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    colonies in Central America (Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne; translated into English as: Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain...
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    Librairie Droz. pp. 617–629. Jean-Marc Delaunay (2003). "Le Crédit lyonnais en Espagne, 1875-1939 : la plus active des banques françaises au sud des Pyrénées"...
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    Archived from the original on May 25, 2024. Retrieved January 7, 2011. Espagne-Ravo (1997) Savoir Cuisiner (2004) Savoir Cuisiner (2004), p. 7 Faublée...
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  • self-defence. Gautier, Théophile, A Romantic in Spain, (orig. publ. as Voyage en Espagne, Charpentier, 1858) Interlink Books, ISBN 1-56656-392-5 (2001), p. 158...
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    cit., p. 40 Georges Marçais, L’architecture : Tunisie, Algérie, Maroc, Espagne, Sicile, vol. I, éd. Picard, Paris, 1927, p. 12 Néji Djelloul, op. cit...
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    Florida's bow struck Republic amidships on her port side at about a right angle, level with her engine room. Florida's bow was crushed in at least 10 metres...
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    Ellengowan USS Emmons SS Emperor RMS Empress of Ireland Erie L. Hackley Espagne Etruria F HMS Falmouth Fifi Fleetwing SS Francisco Morazan Francis Hinton...
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    Palaeotherium (Perissodactyla) du Ludien de Roc de Santa (Province de Lerida, Espagne)". Geobios. 25 (4): 535–552. Bibcode:1992Geobi..25..535C. doi:10...
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    "Onze morts dont neuf Français lors du crash d'un avion de chasse en Espagne" (in French). Le Monde. 28 January 2015. Archived from the original on...
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    yield her position. The captain ordered Mont-Blanc to halt her engines and angle slightly to starboard, closer to the Dartmouth side of the Narrows. He let...
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    Palaeotherium (Perissodactyla) du Ludien de Roc de Santa (Province de Lerida, Espagne)". Geobios. 25 (4): 535–552. Bibcode:1992Geobi..25..535C. doi:10...
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    portholes to ventilate the wards, against standing orders. As the ship's angle of list increased, water reached this level and began entering aft from...
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    Ellengowan USS Emmons SS Emperor RMS Empress of Ireland Erie L. Hackley Espagne Etruria F HMS Falmouth Fifi Fleetwing SS Francisco Morazan Francis Hinton...
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    return, she was refitted from November 1925 to July 1926 and had a high-angle control position (HACP) added to her fore-top. After Repulse completed her...
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  • bow. Each mine′s frame had six rollers which rested on two rails made of angle bars attached to the hull. During minelaying operations an "endless" chain...
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    das Jahr 1865. : Exposé de l'état des Travaux géodesiques poursuivis en Espagne, communiqué a la Commission permanente de la Conférence internationale...
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    aft of the island, as well as two octuple 2-pounder mounts. A single High-Angle Control System would have been fitted to control these guns, but the dockyard...
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    Russel, Seeing The Art Of El Greco As Never Before T. Gautier, Voyage en Espagne, 217 Talbot Rice, Enjoying Paintings, 164 Brown-Mann, Spanish Paintings...
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    side of Andrea Doria. Andrea Doria and Stockholm collided at almost a 90° angle. Stockholm's bow, heavily reinforced for operations in the icy North Atlantic...
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    poems by Alfred de Musset: "Ballade à la lune" and "Madrid, princesse des Espagnes". The following year he secured a job as pianist in the household of Nadezhda...
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    insectivoresdes nouvelles collections de Sossís et sites associes (Éocène supérieur, Espagne)". Geobios. 30 (1): 91–113. Bibcode:1997Geobi..30...91S. doi:10...
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    February, nearly crushing a fire boat, and came to rest on her port side at an angle of approximately 80 degrees. Recognising that his incompetence had caused...
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    Published as part of his Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne (1811) (Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain), Humboldt's Carte...
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    rather than shatter when struck by an armor-piercing shell at an oblique angle. The lower platform deck was 30 mm (1.2 in) thick, with a single layer of...
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    mounted on 'B' and 'X' turret roofs and extended onto the gun barrels. A high-angle rangefinder was fitted in the forward superstructure by 1921. Thunderer...
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    physiques, exécutées par ordre du Bureau des longitudes de France, en Espagne, en France, en Angleterre et en Écosse, pour déterminer la variation de...
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    Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Whangarei Deep Sea Anglers Club. Retrieved 31 May 2008. "Whakapapa", The Patuone Website. "Pre-European...
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    Cromartyshire's bow struck the starboard side of La Bourgogne at an oblique angle. The sailing ship's Master, Captain Oscar Henderson, said the steamship...
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