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http://www.nycballet.com/programs/print_glossary.html
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| | French Revolutionary Calendar |
| | fall of the French monarchy **French Revolutionary Wars **French Revolutionary Calendar **Glossary, Timeline, List of people * First French Empire* French Restoration * Second Republic* Second French Empire* Third Republic* France during World War II * Fourth Republic* Fifth Republic | | | The 18 Brumaire (November 9 1799) is considered the end of French Revolution. | | | The French Revolutionary Calendar or French Republican Calendar is a calendar proposed during the French Revolution, and in use by the French government for 13 years from 1793. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/french_revolutionary_calendar
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| | French Revolution History links |
| | The fantastic Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution site provides over 300 documents from the French Revolution, as well as 12 major interpretive essays, 250 images, 13 maps, a glossary and a timeline. | | | The Modern History Sourcebook at Fordham University provides an excellent selection of documents on the French Revolution; use this link to find sources on many other topics in modern history, including the Enlightenment, the Ancien Regime, and a whole range of other subjects in Modern History. | | | Steven Kries's lectures on the French Revolution at The History Guide : Origins ; 1789-92 ; 1792-94 ; Language of Politics ; Napoleon; The Romantic Era. |
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http://www.albertson.edu/history/pages/frenchrev.htm
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| | Humbul full record view for -- Liberty, equality, fraternity : exploring the French revolution |
| | It is a collaboration of the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and the American Social History Project (City University of New York), that includes 12 topical essays, 250 images, 350 text documents, 13 song recordings (including "La Marseillaise"), 13 maps, a timeline, and a glossary. | | | Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution is a detail-rich Web site. | | | Liberty, equality, fraternity : exploring the French revolution |
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http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=2483
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| | Revolutions |
| | Maps, Timelines, and Glossary are all provided to enhance the learning experience. | | | covers all of the major events in French and Europe during the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon. | | | offers a handy explanation of terms used during the French Revolution to help teachers explain the critical events of the era. |
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http://www.ksche.org/revolutions.htm
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| | French Language & Culture |
| | Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution essays, images, documents, songs, map, timeline, and a glossary | | | ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language. | | | Chateau de Versailles in French and English; photographic essays about the buildings and grounds with 360 degree panoramas of the Hall of Mirrors and the King's Bedchamber |
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http://www.accd.edu/pac/lrc/french.htm
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| | France & Monaco |
| | French Revolution 1787-1799 Provides a detailed timeline of the French revolution, an extensive glossary of terms, a bibliography, and a scholarly essay on 'The People and the French Revolution'. |
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http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/dew_e/E/9/94/944/944.html
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| | Maledicta Links |
| | Adam Gaffin's "The Wicked Good Guide to Boston English" is a well-done introduction to the pronunciation of Boston slang, with a glossary of words and phrases, as well as place names of the area. | | | I searched ten of the dozens of French colloquial and slang terms for "penis" listed in the excellent, 50,000-word Harrap's Slang Dictionary English-French / French-English, but only one of the ten was in the database. | | | Filipino Slang is a good, extensive list of terms of abuse, colorful language and acronyms organized in several categories, such as Revolution, Family, Love, Food, and Schools. |
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http://www.sonic.net/maledicta/links.html
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| | Danton: The Film and Questions |
| | The French Revolution: the People Enter Politics, by William Doyle, with fine links to first rate articles by UK historians, to glossary, to documents, etc. [ | | | Danton: The French Revolution as Mirror of the Past and the Present | | | What do you make of the opening scene when Elenore Duplay is teaching her brother to recite the keystone document of the Revolution, “The Rights of Man and Citizen”? |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/clio/danton_film-questions.htm
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| | What was taking place in other countries and in the arts, sciences and daily life during the time of the French Revolution | | | Several pages devoted to the Revolution through the filter of pop culture; a review of sources, popular misconceptions, Freudian interpretations and literary excerpts. | | | Major events of the Revolution from 1787 to 1799 |
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| | Yugoslavia The Slovenes - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System |
| | Military defeats in 1859 and 1866 exposed the internal weakness of the Austrian Empire, and in 1867 Austria attempted to revitalize itself by joining with Hungary to form the Dual Monarchy (see Glossary). | | | The 1848 revolution swept away serfdom, but the political movement of the Slovenes made little headway before the Austrian government regained control and imposed absolutist rule. | | | Despite unpopular new tax and conscription laws, Slovenian intellectuals welcomed the French, who issued proclamations in Slovenian as well as in German and French, built roads, reformed the government, appointed Slovenes to official posts, and opened Slovenian-language schools for both sexes. |
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http://workmall.com/wfb2001/yugoslavia/yugoslavia_history_the_slovenes.html
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| | BBC - h2g2 - The French Revolution - Glossary |
| | BBC - h2g2 - The French Revolution - Glossary | | | Estates General- a representative body made up of three sections: the nobility, the clergy and the 'third estate'. | | | Third Estate, the- The non-noble, non-clerical section of the French nation (ie 95%) |
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http://www1.thny.bbc.co.uk/dna/hub/A745832
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| | NMH.UK: A timeline of Learning Disability Nursing |
| | It became very popular as a refutation of the philosophy behind the French Revolution and can be considered as the first essay on Eugenics. | | | William Tuke's grandson and biographer became the 'architect' of many of the asylums built in the middle of the nineteenth century to be light and airy along the lines of The Retreat." (From: Working in Social care: Glossary of Social Care Terms) | | | It drew heavily on the theory of the French psychiatrist, Esquirol (1772-1842) that a major cause of insanity was the breakdown of religion, family bonds and "fixed habits" consequent on the social upheavals of the times. |
