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• Article de presse: Jean Monnet : l'homme aux idées claires

  Moscou, en 1934-la loi soviétique admet le divorce par déclaration unilatérale,-que ce banquier américain de nationalité françaiserésidant en Chine réussira à faire légaliser son union avec une Italienne, née par surcroît à Constantinople. " La plus belleopération de ma carrière ", aimait-il à dire. Pourtant, il demeure un inconnu ou presque pour le grand public et surtout pour le monde politique français qu'il ne fréquented'ailleurs guère : toute sa vie, il a haï les mondanités, les cocktai...

• Kentucky - geography.

  The climate of Kentucky is characterized by warm or hot summers and cool winters. Throughout the year, temperatures do not vary greatly from place to place,although they are generally slightly lower in the Appalachian Plateaus region than elsewhere in the state. Average July temperatures are usually from 24° to 27°C (76°to 80°F) in the central and western areas and from 23° to 24°C (74° to 76°F) in the east. January averages range from below 1°C (34°F) in the northern Bluegrassregion to more tha...

• Kentucky - USA History.

  The climate of Kentucky is characterized by warm or hot summers and cool winters. Throughout the year, temperatures do not vary greatly from place to place,although they are generally slightly lower in the Appalachian Plateaus region than elsewhere in the state. Average July temperatures are usually from 24° to 27°C (76°to 80°F) in the central and western areas and from 23° to 24°C (74° to 76°F) in the east. January averages range from below 1°C (34°F) in the northern Bluegrassregion to more tha...

• brushing past me?

  trying tofind theone onwhich shewas born, herfirst love, when shelast saw herparents, andIwas looking forAnna, too, Isearched andsearched, Igot apaper cutonmy forefinger andbled alittle flower ontothepage onwhich Ishould have seenherkissing somebody, butthis was allIsaw: I wanted tocry but Ididn't cry,Iprobably shouldhavecried, Ishould havedrowned usthere inthe room, ended our suffering, theywould havefound usfloating face-down intwo thousand whitepages, orburied underthesalt ofmy evaporated tea...

• coopération.

  Beaucoup d'institutions chargées d'assurer la coopération économique internationale relèvent des Nations unies. Le Conseil économique et social de l'Organisation des Nations unies est chargé de la coordination de toutes les activités internationales ayant pour objet le relèvement du niveau de vie, le développement économique du monde et la sauvegarde des droits sociaux. Il est responsable devant l'Assemblée générale. Il a beaucoup contribué à l'élaboration et à la mise en œuvre des program...

• Communism

  access to, resources, but the underlying principle is quite similar. Rather than freeing some or even all people in a society to devote themselves to a higher cause, secular communism is designed to allow everyone to pursue personal fulfilment. It may best be characterized by a slogan adopted by Marx that appears to have been first published on the title page of Cabet's Voyage en Icarie (1840): ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' . In other words, each pers...

• Luna (space program) - astronomy.

• Poetry I INTRODUCTION Phyllis McGinley American poet and author Phyllis McGinley composed light, witty verse, much of which deals with family life.

  repetition of certain lines and the rhyming of certain lines. The Provençal sestina features a set of six words that end lines (end-words), repeated in a dizzyingly complexpattern. The range of effects created by the poetic line varies tremendously depending on its length, its patterns of repetition, and whether the sentence stops at the end of theline (end-stopped) or carries over the end of the line (enjambed). Many of the earliest examples of Old English poetry feature an accentual line with...

• Text - science as a vocation

• sculpture - sculpture.

  3.3. 1 La taille directe Le sculpteur en taille directe attaque le bloc de pierre avec une idée plus ou moins élaborée des formes qu’il veut en dégager ; il peut partir d’esquisses dessinées ou modelées et reporte régulièrement sur son bloc des traits au charbon qui lui permettent de se guider à toutes les étapes de son travail. Celui-ci commence par l’épanelage et le dégrossissage du bloc, par la recherche des plans principaux puis des plans intermédiaires, et se poursuit par le dégagement des...

