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    2014. Retrieved 8 February 2013. "La Géologie des îles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon". Encyclopédie des îles Saint-Pierre & Miquelon (in French). Miquelon Conseil...
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    SS Caribou was torpedoed by U-69 and sunk in the Cabot Strait south of Port aux Basques. Caribou was carrying 45 crew and 206 civilian and military passengers...
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    from 15 August to 16 November 1945. The government later transferred him to the Fort de Pierre-Levée citadel on the Île d'Yeu, a small island off the...
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    Suzanne Bertillon (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    Marshall Plan. Suzanne Bertillon died 8 October 1980, in Montgeron. After the war, she received the Resistance Medal, the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 and...
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    land on the atolls. In 1820, the islands were named the Gilbert Islands or îles Gilbert (in French) by Adam Johann von Krusenstern, a Baltic German Admiral...
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    Viking Discovery of America: The Excavation of a Norse Settlement in L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Breakwater Books. pp. 28–. ISBN 1-55081-158-4. Bishop...
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    dead link] on the PCF website Régionales : les élus PG ne participeront pas aux exécutifs régionaux, Le Parisien, 26 March 2010 Résultats du vote des 16...
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    l'Australasie et la Polynésie (ou le continent de la Nouvelle Hollande et les îles du Grand Océan)". Océanie derives from the Latin word oceanus, and this from...
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    "Allocution du Président de la République lors de la cérémonie d’hommage aux martyrs du Bois de Boulogne" (in French), President Nicolas Sarkozy, French...
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  • built a railway specifically to transport the ore to the shore, at Sept-Îles. The terms of the lease attracted much controversy, with the opposition decrying...
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