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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Famars
    The Battle of Famars was fought on 23 May 1793 during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. An Allied Austrian, Hanoverian, and British...
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    Augustin Barruel (October 2, 1741 – October 5, 1820) was a French journalist, intellectual, and Jesuit priest. He is now mostly known for setting forth...
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  • Thumbnail for Jacques Sevin
    Jacques Sevin SJ (7 December 1882 - 19 July 1951), was a French Jesuit known for his role in the introduction of Scouting to France. Sevin was born in...
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  • Thumbnail for Roman Catholic Diocese of Halberstadt
    The Diocese of Halberstadt was a Roman Catholic diocese (German: Bistum Halberstadt) from 804 until 1648. From 1180, the bishops or administrators of Halberstadt...
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  • The 2008 International Women's Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 34th edition of the International Women's Open,...
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  • Thumbnail for Johann Albrecht Bengel
    Johann Albrecht Bengel (24 June 1687 – 2 November 1752), also known as Bengelius, was a Lutheran pietist clergyman and Greek-language scholar known for...
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    Le Printemps de Bourges is an annual music festival that is held in Bourges, France, over the course of five days. It is now a major event in France and...
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  • Jacques-André Boiffard (29 July 1902 – 22 July 1961) was a French photographer, born in Épernon in Eure-et-Loir. He was a medical student in Paris until...
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  • Thumbnail for Karl Heinrich Lang
    Karl Heinrich Ritter von Lang (7 June 1764 – 26 March 1835) was a German historian and statesman. He was born at Balgheim, near Nördlingen. From the first...
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  • Thumbnail for Thomas Corneille
    Thomas Corneille (20 August 1625 – 8 December 1709) was a French lexicographer and dramatist. Born in Rouen some nineteen years after his brother Pierre...
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  • Thumbnail for Hippolyte Delehaye
    Hippolyte Delehaye, S.J., (19 August 1859 – 1 April 1941) was a Belgian Jesuit who was a hagiographical scholar and an outstanding member of the Society...
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  • Thumbnail for Fernand Cabrol
    Fernand Cabrol (11 December 1855 – 4 June 1937) was a French theologian, Benedictine monk and respected expert on the history of Christian worship. Cabrol...
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    Maria Wörth is a municipality in the district of Klagenfurt-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia. The centre of the resort town is situated on a peninsula...
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    Paul Guldin (born Habakkuk Guldin; 12 June 1577 (Mels) – 3 November 1643 (Graz)) was a Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer. He discovered the Guldinus...
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  • Baron Charles de Biencourt de Saint-Just (1591 or 1592, Champagne, France – 1623 or 1624, Port-Royal of what was then Acadia, New France). was a member...
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    Schwertwal (German for Orca, lit. "Sword Whale") was a German miniature submarine design that reached the trial stage in late April 1945. It had a crew...
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  • Pierre Biard (1567 – November 17, 1622) was a Jesuit missionary who was given orders by Father Pierre Coton, Jesuit provincial in Paris, to take charge...
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  • Thumbnail for Johann Georg Bergmüller
    Johann Georg Bergmüller (15 April 1688 – 2 April 1762) was a German painter, particularly of frescoes, of the Baroque. Bergmüller was born in Türkheim...
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  • Thumbnail for Berlinische Monatsschrift
    The Berlinische Monatsschrift was a monthly magazine published by Johann Erich Biester and Friedrich Gedike (though the latter resigned his editorship...
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  • Jean de Fontaney (1643–1710) was a French Jesuit who led a mission to China in 1687. Jean de Fontaney had been a teacher of mathematics and astronomy at...
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