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    a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is 18 miles (29 km) west of the Ohio...
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  • Benjamin Franklin Franklin Township – Benjamin Franklin, 77 places in DeKalb County, Illinois – DeKalb County, Indiana – Floyd County, Indiana – Grant...
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    efforts of his friend Claude-Carloman de Rulhière, he was recruited by the Marquis de Lafayette and Benjamin Franklin, who he met in spring 1777, for service...
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    Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (UK: /də ˈboʊvwɑːr/, US: /də boʊˈvwɑːr/; French: [simɔn də bovwaʁ] ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986)...
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    racing) Phar Lap Raceway, Washdyke, Timaru, south Canterbury Pukekohe, Franklin district Rangiora, north of Christchurch Reefton, west coast of South Island...
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    the people have a voice in making, and a right to defend." As Benjamin Franklin was exiting after writing the US Constitution, Elizabeth Willing Powel...
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    experience. Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain was France's war minister from 1775 to 1777. Alexandre Marie Léonor de Saint-Mauris de Montbarrey was France's...
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    Virginia Zeani (category Indiana University faculty)
    Nicola Rossi-Lemeni from 1957 until his death in 1991. They both taught at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music for many years (and continued to teach...
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    formally introduced to the future French Minister of War, Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain, in Hamburg. They met again in Paris in 1777. The Count,...
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  • List of Huguenots (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Montpellier. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, descendant of Philippe de La Noye. Sara Roosevelt, mother of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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    Tallandier. p. 119. ISBN 979-1-02-100844-1. Oeuvres de Robespierre, t. X, p. 603 Martel, Arnaud Louis Raoul Comte de (12 March 1879). "Fouche & Robespierre, le...
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  • Francisco Javier de Viana, Governor (1800–1801) Sweden Swedish colonies United States: United States territorial acquisitions State of Franklin: unrecognized...
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    travelled via the Illinois River and Kankakee River to modern Dunns Bridge, Indiana. There they turned northeast and marched overland to Fort St. Joseph. Before...
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    sources, "Benjamin Franklin ... urged Voltaire to become a freemason; and Voltaire agreed, perhaps only to please Franklin." However, Franklin was merely a...
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    of his fortune in an experimental socialistic community at New Harmony, Indiana, as a preliminary for his utopian society. It lasted about two years. Other...
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    George Santayana (b. Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) was a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist...
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  • Baratas Não Têm Razão: A Lei de 10 de Junho de 1835 – Os Escravos e a Pena de Morte no Império do Brasil 1822–1889. Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Renovar, 2005....
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    Franklin. He had become a celebrity in the French Court, but he was also influential in the courts of Prussia and Austria. Since the 1760s, Franklin had...
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    suicide/possible murder "I am dead.": 77  ("Je suis mort.") — Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (16 December 1809) "It grows dark, boys, you may...
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    citing: Delambre, M. "Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. le comte J.L. Lagrange", Oeuvres de Lagrange I. Paris, 1867, p. xx. Westminster Abbey. "Sir...
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    aid to the colonies. He began negotiating with French Foreign Minister Comte de Vergennes as soon as he arrived in Paris. Deane organized the shipment...
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    Diderot, Jacques Necker, Johann Bernhard Basedow and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Catherine expressed some frustration with the economists she read...
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  • List of university hospitals (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    universitaire de Besançon Jean Minjoz Hospital, Besançon – University of Franche-Comté Hôpital Saint-Jacques Besançon – University of Franche-Comté Centre hospitalier...
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    States. It borders Wisconsin to the southwest in the Upper Peninsula, and Indiana and Ohio to the south in the Lower Peninsula; it is also connected by Lakes...
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  • William G. (eds.). Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914-1921. Indiana University Press. p. 8. Adams, Katherine H.; Keene, Michael L. (10 January...
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    III-II, De syllogismo demonstrativo, and Selections from the Prologue to the Ordinatio, translated by John Lee Longeway (Notre Dame, Indiana: University...
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    Bernard de Jussieu, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. For example, Robert Darnton, Roger Chartier, Brian Cowan, Donna...
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    1895) March 24 – Karl von Bülow, German field marshal (d. 1921) April 4 – Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870) May 3 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet...
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    List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Physics (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Ch.Aug.Young, S.Newcomb, G.V.Schiaparelli, K.Schwarzschild, P.Lowell, W.de Sitter, brothers Edw.Ch. and W.H.Pickering, R.H.Fowler, G.W.Ritchey, J.Jeans...
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Moralist. 2 Vols. (1934) Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs Merrill de Jouvenel, Bertrand (1962). "Rousseau the Pessimistic Evolutionist"...
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