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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Aceolus and Acius (redirect from Saint Acius)
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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Ulphia (redirect from Saint Ulphia)
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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Abbeville (section Collegiate Church of Saint-Vulfran)
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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