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• Samuel de Champlain.

  From 1616 to 1620 Champlain spent most of each year in France, with brief summer visits to Québec. In France he had to struggle to keep the Canadian enterprisealive, raise capital, and enlist workers. He also had to fight to keep his command over Québec. In 1618 he presented reports on the future of the French colonies inAmerica to the king and to the French Chamber of Commerce. In these reports he proposed that 300 settler families and 15 Récollets be established at Québec, with 300 soldiers to...

• Samuel de Champlain - explorer.

  From 1616 to 1620 Champlain spent most of each year in France, with brief summer visits to Québec. In France he had to struggle to keep the Canadian enterprisealive, raise capital, and enlist workers. He also had to fight to keep his command over Québec. In 1618 he presented reports on the future of the French colonies inAmerica to the king and to the French Chamber of Commerce. In these reports he proposed that 300 settler families and 15 Récollets be established at Québec, with 300 soldiers to...

• Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques [URSS]

• Economie Glossary

  Ecole nationale Supérieure en Informatique, 2ème Année Cycle Préparatoire Intégrée. Module : Economie d’Entreprise « E CON », Année universitaire : 2013/2014 . Partie I- Chapitre I : Glossaire des principaux con cepts d’économie . 2 Ajustement structurel : politique visant à obtenir un assainissement durab le de la situation économique d'un pays (rééquilibrage de la balance d es paiements, des comptes publi...

• énergie, économies d'.

  La Communauté européenne mit alors en œuvre une politique privilégiant essentiellement deux pistes : le charbon et l’énergie nucléaire. Priorité fut d’abord donnée à la réduction de l’utilisation des combustibles fossiles, en particulier le pétrole. Face à la hausse du prix des carburants, on entreprit d’utiliser ces combustibles avec parcimonie ; en outre, des améliorations considérables furent réalisées quant au rendement énergétique dans les années 1980. De plus, les choix des consommateurs s...

• Inde

• Zeichnung.

  Jacopo da Pontormo und El Greco sind von stärkerem persönlichen Ausdruck. Fast surrealistisch muten dagegen die Zeichnungen des flämischen Malers Hieronymus Boschan. Realistische Beobachtungen hingegen zeigen die Zeichnungen des Flamen Pieter Bruegel des Älteren, Albrecht Dürers und Hans Holbeins des Jüngeren. Im 17. Jahrhundert zeugen die von der Strichführung lebenden, lavierten Rohrfeder- und Pinselzeichnungen von Rembrandt und die Porträtstudien in Rötel und Farbkreidendes Flamen Peter Paul...

• Kosovo.

  massacre de 45 civils kosovars crée une vive émotion, et la pression militaire de l’OTAN s’accroît. Le Groupe de contact organise à Londres en janvier, à Rambouillet enfévrier, et à Paris en mars, des pourparlers auxquels participent les autorités yougoslaves et les principales formations albanaises, dont l’UCK. 3.5 La transformation du conflit en guerre Entériné par l’UCK, l’accord final du 15 mars 1999 est rejeté par la Yougoslavie, qui refuse la présence des forces de l’OTAN. Une ultime tent...

• États-Unis

• Orientación espacial 1 INTRODUCCIÓN Orientación espacial, posición de un punto, lugar, objeto o persona sobre la superficie terrestre respecto a un sistema de referencia.

  En los últimos años han aparecido instrumentos y técnicas muy precisos para determinar la posición de un punto de la Tierra: informan sobre su latitud, su longitud e,incluso, su altitud. Son las redes de localización por satélite, y muchas personas las utilizan en lugar de las brújulas. El más conocido es el Sistema de Posicionamiento Global (GPS), Global Positioning System en inglés, que surgió para que las naves militares estadounidenses realizaran trayectos más seguros. Aunque en origen era...

• Tuberculosis.

