• Josué Edmond Blocus (born 20 November 1969) is a French heavyweight boxer who competed in the 1996 Olympics. Blocus is a black Frenchman whose family is...
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    "The Blockade Runners" (French: Les forceurs de blocus) is an 1865 novella by Jules Verne. In 1871 it was published in single volume together with novel...
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    The Continental Blockade (French: Blocus continental), or Continental System, was a large-scale embargo by Napoleon Bonaparte against the British Empire...
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    begin a retreat on Verdun. In his book Episodes de la guerre de 1870 et le blocus de Metz, Bazaine retrospectively argues that Verdun was the best line of...
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  • and came up against a number of high-profile opponents including Josué Blocus, Roman Bugaj, Tye Fields, Vincent Maddalone, Joe Mesi, Nikolai Valuev, Taurus...
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    Comte de Chanteleine" ("The Count of Chanteleine", 1864) "Les Forceurs de blocus" ("The Blockade Runners", 1871) "Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox" ("Dr. Ox's...
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    origin, perhaps related to Middle Dutch blokhus and 18th-century French blocus (blockade). Blockhouses existed in ancient Greece, for example the one near...
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    modified by Michel Verne) And the individual short stories: Les Forceurs de blocus (The Blockade Runners, published with A Floating City, 1871) Martin Paz...
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    ISBN 0-8444-0796-8. Jacques Bariéty (1994). "La France et la crise internationale du blocus de Berlin". Histoire, économie et société; Volume 13; numéro 1. pp. 29–44...
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  • on his Twitter account that had been recorded the previous day at the "Blocu" Carnival parade in São Paulo and showed two men dancing at a cab stand...
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