• Musique concrète (French pronunciation: [myzik kɔ̃kʁɛt]; lit. 'concrete music') is a type of music composition that utilizes recorded sounds as raw material...
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    reinforced concrete structure, a four-story house at 72 rue Charles Michels in the suburbs of Paris. Coignet's descriptions of reinforcing concrete suggests...
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  • Concrete Cowboy is a 2020 American drama film directed by Ricky Staub from a screenplay by Staub and Dan Walser. The movie is based on the novel Ghetto...
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  • Concrete ships are built primarily with ferrocement (reinforced concrete) hulls, reinforced with steel bars. This contrasts against more traditional materials...
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  • Concrete Genie is an action-adventure video game developed by Pixelopus and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. The game...
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    Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance...
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    Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG) — also known as Roissy Airport or simply Paris CDG — is the main international airport serving...
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  • Concrete art was an art movement with a strong emphasis on geometrical abstraction. The term was first formulated by Theo van Doesburg and was then used...
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  • that the Russian Olympic Committee and the Ministry of Sport must make a concrete decision on whether Russian athletes will participate in the 2024 Olympics...
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    cathedrals of the early Middle Ages. The first church in Paris to be constructed of reinforced concrete was Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre, at 19 rue des Abbesses...
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  • 1950–1951 3 EXPÉRIENCE CONCRÈTE, 1952 4 ESQUISSE D'UN SOLFÈGE CONCRET Schaeffer, Pierre. À la recherche d'une musique concrète. Paris, Éditions du Seuil,...
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    That's why when we listen to "Resident of Amnesia Ibiza" or "Resident of Concrete Paris" completely different sounds come to mind. Some residences become so...
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    development process of children: sensorimotor stage, pre-operational stage, concrete operational stage, and formal operational stage. Each stage describes a...
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    Gabriel Marcel (category Writers from Paris)
    title Essai de philosophie concrète, Paris, NRF/Gallimard, 1967) Homo viator. Prolégomènes à une métaphysique de l'espérance. Paris, Aubier, 1945 La Métaphysique...
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    Auguste Perret (category Concrete pioneers)
    architectural use of reinforced concrete. His major works include the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the first Art Deco building in Paris; the Church of Notre-Dame...
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    Champs-Élysées, Paris (1912) Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, by Auguste Perret, 15 avenue Montaigne, Paris, (1910–13). Reinforced concrete gave architects...
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    Paris Orly Airport (French: Aéroport de Paris-Orly) (IATA: ORY, ICAO: LFPO) is one of two international airports serving Paris, France, the other one being...
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    and unconflicting routes and schedules. The first concrete proposal for an urban rail system in Paris was put forward by civil engineer Florence de Kérizouet...
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    Viaduct (redirect from Concrete viaduct)
    roads.[citation needed] Other uses have been found for some viaducts. In Paris, France, a repurposed rail viaduct provides a garden promenade on top and...
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    pioneer of reinforced concrete architecture in Paris, but now wanted to use it in new ways. "Reinforced concrete provided me with incredible resources," he...
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    ynivɛʁsɛl]), better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate...
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  • April 2024. Schaeffer, Pierre (1952), A la recherche d'une musique concrète, Paris: Éditions du Seuil Schaeffer, Pierre (1957). Schaeffer, Pierre (ed...
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    Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. Located in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods, the population...
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    coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris, France, and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Beginning at 21:16...
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    especially reinforced concrete, were key to the development and appearance of Art Deco. The first concrete house was built in 1853 in the Paris suburbs by François...
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    reinforced concrete and iron. The Paris Universal Exposition of 1900 extended to both the right and left banks of the Seine. It gave Paris three new landmarks;...
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    developed reinforced concrete in the 1850s. These include Joseph-Louis Lambot of France, who built reinforced concrete boats in Paris (1854) and Thaddeus...
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    Montmartre, pronounced [sakʁe kœʁ]), is a Catholic church and minor basilica in Paris dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was formally approved as a national...
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    parking garage on 51 rue de Ponthieu in Paris; here the concrete was left bare, and the space between the concrete was filled with glass windows. Henri Sauvage...
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    Paris–Le Bourget Airport (French: Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget) (IATA: LBG, ICAO: LFPB) is an airport located within portions of the communes of Le Bourget...
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