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- Malta (18511 bytes)
42: |From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br>[[September 21]], ...
69: ...n Maltese language, which appears to have stemmed from an Arabic dialect, though it has been heavily i...
73: ...stigated a blockade of the islands. The isolated French forces, under General [[Claude-Henri Belgrand...
77: ...the first time in history, an event celebrated as Freedom Day. Malta joined the [[European Union]] on ...
86: ...s to the Constitution, the government was elected from the party obtaining the majority of seats. This... - Monaco (12001 bytes)
1: ... [[Mediterranean Sea]] and [[France]] along the [[French Riviera]] or ''C?d'Azur'' (The Blue Coast). C...
17: |'''[[Official language]]''' || [[French language|French]]
33: ...certainly incorrect; it seems to have been copied from the Germany infobox. |-
48: ...| <small><sup>1</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[French franc]].</small>
53: Monaco derives its name from the nearby [[Greek]] colony, [[Monoikos]], foun... - Tobacco smoking (36030 bytes)
10: ...ter or match. One of the most common favors asked from a stranger is for a light; it is also done as a...
15: ...ury]], tobacco smoking was brought to Europe, and from there spread to the rest of the world.
17: ...rtrayed in advertising as part of a glamorous carefree lifestyle. This image continued to be prevalent...
37: ... he was usually seen to have a cigar clamped, was frequently remarked upon by the press and public.
39: ...ins. However, the practice of ingesting the smoke from a smoldering leaf generates an enormous number ... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ... to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes wa...
4: ...mena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creation.
6: ..., later advocated by [[Baruch Spinoza]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]], and opposed by the [[empiricist]] s...
11: ...in [[La Haye en Touraine]], [[Indre-et-Loire]], [[France]]. When he was 1 year old, his mother died of...
14: ... whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method of Ri... - Pierre Abelard (18114 bytes)
2: ...rd''' ([[1079]] – [[April 21]], [[1142]]) was a French [[Scholasticism|scholastic]] [[philosopher]]....
7: ...whether this was in early youth, when he wandered from school to school for instruction and exercise, ...
11: ...sm prior to Abélard). First, against opposition from the metropolitan teacher, while yet only twenty...
13: ...gne Sainte-Geneviève]], overlooking Notre-Dame. From his success in dialectic, he next turned to [[t...
15: ... crowds - it is said thousands of students, drawn from all countries by the fame of his teaching. Enr... - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (15483 bytes)
1: ... [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]], and by the [[French Revolution]]. Many consider Hegel's thought ...
5: ...lling]]. The three watched the unfolding of the [[French Revolution]] and collaborated in a [[critique...
7: ...tics, and the history of philosophy were compiled from the lecture notes of his students and published...
9: ...al [[government]] and the revolutionary ideals of freedom and equality.
11: ...is formal existence-for-self, personality, formal freedom, such as belongs to Spirit only."'' - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - History of dance (9081 bytes)
10: ... first evolved in the renaissance of the 1500s in France.
15: ...ere basically exercises in self-exaltation by the French Court.
17: ...ost of its terminology being in [[French language|French]]), but was based heavily upon the [[Italy|It...
19: == 18th and 19th centuries: from court dancing to Romanticism ==
21: ...tury the ballet was to develop throughout Europe, from a courtly arrangement of moving images used as ... - Mustard (7834 bytes)
22: ...own or Indian mustard (''B. juncea''), originally from the foothills of the [[Himalaya]], is grown com...
26: ...el similar to [[diesel]] fuel. The biodiesel made from mustard oil has good cold flow properties and [...
32: ...and bring back to him a single mustard seed taken from a house where no person had died. [[Jesus]]'s p...
34: ... occurs between an [[enzyme]] and a [[glucoside]] from the seeds, resulting in the production of the o...
38: ...own paste with a sharp [[taste]] that is prepared from the ground mustard seeds, by mixing them with w... - Ice age (15810 bytes)
2: ...umb|right|Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the [[Vostok, Antarctica|Vostok]] ice core over...
6: ...acial periods, occurring at 40–100,000 year frequencies. These are the best studied. There have ...
16: ...illion years ago. There was an extensive ice age from 350 to 260 million years ago.
31: ...believe that anthropogenic (i.e. manmade) forcing from increased "[[greenhouse gas]]es" would outweigh...
35: ...actors: atmospheric composition (particularly the fraction of [[carbon dioxide|CO<sub>2</sub>]] and [[... - Ballet (9155 bytes)
1: ...dance.jpg|250px|thumb|The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker]]
11: ...llet began to develop as a separate art form in [[France]] during the reign of [[Louis XIV]], who was ...
