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    young soldiers carrying out his duties, Auguste Thin, who had been recruited as a volunteer in the class of 1919. Thin had distinguished himself by bravery...
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    Instead of a basket, it trailed an air-thin black-and-silver aluminum ball. Within [the contraption] Prof. Auguste Piccard, physicist, and Charles Kipfer...
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    Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French: [pjɛʁ oɡyst ʁənwaʁ]; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development...
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  • as C. Auguste Dupin, the Assistant United States Attorney who wants to bring the Ushers to justice. His name comes from the character C. Auguste Dupin...
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    Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction...
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    dubbed it "an interlude, imitating the Spanish style." Naturally, this thinly veiled government criticism did not go without opposition. Upon first reading...
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    watches, such as the 1986 ultra-thin automatic tourbillon wristwatch (Calibre 2870). Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet knew each other in their...
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    Escoffier's Le guide culinaire. Chipolatas are often prepared as a relatively thin and short sausage. Chipolatas are typically made from coarse-ground pork...
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    Auguste Michel-Lévy (7 August 1844 – 27 September 1911) was a French geologist. He was born in Paris. He became inspector-general of mines, and director...
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    developed by Auguste Michel-Lévy to identify minerals in thin section using a petrographic microscope. With a known thickness of the thin section, minerals...
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    only 38,000 to defend the capital, Joseph authorized the French marshal Auguste de Marmont to capitulate on 31 March. The following day, the allies accepted...
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    1942, the Franks were joined by the Van Pels family, made up of Hermann, Auguste, and 16-year-old Peter, and then in November by Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist...
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    Monet and Her Son, Claude Monet, 1875 Bal du moulin de la Galette, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876 Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Vincent van Gogh, 1890 The Card Players...
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    usually of brioche or puff pastry. In the early part of the 20th century, Auguste Escoffier, the famed French chef, brought it to France and included recipes...
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    colonial army in Ethiopia in Asosa, Bortaï and Saïo under Major-General Auguste-Eduard Gilliaert. In May 1960, a growing nationalist movement, the Mouvement...
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    point of view. The French neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and eugenicist Auguste Forel believed that ant societies were models for human society. He published...
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    and suggests serving with beef quenelles, deviled eggs and croûtons. Auguste Escoffier, Carême's apprentice, who was mostly fascinated by the soup's...
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  • been used in film titles to refer to Dr. Frankenstein's creation, or The Thin Man was used in a series of detective films. A Shot in the Dark, the second...
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    Melba toast is a dry, crisp and thinly sliced rusk, often served with soup and salad or topped with either melted cheese or pâté. It is named after Dame...
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    Auguste Jean-Marie Pavie (31 May 1847 – 7 June 1925) was a French colonial civil servant, explorer and diplomat who was instrumental in establishing French...
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    offshoot of the Passerida group of songbirds. Described by Belgian naturalist Auguste Drapiez in 1819, the pink robin is a member of the Australasian robin family...
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    Chastel 2000, pp. 186–187. Texier 2012, p. 12. "Le Louvre de Philippe Auguste" (in French). Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 18...
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    Provincial Cooking. London: Folio Society. OCLC 809349711. Escoffier, Georges Auguste. Escoffier: The Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery. Translated...
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    Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg) by Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, which depicts two German acrobatic sisters, Pablo Picasso's 1905...
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    portions of western Belgium. The original recipe, published in 1740 by Louis-Auguste de Bourbon in Le Cuisinier Gascon, is as follows: Take "deux litrons" (1...
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    roast gamebirds, such as pheasant, grouse, partridge and quail. They are thin slices of potato (sometimes dusted with flour; often crinkle-cut), deep-fried...
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    crystal corundum from which small stones could be cut. In 1887, Fremy and Auguste Verneuil manufactured artificial ruby by fusing BaF2 and Al2O3 with a little...
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    Augustus had 7 children, of whom only three survive adulthood: Louise Auguste Amalie (Weimar, 3 February 1779 – Weimar, 24 March 1784). A daughter (born...
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    namesake Valencian Impressionist painter, also including sculptures by Auguste Rodin, part of Sorolla's personal effects), or the History Museum of Madrid...
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    de Chimie et de Physique, 3rd series, 37 : 285–342; see p. 339. Kekulé, Auguste (1865) "Sur la constitution des substances aromatiques," Bulletin de la...
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