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    production company based in Nantes, France, which is famous for La Princesse, a 50-foot mechanical spider constructed in Nantes, France. The group was formed...
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    contains a variety of birds, reptiles, mammals and insects. The car ferries from Gijón to Nantes/Saint-Nazaire, Portsmouth to Bilbao and from Plymouth...
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  • venues at ten. Two other possible options, the Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes and the Stade de la Mosson in Montpellier (venues which were used for the...
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  • takes her kids to the convenience store to get the job done faster. 575 "Insect catching beautiful girl" (Japanese: 虫取り美少女だゾ) July 28, 2006 (2006-07-28)...
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    "to go home" or "to knock off (from work)". The revoking of the Edict of Nantes on 22 October 1685 was a milestone in the history of South Africa, for it...
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    anaconda, piranha, jaguar, vicuña, and tapir, and to one of the largest known insects in the world, the Titan beetle. The Amazon rainforests possess high biodiversity...
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    his attempt to end the Catholic-Protestant massacres with the Edict of Nantes, which established religious toleration. There followed a historical novel...
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    commercial growers. Cultivars include 'Imperator 58' and 'Sugarsnax Hybrid'. Nantes carrots. These have sparse foliage, are cylindrical, short with a blunter...
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    for the painting of the Battle of Nazareth, now in the Musée d'Arts de Nantes, gained the prize offered in 1802 by the consuls, but the project was not...
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    Patton—whose Third Army was supposed to advance into Brittany—to instead capture Nantes, which was soon taken. Hitler waited too long to order his soldiers to retreat...
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  • the Film Restored Festival in Berlin and the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes. The film was also screened at the Museum of Modern Art and several universities...
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  • interest in film: while serving in the First World War, he was stationed in Nantes and, during his spare time, would frequent the movie houses with a superior...
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    and worm snakes), Amphisbaena (worm lizards) and Coecilia (caecilians) Nantes: Petromyzon (lampreys), Raja (rays), Squalus (sharks), Chimaera (ratfishes)...
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    Clifford Parks' 'Mercury Supreme' 'Royal Velvet' 'Triphosa' 'Ville De Nantes' 'Songzi' (Pine Cone) 'Ezo-nishiki', two 'colors' on the same plant A semi-double...
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  • Anniversary Museum and Park of Insects, Bangkok Lichen Museum, Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok Bangkok Butterfly and Insect Park, Bangkok Dusit Zoo Museum...
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    in the garden as many popular upright Fuchsias such as 'Ernie', 'Jollies Nantes' and 'Maria Landy' are not reliably winter hardy, but rather extremely tender...
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  • cancer" "Studies of chromosomes, especially in the salivary glands of insects, notably in Drosophila" "Preparation of crystalline secretin, and its use...
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    the 21st century, while local experiments were organized in Brittany and Nantes. While French production remains anecdotal, French tea houses enjoy a good...
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  • as respite in her childhood urban environment. Contact with animal and insect life in these spaces sparked Inomata's early interest in interspecies kinships...
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    industry, but no opportunity arose until the revocation of the Edict of Nantes the 1680s, when hundreds of thousands of French Huguenots, many of whom...
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    of stuffed specimens, skeletal mounts, fluid parts, anatomical casts and insect boxes Paleontology – research collection of fossil invertebrates G. Lippmann...
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    and arrived at Lorient. At the beginning of 1778, he was to set sail from Nantes on Lion as second lieutenant. It was a ship equipped by his uncle, Jean...
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    "Lutèce®, a resistant variety brings elms back to Paris". All The News. Nantes, France: Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA). 15 April...
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    International Parasitic Weed Symposium. Faculté des Sciences, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Published on the Internet;...
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    Edict of Fontainebleau, which ended the religious tolerance of the Edict of Nantes and renewed persecution of Protestants, in France known as Huguenots. Many...
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    naturalist with a strong interest in natural science. He collected rocks, insects and plants and encouraged nature studies in the family. Pierre Teilhard's...
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    distinguishing characteristics of fans of this era. In 1685 the Edict of Nantes was revoked in France. This caused large scale immigration from France to...
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    commercial centers of the country were based in Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, and Bordeaux. Nantes and Bordeaux saw phenomenal growth due to an increase in trade...
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    following the Edict of Fontainebleau, which effectively revoked the Edict of Nantes. After initially forcing their integration among Dutch and German immigrant...
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    epoch of 1 January 1900, the counts will overflow after 65,536 (216) days. Insect Magicicada broods X (17-year) and XIX (13-year) will emerge simultaneously...
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