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    Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (French: [ʒozɛf ɑ̃twan fɛʁdinɑ̃ plato]; 14 October 1801 – 15 September 1883) was a Belgian physicist and mathematician...
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    Stampfer and Plateau have a claim to be the founding father of Cinema. Most cited with this honour however is Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau. Stampfer...
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    engineer and Belgian Resistance member in Second World War Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (1801-1883), physicist, mathematician Abdoel Rivai (1871-1937)...
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  • (Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch Centrum). Retrieved 3 May 2020. "Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau", KNAW Historisch Ledenbestand (Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch...
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  • JPL · 11965 11966 Plateau 1994 PJ20 Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (1801–1883) was a Belgian physicist who stated the so-called "Plateau-problem". The proof...
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  • Ludwig Planck 29 April 1926 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947 Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau 24 November 1870 14 October 1801 – 15 September 1883 Julius...
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    Invasion of Naples (1806) (category Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies)
    appointed his brother Joseph Bonaparte to rule over Southern Italy as king. The proximate cause of the invasion was Ferdinand's double-crossing of Napoleon...
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    York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-31212-123-5. Marbot, Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin. "The Battle of Austerlitz", Napoleon: Symbol for an Age, A Brief...
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  • comparative linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris (with Antoine Meillet and Joseph Vendryes, among others). In 1931, he founded the Cercle Linguistique...
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    formations to reach the plateau before Eylau at about 14:00 on the 7th. The Russian rearguard under Bagration occupied positions on the plateau about a mile in...
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    Saint Antoine l'Abbaye (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.t‿ɑ̃twan labei], before 1991: Saint-Antoine), also Saint-Antoine-en-Viennois, is a commune in the Isère...
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  • John Beecroft Jean-Pierre Bekolo Bélabo Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga Joseph-Antoine Bell Muhammed Bello Patrick Bengondo Bello Bouba Maigari Carl Jacob...
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    Queensland. Sir Paul de Strzelecki. Cossack. U.S. Pacific Coast, Pacific Northwest. Allegheny Mountains, Cumberland Plateau. " The Historyscoper – explorers...
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    Indian subcontinent, the overwhelming majority of Europe, and the Iranian plateau. Some European languages of this family—English, French, Portuguese, Russian...
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  • Linden, Dutch chemist – Lindane. Jules Antoine Lissajous, French physicist - Lissajous curve, Lissajous orbit. Joseph Lister, British physician – Listerine...
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  • – postage meter Hippolyte Pixii (1808–1835), France – Pixii dynamo Joseph Plateau (1801–1883), Belgium – phenakistiscope (stroboscope) Baltzar von Platen...
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    troops and the capture of many military standards, and prompted Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick to lift that year's Siege of Cassel. Bouillé was given the...
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  • 1948) Nobel laureate Max Planck – Germany (1858–1947) Nobel laureate Joseph Plateau – Belgium (1801–1883) Milton S. Plesset – United States (1908–1991)...
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    Loess Plateau (simplified Chinese: 黄土高原; traditional Chinese: 黃土高原; pinyin: Huángtǔ Gāoyuán), also known as the Huangtu Plateau, is a plateau that covers...
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    posted on the Laubressel plateau. The 2nd Division of II Corps linked the positions of Duhesme and Rottembourg, with Antoine Anatole Jarry's brigade on...
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    Instead, Archduke Charles occupied both the Bisamberg heights and the Wagram plateau behind the Russbach river, covering the retreat routes to Bohemia and Moravia...
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    Ismaelite Arab tribe, which used to reside in the northern parts of the Golan plateau through Hellenistic and Roman periods. The word Druzes, in an early Hebrew...
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    Allies absorbed many reinforcements. These were led by Russian general Ferdinand von Wintzingerode and Prussian general Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von...
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  • and physicist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologist Joseph Plateau (1801–1883), physicist; invented an early stroboscopic device, the phenakistiscope...
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    Southern Hemisphere outside of Antarctica. Among the depressions by which the plateau is intersected transversely, the principal ones are the Gualichu, south...
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    battle at Rossbach, lay 14 km (9 mi) southwest of Merseburg, on a wide plateau dotted by hillocks with elevations up to 120–245 m (394–804 ft). The locale...
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    Affairs Abraham Schrameck – Minister of the Interior Joseph Caillaux – Minister of Finance Antoine Durafour – Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work...
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    (Kemmuna)—are inhabited. The islands of the archipelago lie on the Malta plateau, a shallow shelf formed from the high points of a land bridge between Sicily...
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    The brigade commanders were Friedrich Joseph Anton von Bellegarde, Friedrich Heinrich von Gottesheim, Ferdinand Minckwitz and Alexander Friedrich von...
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  • (b. 1919) 2014 – Michael Botmang, Nigerian politician, 17th Governor of Plateau State (b. 1938) 2014 – Dennis Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter (b...
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