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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 (/rɛnˈwɑːr/; French: [pjɛʁ oɡyst ʁənwaʁ]; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction...
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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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    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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    has become a standard savoury listed by culinary authorities including Auguste Escoffier, Louis Saulnier and others; they tend to use rarebit, communicating...
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    only 38,000 to defend the capital, Joseph authorized the French marshal Auguste de Marmont to capitulate on 31 March. The following day, the allies accepted...
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    to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris in 1863. Unaware of their neoteny, Auguste Duméril was surprised when, instead of the axolotl, he found in the vivarium...
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    Monet and Her Son, Claude Monet, 1875 Bal du moulin de la Galette, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876 Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Vincent van Gogh, 1890 The Card Players...
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    French fur traders Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Pierre Laclède, and Auguste Chouteau. They named it for King Louis IX of France, and it quickly became...
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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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    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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  • acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes...
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    1942, the Franks were joined by the Van Pels family, made up of Hermann, Auguste, and 16-year-old Peter, and then in November by Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist...
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    and suggests serving with beef quenelles, deviled eggs and croûtons. Auguste Escoffier, Carême's apprentice, who was mostly fascinated by the soup's...
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    colonial army in Ethiopia in Asosa, Bortaï and Saïo under Major-General Auguste-Eduard Gilliaert. In May 1960, a growing nationalist movement, the Mouvement...
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    the poet-philosopher and leader of the provisional government; Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, the leader of the socialists; and Raspail, the leader of...
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    point of view. The French neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and eugenicist Auguste Forel believed that ant societies were models for human society. He published...
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  • bayonet-type blade design. The term may also describe any exaggeratedly thin and pointed feature, such as a stiletto heel. First developed in Italy, the...
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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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  • Bros. Movie' speeds to $693.1m at global box office; 'Renfield' bites into thin $10m debut". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 21 April 2023. Retrieved...
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    does not include cream).: 263  Recipes given by many chefs – including Auguste Escoffier, Austin de Croze and Constance Spry – call for cheese and...
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  • been used in film titles to refer to Dr. Frankenstein's creation, or The Thin Man was used in a series of detective films. A Shot in the Dark, the second...
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    In July 1897, Dreyfus's family contacted the President of the Senate Auguste Scheurer-Kestner to draw attention to the weakness of the evidence against...
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    restaurant of Hotel Ritz Paris, opened in 1898, was made famous by its chef, Auguste Escoffier. The 19th century also saw the appearance of new kinds of more...
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