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    Hampton include Whitney Peak and Marks Peak. Named features of Mount Cuming include Annexstad Peak, Le Vaux Peak and Woolam Peak. Named features of Mount...
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    British Columbia, Canada. Its nearest higher peak is Mount Goodsir, 11.0 km (6.8 mi) to the southeast. Mount Vaux can be seen from Highway 1, the Trans-Canada...
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    Vaux-le-Moncelot (French pronunciation: [vo lə mɔ̃slo]) is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern...
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    Its nearest higher peak is Mount Vaux, 4.0 km (2.5 mi) to the north-northwest. Both are part of the Ottertail Range. Chancellor Peak is a landmark in the...
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    18th century 19th to 21st century The islet belongs to the French commune of Le Mont-Saint-Michel, in the département of Manche, in Normandy. The nearest...
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    the development of literature in Normandy. Olivier Basselin wrote of the Vaux de Vire, the origin of literary vaudeville. Notable Norman writers include...
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    of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York...
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    publications including Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération, Le Nouvel Observateur, Le Canard enchaîné, La Croix, Le Parisien (in Saint-Ouen), Les Échos, Paris Match...
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  • 1960 for nine seasons by École Biblique under the direction of Roland de Vaux. More recently, an international archaeological project led by the Universidade...
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  • Geoffroy Foucher (1168–1171) Eustache le Chien (1171–1173) (afterwards Master of France, 1175) Albert de Vaux (1173–1174) Baudouin de Gand (1176–1178)...
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    quarters receipt. He also began a medley of prose and poetry, entitled Le Songe de Vaux, on Fouquet's famous country house. It was about this time that his...
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    Archived from the original on 11 October 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022. Vaux-Montagny, Nicolas; Schaeffer, Jeffrey (10 October 2022). "Families of crash...
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    commissioned in 1806, after the victory at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon at the peak of his fortunes. Laying the foundations alone took two years and, in 1810...
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    empeños de una casa. Gardens at Vaux-le-Vicomte, France, by André Le Nôtre, 1657–1661 Gardens of Versailles, by André Le Nôtre, begun in 1661 Gardens of...
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    Les Fâcheux [fr] in 1661, when Lully provided a single sung courante, added after the work's premiere at Nicolas Fouquet's sumptuous chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte...
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    King Louis XIV, chose the new style for his château at Vaux-le-Vicomte (1612–1670) by Louis Le Vau. He was later imprisoned by the King because of the...
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    Prospect Park (Brooklyn) (category Calvert Vaux designs)
    Park was laid out by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux for the then-independent city of Brooklyn. Prospect Park opened in 1867,...
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    settlement on the south bank of the River Wear on what is the site of the former Vaux Brewery, although no archaeological investigation has taken place. Roman...
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    Khetiu Mafkat ("Ladders of Turquoise") by the ancient Egyptians. Roland de Vaux writes that the peninsula acquired the name Sinai in modern times due to...
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  • Archived from the original on March 18, 2008. Retrieved March 24, 2008. Vaux, Rob. "No Country for Old Men Movie Review". Flipside Movie Emporium. Retrieved...
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  • Archived from the original on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2017. Vaux, Pierre (29 March 2016). "Fontanka Investigates Russian Mercenaries Dying...
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    Niagara River, from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. In 1887, Olmsted and Calvert Vaux issued a supplemental report detailing plans to restore the falls. Their...
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    Mount Goodsir 3,567 m (11,703 ft) Mount Vaux 3,310 m (10,860 ft) Mount Balfour 3,272 m (10,735 ft) Chancellor Peak 3,266 m (10,715 ft) Mount Stephen 3,199 m...
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    (1950–1987) was crushed to death in the dome of the 4-m telescope at Kitt Peak. "When People DIED In Freak Accidents: Head Stuck Under Cinema Seat in Birmingham...
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    Manfred von Richthofen (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class))
    respected by his enemies. Richthofen was shot down and killed over France near Vaux-sur-Somme on 21 April 1918. There has been considerable discussion and debate...
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  • People's Artist of the USSR (1984). Michael Brougham, 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux, 85, British aristocrat and politician, member of the House of Lords (since...
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    originally came from Saint-Jacques aux Pèlerins. These statues mark the peak of Parisian art from the middle of the 13th century. In the 15th century...
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  • (UFO, Whitesnake). 27 August – Michael Brougham, 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux, 85, British peer and politician, member of the House of Lords (since 1968)...
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  • (1289–1306) Barony of Irthington/Gilisland Robert II de Vaux of Gilisland (1199–1235) Hubert II de Vaux (1235–1240) Thomas II de Multon (1240–1271) Thomas...
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  • northern part. Lanercost Priory Priory ca 1169 Ruins Founded by Robert de Vaux to house Augustinian canons. The church building dates from the late 13th...
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