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    Saint-Acheul (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿aʃœl]; Picard: Saint-Acheu) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is...
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    Amiens (redirect from Saint-Acheul (Amiens))
    be confused with the commune of Saint-Acheul situated 37 km (23 mi) to the north, the quarter of Saint-Acheul is the site of a military cemetery from...
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    Acheulian and Mode II), from the French acheuléen after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by...
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    The Abbey of Saint-Acheul (French: Abbaye de Saint-Acheul) was a monastery of Canons Regular in the Saint-Acheul district of Amiens, France. It was founded...
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  • Saints Acheolus (or Acheul) and Acius were early Christian martyrs in Gaul. They are associated with Amiens, where Acheolus's name was given to an ancient...
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    Saint-Acheul by his descendant Pierre Poussemthe de L'Estoile when he died in 1718. Pierre Poussemthe de L'Estoile was the abbot of Saint Acheul. The bookseller...
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  • culture Le Moustier (Dordogne, France), of the Mousterian culture Saint Acheul (near Amiens, France), of the Acheulean culture Butmir (near Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)...
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    and trees to be inclined reverently toward the saint. The Abbey of Saint-Acheul in Amiens was founded in 1085 on the supposed tomb of Fermin. Under the...
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  • of Saint-Acheul which lasted more than three-quarters of a century. Between 1860 and 1880, 20,000 axeheads were thus collected. Saint-Acheul, whose fame...
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    axe from Furze Platt, Berkshire, Great Britain. Flint biface from Saint-Acheul, France. Acheulean flint biface from 200,000 years BP, found in Madrid (Spain)...
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  • age geologically and following visits to the site of Abbeville and Saint-Acheul by the paleontologist Hugh Falconer and the geologist Joseph Prestwich the...
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    archaeologist Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes began excavation at St. Acheul, Amiens, France, (the area where the Acheulian was defined), and, in addition...
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    Sailly-Laurette Sailly-le-Sec Sailly-Saillisel Sains-en-Amiénois Saint-Acheul Saint-Aubin-Montenoy Saint-Aubin-Rivière Saint-Blimont Saint-Christ-Briost...
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  • developed through the Acheulean Industry, named after the site of Saint-Acheul in France. The Acheulean was characterised not by the core, but by the biface...
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    Jesuit Clongowes Wood College, Kildare, and later in the College of Saint-Acheul, a similar school in Amiens, France and then at Rue de Sèvres, Paris, and...
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    Muslim area of the national cemetery in Amiens (Saint-Acheul) – in the foreground is the tomb of a soldier of the 45e régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais...
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  • first officer to die in the Great War. Copland Perry was buried in the St. Acheul Cemetery in Amiens. "Great Britain's Earliest Aviators". content-delivery...
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  • established canons at the Abbey of Saint-Acheul in 1085. The foundation charter records donations to Saint-Acheul by Count Enguerran of Boves and his vidame...
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    Sailly-Laurette Sailly-le-Sec Sailly-Saillisel Sains-en-Amiénois Saint-Acheul Saint-Aubin-Montenoy Saint-Aubin-Rivière Saint-Blimont Saint-Christ-Briost...
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  • Loir-et-Cher Airvault Abbey, Airvault, Deux-Sèvres Amiens, Somme: Abbey of Saint-Acheul Abbey of Saint-Martin-aux-Jumeaux Abbaye Toussaint (All Saints Abbey), Angers...
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    Sailly-Laurette Sailly-le-Sec Sailly-Saillisel Sains-en-Amiénois Saint-Acheul Saint-Aubin-Montenoy Saint-Aubin-Rivière Saint-Blimont Saint-Christ-Briost...
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  • of the Jesuits in his hometown. He entered the Jesuit novitiate at Saint-Acheul-lez-Amiens in 1899. From 1901 he lived and studied in exile due to the 1901...
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  • Amiens. She then retired to live as a hermit near what would become Saint-Acheul, near Amiens in the Kingdom of the Franks. There she met the elderly hermit...
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    priest, but a deacon of the church of Amiens who became a hermit at Saint-Acheul along the banks of the Avre. He is remembered for providing spiritual guidance...
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    Sailly-Laurette Sailly-le-Sec Sailly-Saillisel Sains-en-Amiénois Saint-Acheul Saint-Aubin-Montenoy Saint-Aubin-Rivière Saint-Blimont Saint-Christ-Briost...
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  • they were set up as a separate Community under the leadership of Brother Acheul as the first Director. The Academy operated in Kennington for 56 years....
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    Vaughans of Courtfield, Herefordshire. Educated at Stonyhurst, Oscott, and St. Acheul, in France, he was ordained a priest on 10 March 1838 at Prior Park. In...
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    Tomb of Joseph Pinchon at the Cimetière Saint-Acheul [fr] in Amiens...
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    Sailly-Laurette Sailly-le-Sec Sailly-Saillisel Sains-en-Amiénois Saint-Acheul Saint-Aubin-Montenoy Saint-Aubin-Rivière Saint-Blimont Saint-Christ-Briost...
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  • he was appointed choirmaster and organist of the Jesuit College of Saint-Acheul, Amiens. While exercising these functions he also studied the classics,...
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