French New Wave (redirect from La Nouvelle Vague)
The New Wave (French: Nouvelle Vague, French pronunciation: [nuvɛl vaɡ]), also called the French New Wave, is a French art film movement that emerged...
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Indo-Roman trade relations (see also the spice trade and incense road) was trade between the Indian subcontinent and the Roman Empire in Europe and the...
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The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed...
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Le cinéma français depuis la nouvelle vague, Fernand Nathan/Alliance Française, 1972 Baldick, Chris (2015). "Nouveau roman, le". The Oxford Dictionary...
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The Roman calendar was the calendar used by the Roman Kingdom and Roman Republic. Although the term is primarily used for Rome's pre-Julian calendars...
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Beginning in the 1st century BC with Virgil, Horace, and Strabo, Roman historians offer only vague accounts of China and the silk-producing Seres people of the...
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Notre-Dame de la Garde (French pronunciation: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam d(ə) la ɡaʁd]; lit.: Our Lady of the Guard), known to local citizens as la Bonne Mère (French...
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Roman Empire are a historical theme that was introduced by historian Edward Gibbon in his 1776 book The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...
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ground for the vague scandal as to her conduct, which was, for the most part, raised long afterwards by gossip or personal enemies of La Fontaine. All...
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Roman Inquisition, formally Suprema Congregatio Sanctae Romanae et Universalis Inquisitionis (Latin for 'the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman...
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Count (redirect from Roman Count)
sense of the seat of power and administration. This other kind of count had vague antecedents in Late Antiquity too: the father of Cassiodorus held positions...
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Mars (mythology) (redirect from Mars (Roman religion and mythology))
In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Mars (Latin: Mārs, pronounced [maːrs]) is the god of war and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic...
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Sexuality in ancient Rome (redirect from Roman sex)
regarded sex throughout the Greco-Roman world as governed by restraint and the art of managing sexual pleasure. Roman society was patriarchal (see paterfamilias)...
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apart from a very vague statement from Pomponius. It was thought by Niebuhr that they were introduced at the time when the Romans first began to coin...
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Baalbek (redirect from Heliopolis (Roman Phoenicia))
Baalbek (/ˈbɑːlbɛk, ˈbeɪəlbɛk/; Arabic: بَعْلَبَكّ, romanized: Baʿlabakk; Syriac: ܒܥܠܒܟ) is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa...
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Mona Lisa (redirect from La Gionconda)
(/ˌmoʊnə ˈliːsə/ MOH-nə LEE-sə; Italian: la Gioconda [la dʒoˈkonda] or Monna Lisa [ˈmɔnna ˈliːza]; French: la Joconde [la ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait...
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the important assistance which they received from a nation in which the Roman Catholic religion is professed." Beginning in approximately 1780 there was...
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the former Inca lands had been entrusted to Pedro de la Gasca by the Spanish king (and Holy Roman Emperor) Emperor Charles V. Gasca commanded Alonso de...
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Spain (section Prehistory and pre-Roman peoples)
other pre-Roman peoples. With the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, the province of Hispania was established. Following the Romanization and Christianization...
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the Roman Republic was a set of uncodified norms and customs which, together with various written laws, guided the procedural governance of the Roman Republic...
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Thrace (section Ancient and Roman history)
Thrace (/θreɪs/, thrayss; Bulgarian: Тракия, romanized: Trakiya; Greek: Θράκη, romanized: Thráki; Turkish: Trakya) is a geographical and historical region...
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Church of the Madonna della Difesa (redirect from Notre-Dame-de-la-Défense)
(Italian: Chiesa della Madonna della Difesa, French: Église de Notre-Dame-de-la-Défense) is a Catholic church in the neighbourhood of Little Italy in Montreal...
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Academics disagree as to its exact use, about which the primary sources are vague. It has traditionally been assumed to be a type of shared anal hygiene utensil...
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Nausea (novel) (redirect from La Nausée)
interpréter le sentiment de la nausée de mille façons différentes dont aucune ne me semble convaincante. Un lecteur attentif du roman de Sartre devrait être...
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private schools in La Crosse include La Crosse Aquinas Catholic Schools, a Roman Catholic school district affiliated with the Diocese of La Crosse, which includes...
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Santería (redirect from La Regla de Lukumi)
syncretism between the traditional Yoruba religion of West Africa, the Roman Catholic form of Christianity, and Spiritism. There is no central authority...
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Celts (category All articles with vague or ambiguous time)
finds of the La Tène as 'the archaeological expression of the Celts'". This cultural network was overrun by the Roman Empire, though traces of La Tène style...
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Cleopatra (section Roman literature and historiography)
footnote 103). Plutarch, translated by Jones (2006, p. 187), wrote in vague terms that "Octavian had Caesarion killed later, after Cleopatra's death...
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