15: ...ge, which was reflected in ballet by a shift away from the aristocratic sensibilities that had dominat...
44: * [[Joffrey Ballet]]
58: ...an Dauberval]], [[Sergei Diaghilev]], [[Robert Joffrey]], [[Louis XIV]], [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]], [[Ca... - Tennis (24557 bytes)
1: ...still called '''lawn tennis''', to distinguish it from [[real tennis]] (also known as ''royal tennis''...
10: [[image:tennis_court.png|right|frame|The dimensions of a tennis court, in [[feet]]....
18: ...'' can encompass many different surfaces, ranging from old-fashioned concrete courts to coated asphalt...
20: ... though both originally used grass courts - the [[French Open]] uses clay courts, and [[Wimbledon cham...
80: ...rn''. For a number of years the small, apparently frail 1920s player [[Bill Johnston]] was considered ... - List of male tennis players (14849 bytes)
1: The following lists male [[tennis]] players from over the years who have been ranked in the top ...
6: ...- [[:Category:South African tennis players|South Africa]] - doubles specialist
7: *[[Fred Alexander]] ([[1880]]-[[1969]]) (United States)
24: ...]] ([[1941]]-) ([[:Category:French tennis players|France]]) - one of the "Handsome Eight"
33: *[[Arnaud Boetsch]] ([[1968]]-) - (France) - List of female tennis players (8364 bytes)
15: * [[Marion Bartoli]] (France)
19: * [[Severine Beltrame]] (France)
45: * [[Amanda Coetzer]] (South Africa)
46: * [[Stephanie Cohen-Aloro]] (France)
56: * [[Nathalie Dechy]] (France) - Neanderthal (12705 bytes)
16: ...nhabited [[Europe]] and parts of western [[Asia]] from about 230,000 to 29,000 years ago (the [[Middle...
26: ...arm bones, part of the left [[pelvis|ilium]], and fragments of a [[scapula]] and ribs. They were origi...
28: ...ltimately led to the idea that these remains were from ancient [[Europe]]ans who had played an importa...
37: ...of ''[[Homo sapiens]]''; however, recent evidence from [[mitochondrial DNA]] studies indicates that [[...
39: ...e modern humans are considered a separate species from the "archaic" forms. This complication is intro... - Petroglyph (5591 bytes)
4: [[Image:Haljesta.jpg|thumb|250px|Petroglyphs from Scandinavia (H䬪esta, V䳴manland in Sweden). ...
7: ...e" (it was originally coined in [[French language|French]] as ''p鴲oglyphe''). These images may have ...
13: ...t [[Antarctica]] with highest concentration in [[Africa]], [[Scandinavia]], [[Siberia]], [[North Ameri...
17: ...d symbolic or ritual language. The later carvings from the [[Nordic Bronze Age]] in Scandinavia seem t...
21: ...equently debunked by linguists and archaeologists from several countries, to which Fell responded by a... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...aid to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Militar...
5: ...im's mother was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were gi...
9: ... by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it pai...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
17: ...uired the estates allocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as t... - Computer mouse (29399 bytes)
1: ...encoding disks include light holes.<br>'''4:''' Infrared LEDs shine through the disks.<br>
9: [[Image:firstmouseunderside.jpg|frame|The first computer mouse held by inventor [[Do...
11: ...with spring by ''Opocentsky'', 10/76, [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3987685.html 3987685].]]
26: ... sensor will process 1512 frames per second: each frame is a rectangular array of 18*18 [[pixels]], an...
28: ...s in optical mouse technology comes in large part from competitive [[first-person shooter|FPS]] gamers... - Timeline of the French Revolution (9550 bytes)
1: {{French_Revolution}}
3: '''[[Timeline]] of the [[French Revolution]]'''.
5: ===Events preceding but pertinent to the French Revolution===
13: * Louis XVI and France face economic ruin
36: * [[June 17]]: [[National Assembly (French Revolution)|National Assembly]] declared - Jean Fouquet (2536 bytes)
2: ...n Fouquet''', [[1420]] - [[1481]]) was a [[France|French]] [[painter]].
6: ...yck]]s, which was the basis of early 15th-century French art, and thus became the founder of an import...
10: ...mitives]] held at the [[Biblioth豵e nationale de France|Biblioth豵e Nationale]] in [[Paris]].
12: ...awing in [[crayon]]; whilst an authentic portrait from his brush is in the Liechtenstein collection.
14: ...ompson]] at a London sale, and restored by him to France.
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