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    Saint-Acheul (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿aʃœl]; Picard: Saint-Acheu) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is...
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    Amiens (redirect from Saint-Acheul (Amiens))
    to be confused with the commune of Saint-Acheul situated 37 km (23 mi) to the north, the quarter of Saint-Acheul is the site of a military cemetery from...
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    The Abbey of Saint-Acheul (French: Abbaye de Saint-Acheul) was a monastery of Canons Regular in the Saint-Acheul district of Amiens, France. It was founded...
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    Acheulian and Mode II), from the French acheuléen after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized...
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    Fermin (redirect from Saint Firmin)
    to be cured, and trees to be inclined reverently toward the saint. The Abbey of Saint-Acheul in Amiens was founded in 1085 on the supposed tomb of Fermin...
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  • Magdalenian culture Le Moustier (Dordogne, France), of the Mousterian culture Saint Acheul (near Amiens, France), of the Acheulean culture Butmir (near Sarajevo...
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  • period of Saint-Acheul which lasted more than three-quarters of a century. Between 1860 and 1880, 20,000 axeheads were thus collected. Saint-Acheul, whose...
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  • Saints Acheolus (or Acheul) and Acius were early Christian martyrs in Gaul. They are associated with Amiens, where Acheolus's name was given to an ancient...
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  • established canons at the Abbey of Saint-Acheul in 1085. The foundation charter records donations to Saint-Acheul by Count Enguerran of Boves and his...
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    hand axe from Furze Platt, Berkshire, Great Britain. Flint biface from Saint-Acheul, France. Acheulean flint biface from 200,000 years BP, found in Madrid...
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    Amiens who became a hermit at Saint-Acheul along the banks of the Avre. He is remembered for providing spiritual guidance to Saint Ulphia. One of the statues...
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    Jesuit Clongowes Wood College, Kildare, and later in the College of Saint-Acheul, a similar school in Amiens, France and then at Rue de Sèvres, Paris...
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    Amiens. She then retired to live as a hermit near what would become Saint-Acheul, near Amiens in the Kingdom of the Franks. There she met the elderly...
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    refined handaxe became known as the Acheulean industry, named after Saint-Acheul, today a suburb of Amiens. It retained some importance into the Bronze...
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    decorated by Croix de guerre 1914-1918 on 15 December 1920. The Church of Saint-Médard was rebuilt in 1921 after the destruction caused by the First World...
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  • be developed through the Acheulean Industry, named after the site of Saint-Acheul in France. The Acheulean was characterised not by the core, but by the...
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    its students for the entrance examinations to the École Polytechnique and Saint-Cyr. Consequently, these two esteemed institutions had numerous students...
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    Muslim area of the national cemetery in Amiens (Saint-Acheul) – in the foreground is the tomb of a soldier of the 45e régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais...
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    Sains-en-Amiénois Saint-Acheul Saint-Aubin-Montenoy Saint-Aubin-Rivière Saint-Blimont Saint-Christ-Briost Sainte-Segrée Saint-Fuscien Saint-Germain-sur-Bresle Saint-Gratien...
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    bay of Somme View of Mers-les-Bains Amiens Château de Rambures Chapel in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme Cantons of the Somme department Communes of the Somme department...
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    Sains-en-Amiénois Saint-Acheul Saint-Aubin-Montenoy Saint-Aubin-Rivière Saint-Blimont Saint-Christ-Briost Sainte-Segrée Saint-Fuscien Saint-Germain-sur-Bresle Saint-Gratien...
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    Saint-Valery-sur-Somme (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ valʁi syʁ sɔm], literally Saint-Valery on Somme; Picard: Saint-Wary), commune in the Somme department...
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  • Notre-Dame of the Jesuits in his hometown. He entered the Jesuit novitiate at Saint-Acheul-lez-Amiens in 1899. From 1901 he lived and studied in exile due to the...
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    Saint-Riquier (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʁikje]; Picard: Saint-Ritchier) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France....
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  • Antiquités Celtiques et Antediluviennes by Boucher de Perthes about Saint-Acheul was found unconvincing in its presentation, until it was reconsidered...
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    Sains-en-Amiénois Saint-Acheul Saint-Aubin-Montenoy Saint-Aubin-Rivière Saint-Blimont Saint-Christ-Briost Sainte-Segrée Saint-Fuscien Saint-Germain-sur-Bresle Saint-Gratien...
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  • their age geologically and following visits to the site of Abbeville and Saint-Acheul by the paleontologist Hugh Falconer and the geologist Joseph Prestwich...
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    Brussels, the Charlemagne college in Paris, and the Jesuit college in Saint-Acheul. Started studying Law in Liège in 1821, but dropped out of school and...
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    Sains-en-Amiénois Saint-Acheul Saint-Aubin-Montenoy Saint-Aubin-Rivière Saint-Blimont Saint-Christ-Briost Sainte-Segrée Saint-Fuscien Saint-Germain-sur-Bresle Saint-Gratien...
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    prime minister of Belgium. He was educated at the Jesuit-run Collège de Saint-Acheul in France until 1828. During the Belgian Revolution he made a pilgrimage...
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