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At the Paris exhibition of 1900 he received the gold medal for mountain surveys, and the founders medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1905, and served as President of the Alpine Club for 1902 – 04 and became the first president of The Alpine Ski Club at its inaugural meeting in 1908.
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At first he insists that he does not belong in Oran, and his only thought is returning to the woman he loves in Paris.
At the age of 30, in 1905, Schweitzer answered the call of " The Society of the Evangelist Missions of Paris " which was looking for a medical doctor.
At 17 Jarry passed his baccalauréat and moved to Paris to prepare for admission to the École Normale Supérieure.
At Paris, he was influenced by the Gregorian Reform ideals of churchly independence from Monarchical rule.
At the end of that year, Shapiro moved to Paris, and Hanka followed him the next year.
* 1969 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations.
At the beginning of 1236, he entered the Franciscan order ( he was at least 50 ) and was the first Franciscan to hold a chair at the University of Paris.
At that time the French congregation of the order was composed of twenty-one monasteries, the head of which was that of Paris, and was governed by a Provincial with the authority of General.
At the end of August the Assembly ordered Abancourt and the other prisoners at Orléans to be transferred to Paris with an escort commanded by Claude Fournier l ' Americain.
At Versailles, they learned of the September Massacres in Paris.
* 1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
At his death, some portraits were auctioned in Paris, they sold for little ; the famous Death of Marat was exhibited in a secluded room, to avoid outraging public sensibilities.
At the age of twenty, he went to Cirey and Paris, where he became friendly with Voltaire and Émilie du Châtelet.
At the same time the people of Paris revolted, famously storming the Bastille prison on 14 July 1789.
At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, the Kingdom of Italy did not receive any part of the German colonies.
At age seven, after apparently taking lessons from Antoine François Marmontel, he passed the entrance examination for piano at the Paris Conservatoire, but he was refused admission because he was believed to be too young.
* 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
At the time, however, Rousseau's strong endorsement of religious toleration, as expounded by the Savoyard vicar in Émile, was interpreted as advocating indifferentism, a heresy, and led to the condemnation of the book in both Calvinist Geneva and Catholic Paris.
At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats ' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games.
At the moment when she met the gaze of the judge, the beckoning of her arms seemed to hold the promise that if he preferred her over the other goddesses, she would present Paris with a bride of unmatched beauty, one like herself.
At the end of 1949, he went on tour in Paris with a group including Tadd Dameron, Kenny Clarke ( who remained in Europe after the tour ), and James Moody.
* 1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
* 1917 – World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.
At the University of Paris he advocated the establishment of chairs for Eastern languages to teach these languages to those who would labour for the conversion of the Muslims and the reunion of the schismatic churches in the East.
At the Federal level, the two U. S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison ; Paris is part of Texas ' US Congressional 4th District, which is currently represented by Republican Ralph M. Hall.
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At the same time he was employed by Jean-Baptiste Kranz to assist him in the design of the exhibition hall for the Exposition Universelle which was to be held in 1867.
At the UPenn Museum the exhibition Iraq's Ancient Past, which includes many of the most famous pieces from the Royal Tombs, is expected to be open to visitors in late Spring 2011.
At the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show, an exhibition garden celebrated the historic link between naturalist Sir Joseph Banks and the botanical discoveries of flora and fauna on his journey through South America, Tahiti, New Zealand and eventually Australia on Captain Cook's ship Endeavour.
At the National Museum for the American Indian ( NMAI ), the Tohono O ' odham were represented in the founding exhibition.
At Mid-morning is sung in the Cathedral the Carol of San Frutos, after which there are often various activities in the Plaza Mayor, as a proclamation, a concert by the Band of the Segovian Musical Union, mycology exhibition, etc.
At the MOMA exhibition, Fuller had shown the mast and some of his other work.
At this exhibition, Snelson, after a discussion with Fuller and the exhibition organizers regarding credit for the mast, also displayed some work in a vitrine.
At the end of the exhibition, an entrepreneur Arthur Elvin ( later to become Sir Arthur Elvin ) started buying the derelict buildings one by one, demolishing them, and selling off the scrap.
At the same time the National Trust has introduced new features and attractions such as a silver exhibition which displays a collection of silver amassed by the Brownlow family, dating from 1698.
At this exhibition were a number of automatic player devices, including the Pianista, that contained the elements which would lead to the player.
At a July 5, 2012, press conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of the series and promoting an upcoming Hirohiko Araki art exhibition, Araki and his people announced that an anime adaptation titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation was in production and will premiere in October 2012.
At an exhibition in London, these portraits drew large crowds.
At the exhibition, many western high-tech products including Internet security, video monitoring and human face recognition were purchased.
At the conclusion of the service, the surviving members of the 1958 team were the guests of honour at a ceremony to rename the tunnel under the stadium's South Stand as the " Munich Tunnel ", which features an exhibition about the Busby Babes.
At last, in May 1877, the day of recognition came, with the opening of the first exhibition of the Grosvenor Gallery, when the Days of Creation, The Beguiling of Merlin, and the Mirror of Venus were all shown.
In February 1946 she booked the Village's Provincetown Playhouse for a major public exhibition, titled Three Abandoned Films, in which she showed Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, and A Study in Choreography for the Camera.
At the Display 2008 exhibition, Sony demonstrated a 0. 2 mm thick 3. 5 inch display with a resolution of 320 × 200 pixels and a 0. 3 mm thick 11 inch display with 960 × 540 pixels resolution, one-tenth the thickness of the XEL-1.
At an exhibition of snuff boxes, Hercule Poirot meets Mr. Shaitana, a mysterious foreign man who is consistently described as devil-like in appearance and manner.
At the Eurosatory 2010 exhibition a version called Armadillo was presented.
At the top of the ten-story building is an exhibition and meeting space called " London's Living Room ", with an open viewing deck which is occasionally open to the public.
At age 11, he and fellow prodigy K. K. Karanja were the only two children to draw with World Champion Garry Kasparov in an exhibition game where Kasparov played simultaneously against 59 youngsters.
At Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California on August 20, 2006, Toyota F1 test driver Ricardo Zonta set a new unofficial lap record of 1 ' 06. 309, however, this was in an exhibition, not a qualifying or race session.
At the time of the car's launch, both styles were already envisaged, and a demonstration model with one style on either side was displayed at a Sierra design exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
At the ISH – Graduate School of Humanities in Ljubljana, Taja Kramberger arranged exhibition place for fine arts and between 2000 and 2003 organized five exhibitions of Slovenian and of foreign figurative artists ( painters, photographic artists, designers, installation artists ).
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