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    Mont Orgueil (French for 'Mount Pride') is a castle in Jersey that overlooks the harbour of Gorey; a port on the east coast of the Island. It is known...
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    Orgueil (French pronunciation: [ɔʁɡœj] ; Occitan: Orgulh) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Orgueil...
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    Orgueil is a scientifically important carbonaceous chondrite meteorite that fell in southwestern France in 1864. The Orgueil meteorite fell on May 14,...
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  • SONCAS is a French acronym for Sécurité - Orgueil - Nouveauté - Confort - Argent - Sympathie. Well known in France, this system was invented to know what...
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    fragments from a meteorite crashed into the French city of Orgueil. A separate fragment of the Orgueil meteorite (kept in a sealed glass jar since its discovery)...
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    number of times, leading to the construction of fortifications such as Mont Orgueil Castle and a thriving smuggling industry. During the Second World War,...
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    meteorite falls. Some famous carbonaceous chondrites are: Allende, Murchison, Orgueil, Ivuna, Murray, Tagish Lake, Sutter's Mill and Winchcombe. C chondrites...
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  • the Duchy of Normandy in 1204 and the design consequently includes Mont Orgueil castle and other historic symbols. It has serial number with prefix "J8C"...
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    Jersey and Guernsey in 1372, and in 1373 Bertrand du Guesclin besieged Mont Orgueil. The young King Richard II of England reconfirmed in 1378 the Charter rights...
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  • Rocks 1st Photos of Mars by Curiosity Rover (Gallery) Filaments in the Orgueil meteorite, seen under a scanning electron microscope, could be evidence...
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