• It was twelve weekends earlier that I'd gone to visit Abe Black in Coney Island.

  the boardwalk, likefunnel cakesandcotton candyandhotdogs. Itwas analmost perfect day,except thatAbedidn't know anything aboutthekey orabout Dad.Hesaid hewas driving intoManhattan andcould givemearide ifIwanted one. Itold him, "Idon't getincars with strangers, andhow didyou know Iwas going toManhattan?" Hesaid, "We're not strangers, andIdon't know howIknew." "Doyouhave anSUV?" "No.""Good. Doyou have agas-electric hybridcar?" "No." "Bad." While wewere inthe carItold himallabout howIwas going tomee...

• L'architecture.

  Écrire l'histoire de l'architecture, c'est connaître les civilisations passées ou présentes (et les liens qu'elles ont entre elles), mais c'est aussi retracer l'évolution des techniques. Et, autant que ces dernières, l'histoire de l'architecture est multiple. Depuis Jéricho en Palestine, qui est, à ce jour, la plus ancienne ville connue (9000 avant J.-C.), jusqu'à nos immeubles modernes, l'homme a élaboré en maints endroits les divers arts de bâtir en fonction de ses connaissances et de ses moye...

• Les relations économiques internationales

  1- Les évolutions structurelles Les évolutions structurelles par produit, c'est ce que l'on appelle la division internationale du travail. La DIT s'est transformée au cours des 50 à 60 dernières annéesjusque dans les années 1990, la division du travail à l'échelle internationale consistait à ce que les pays industrialisés exportent des produits manufacturés etimportent des produits primaires en provenance essentiellement des pays en voie de développement. On parle alors d'ancienne DIT. Une divis...

• Comparative Anatomy.

  In comparing two species, anatomists have to be careful to differentiate between homologous structures, which are ones that have evolved from a shared ancestor, andanalogous structures, which have developed from different origins. Homologous structures are built on the same underlying plan. A human arm, a bat’s wing, and awhale’s flipper look quite different from the outside, but the bones inside reveal that these limbs all have the same basic structure. Analogous structures, by contrast,often l...

• Bible.

  collection of many different books. The Old Testament is by no means a unified book in terms of authorship, date of composition, or literary type; it is instead a veritablelibrary. Generally speaking, the books of the Old Testament and their component parts may be identified as narratives, poetic works, prophetic works, law, or apocalypses.Most of these are broad categories that include various distinct types or genres of literature and oral tradition. None of these categories is limited to the...

• CELLULE GÉNÉRALITÉS La cellule constitue l'unité structurelle et fonctionnelle fondamentale des êtres vivants.

  2 cellulaire mais est librement immergé dans le cytoplasme. La deuxième branche, celle des Eucaryotes (du grec eu , vrai, et karion , noyau), comprend tous les autres êtres unicellulaires et pluricellulaires, les végétaux et les animaux, qui ont un noyau bien défini, avec une membrane qui sépare le matériel génétique du cytoplasme. Les cellules eucaryotes possèdent en outre une grande variété de compartiments internes et d'organites chargés d'assurer les fonctions cellulaires. Tous les organis...

• Inca Empire.

  The Incas’ public works were built through a labor tax known as mit’a. This tax required most people incorporated into the Inca Empire to provide labor for public worksduring certain portions of each year. This labor tax supported large-scale public works that required the marshalling of large labor forces, such as for the building offorts, roads, and bridges, or the mining of metals and gems. It also allowed the emperor to raise large armies to undertake wars of conquest. Road building was impo...

• Inca Empire - History.

  The Incas’ public works were built through a labor tax known as mit’a. This tax required most people incorporated into the Inca Empire to provide labor for public worksduring certain portions of each year. This labor tax supported large-scale public works that required the marshalling of large labor forces, such as for the building offorts, roads, and bridges, or the mining of metals and gems. It also allowed the emperor to raise large armies to undertake wars of conquest. Road building was impo...

