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    young soldiers carrying out his duties, Auguste Thin, who had been recruited as a volunteer in the class of 1919. Thin had distinguished himself by bravery...
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    Instead of a basket, it trailed an air-thin black-and-silver aluminum ball. Within [the contraption] Prof. Auguste Piccard, physicist, and Charles Kipfer...
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    Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French: [pjɛʁ oɡyst ʁənwaʁ]; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development...
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    Auguste Michel-Lévy (7 August 1844 – 27 September 1911) was a French geologist. He was born in Paris. He became inspector-general of mines, and director...
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    watches, such as the 1986 ultra-thin automatic tourbillon wristwatch (Calibre 2870). Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet knew each other in their...
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    Escoffier's Le guide culinaire. Chipolatas are often prepared as a relatively thin and short sausage. Chipolatas are typically made from coarse-ground pork...
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    Melba toast is a dry, crisp and thinly sliced rusk, often served with soup and salad or topped with either melted cheese or pâté. It is named after Dame...
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    developed by Auguste Michel-Lévy to identify minerals in thin section using a petrographic microscope. With a known thickness of the thin section, minerals...
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    usually of brioche or puff pastry. In the early part of the 20th century, Auguste Escoffier, the famed French chef, brought it to France and included recipes...
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  • as C. Auguste Dupin, the Assistant United States Attorney who wants to bring the Ushers to justice. His name comes from the character C. Auguste Dupin...
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    dubbed it "an interlude, imitating the Spanish style." Naturally, this thinly veiled government criticism did not go without opposition. Upon first reading...
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    Colombia. Lonely Planet. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-74220-326-3. Le Guide Culinaire by Auguste Escoffier, Flammarion, Paris (1903) Larousse Gastronomique, Crown Publishers...
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    collection also includes works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet (Rocks At Belle Isle), and Pablo...
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    roast gamebirds, such as pheasant, grouse, partridge and quail. They are thin slices of potato (sometimes dusted with flour; often crinkle-cut), deep-fried...
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    strengthening the concrete with a mesh of iron rods in a grill pattern. In 1893, Auguste Perret built the first concrete garage in Paris, then an apartment building...
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    not coined until 1926. Many of the first films, such as those made by Auguste and Louis Lumière, were a minute or less in length, due to technological...
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    Jules Gouffé introduced a version to which he added Parmesan, and in 1903 Auguste Escoffier recommended lining the pastry case with bacon and strips of Gruyère...
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  • tous les mois. Wellcome Library. Paris : Goubaud. pp. 84–85. Escoffier, Auguste (1903). Le guide culinaire, aide-mémoire de cuisine pratique. Par A. Escoffier...
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    high-durability windows, wristwatch crystals and movement bearings, and very thin electronic wafers, which are used as the insulating substrates of special-purpose...
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    from the original on 26 October 2015. Retrieved 18 November 2015. Lacour, Auguste (1855). Histoire de la Guadeloupe 1635–1789 [History of Guadeloupe 1635–1789]...
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    Kungurian was later added to conform to the Russian "Lower Permian". Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent in 1900 had proposed the "Uralian Series", but the...
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    Although a working demand regulator system had been invented in 1864 by Auguste Denayrouze and Benoît Rouquayrol, the first open-circuit scuba system developed...
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  • Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., Indianapolis, p. 424, ISBN 0026045702. Escoffier, Auguste (1978). Ma Cuisine. Translated by Vyvyan Holland. New York: A & W Publishers...
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    Auguste Jean-Marie Pavie (31 May 1847 – 7 June 1925) was a French colonial civil servant, explorer and diplomat who was instrumental in establishing French...
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    Provincial Cooking. London: Folio Society. OCLC 809349711. Escoffier, Georges Auguste. Escoffier: The Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery. Translated...
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    near Quebec. Notable paintings featuring polar bears include François-Auguste Biard's Fighting Polar Bears (1839) and Edwin Landseer's Man Proposes,...
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    Chastel 2000, pp. 186–187. Texier 2012, p. 12. "Le Louvre de Philippe Auguste" (in French). Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 18...
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    Between 1822 and 1889, 986 people were ennobled. Only three became dukes: Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg (as Duke of Santa Cruz, brother-in-law...
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    Augustus had 7 children, of whom only three survive adulthood: Louise Auguste Amalie (Weimar, 3 February 1779 – Weimar, 24 March 1784). A daughter (born...
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    de Chimie et de Physique, 3rd series, 37 : 285–342; see p. 339. Kekulé, Auguste (1865) "Sur la constitution des substances aromatiques," Bulletin de la...
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