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http://www.shef.ac.uk/~nmhuk/ldnurs/timline/ldtimeline.html
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| | Academic Directory on Legal History |
| | The Declaration is a central document of the French Revolution and subsequent French republics. | | | From the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School, this electronic text of the Magna Carta (1215) includes a glossary of unfamiliar legal terms and an index to locate specific sections of the text. | | | From the University of Minnesota Law School, this impressive website contains the text of the "Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery" commonly known as the Penal Laws. |
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| | Political compass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | They are intended as an alternative to the originally French one-axis (Left versus Right) model, that has been widely adopted over the past two centuries; see glossary of the French Revolution. | | | The illustration appeared in Floodgates of Anarchy, by Albert Meltzer and Stuart Christie, published in 1970. | | | However the term Political Compass was originated by a website which runs an online questionnaire that will rate your political views on two axes: Economic (Left-Right) and Social (Authoritarian-Libertarian). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_compass
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| | Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution |
| | Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, With 12 Topical Essays, 250 Images, 350 Text Documents, 13 Songs, 13 Maps, a Timeline, and a Glossary. | | | This site with more than 600 primary documents is a collaboration of the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University of New York), supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities |
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| | Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, With 12 Topical Essays, 250 Images, 350 Text Documents, 13 Songs, 13 Maps, a Timeline, and a Glossary. | | | This site with more than 600 primary documents is a collaboration of the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University of New York), supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities |
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| | Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, With 12 Topical Essays, 250 Images, 350 Text Documents, 13 Songs, 13 Maps, a Timeline, and a Glossary. | | | This site with more than 600 primary documents is a collaboration of the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University of New York), supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities |
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| | List of people associated with the French Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For a list of groups and factions, see Glossary of the French Revolution. | | | Marquis de Condorcet- not properly a Girondist, but often associated with them. | | | See main article Committee of Public Safety It is possible that some of these should not be listed as Montagnards; research needed. |
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| | vandalism - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Vandalism (capitalized) is hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of their monuments, said to be in the spirit of the Vandals in their attacks on the Roman Empire.The first time the term was used was probably January 10, 1794 during the French Revolution, by Henri Gré... | | | vandalism : IRFAO Rock Art Glossary [ home, info ] | | | Phrases that include vandalism : environmental vandalism, inverse vandalism, peace thru vandalism, vandalism and malicious mischief, vandalism in progress, more... |
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| | Russian (transliteration), English, French, and Spanish glossary compiled by the International Telecommunication Union. | | | A U.S. Library of Congress exhibit of photographs by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world--the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution. | | | A Moscow grade-school student shares her collection of Russian postage stamps featuring the capital city in a colorful display. |
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| | Political compass - definition of Political compass in Encyclopedia |
| | A Political Compass (or "political diamond") is a two dimensional political grid that seeks to label or organize political thought on two dimensions rather than the one (left versus right) that has been traditional since it was invented in France over two centuries ago; see glossary of the French Revolution. | | | The site also includes an in-depth explanation of the two-axis system they use, a few charts showing the alleged positions of various past and present political figures, and reading lists for each of the main political orientations. | | | Political spectrum (discusses the dimensionality concept at length) |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Political_compass
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| | This is the best digital collection for historians and students of the Revolution. | | | General collection of material relating to the Celtic people and culture. | | | Collection of searchable texts, including seminar analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of selected colonists, probate inventories, wills," Glossary and Notes on Plymouth Colony", etc. |
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| | Archibald Alison (English historian) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Archibald Alison (English historian) |
| | His principle work is the Modern History of Europe from the French Revolution to the Fall of Napoleon,, afterwards extended to the Accession of Louis Napoleon, which was once very popular and translated into many languages, including Arabic and Hindostee. | | | The list of the Archibald Alison (English historian) Authors is | | | Sir Archibald Alison (December 29, 1792 - May 23, 1867), son of Archibald Alison (Scottish author), was an English lawyer who held several prominent legal appointments, and a historian, born at Kenley, Shropshire, England. |
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| | Harvard University Press: The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas |
| | She is former Director of the Chinese Heritage Center of the University of Singapore, and her publications include Sons of the Yellow Emperor and The New Chinese Revolution. | | | A glossary identifies Chinese proper names and terms with their characters, while the bibliography gives full references to Chinese, English, French, and Spanish works. | | | The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas reflects the diverse histories and traditions that produced this diaspora, as well as the rich and various transmutations it has produced in turn. |
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| | Main Page - InfoSearchPoint.com |
| | Oskar Ursinus - French Revolution glossary - Christmas pudding - Leo Frank | | | November 13 - Wright brothers - Oliver Cromwell - Battle of the Bulge - |
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| | AllRefer.com - Algeria - National Security Algerian Information Resource |
| | Tipasa marks the terminus of the Sahel region. | | | A cooperation treaty in 1989 among the Maghrib (see Glossary) states, incorporating security clauses intended to prevent future military confrontation, reflected the more pacific climate prevailing in the region. | | | BORN IN A BLOODY REVOLUTION from French colonial rule, Algeria became independent in 1962. |
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