• Boisson universelle étonnamment complexe, le vin est connu depuis la préhistoire.

  volume 1 États-Unis - traitement des vignes par hélicoptère dans Napa Valley, en Californie, page 1754, volume 4 Hongrie - vignobles de Szigliget, près du lac Balaton, page 2398, volume 5 Italie - les vignobles du Frioul, page 2617, volume 5 vin - cueillette du raisin à la treille, page 5546, volume 10 vin - scène de vendange en octobre, page 5546, volume 10 Les vins et leurs terroirs Après les restructurations consécutives à l'invasion du phylloxéra et à l'avènement des chemins de fer m...

• Le Réel, Est-Ce Ce Qui Saute Aux Yeux ?

  nous n'avons pas de moyen de savoir si ce qu'ils nous montrent est réel ou non. Comment savoir ce qui est réel siles sens nous trompent? Sur quoi peut-on s'appuyer pour définir le réel? Pour savoir en premier lieu si nousn'hallucinons pas, donc si nous sommes en mesure connaître le réel ou pas, le test le plus simple est celui de lacohérence de l'expérience, c'est à dire d'un ensemble de sensations liées entre elles et qui sont cohérentes entreelles. Tous les sens doivent montrer la mêm...

• Pourquoi voulons-nous être libres ?

  Cf. le Sous-sol : Dostoïevski s'engouffre ici dans la voie ouverte par Descartes (mais Descartes n'allait pas jusquelà) : si la liberté suppose la capacité de choisir A quand j'ai toutes les raisons de choisir B, alors le libre-arbitre peutnous conduire à commettre des actes gratuits, sans motifs, pouvant aller jusqu'au crime sans mobile, au crime quel'on commet alors même qu'il va à l'encontre non seulement de la loi morale, mais aussi de notre intérêt. On retrouvecette idée chez Gide, dans Les...

• Pourquoi voulons-nous être libres ?

  bien d'attester par là notre libre-arbitre ». Je peux donc sacrifier mon intérêt, mon bonheur, mon avantage, pour(me) prouver que je suis libre.Cf. le Sous-sol : Dostoïevski s'engouffre ici dans la voie ouverte par Descartes (mais Descartes n'allait pas jusquelà) : si la liberté suppose la capacité de choisir A quand j'ai toutes les raisons de choisir B, alors le libre-arbitre peutnous conduire à commettre des actes gratuits, sans motifs, pouvant aller jusqu'au crime sans mobile, au crime quel'o...

• American Civil War.

  free state to keep the balance in the Senate. It also provided that slavery would be excluded from the still unorganized part of the Louisiana Territory. A line was drawnfrom Missouri’s southern boundary, at the latitude of 36°30’, and slavery would not be allowed in the territory north of that line,with the exception of Missouri. B Compromise of 1850 Agitation against slavery continued in the North. The South reacted by defending it ever more strongly. The Mexican War, by which the United Stat...

• American Civil War - U.

  free state to keep the balance in the Senate. It also provided that slavery would be excluded from the still unorganized part of the Louisiana Territory. A line was drawnfrom Missouri’s southern boundary, at the latitude of 36°30’, and slavery would not be allowed in the territory north of that line,with the exception of Missouri. B Compromise of 1850 Agitation against slavery continued in the North. The South reacted by defending it ever more strongly. The Mexican War, by which the United Stat...

• La société féodale est aussi une société figée, où chacun est cloué dès la naissance à une place donnée comme éternelle.

  troupes decelui quiavait raviletrône, Harold (tuédans lamêlée) et,le25 décembre, sefait couronner àl’abbaye de Westminster àLondres roid’Angleterre. Celuiquel’onappelle désormais GuillaumeleConquérant estdonc toujours vassaldesCapétiens poursonduché deNormandie, etleur égal outre-Manche grâceàsa couronne. Trois générations plustard, lasituation s’embrouille encoreunpeu plus. D’incessantes querellesfamiliales tournent quasiment àla guerre civileetensanglantent lasuccession autrône anglo-normand....

