Adolphe Low (21 July 1915, at Cottbus – 11 November 2012, at Strasbourg) was a German-French politician. Low was a member of the International Brigades...
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Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (/tiˈɛər/ tee-AIR, French: [maʁi ʒozɛf lwi adɔlf tjɛʁ]; 15 April 1797 – 3 September 1877) was a French statesman and...
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Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (French: [ɑ̃twan ʒozɛf adɔlf saks]; 6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894) was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the...
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Adolphe Low, anti-fascist resistance fighter and Knight of the Legion of Honor, ANACR, Strasbourg speaks to the delegates at the unifying congress, October...
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Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 1857 in Châlons-sur-Marne – 4 February 1926 in Paris) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer...
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Édouard Mortier, Duke of Treviso (redirect from Edouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, Duc de Treviso)
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, Duke of Treviso (French pronunciation: [adɔlf edwaʁ kazimiʁ ʒozɛf mɔʁtje]; 13 February 1768 – 28 July 1835), was...
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Leon Adolphe Amette (6 September 1850 Douville-sur-Andelle, Eure – 29 August 1920 Antony, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French Catholic cardinal who was archbishop...
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Jules Breton (redirect from Jules Adolphe Aime Louis Breton)
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (French pronunciation: [ʒyl adɔlf ɛme lwi bʁətɔ̃]; 1 May 1827 – 5 July 1906) was a 19th-century French naturalist painter...
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Hippolyte Taine (redirect from Hippolyte Adolphe Taine)
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (French pronunciation: [ipɔlit adɔlf tɛn], 21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was...
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between the radical social journalist Adolphe Smith and Scottish photographer John Thomson. It was published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington,...
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Mirebalais, Haiti. Adolphe, then known as Rosalie Bosquet, came to the attention of Duvalier during an attempt on his life. While she was a low ranking officer...
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Adolf Hitler (redirect from Adolphe Hitler)
decision to mount a risky series of offensives against Norway, France, and the Low Countries in 1940 against the advice of the military proved successful, though...
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Adolphe Célestin Pégoud (13 June 1889 – 31 August 1915) was a French aviator and flight instructor who became the first fighter ace in history during...
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Adolphe Blanc (24 June 1828 – May 1885) was a French composer of chamber music. Blanc was born in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. At the age of 13...
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Adolphe was a lugger launched at Dieppe in 1803. She made several cruises as a French privateer and captured numerous prizes until January 1807 when the...
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Hypothyroidism (redirect from Low thyroid)
Hypothyroidism (also called underactive thyroid, low thyroid or hypothyreosis) is a disorder of the endocrine system in which the thyroid gland does not...
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popular music. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in the early 1840s and was patented on 28 June 1846. Sax invented two...
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Michel Auguste Adolphe Landry (29 September 1874 – 30 August 1956) was a French demographer and politician. He was deputy and then senator for Corsica...
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family of saxophones that Adolphe Sax described in his 1846 patent. He called it the saxophone bourdon, named after the very low-pitched 32′ bourdon pedal...
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bores and deep cup-shaped mouthpieces. The saxhorn family was developed by Adolphe Sax, who is also known for creating the saxophone family. The sound of...
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baritone saxophone. It was likely the first type of saxophone built by Adolphe Sax, as first observed by Berlioz in 1842. It is a transposing instrument...
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Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger (1880-1882); Tony Robert-Fleury and William-Adolphe Bouguereau; and later, with Carolus Duran. He returned to Toronto in 1883...
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St. Adolphe, or Saint Adolphe, originally called Pointe-Coupée, is a community in the Rural Municipality of Ritchot, Manitoba, Canada. It is located along...
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Adolphe Gérard (1844–1900) was a French chef, restaurant and hotel owner in Colorado, US. Gérard was born in Alençon, France, in 1844. At age 15, he enrolled...
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Merlin is owned by the Mulliez family, which also owns Auchan. In 1923, Adolphe Leroy and Rose Merlin, associates in private and business life,[clarification...
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Adolphe Robert (17 January 1833, Melun – 23 December 1899, Paris) was a 19th-century French historian and biographer. With Gaston Cougny [fr], he wrote...
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bulb. The hand-blown, carbon-filament common light bulb was invented by Adolphe Chaillet, a French engineer who filed a patent for this socket technology...
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through the work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Chéret, Eugène Grasset, Adolphe Willette, Pierre Bonnard, Georges de Feure, Henri-Gabriel Ibels, Paul Gavarni...
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Adolphe Boschot (4 May 1871 in Fontenay-sous-Bois – 1 June 1955 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French essayist, musicologist, and music critic. La Crise...
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André-Louis-Adolphe Laoust or André Laoust (1843–1924) was a French sculptor born in Douai....
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