    Forces françaises de l'intérieur aux opérations des fronts de l'Atlantique et des Alpes et à la réorganisation de l'armée 1944–1945 [The Participation of the...
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    Celone Field, Foggia, Italy. Clark Field Philippines attack survivor. Olympic bronze medalist in diving (1932), 1944–1945. Father of actress Swoosie Kurtz...
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    during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944. Paris had been occupied by Nazi Germany...
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    described and named by French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat in his account "Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, fait depuis 1774 jusqu'à 1781" (translation:...
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  • World War II – Volume XIII: The Liberation of the Philippines – Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas 1944-1945", Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1959, 1989...
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    Paris: Éditions de la Table ronde, 1976, p. 262, BnF 34557030f L'Archange aux pieds fourchus : 1963-1964 [The Archangel with cloven hooves: 1963-1964]...
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