About 1970 it was renamed École Florian, after the French poet and fabulist Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, whose uncle and guardian, the Marquis de Florian, had married a niece of Voltaire.

About halfway through the second bottle, Charlie looked at me across Pops, who was sitting between us and asked `` Now ''??

About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.

About 15 % of the population is foreign, most of them immigrants from Argentina, Ecuador, and Colombia who have arrived in the previous 10 years.

About half of the NCOs are sergeants, who serve as command links between officers and ranks.

About half of the refugees were SPLA soldiers with more than 5000 weapons, who allegedly occupied towns as far as 200 km into the C. A. R.

About September, however, a spurious Part Two, entitled Second Volume of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha: by the Licenciado ( doctorate ) Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, of Tordesillas, was published in Tarragona by an unidentified Aragonese who was an admirer of Lope de Vega, rival of Cervantes.

About the closest that a bass player can come to this is in the case of classical bass players who win an audition at a professional orchestra or the tiny number of top session pros that are hired by recording studios.

About 70 % of migrants from England who came between 1630-1660 were indentured servants.

About the same time, George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss was published, introducing Maggie Tulliver " who is explicitly compared with Hamlet " though " with a reputation for sanity ".

About the year 1337, hesychasm attracted the attention of a learned member of the Orthodox Church, Barlaam, a Calabrian monk who at that time held the office of abbot in the Monastery of St Saviour in Constantinople and who visited Mount Athos.

About the same time he was sent for by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, to be minister of the French church at Berlin ; the electoral summons found Abbadie at Paris, and it was conveyed through the Count d ' Espense, who had been commissioned by his master to make the selection.

About Martin Luther King he said: " I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.

About 100 men and women received the award, the most famous being newspaperman Ernie Pyle, who was awarded a posthumous Army Purple Heart after being killed by Japanese machine gun fire in 1945.

About the same time, a British blues scene developed, initially led by purist blues followers such as Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies who were directly inspired by American musicians such as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Howlin ' Wolf.

About 2, 900 of these deaths occur among people who have never smoked.

About 1, 196 of these former American slaves ( who were mainly from Virginia and South Carolina originally ) sailed in 15 ships and arrived in St. George Bay between February 26-March 9.

About 60, 000 are Krio, the descendants of freed slaves who returned to Sierra Leone from Great Britain, North America and slave ships captured on the high seas.

About 400 women who answered the ad went to Dance Works studios.

It was with their second album, 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food that the band began its long-term collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp ; the title of Eno's 1977 song " King's Lead Hat " is an anagram of the band's name.

About 1866 Woodhull married Colonel James Harvey Blood, who also was marrying for a second time.

About 20 percent of those who cohabited before getting engaged had since suggested splitting-compared with only 12 percent of those who only moved in together after getting engaged and 10 percent who did not cohabit prior to marriage.

About. com was acquired by The New York Times Company in February 2005, who later announced plans to sell the site to IAC, owners of Ask. com and the Reference. com network, for $ 300 million.

About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade, as best Mike could make out in the moonlight.

About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.

In 2009, an exhibition, Mad About Sergio, was held at the Ojai Valley Museum.

** The 23rd Academy Awards ceremony is held ; All About Eve wins Best Picture and 4 others.

About 90 percent of Bolivian bank deposits are held in U. S. dollars.

For example, Fred MacMurray talks about it with Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity ( film ); Bette Davis screams about it in All About Eve ; Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper flirt about it in Love in the Afternoon ( 1957 film ); it is featured in Miracle on 34th Street when a trial is held to see if Santa Claus really exists ; Rosie Perez continually reads it in the film White Men Can't Jump ; and Will Smith checks his World Almanac for the exact time of sunset so he can set his digital watch in I Am Legend ( film ).

About 50 meetings were held from February to September 1840 to discuss and sign the copies, and a further 500 signatures were added to the treaty.

About 100 students received associate's degrees at the first commencement exercises held June 10, 1948.

About 300 men actually occupied and held a stone windmill at Prescott, Ontario where a five day battle called The Battle of the Windmill was fought against British regulars and Canadian militia.

About 66 % of the equity capital of Tata Sons is held by philanthropic trusts endowed by members of the Tata family.

About from the floor, the rope will have a woollen grip called the sally ( usually around 4 ft long ) while the lower end of the rope will be doubled over to form an easily held tail-end.

About a hundred teeth are held at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, including the holotype.

About 1, 500 people attended the funeral and a rally held afterwards in West Oakland was attended by over 2, 000 people, including actor Marlon Brando and author James Baldwin.

About the middle of the century, the breastplate of the cuirass was made in two parts ; the lower adjusted to overlap the upper, held together with a strap or sliding rivet in order to add flexibility to the advantages plate armour had over mail.

About a decade later Tyndall was appointed the successor to the positions held by Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution on Faraday's retirement.

About a half-dozen Grand Classics are held annually.

About 110 guests attended the wedding, which was held at a private estate in Montecito, California.

About 35, 000 tonnes of steel that once held this building together have been shipped to the United Arab Emirates to be used for the construction of the Burj Khalifa.

About the beginning of the 14th century, the manor of Whitley was held from the Prior of Tynemouth by a singular feudal service called the Conveyes which seems to have originated from John de Whitley.

About 1971 this trend was reversed with the so-called vertical s & c, in which the rails were held vertical, rather than at the customary 1 in 20 inclination.

About 100 Chinese ultra-nationalists held up banners and chanted: " Oppose Taiwan independence, unify China.

About 10 people attended Wing Bowl I ( held in a hotel ) in 1993 to see a competition between two contestants.

There, the group became an instant hit band with their upbeat song " Despre tine " (" About you "), which held the top position on the Romanian Top 100 chart for three weeks in February 2003.

About this time, two members from one of the human factions are sent to investigate the power that was unleashed by Maya, citing a prophecy of a warrior long held in their culture.