• Sujet : Désirer est-ce nécessairement souffrir ?

  Celui qui n'a rien désire peu de choses ; celui qui ne commande à personne a peu d'ambition. Mais le superflu éveillela convoitise : plus on obtient, plus on désire ». Dans ce sens, le désir apparaît comme une entrave à la liberté car ilborne mon domaine d'action et de pensée. Aussi, certains désirs font souffrir car emprisonnant et irréalisables. Eneffet, on peut passer notre vie à désirer une personne ou un bien, sans jamais réaliser ce désir ce qui revient à ceque dit Jean Simard « Nous passo...

• Paris (city, France) - geography.

  Théâtre Musical de Paris and the Théâtre de la Ville. Just north of the Hôtel de Ville is the Pompidou Center, also known as Beaubourg, an arts complex devoted to modern and contemporary art and design. The structure,in steel and glass and featuring brightly colored, exposed pipes and ducts, is the work of Italian architect Renzo Piano and British architect Richard Rogers. Itscontroversial pop-art design contrasts sharply with the overall gray hue of the city, and was criticized by many followin...

• From Julius Caesar - anthology.

  Let but the commons hear this testament—Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read—And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds,And dip their napkins in his sacred blood,Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,And, dying, mention it within their wills,Bequeathing it as a rich legacyUnto their issue.FIFTH PLEBEIAN : We'll hear the will. Read it, Mark Antony. ALL THE PLEBEIANS : The will, the will! We will hear Caesar's will. ANTONY : Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it. It is not meet you...

• United Kingdom - country.

  B Natural Regions and Topography The island of Great Britain can be divided into two major natural regions—the highland zone and the lowland zone. The highland zone is an area of high hills andmountains in the north and west. The lowland zone in the south and east consists mostly of rolling plains. The zones are divided by an imaginary line running throughEngland from the River Exe on the southwest coast to the mouth of the River Tees on the northeast coast. The lowland zone has a milder climat...

• Church (building) I INTRODUCTION Church (building), a building designed for worship for groups of Christians.

  nearby was a basilica; the two are now combined in one building, known as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The original Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, replaced bythe present church during the Renaissance, was a huge processional basilica with projecting wings—transepts—forming a Latin cross in plan. The domed, centralizedform persisted in the Byzantine and Slavic East, where medieval churches, small in scale, often took the form of five domes arranged on a Greek cross plan. IV MEDIEVAL EUROPE...

• Extreme Sports.

  racing events are the Raid Gauloises and the Eco-Challenge. Created in 1989 by French journalist Gerard Fusil, the Raid Gauloises is a grueling two-week adventure racein which five-person teams cross rugged and remote terrain. The inaugural Raid was held in New Zealand, and subsequent races have been staged in Costa Rica,Madagascar, Borneo, and Chile. The race has five separate stages designed to fit each location’s unique terrain. Stages may require horseback riding, white-waterpaddling, mounta...

• Impeachment.

  In February 1868 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson and appointed a committee to preparearticles of impeachment. The House passed 11 articles of impeachment against Johnson in March 1868. Ten of the articles concerned the president’s alleged violation ofthe Tenure of Office Act, an 1867 statute that required the president to seek congressional approval before dismissing officials confirmed by the Senate. The othercharge against J...

• Excerpt from Little Dorrit - anthology.

  'That,' said the turnkey, 'is agen her.' 'She is so little used to go out alone,' said the debtor, 'that I am at a loss to think how she will ever make her way here, if she walks.' 'P'raps,' quoth the turnkey, 'she'll take a ackney coach.' 'Perhaps.' The irresolute fingers went to the trembling lip. 'I hope she will. She may not think of it.' 'Or p'raps,' said the turnkey, offering his suggestions from the top of his well-worn wooden stool, as he might have offered them to a...

