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    December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is considered a...
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    "Luçon et Palaouan, Six Années de Voyages aux Philippines (Luzon and Palawan, Six Years of Voyages in the Philippines)". In the modern era, his discovered...
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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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  • The Sawchuk Poems Michèle Magny 1944 playwright Marina, le dernier rose aux joues, Un carré de ciel Anand Mahadevan 1979 novelist The Strike Rabindranath...
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  • humblotii (Black orchid), species of orchid native to Madagascar and Île aux Nattes Cymbidium canaliculatum (Queensland black orchid), a species of orchid...
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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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    between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. An important...
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    flammes: 1953-1962 [This flaming straitjacket] (in French), Paris: Éditions de la Table ronde, 1976, p. 262, BnF 34557030f L'Archange aux pieds fourchus :...
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    Foreign Affairs of Switzerland. Retrieved 2014-10-14. "Protocole additionnel aux Conventions de Genève du 12 août 1949 relatif à la protection des victimes...
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  • Marguerite Gautier, protagonist in the 1848 novel and 1852 play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas. It was made a movie "Camille" (1936) by George...
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