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    Jacob Henry Schiff (born Jakob Heinrich Schiff; January 10, 1847 – September 25, 1920) was an American banker, businessman, and philanthropist. He helped...
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    1914 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1914: The German Empire...
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (category Counts of France)
    Schiff (2006), p. 180. Cate (1970). Schiff (2006), p. 423. Schiff (2006), p. 421. Schiff (2006). Buckley, Martin. "Mysterious Wartime Death of French...
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  • Turkey/United States Eugenio Santoro (1920–2006), Italy/Switzerland Nathan Schiff, United States Judith Scott (1943–2005), United States Emmer Sewell (born...
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    McPhee (2015). The French Revolution. Melbourne U. p. 34. ISBN 978-0522866971. Stacy Schiff (2006). A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth...
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    Group, Inc. pp. 21–23. ISBN 9780898759785. Stacy Schiff (2006). A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. Macmillan. p. 5. ISBN 9781429907996...
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    Léon Brillouin (category Academic staff of the Collège de France)
    (Paris) 183 24–26 (1926). As cited in Mehra, 2001, Volume 5, Part 2, p. 882. Schiff, 1968, p. 269. Author Catalog: Brillouin Archived 2007-02-05 at the Wayback...
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    went so far as to term the typography of his Tango with Cows, published in 1914, "ferro-concrete poems" (zhelezobetonnye poemy), long before the name became...
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  • René II, Duke of Lorraine at Place Saint-Epvre [fr], Nancy, by Mathias Schiff (1883) Joan of Arc at Place Jeanne D'Arc, Nancy, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1889)...
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    nuclear reactor". 7 June 1981. Retrieved 20 June 2024. Bregman 2002, p. 199. Schiff, Ze'ev; Ehud, Yaari (1984). Israel's Lebanon War. Simon & Schuster. p. 284...
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  • requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine during World War II and was designated Schiff 40 and later Sperrbrecher 18. Severely damaged in an Allied air raid on...
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    November 1911 and launched on 21 February 1914. She was formally commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 8 November 1914, just over 3 months after the start...
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  • SS Birka (1937) (redirect from Schiff 8)
    use as a hospital ship. Allocated to 5 Vorpostengruppe and designated as "Schiff 8", she served in Norwegian waters. On 1 June 1943, she struck a mine and...
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    from the original on 10 May 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2024. Schiff 1974, p. 70. Schiff 1974. "Invasion of Egypt!". Israel – The Suez War of 1956: U.S...
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  • SS Wandrahm (1927) (redirect from Schiff 4)
    requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War, serving as Schiff 4, V 1801 Wandrahm and V 6114 Eismeer. Post-war, she was allocated to the...
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  • MV Neuss (redirect from Schiff 15)
    requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine during World War II and was designated Schiff 15. She survived the war and was returned to her owners. Neuss was 73.48...
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  • was captured by the Kriegsmarine during World War II and was designated Schiff 1. She survived the war and was scrapped in 1949. The ship was 275 feet...
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  • requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine during World War II and was designated Schiff 35. She was torpedoed and sunk in April 1940. The ship was 289 feet 9 inches...
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    All ships of the Imperial Navy bore the title SMS, for Seiner Majestät Schiff (His Majesty's Ship). The Imperial Navy achieved some important operational...
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  • Cullen Bryant. In the mid-20th century, the newspaper was owned by Dorothy Schiff, who developed the tabloid format that has been used since by the newspaper...
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    Treaty of Versailles (category 1919 in France)
    place generally at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Quai d'Orsay. War broke out following the July Crisis in 1914. Austria-Hungary declared...
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  • Eugène Minkowski (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Laforgue, Mme F. Minkowska, E. Minkowski, É Pichon, Robin, R. de Saussure, Schiff and J. Vinchon. In 1925 Minkowski contributed articles to the first volume...
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    Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius (category Articles containing French-language text)
    debunked in Claude-Adrien Helvétius, see refs. Schiff, Stacy (2006). A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. New York: Henry Holt...
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    Raymond, Chief of Space Operations (USSF) & Commander (USSC) (US) Michela Schiff Giorgini, Italian Egyptologist Léopold Sédar Senghor, poet, politician and...
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    Cleopatra (category Articles containing French-language text)
    any Egyptian ancestry and "would have described herself as Greek." Stacy Schiff writes that Cleopatra was a Macedonian Greek with some Persian ancestry...
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    The Peninsula Paris (category French companies established in 1908)
    In 1922 it was the site of a famous dinner hosted by Violet and Sydney Schiff and attended by Marcel Proust, Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso. The "dinner...
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    Die Wacht am Rhein (category France–Germany relations)
    preferred offensive strategy, the fighting in 1870–71, 1914–1918 and 1940 all took place on French soil, far to the west of the Rhine. The same is true...
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  • Nadine (given name) (category French feminine given names)
    Syrian/Palestinian actress Nadine Samonte (born 1988), German-Filipina actress Nadine Schiff, Canadian film producer, screenwriter, author Nadine Schön (born 1983),...
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    alpestris Bsd. (ocellina Hbn., nec. Schiff.) (Ilk). is hardly separable from the preceding [R. ocellina Schiff], but the reniform stigma is less produced...
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    SMS Goeben (section 1914)
    Balkan Wars. After the outbreak of World War I on 28 July 1914, Goeben and Breslau bombarded French positions in North Africa and then evaded British naval...
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