Les Gras (French pronunciation: [le ɡʁa]) is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Communes of the...
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View from the Window at Le Gras (French: Point de vue du Gras) is the oldest surviving photograph. It was created by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce...
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According to French law, foie gras is defined as the liver of a duck or goose fattened by gavage (force feeding). Foie gras is a popular and well-known...
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Louise de Marillac (redirect from Venerable Louise de Marillac Le Gras)
Louise de Marillac D.C., also known as Louise Le Gras, (August 12, 1591 – March 15, 1660) was the co-founder, with Vincent de Paul, of the Daughters of...
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Mardi Gras (UK: /ˌmɑːrdi ˈɡrɑː/, US: /ˈmɑːrdi ɡrɑː/; also known as Shrove Tuesday) is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn);...
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Richard le Gras (Richard the Bold in French; died 9 December 1242) was Lord Keeper of England and Abbot of Evesham in the 13th century. Richard was prior...
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Look up gras in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gras may refer to: Basile Gras (1836–1901), French firearm designer Enrico Gras (1919–1981), Italian filmmaker...
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free dictionary. Joie de vivre, a phrase with a similar sentiment Mardi Gras "Laissez les bon temps rouler!: Learn your Mardi Gras history". CBS News....
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foie gras. The report of the European Union's Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare, Welfare Aspects of the Production of Foie Gras in...
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Gerry Legras (redirect from Jervy Le Gras)
Gerry Legras (born 5 April 1966) is a Seychellois former boxer. Representing Seychelles at the men's light welterweight event in the 1996 Summer Olympics...
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de Mardi Gras (Louisiana French pronunciation: [kuɾiɾ d maɾdi ɡɾa], French pronunciation: [kuʁiʁ də maʁdi ɡʁa]) is a traditional Mardi Gras event held...
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Viviers-le-Gras (French pronunciation: [vivje lə ɡʁa] ) is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. Communes of the Vosges...
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Le Gras was remodeled to house the university gymnasium with an auditorium on the second floor. It also housed the commuter students' cafeteria. Le Gras...
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Fusil Modèle 1874 or Gras was the French Army's primary service rifle from 1874 to 1886. Designed by Colonel Basile Gras, the Gras was a metallic cartridge...
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Gras Unmasked Definitive Mardi Gras and king cake histories MardiGras.com Web site affiliated with New Orleans' Times-Picayune newspaper Mardi Gras 2014...
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Coup de grâce (redirect from Coup de gras)
A coup de grâce (/ˌkuː də ˈɡrɑːs/; French: [ku də ɡʁɑs] 'blow of mercy') is a death blow to end the suffering of a severely wounded person or animal. It...
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Louisiana, known for their elaborate suits and participation in Mardi Gras. The Mardi Gras Indians subculture emerged during the era of slavery from West African...
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real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later at Le Gras, France, in 1826, but Niépce's process was not sensitive enough to be practical...
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The earliest known photograph, the heliographic View from the Window at Le Gras, had been produced some ten years earlier using a technique that required...
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Pierre de Chambly (redirect from Pierre le Gras)
1260 – 18 January 1308), also known as Pierre the Fat (French: Pierre le Gras), Pierre VI de Chambly, or Pierre III de Chambly, was a French noble who...
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Francisco Lopes Suasso, second Baron d'Avernas le Gras (c. 1657 – 22 April 1710) was a banker and financier of the Dutch Republic. He was also known within...
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earliest known surviving photograph from nature, View from the Window at Le Gras (1826 or 1827), and the first realisation of photoresist as means to reproduce...
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daughter of Charles-Thomas Gibert, who was a lawyer, and Marie-Françoise Le Gras de Vaubercey. The marriage of her parents ended in divorce, and she became...
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Tarucus legrasi (redirect from Le Gras' Pierrot)
Tarucus legrasi, the Le Gras' Pierrot, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, Burkina Faso, northern Ivory Coast, Nigeria (north...
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being in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France, near (or on top of) Les Gras. On the northern slopes are 400 acres (160 ha) of vineyards. The hillsides...
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Germain Brice (section Thiéry, du Breul and Le Maire)
Nicolas Le Gras 1687: Nicolas Le Gras or Jean Pohier 1698: Nicolas Le Gras, Nicolas Le Clerc, Barthelemy Girin 1701: Nicolas Le Gras, Nicolas Le Clerc,...
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successful again in 1825. In 1826 he made the View from the Window at Le Gras, the earliest surviving photograph from nature (i.e., of the image of a...
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Sevastopol, Crimean War X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen View from the Window at Le Gras The Horse in Motion Migrant Mother Earthrise, 1968, by William Anders List...
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Markgräfin of Meißen 1165 – Malcolm IV of Scotland (b. 1141) 1242 – Richard le Gras, Lord Keeper of England and Abbot of Evesham 1268 – Vaišvilkas, Prince...
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certainly happened with Muybridge's work). 1826 – View from the Window at Le Gras, Nicéphore Niépce takes the oldest known extant photograph. 1833 – Since...
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