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    The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India. It has a muscular, broad-chested body; a short, rounded head;...
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    The Barbary lion was a population of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo. It was also called North African lion, Atlas lion and Egyptian lion. It lived...
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    September 2019). "Venice: Todd Phillips' 'Joker' Wins Golden Lion, Roman Polanski Wins Silver Lion". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on...
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    former name in classical Latin during Roman antiquity was sinus Gallicus (that is, "Gallic gulf"). The Gulf of Lion is not a simple passive continental...
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    Co. p. 150. ISBN 9781177808293. "ROMAN function". Microsoft Support. L' Atre périlleux et Yvain, le chevalier au lion . 1301–1350 – via Gallica. Malone...
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    September 1157 – 6 April 1199), known as Richard Cœur de Lion (Old Norman French: Quor de Lion) or Richard the Lionheart because of his reputation as a...
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    slave of a former Roman consul administering a part of Rome. He takes shelter in a cave, which turns out to be the den of a wounded lion, from whose paw...
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    authors. An extensive appearance of the character is in the Old French Le Roman de Renart written by Pierre de Saint-Cloud around 1170, which sets the...
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  • awarded the Silver Lion. Clelia returns from Rome to her native city Turin, assigned to supervise the opening of a branch of the Roman fashion salon where...
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  • Simba (redirect from Simba (The Lion King))
    character and the main protagonist of Disney's The Lion King franchise. First appearing as a lion cub in The Lion King (1994), the character flees his homeland...
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    between the lines by Aldred the Scribe, who was Provost of Chester-le-Street. The Romans founded a fort named Concangis or Concagium, which was a Latinisation...
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    (1928) – The Little Parade Le Lion et le Moucheron (1932) – The Lion and the Fly Le Lion Devenu Vieux (1932) – The Old Lion Fétiche Mascotte (1933) – The...
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    The lion has been an important symbol to humans for tens of thousands of years. The earliest graphic representations feature lions as organized hunters...
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    Leo the Lion is the mascot for the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and one of its predecessors, Goldwyn Pictures. The logo was created by artist...
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    Paschal III and the coronation of his wife Beatrice as Holy Roman Empress. This time, Henry the Lion refused to join Frederick on his Italian trip, tending...
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    Mitterrand: Polanski has been 'thrown to the lions on account of an old story which doesn't make much sense'". Le Point (in French). September 27, 2009. Retrieved...
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  • to shelter Jewish children during the Holocaust. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. During the winter of 1943–44, Julien Quentin...
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    AD 100 (section Roman Empire)
    observation on that period of the Roman Empire, "there was some danger of gerontocracy." LeGlay, Marcel; Voisin, Jean-Louis; Le Bohec, Yann (2001). A History...
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    in with the Roman names in the area in which "le" is taken to be "in the" as in Chester-le-Street, Witton-le-Wear, Dalton-le-Dale, Hetton-le-Hole. Credence...
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    The Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo fuori le mura (Papal Basilica of Saint Lawrence outside the Walls) is a Roman Catholic papal minor basilica and parish...
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    The Dream (French: Le Rêve; occasionally also known as Le Songe or Rêve exotique) is a large oil-on-canvas painting created by Henri Rousseau in 1910,...
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    The Golden Lion (Italian: Leone d'oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing...
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  • Carnage (2011 film) (category Films directed by Roman Polanski)
    Carnage is a 2011 black comedy film directed by Roman Polanski, based on the Tony Award-winning 2006 play Le Dieu du carnage by French playwright Yasmina...
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    tongue of a lion. Its reward is similar to the other retellings. Another of this fable's earliest applications was at the beginning of the Roman emperor Hadrian's...
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    Musée de Cluny (category Roman Paris)
    frigidarium, including two lion heads made from rock crystal. The lion heads were made between the 4th and the 5th centuries in the Roman Empire. Although their...
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  • only appeared at the end of the 18th century; the French equivalent, le partage du lion, is recorded from the start of that century, following La Fontaine's...
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    Sekhmet (category Lion goddesses)
    Sachmis /ˈsækmɪs/, from Ancient Egyptian: 𓌂𓐍𓏏𓁐, romanized: Saḫmat; Coptic: Ⲥⲁⲭⲙⲓ, romanized: Sakhmi) is a warrior goddess as well as goddess of medicine...
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    Joseph Kessel (category Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni)
    Summer 1944 Le tour du malheur (1950) Les Amants du Tage (1954) La Vallée des Rubis (1955) Le lion (English translation: The Lion; 1958) Les mains du miracle...
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  • 2010 Atsuatsu o meshiagare, 2011 Le ruban roman, 2014 La papeterie Tsubaki : roman, 2016 Le jardin arc-en-ciel : roman, 2016 La locanda degli amori diversi...
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    The Holy Roman Empire, headed by the Holy Roman Emperor, developed in Central Europe in the Early Middle Ages and lasted for almost a thousand years until...
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