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    52°23′35″N 2°49′56″W / 52.3931°N 2.8322°W / 52.3931; -2.8322 Ferney Hall is a mid-Victorian-era mansion house situated at Onibury, Shropshire, England...
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    even larger estate at Ferney, on the French side of the Franco-Swiss border. The town would adopt his name, calling itself Ferney-Voltaire, and this became...
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    popularly known as the Malabar Manual.[citation needed] William logan was born on 17 May 1841 at Ferney Castle, near Reston - Berwickshire, Scotland. His father...
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    the name of Volney (which he had created as a contraction of Voltaire and Ferney). Volney was born at Craon, Anjou (today in Mayenne), of a noble family...
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  • first match, Yairo Moreno left the squad on 13 June due to injury. Juan Ferney Otero tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and was replaced by Frank Fabra on...
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    and had to be dragged by fellow passengers to visit Voltaire's home in Ferney, "protesting all the way upon the unworthiness of his memory". He then went...
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    that the Villa Diodati is "now visited by everybody, just like Coppet and Ferney" (the homes of Madame de Staël and Voltaire respectively). The villa has...
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    "See you next week. That's how I like it, that you [also] like it." Brand Ferney Bernal Álvarez was a 16-year-old youth who worked with his father in the...
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  • Warrington in north-west England. October – Voltaire buys an estate at Ferney in eastern France. unknown date – The French mathematician and philosopher...
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  • Technologies 2015 Geneva SARL Philippe Fraboulet, CEO Manufacture Royale 1770 Ferney-Voltaire Voltaire Vallorbe Privately held company Mathey-Tissot 1886 Les...
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    Lumbutts, Robinwood, Lydgate, Portsmouth, Shade, Stansfield, Dobroyd, Ferney Lee, Gauxholme and Cross Stone. Medieval Todmorden had consisted of the...
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    misreading of the 1885 work La Vie intime de Voltaire aux Délices et à Ferney by Lucien Perey (real name: Clara Adèle Luce Herpin) and Gaston Maugras...
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    city) and included large squares and ports. Voltaire, who had settled in Ferney, was particularly rejoiced about the idea of ruining Geneva. However, opposition...
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    mission to Switzerland, and took the opportunity of visiting Voltaire at Ferney. He made a portrait of the philosopher, which was engraved and published...
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  • of Bavaria, Queen of the Belgians Eugénie-les-Bains – Eugénie de Montijo Ferney-Voltaire – Voltaire Fitz-James – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick Flavigny-sur-Ozerain...
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    savoyard' whatever he has done, and whatever he may do...Let him come here [to Ferney]! He must come! I shall receive him with open arms. He shall be master here...
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    justified his selection by Voltaire to paint the decorations of his theatre at Ferney. His work was much engraved by the abbé de Saint-Non, with whom he had visited...
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    Veyrier-sous-Salève. Guy and her sister Louise were moved to a convent in Ferney a few years later and then brought back to Paris.[citation needed] Guy's...
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    of the Hon. George Francis Pomeroy (George Francis Colley from 1830) of Ferney, County Dublin, by his wife, Frances, third daughter of Thomas Trench, dean...
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  • 4:25:30 Claudio Villanueva  Ecuador 4:49:33 Rodrigo Zeballos  Bolivia DNF Ferney Rojas  Colombia DNF Pavel Chihuán  Peru DNF Yerenman Salazar  Venezuela...
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    Trabajemos Guainía Inirida 72,238 52,061 0.67 1991 GN 16 Guaviare Yeison Ferney Rojas Martínez Guaviare Seguimos Avanzando San José del Guaviare   53,460...
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    for ebony bark exploitation. In 1948 a monument and plaque was erected in Ferney, Vieux Grand Port to commemorate the first Dutch landing which had taken...
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  • Baltimore, Md.: Maryland Historical Society. ISBN 0-938420-28-3. Bright, William (2004). Colorado Place Names. Big Earth Publishing. ISBN 9781555663339...
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    Strasbourg and Lüneburg. In October 1771, he passed through Switzerland and in Ferney, he met the philosopher, Voltaire. In England nearly seven years later,...
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    l’Histoire des deux Indes (Centre International D’étude du XVIIIe Siècle; Ferney Voltaire, 2018) 45-61. An essay on circulation and credit: in four parts;...
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  • John Gill AUS 1959 13 2 0 0 6 169 Harry Caines AUS 1959 13 0 0 0 0 170 B Ferney AUS 1959 1 0 0 0 0 171 Robin Gair AUS Halfback 1959–1964 55 22 12 0 90 172...
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  • Lincoln Center Campus, in 1974. He then relocated to Europe, first working in Ferney-Voltaire, France, as News Editor of World Medical Journal (1974-1976), a...
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    "About The Common – The Common". www.thecommononline.org. July 15, 2016. Ferney, Mark (October 15, 2017). "Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer-winning poet, dies at...
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    published by Ulla Kölving at the Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle, Ferney-Voltaire. Grimm's Mémoire Historique sur l'origine et les suites de mon...
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  • papers. "Billy Jones". AusLit. Retrieved 1 December 2014. Ferney, Liam (1 July 2008). "Liam Ferney reviews Billy Jones". Cordite Poetry Review. Retrieved...
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