That such deficiencies existed within Ptolemy's theory was not discovered de novo by Copernicus.

I replied in the affirmative, taking out my recently acquired titre d'identite et de voyage, on which was stamped a permission to leave France.

A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.

By 1913, Ferdinand Lot could begin an article subtitled `` La Conquete De La Grande-Bretagne par Les Saxons '' with the words, `` Il est difficile aujourd'hui d'entretenir des illusions sur la valeur du recit traditionnel de la conquete de la Grande-Bretagne.

Fosdick had found the installations surrounded by a battery of saloons and houses of prostitution, with filles de joie from all over the country flocking to San Antonio, Laredo, and El Paso to `` woman the cribs ''.

With the Discours de la methode and the Principia the things undreamt of in Horatio's philosophy seem to pass from the world.

But there is nothing we can do to stop Soviet Russia from granting de facto recognition to East Germany.

The chevaux de frise, those sharp stakes and barriers around the fort at the Battery, pointed to a conflict between the town and sea power rolling in glassy swells as the tide came in.

It was Giselle, the fille de chambre, come to clean the room, and while she stood before him with ears pricked up and regard all curiosity, explaining her errand, Alex could see from the corner of his eye the doctor doing all he could to calm the displeased bird.

`` That was the fille de chambre, the one you thought couldn't get the eggs out.

At the door Alex managed to persuade the increasingly astonished fille de chambre to return in ten minutes.

unwarranted they were in any case for, as he stood facing the fille de chambre, his ears were assailed by new sounds from the interior of the shower room.

The champagne at Troyes, the traditional capital of the champagne country, has more ambrosial taste somehow than it has at a sidewalk cafe on the Rue de la Paix or at Tour D'Argent.

Pueri aquam de silvas ad agricolas portant, a delightful vignette set in the unforgettable epoch of pre-Punic War Rome.

Cause of all this commotion: squat, pug-nosed, balding, hopelessly ugly Jean-Pierre Bravado, a Bogartian figure, who plays a sadistic, amoral, philosophic Tasti-Freeze salesman in old New-Waver Fredrico de Mille Rossilini's endlessly provocative film, A Sour Sponge.

Additionally, since you're going to be hors de combat pretty soon with sprue, yaws, Delhi boil, the Granville wilt, liver fluke, bilharziasis, and a host of other complications of the hex you've aroused, you mustn't expect to be lionized socially.

General responsibility for its administration rested with a division of the colonial government concerned with labor supply and native affairs, Service des Affaires Indigenes et de la Main-d'Oeuvre ( AIMO, Af Direction, Af Direction Generale, Gouvernement Generale ).

The distinction between domiciled ( de jure ) and present ( de facto ) population was not clearly defined.

but the subsequent analysis of characteristics is reported only for the de jure population ( or, in some districts, only the de facto population ).

The Istiqlal was still firmly united in 1957, but the P.D.I. ( Parti Democratique de l'Independance ), the most important minor party at the time, objected to the Istiqlal's predominance in the civil service and influence in Radio Maroc.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

They have little `` esprit de corps ''.

A man named Lars Simon, playwright-director, had expressed a wish that Anthony Payne drop dead.

Lars Johanson ( 2010: 15-17 ) suggests that a resolution of the Altaic dispute may yet come from the examination of verbal morphology and calls for a muting of the polemic.

The Upper Lars border crossing ( at Darial Gorge ) between Georgia and Russia across the Caucasus Mountains served as Armenia's sole overland route to the former Soviet Union and Europe.

Upper Lars is the only land border crossing that does not go through Georgia's Russian-backed breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

* 1925 – Lars Jørgen Madsen, Danish rifle shooter ( b. 1871 )

* Lars, Krutak.

* Lars G. Josefsson, former CEO Vattenfall

* He was a featured panelist ( with Lars Ulrich ) on the May 12, 2000 episode of the Charlie Rose show.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and former Prime Minister of Denmark | Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen hold a joint press conference, April 2010.

* 12 Byzantine Rulers, by Lars Brownworth.

He was followed by Cyrille Chepelov and Lars Ræder Clausen in turn.

On 23 June 2010, Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen visited Afghanistan, where he met Hamid Karzai.

* Hermodsson, Lars: Goterna — ett krigafolk och dess bibel, Stockholm, Atlantis, 1993.

* 1886 – Lars Hanson, Swedish actor ( d. 1965 )

* 1871 – Lars Jørgen Madsen, Danish rifle shooter ( d. 1925 )

* Fiske, Lars and Kverneland, Steffen.

Malevich's work is also featured prominently in the Lars Von Trier film Melancholia.

Dunst stars in Lars von Trier's science-fiction film Melancholia as a depressed woman at the end of the world.

Lars Magnus was born in Värmskog, Värmland and grew up in the small village of Vegerbol, between Karlstad and Arvika.

In the year 1900 Lars Magnus retired from Ericsson at the age of 54.

* Lars Hörmander ( 1931 -), mathematician awarded the Fields medal in 1962.

Lars von Trier (; born Lars Trier ; 30 April 1956 ) is a Danish film director and screenwriter.

His mother considered herself a Communist, while his father was a Social Democrat, and both were committed nudists, and the young Lars went on several childhood holidays to nudist camps.

The name is sort of an inside-joke with the von ( German " of " or " from " used as a nobiliary particle ), suggesting nobility and a certain arrogance, while Lars is a very common and Trier not an unusual name in Denmark.