• Bien moins abondant que le charbon dans l'écorce terrestre, le pétrole est cependant le combustible fossile le plus demandé ; il constitue ainsi la première source mondiale d'énergie.

  courantes, on ne fournit pas aux utilisateurs la liste exhaustive de chacun de leurs très nombreux composants ; on essaie de repérer leur qualité, par exemple grâce au degré API (American Petroleum Institute), qui est d'autant plus élevé que le pétrole est plus léger, c'est-à-dire qu'il contient davantage d'éléments volatils (44 pour le pétrole saharien et 2,9 pour le brut le plus lourd, qui est vénézuélien), par leur composition en grandes familles de produits (paraffiniques, naphténiques et a...

• Insect - biology.

  they almost always have six legs. In some insects, such as beetles, the legs are practically identical, but in other insects each pair is a slightly different shape. Still otherinsects have specialized leg structures. Examples are praying mantises, which have grasping and stabbing forelegs armed with lethal spines, and grasshoppers andfleas, which have large, muscular hind legs that catapult them into the air. Mole crickets’ front legs are modified for digging, and backswimmers have hind legs de...

• Guatemala - country.

  C Climate The climate of Guatemala varies according to elevation, from hot coastal plains to cold mountain heights. Most of the population lives between 900 and 2,400 m (3,000and 8,000 ft) above sea level, where there are warm days and cool nights with average annual temperatures of 20°C (68°F). The coastal regions are hot and humid,with average annual temperatures of 28°C (83°F). A rainy season, from May through October, is sometimes called “winter” because it brings cloudy afternoons andlower...

• San Jose (California) - geography.

  The San Jose metropolitan area is an economic powerhouse. It is the single most important high-technology center in the United States, specializing in aerospace andcomputer technology. Assisting in the area’s steady innovation is its many venture capital firms, which loan money to entrepreneurs starting new companies. It isestimated that the region contains one-half of the leading venture capital firms in the world. Among the nation’s largest companies in the San Jose metropolitan regionare Inte...

• French Canadian Nationalism - Canadian History.

  The revolution ended in independence for the Americans, who named their new country the United States of America. In the aftermath, thousands of people who hadopposed the American Revolution migrated from what was now the United States to British North America. These people, known as the United Empire Loyalists, settledin the Maritimes, where they greatly increased the British majority over the Acadians, and in Québec. Some settled near francophone communities around Montréal andin the Eastern T...

• Fur Trade in North America - Canadian History.

  Injured by the competition from the North West Company, the Hudson’s Bay Company changed its methods in the late 18th century and began extending its operationsinland. After a period of intense and often violent conflict, the two companies merged in 1821 under the charter of the Hudson’s Bay Company. The trade monopoly andpower to govern that had been originally given to Hudson’s Bay in 1670 were extended to all British-held territory west of Rupert’s Land. The company dominated mostof present-d...

• Notions essentielles anglais

  Notions essentielles Anglais : Lexique : Détester-Aimer-Préférer : (L1) Détester ➔ Au sens général ➔ To hate + verbe en -ing Il déteste conduire sur la neige ➔ He hates driving on the snow ➔ Au sens plus limité dans le temps, l’espace ➔ to hate + in nitif complet Je déteste penser à ce qu’elle dira ➔ I hate to think what she will say when she learns this Je déteste le dire, mais vous êtes renvoyé.➔ I hate to say so, but you are red Aimer ➔ To like ➔ Idée d’habitude ➔ to like...

• Comedy I INTRODUCTION Laurel and Hardy Stan Laurel, in overalls, and Oliver Hardy, left, formed one of the most popular comedy teams in motion-picture history.

  The elements and techniques of comedy are diverse and differ from culture to culture. More than tragedy or serious drama, comic entertainment is controlled by socialconventions that define the boundaries of acceptable humor and topics that are taboo or off-limits for humor. What is considered funny in one place and time may beforbidden culturally or viewed as infantile or in poor taste in another. Virtually every component of human behavior is subject to comic treatment. This includes bodilyfunc...

