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    The Escadron de Chasse 3/30 Lorraine ("fighter Squadron 3/30 Lorraine") is a fighter Squadron of the French Air and Space Force (Armée de l'air et de...
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    1476. René retired to Aix-en-Provence and in 1474 made a will by which he left Bar to his grandson René II, Duke of Lorraine; and Anjou and Provence to...
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  • film was partly based on Hans Habe's 1941 novel A Thousand Shall Fall. The title refers to the French Cross of Lorraine, which was the symbol of the Résistance...
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    Hayange (French pronunciation: [ajɑ̃ʒ]; German: Hayingen; Lorraine Franconian: Héngen/Haiéngen) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in...
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    Alderman Doolin's Campaign Speech Porter Steve Porter 1913 2038 Marche Lorraine New York Military Band 1913 2039 Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay Premiere...
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    supreme commander Marshal Ferdinand Foch, and the reconstructed Alsace–Lorraine memorial, depicting a German Eagle impaled by a sword. The Armistice of...
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    is to blame. In the end, it is revealed that the "ghost" was actually Lorraine, the substitute librarian who is very serious about her job. She makes...
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  • The various toponyms in the historical region of Lorraine are often known by very different names depending on the language in which they are expressed...
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    avril 1941]". Annales de Géographie. 51 (286): 155–156. The American Historical Association. ""Book Review of Morts d'inanition: Famine et exclusions en France...
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    17–18 December 1941, but the line remained in place on paper for the remainder of the occupation. Nevertheless, effectively Alsace-Lorraine was annexed:...
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    displaying the French colours with a red cross of Lorraine, and a cockade, which also featured the cross of Lorraine. Modern ships that share the same name as...
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    Augustus II. Stanislas lost the Polish crown, but he was given the Duchy of Lorraine as compensation, which would pass to France after his death in 1766. Next...
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  • to France. In 1940, during World War II, he was wounded on the front in Lorraine during fighting against the Germans and was sent to Beaujon Hospital in...
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    2016. Jacques Lorraine (Edmond Huntzbuchler): Les Allemands en France. Origines, Bretagne, Zone interdite Est, Bourgogne, Alsace et Lorraine, editions du...
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    Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine (French: Église protestante de la Confession d’Augsbourg d’Alsace et de Lorraine, EPCAAL; German: Protestantische...
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    [ʃɑtopɔ̃sak]; Occitan: Chastel Ponçac), also known locally as Château Lorraine, is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine...
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  • April 1945 (Douglas Boston III & IV) No. 342 (GB I/20 'Lorraine') Squadron RAF "FAFL Groupe Lorraine" (No. 137 Wing), 17 October 1944 – 22 April 1945 (Douglas...
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    offensive pace. Patton's Third Army was sent to Lorraine. Despite its proximity to Germany, Lorraine was not the Allies' preferred invasion route in 1944...
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    United States Navy grew rapidly during its involvement in World War II from 1941–45, and played a central role in the Pacific War against Imperial Japan....
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  • Jean-Pierre Poly (category 1941 births)
    1941) is a French historian. He was the student of Georges Duby, and graduated with a Phd in History in 1972. He specializes in feudalism. Lorraine 2007...
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    Baie-D'Urfé. 4 February: Creation of the Town of Gagnon. Creation of the Town of Lorraine from territories taken from the Village of Bois-des-Filion and the Parish...
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  • window Detected April 5 Lt. J. Just Lt. R. Bednarksi Polish Escaped from train en route to Königswartha Hospital Recaptured Kraków, Poland April 11 Lt. A. Le...
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    aircraft. The Amiot was intended to be powered by two 515 kW (691 hp) Lorraine 18G Orion water-cooled W engines but these were unavailable and the first...
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  • "Getting rid of dirt – and murder victims". BBC News. Lardner, George; Adams, Lorraine (April 14, 1996). "To Unabomb Victims, a Deeper Mystery". The Washington...
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    France. Italy occupied part of France on the Mediterranean coast and Alsace Lorraine was annexed by Germany. During the war black markets arose when government...
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    as a major power and create a Greater Germany that would include Alsace-Lorraine, Austria, Sudetenland, and other German-populated territories in Europe...
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    liberated Paris, defeated a Panzer brigade during the armored clashes in Lorraine, forced the Saverne Gap and liberated Strasbourg. After taking part in...
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    SS-Obergruppenführer, he was Chief of Civil Administration in occupied Lorraine. He was also Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) in Vienna...
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  • Hugh Capet) and Queen Marie Antoinette (a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine) were referred to as "Louis and Antoinette Capet" (the queen being addressed...
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    Empress Elisabeth of Austria (category House of Habsburg-Lorraine)
    biography, Life of the Empress Elizabeth of Austria, in Georgette Heyer's 1941 mystery, Envious Casca. The book and its disappearance form part of the goings-on...
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