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  • ...ilable to militaries were mass-firing [[volley gun|volley weapons]] as the French Reffye [[mitrailleuse]] in 1870-71 or [[grapeshot]] as fired from field [[c ...in Canada in 1885 for use with the Canadian military against the [[Métis people (Canada)|Métis]] during [[Louis Riel]]'s [[North-West Rebellion]].<ref nam
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  • ...lated in 1832 in [[France]] by [[Pierre Jean Robiquet|Pierre Robiquet]], a French chemist and pharmacist already famous for the discovery of [[alizarin]], th ...afety margin. Its strength ranges from 8 to 12 percent of morphine in most people; differences in metabolism can change this figure as can other medications,
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  • ...[[Johann Heinrich Zedler]], who argued that death alone should not render people notable. ...dely viewed as heretical. Ironically, the ''Encyclopédie'' had begun as a French translation of the popular English encyclopedia, ''[[Cyclopaedia, or Univer
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  • ...the English monk [[Roger Bacon]], or by the [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] people (according to [[folklore]] a [[friar]] [[Berthold Schwarz]]), with literary ...articipated in saltpeter production.<ref name=IndiaBritannica/> The Dutch, French, Portuguese, and English used [[Chapra|Chāpra]] as a center of saltpeter r
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  • ...1910), when the mechanization of [[weaving]] was introduced, mostly by the French. ...Most handcrafts are produced by [[Indigenous peoples in Mexico|indigenous people]], whose communities are concentrated in the center and south of the countr
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  • Trudon had become the biggest [[wax]]-producing factory in the French Kingdom during the 17th and 18th century. In 1762, in his encyclopaedia ''T ...ople worked at the time in a very large building – now registered in the French inventory of historical monuments – in the city of [[Antony, Hauts-de-Sei
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  • | Three people were involved in the inscription: [[Fujiwara no Toshiyuki]], {{nihongo|[[T ...e and canopy. He is surrounded by [[the ten principal disciples]] and lay people. Heavenly musicians and immortals riding on birds float above the clouds.
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  • ...(see [[tile-based game]]). The word is derived from the [[French Language|French]] word ''tuile'', which is, in turn, from the [[Latin Language|Latin]] word Tiling was extensively used by the [[Sinhala people|Sinhalese]] kings of ancient [[Sri Lanka]]. Mostly they used smoothed and p
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  • ...asculine" or "potent". The word was adopted in Latin ''arsenicum'' and Old French ''arsenic,'' from which the English word ''arsenic'' is derived.<ref name=" ...act as [[stimulant]]s, and were once popular in small doses as medicine by people in the mid 18th century.<ref name="Holl">{{cite book|publisher = Walter de
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  • This is a list of '''[[food]] items named after people'''. :For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see [[eponym]].
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  • ...institution. This is a list of [[higher education]] institutions named for people. ==Institutions named for people associated with the institution==
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  • * [[Lothair I|Lothar]] — [[Lorraine (province)|Lorraine]], French province ...rom the novel and movies of the same name — [[Pepe Le Pew]] Warner Bros. French skunk character
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  • ...es in the [[United States|United States of America]] which are named after people. The etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or t *[[Brownfield, Maine]] &ndash; Captain Henry Young Brown (served in the [[French and Indian War]])
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  • * [[:commons:Atlas of the People's Republic of China|Atlas of the People's Republic of China]] * [[:commons:Atlas of French Polynesia|Atlas of French Polynesia]]
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  • ...in the 20th century by&mdash;among others&mdash; [[Mao Zedong]] and the [[People's Liberation Army]] in the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] and [[Chinese Civil ...ey. They did so much damage to Napoleon's army that Joseph Leopold Hugo, a French general, was ordered to "pursue exclusively" Diez and his guerrillas. Accor
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  • .../cartoons.wrap/| archivedate = May 15, 2007}}</ref> Globally, at least 139 people were killed and 823 injured.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2006-03-02| title=Cartoon ...y]] teacher [[Robert Redeker]] wrote an editorial for ''[[Le Figaro]]'', a French conservative newspaper, in which he attacked Islam and Muhammad, writing: "
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  • ...>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/focus-my-gun-drives-fear-into-people--once-you-got-money-and-a-gun-you-got-power-580639.html The Independent- Gu ...rsican mafia]]<ref name="showbiz">Gayraud, Jean-Francois (2009) ''Showbiz, people et corruption'', Odile Jacob, ISBN 2738122329</ref><ref name="gangstersency
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  • In the ancient times in the [[Persian Empire]] people would pour grape juice concentrate over snow - in a bowl - and eat this as ...ssachusetts]] |oclc=223367668 |pages=749–750 |others=translated from the French by Anthea Bell}}</ref><ref name="fdtmlnQuoteToussaint-Samat">{{cite web |la
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