• Fishing.

  directly to the spool and turns the spool one rotation at a time. C Fishing Lines Fishing lines serve as the link between the angler’s reel and the lure or bait. The most popular line used for sportfishing is monofilament nylon line, which is strong anddurable and has a certain amount of stretch, which helps when an angler sets the hook. The line comes in a variety of strengths, from 2-pound test to more than 100-pound test. (Pound test is the amount of pressure that can be put on a line before...

• Aboriginal Australians - history.

  Current archaeological evidence suggests that human occupation of Australia began around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago. The first settlers are believed to havemigrated from Southeast Asia in gradual stages, by way of the islands of Indonesia. Around 50,000 years ago sea levels were as much as 120 m (390 ft) lower thanthey are today, and Australia was joined with New Guinea and Tasmania to form one giant landmass called Sahul, or Greater Australia. Scholars believe that the firstmigrants to Sahul ca...

• HISTOIRE ET LITTÉRATURE

  merveilleux pour réconcilier la cohérence du témoignage avec celle de l'ordre admis. L'objectivité s'en trouve paradoxalement renforcée, puisque la fonction du récit est alors d'intégrer l'extraordinaire au champ du normal, et la subjectivité y trouve accréditation, en ce qu'elle atteste l'exceptionnel. Mais ce type de synthèse entre les cadres de la représenta tion du monde fondés sur le dogme et les surprises de 1' expérience ne conserve guère crédit au-de...

• armes légères.

  Trop complexe et fragile (également trop coûteuse), la platine à rouet ne supplante pas la platine à mèche sur les mousquets et arquebuses de l’infanterie. En revanche, ce mécanisme est précieux pour les armes de chasse. En particulier, assurant une mise à feu affranchie des servitudes de la mèche, la platine permet le développement d’armes pouvant être tenues prêtes au tir, déjà chargées, au fourreau. C’est la raison d’être d’une arme légère, plus courte, apparue à Pistoia en Italie : la pistol...

• World War I .

  and troops to Europe from the United States and other overseas sources. In 1914 Britain implemented a sea blockade of Germany to prevent the delivery of importssuch as food and war materials. The same year, Germany began using submarines to disrupt Allied seaborne traffic and prevent supplies from reaching Britain. In 1915Germany instituted a submarine blockade around Britain. From February 1915 to September 1915 and again in 1917, Germany used unrestricted submarine warfare,sinking ships withou...

• Modern Art I INTRODUCTION American Gothic American Gothic was painted by the 20th-century American artist Grant Wood in 1930.

  while at the other side a woman in black appears to mourn the end of her participation in the dance. Click on the buttonsto learn more.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. In view of this diversity, it is difficult to define modern art in a way that includes all of 20th-century Western art. For some critics, the most important characteristic ofmodern art is its attempt to make painting and sculpture ends in themselves, thus distinguishing modernism from earlier forms of art that had con...

• Rat - biology.

• Banking.

  loans, and some commercial loans in addition to checking accounts and time deposits. Credit unions, SLAs, and savings banks help encourage thriftiness by paying interest to consumers who put their money in savings deposits. Consequently, creditunions, SLAs, and savings banks are often referred to as thrift institutions. Of the various types of banks in the United States, commercial banks account for the greatest single source of the financial industry’s assets. In 2000 the 8,528commercial banks...

• Nashville - geography.

  May event has grown into a major festival. In September the city hosts the Tennessee State Fair. One of Nashville's principle attractions is Opryland, a complex of entertainment and broadcasting facilities that offers live music shows, a resort and convention center,and shopping outlets. Since 1974 it has been the home to the Grand Ole Opry radio show, a country-music production that has not missed a broadcast since 1925. Percy Park and Edwin Warner Park provide open space, trails, playing field...