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    Georges André Malraux (/mælˈroʊ/ mal-ROH; French: [ʒɔʁʒ ɑ̃dʁe malʁo]; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister...
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  • Gust Wallaert 1968: 1982: André Vanden Broucke 1989: François Janssens 1995: Michel Nollet 2002: Mia De Vits 2004: André Mordant 2006: Rudy De Leeuw 2018:...
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    Penny Mordaunt (redirect from Penny Mordant)
    Penelope Mary "Penny" Mordaunt (/ˈmɔːrdənt/; born 4 March 1973) is a former British Conservative politician who served as Lord President of the Council...
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  • Lamb, the head of Slough House who is slovenly, rude, devious and has a mordant wit; he retains a secret loyalty to 'his' Slow Horses. Jack Lowden as River...
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  • poet and journalist. Vilmorin was best known as a writer of delicate but mordant tales, often set in aristocratic or artistic milieu. Born 4 April 1902...
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    female's point of view, and her lyrics have been described as "literate and mordant" and noted by scholars for "articulating a third-wave feminist consciousness...
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  • method for supplying alumina to the textile industry (it was used as a mordant in dyeing cotton), Bayer discovered in 1887 that the aluminium hydroxide...
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  • Jack Ponti (Giacomo Pontoriero) Nicholas Pryor Dies at 89 Lore Segal, Mordant Memoirist of Émigré Life, Dies at 96 (subscription required) Former state...
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  • praises The Flowers of Buffoonery as the first work in which "Dazai's mordant humor was a well-established part of his style." Author and critic Takako...
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    by Polanski and previous collaborator Gérard Brach, What? (1972) is a mordant absurdist comedy loosely based on the themes of Alice in Wonderland and...
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    successes with McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), a revisionist Western in which the mordant songs of Leonard Cohen underscore a gritty vision of the American frontier;...
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  • price of 4½ dinars per 100 pounds. The primary use of the galls was as a mordant for black dyes; they were also used to make a high-quality ink. The gall...
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    ISBN 9780876112977. New York Times, "A Lady's Morals a.k.a Jenny Lind" and Mordant Hall, "The Swedish Nightingale Archived 2017-05-10 at the Wayback Machine"...
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    by José Guadalupe Posada lampooned politicians and cultural elites with mordant humor, portraying them as skeletons. The Liberal Party of Mexico founded...
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    cochineals and kermes. The color of the dye can be modified by the choice of mordant from violet to red to brown. The use of lac dye can be traced back to 250...
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    which turns black and is used as a varnish or for tanning and even as a mordant for red dyes. The sap of Toxicodendron vernicifluum is used to make lacquer...
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    département: Le paléolithique supérieur dans l'Yonne. ISBN 2-86621-043-3. Claude Mordant (1984). CRDP de l'Académie de Dijon (ed.). L'Yonne, un département: Le...
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    for the 18th arrondissement. He joined the far left and his energy and mordant eloquence speedily made him the leader of the radical section. In 1877...
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    and Lucas van Leiden. Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design...
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  • Daily Telegraph said that the show had "its problems but possesses a dark, mordant wit". William Gallagher comments that "Press Gang was pretty flawless,...
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    on to become a cult film. In 1996, Magimel took on a supporting role in André Téchiné's psychodrama Thieves, starring Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil...
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  • Van der Biest (PS) André Cools (PS) Claude Dejardin (PS) Edmond Rigo (PS) Gaston Onkelinx (PS) Ghislain Hiance (cdH) Henri Mordant (RW) Ghislain Hiance...
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  • Retrieved 18 December 2020. Green, Penelope (October 7, 2024). "Lore Segal, Mordant Novelist of Émigré Life, Dies at 96". The New York Times. Retrieved October...
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    25%), for use in leather tanning, while leaves and stems are used for a mordant-free mustard-colored dye. These plants are edible. The leaves of most species...
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  • Germaine Acremant (1940) Ivan Đaja (1946) Daniel Dugué (1947) André Giroux (1949) Alix André (1951) Nicolas Minorsky (1955) Kitty Ponse Antoine de La Garanderie...
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    Fabrice Hadjadj Félicien Morel Claude Schorderet Denis Clerc Michel Bugnon-Mordant Laurent Bardy Caroline Julen Erich von Däniken, ancient astronaut theorist...
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  • and Jean Sassi (4 June). Local resistance was headed by General Eugène Mordant. France portal Diplomatic history of World War II#France Military history...
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    purplish-red and greyish-magenta hues, depending on the dyeing process and mordants used. The fermentation method involves soaking the lichen in an ammonia...
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    that it bites where the varnish has been removed. Rembrandt used “Dutch mordant”, which "digs deeper to produce clean, precise lines, unlike nitric acid...
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    century BCE by Greek historian Herodotus. The ancients used it as a dyeing mordant, in medicine, in chemical milling, and as a fire-resistant coating for...
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