  TB has existed for thousands of years. Scars on a skull found in Turkey indicate the presence of the disease 500,000 years ago. Scientists also have found tubercles inmummified bodies from ancient Egypt. References to TB can be found in the writings of ancient Babylonia, Egypt, and China. The term tuberculosis was first used in 1839; it was derived from the Latin word tubercula, meaning small lump, referring to the small scars seen in tissues of infected individuals. TB reappeared in Europe...

• TPE pouvoir des médias

• Indian Art and Architecture I INTRODUCTION Art on the Indian Subcontinent This map highlights places in India and Pakistan where prominent examples of Indian art and architecture have been produced.

  Sun Temple of KonarakThis 13th-century relief depicting a wheel of the chariot of Indian sun god Surya is situated in the Konarak temple. Thetemple, dedicated to Surya, is situated at Puri in the Gulf of Bengal.Keren Su/Corbis The arts of India expressed in architecture, sculpture, painting, jewelry, pottery, metalwork, and textiles, were spread throughout the Far East with the diffusion ofBuddhism and Hinduism and exercised a strong influence on the arts of China, Japan, Myanmar (formerly known...

• Atificiel

  Sustainability 2019,11 , 189 2 of 24Since the 1980s, many research was conducted to minimize the error of prediction through a method dubbed as gradient descent. This method is referred to as a Backpropagation algorithm for the training of the ANNs and it was applied to solve problems in different domains using few hidden layers [ 5,6]. Today, the availability of data has introduced the concept of machine learning as a subcategory to AI. Machine learning implies coding the computers to behave l...

• 1949 Janvier dans le monde (histoire chronologique)

  MARDI 25 Europe de l'Est. Création à Moscou du COMECON (Conseil d'aide écono· mique mutuelle). Regroupant l'Union soviétique et les pays d'Europe orien­ tale, cet organisme se veut la réplique communiste de I'OECE. sociETE SAMEDI 1 France. Extension de la Sécurité sociale aux étudiants. LUNDI _______ 24 France. Ouverture du procès intenté par l'écrivain Victor Kravchenko à la revue communiste les Lettres français es pour diffamation. CULTURE ET C...

• Insanity planning

• Dinosaurio - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  © Microsoft Corporation. Reservados todos los derechos. Los antepasados de los dinosaurios fueron un grupo de arcosaurios primitivos llamados tecodontos que aparecieron a principios del periodo triásico. Algunos arcosaurios seconvirtieron en verdaderos cocodrilos y otros en pterosaurios, reptiles voladores con alas compuestas de membranas finas de piel apoyadas sobre un solo dedo en forma depalo. También otros arcosaurios adoptaron la postura bípeda (sostenidos sobre dos patas) y ciertas especie...

• Excerpt from Martin Chuzzlewit - anthology.

  But there is one other piece of evidence, bearing immediate reference to their close connextion with this memorable event in English History, which must carryconviction, even to a mind (if such a mind there be) remaining unconvinced by these presumptive proofs. There was, within a few years, in the possession of a highly respectable and in every way credible and unimpeachable member of the Chuzzlewit Family (for hisbitterest enemy never dared to hint at his being otherwise than a wealthy man...

• La France en Indochine (Travaux Personnels Encadrés – HISTOIRE & CIVILISATION)

  • Ce lui-ci re pose en premi er lieu sur la création d 'infra structur es: l'électrifi cation, le percement de cana ux, la construction de routes, de ponts et surtout de chemins de fer, destinés au transport de marchandises. Long d 'environ 1 700 km, le transindochinois traverse du nord au sud l'ensemble de l'actuel V iê t Nam en reliant Saigon à lao Kay, sur la frontière chinoise. • le Tonkin se voit doté d'un port important, Haiphong. Créé à partir d'...

• Indian Literature I INTRODUCTION Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things Indian author Arundhati Roy poses with a copy of her acclaimed first novel, The God of Small Things (1997).

  Mathura BuddhaMany of the earliest texts of Indian literature were religious writings of Buddhism. This Buddha figure carved out ofsandstone is from Mathura, a city in northern India that was at the center of Buddhist sculptural activity from the 2ndcentury bc to the 6th century ad.Angelo Hornak/Corbis The sacred Vedas were composed in Old Sanskrit by Aryan poet-seers between about 1500 BC and about 1000 BC. The Vedas are compilations of two major literary forms: hymns of praise to nature deit...

• Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika - geographie.

  Zu den bekanntesten Säugetierarten der Vereinigten Staaten gehören Bisons, Wapitis (amerikanische Rothirsche), Elche, Braunbären (mit den Unterarten Grizzlybär undKodiakbär), Schwarzbären, Pumas, Wölfe, Kojoten und Nordamerikanische Biber; in den Prärien sind Präriehunde verbreitet. Lebten um 1800 noch rund 40 Millionen Bisonsin den Prärien Nordamerikas, waren es 100 Jahre später nur noch etwa 1 000. Heute hat sich der Bestand aufgrund strenger Schutzvorschriften erholt und liegt bei etwa200 000...

• Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika - geographie.

  Zu den bekanntesten Säugetierarten der Vereinigten Staaten gehören Bisons, Wapitis (amerikanische Rothirsche), Elche, Braunbären (mit den Unterarten Grizzlybär undKodiakbär), Schwarzbären, Pumas, Wölfe, Kojoten und Nordamerikanische Biber; in den Prärien sind Präriehunde verbreitet. Lebten um 1800 noch rund 40 Millionen Bisonsin den Prärien Nordamerikas, waren es 100 Jahre später nur noch etwa 1 000. Heute hat sich der Bestand aufgrund strenger Schutzvorschriften erholt und liegt bei etwa200 000...

• India - geografía.

  valiosas de madera, entre ellas la teca. En las tierras bajas pantanosas hay grandes regiones de jungla impenetrable y también a lo largo de las laderas bajas de los Ghatesoccidentales. La vegetación del Decán es menos exuberante, pero a través de toda la península se pueden encontrar espesuras de bambú, palmera y árboles caducifolios. Las selvas, llanuras, colinas y montañas de la India están habitadas por gran variedad de vida animal. Los felinos están bien representados, con tigres y panteras...

• Capitalism.

  Physiocracy is the term applied to a school of economic thought that suggested the existence of a natural order in economics, one that does not require direction from the state for people to be prosperous. The leader of the physiocrats, the economist François Quesnay, set forth the basic principles in his Tableau économique (1758), in which he traced the flow of money and goods through the economy. Simply put, this flow was seen to be both circular and self-sustaining. More important, however...

• Boxing.

  C Offensive Techniques To be effective, boxers must have an assortment of punches that are coordinated with their footwork. Less powerful punches often serve the important role of settingup the fighter’s chief “weapons,” as boxing analysts sometimes call a boxer’s main offensive skills. C1 Feinting Moving the hands or head to confuse an opponent is called feinting. A smart boxer will first test the opponent by trying different feints, noting the reaction to each onebefore deciding which will b...

• Guyana - country.

  European patterns of living. People of mixed African and European ancestry form a distinct group in Guyana, maintaining closer social ties to the European communitythan to the African Guyanese community. Asians from the Indian subcontinent began to arrive in the 19th century, following the abolition of slavery in Guyana, to work as indentured and contract laborers. Theycontinued to arrive until 1917, when Britain outlawed indentured servitude. Thousands of Indians chose to remain in Guyana after...

• Nordkorea - geographie.

  Jahren lassen Missernten und Überschwemmungen die Erträge regelmäßig deutlich geringer ausfallen als erwartet, und aufgrund seiner politischen und wirtschaftlichenIsolation ist das Land zudem weitgehend von Nahrungsmitteleinfuhren abgeschnitten. Lieferungen internationaler Hilfsorganisationen oder in jüngster Zeit auch ausSüdkorea können die Not zwar etwas lindern, die Situation aber nicht nachhaltig entschärfen. In den neunziger Jahren fielen nach nordkoreanischen Angaben über200 000 Menschen e...

• Capital Punishment.

  deterrent effect. Capital punishment advocates note that because the death penalty is reserved for the most aggravated murders, the deterrent effect of capitalpunishment on such crimes may not be apparent in data on homicide rates in general. Supporters also urge that the conflicting results of various studies indicate thatthe deterrent effect of the death penalty cannot not be proven or disproven with any certainty. They maintain that in the absence of conclusive proof that the threat ofexecuti...

• India - country.

  delta in the north, are intensely farmed. B Rivers and Lakes The rivers of India can be divided into three groups: the great Himalayan rivers of the north, the westward-flowing rivers of central India, and the eastward-flowingrivers of the Deccan Plateau and the rest of peninsular India. Only small portions of India’s rivers are navigable because of silting and the wide seasonal variation inwater flow (due to the monsoon climate). Water transport is thus of little importance in India. Barrages,...

• Theater I INTRODUCTION The Art of Theater BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.

  Theater at EpidaurusAncient Greek dramas were performed in open-air theaters like this one in Epidaurus, Greece, which was designed byPolyclitus the Younger in 350 bc. A festival of ancient Greek drama is still held in the summer in this 14,000-seat theater.Roger Wood/Corbis Fundamental to the theater experience is the act of seeing and being seen; in fact, the word theater comes from the Greek word theatron , meaning 'seeing place.' Throughout the history of world cultures, actors have used...

• United States History - U.

  and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...

• United States History - U.

  and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...

• Zweiter Weltkrieg - Geschichte.

  Mit der Jahreswende 1936/37 begann eine neue Phase nationalsozialistischer Außenpolitik. Galt es bisher, die Isolierung zu überwinden, wurde nun die „Eroberung neuenLebensraumes” zum vordringlichen Ziel. Mit der Verkündung des Vierjahresplanes auf dem Reichsparteitag der NSDAP im November 1936, der eine nochmalige Steigerungder Rüstungsproduktion und eine zukünftige Unabhängigkeit des Reiches von Importen aus dem Ausland anstrebte, nahmen die Kriegsvorbereitungen konkrete Formen an.Nach dem Ansc...

• Zweiter Weltkrieg - Geschichte.

  Mit der Jahreswende 1936/37 begann eine neue Phase nationalsozialistischer Außenpolitik. Galt es bisher, die Isolierung zu überwinden, wurde nun die „Eroberung neuenLebensraumes” zum vordringlichen Ziel. Mit der Verkündung des Vierjahresplanes auf dem Reichsparteitag der NSDAP im November 1936, der eine nochmalige Steigerungder Rüstungsproduktion und eine zukünftige Unabhängigkeit des Reiches von Importen aus dem Ausland anstrebte, nahmen die Kriegsvorbereitungen konkrete Formen an.Nach dem Ansc...

• Library (institution).

  rooms, special galleries for exhibitions, auditoriums for lectures or concerts, computer rooms, children’s rooms, photocopy rooms, and classrooms. A3 Lending Materials As part of their mission to provide information resources to the community, public libraries allow users to borrow items from their collections for limited amounts of time.To be eligible to borrow public library materials, a user must register her or his name, address, and other basic information with the local library’s circulat...

• Tiger - biology.

  have a simple digestive system designed to process meat so that the nutrients can be readily absorbed into the bloodstream. With the exception of white tigers, which have blue eyes, all tigers have yellow eyes. Tigers mainly use vision to find prey. Although tigers see about as well as humansduring the day, their large eye openings gather more light than do human eyes, making tiger night vision far superior to that of humans. In addition, a special structurein the tiger’s eye, called the tapetu...

• L'ouverture à l'Ouest

• Singapour

• la société de l’information