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In September Teach and Hornigold encountered Stede Bonnet, a landowner and military officer from a wealthy family who had turned to piracy earlier that year.
Every bribed the governor, Nicholas Trott ( uncle of the Nicholas Trott who presided at the trial of Stede Bonnet ), with gold and silver, and by leaving him the Fancy, still loaded with 50 tons of elephant tusks and 100 barrels of gunpowder.
Deutsch was a " theoretical engineer who had a natural instinct for aerodynamics ," while Bonnet was a more " pragmatic mechanical engineer ".
It is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss who was aware of a version of the theorem but never published it, and Pierre Ossian Bonnet who published a special case in 1848.
In 1982, original singer Gary Barden, who sang on the first two studio albums and a live album, was fired in favor of Graham Bonnet.
The disease is named after the Swiss naturalist Charles Bonnet, who described the condition in 1769.
During his service in World War I, Bonnet was a much-decorated soldier who won the Croix de guerre medal for bravery under fire.
In 1936, Bonnet emerged as the leader of 18 Radical deputies who objected to their party's participation in the Front Populaire.
Daladier, who believed that France needed more time to rearm, was willing to leave foreign policy largely in the hands of Bonnet as the best way of avoiding a war with Germany in 1938.
During the meeting, Bonnet met with the Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov, who offered vague and evasive answers to Bonnet's questions about what the Soviet Union proposed to do in the event of a German attack on Czechoslovakia.
During the same speech, Bonnet " expressed great indignation with the Czechs who, it seems, mean to mobilise without consulting the French ... he has therefore given a broad hint to Beneš that France may have to reconsider her obligations ", and that " we are not ready for war and we must therefore make the most far-reaching concessions to the Sudetens and to Germany ".
In this regard, Bonnet especially valued the contribution of his close friend Bassée, who served as the political director of the Havas news agency.
In response, Bonnet claimed that he and Saint-Legér Léger saw " eye to eye ", leading to Phipps, who knew about the true state of relations between the two to remark drily, " in that case the eyes must be astigmatic ".
French columnist André Géraud, who wrote under the pen-name Pertinax, stated that Bonnet pursued only the line " of least resistance ".
On another occasion, Bois, who disliked Bonnet, wrote of Bonnet's " features ... instinct with ... the intelligence of a fox on the alert ".
On 20 January 1939, Bonnet had a meeting with the former president of Mexico, Francisco León de la Barra, who was living in exile in Paris, and asked that de la Barra serve as an unofficial French diplomat in talks with the Spanish Nationalists.
This scare was combined with rumours that Bonnet was secretly attempting to negotiate a Franco-German " special relationship " that might leave Britain facing a hostile Germany without any allies who possessed the large armies that Britain lacked.
In March 1939, following the German destruction of the rump state of Czechoslovakia and the proclamation of the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia, Bonnet had Hervé Alphand of the Ministry of Commerce, who was in Berlin to negotiate a trade treaty, recalled in protest.
Ties between Daladier and Bonnet were strained when in protest over the German coup, Daladier ordered the recall of Robert Coulondre, the French Ambassador to Germany, without consulting Bonnet, who was much offended by Daladier's act.
As Count Welczeck noted in May 1939: " Bonnet was ... a man who would go to the utmost limits to avoid a European war up to the last moment.
On 2 June 1939, when the Soviet government offered up its definition of what constituted " aggression ", upon which the intended alliance was come into play, Bonnet sided with the Soviets against the British, who felt that the Soviet definition of " aggression ", especially " indirect aggression " was too loose a definition and phrased in such a manner as to imply the Soviet right of inference in the internal affairs of nations of Eastern Europe.
At 5: 00 p. m., Bonnet had another tempestuous interview with Łukasiewicz, who pressed very strongly for a French declaration of war and accused Bonnet of plotting to keep France neutral.

Bonnet and had
In July 1939, Ribbentrop's claims about Bonnet's alleged statement of December 1938 were to lead to a lengthy war of words via a series of letters to the French newspapers between Bonnet and Ribbentrop over just what precisely Bonnet had said to Ribbentrop.
In the spring and summer of 1939, Ribbentrop used Bonnet's alleged statement to convince Hitler that France would not go to war in the defence of Poland, despite the frequent denials by Bonnet that he ever made such a statement ( which would not have been legally binding even had Bonnet had made the alleged statement ; only a formal renunciation of the Franco-Polish treaty by the French National Assembly would end the French commitment to Poland ).
The French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet acting on his own initiative told the Italian Ambassador to France, Baron Raffaele Guariglia, that France had accepted Mussolini's peace plan.
Bonnet had Havas issued a statement at midnight on 1 September saying :" The French government has today, as have several other Governments, received an Italian proposal looking to the resolution of Europe's difficulties.
Deutsch and Bonnet had been promised a works drive in the 1936 French GP for sports cars, but when this failed to materialize they set about building their own racer.
Six years later, in October 1769, Lavater sent Mendelssohn his German translation of Charles Bonnet's essay on Christian Evidences, with a preface where he publicly challenged Mendelssohn to refute Bonnet or if he could not then to " do what wisdom, the love of truth and honesty must bid him, what a Socrates would have done if he had read the book and found it unanswerable ".
It was arranged for the former French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet to testify that " World Jewry " had been responsible for dragging France into a war with Germany.
Bonnet had an influence on other philosophers and pre-evolutionary thinkers ; James Burnett, Lord Monboddo is known to have studied his publications on insects and to have been influenced as he developed concepts on progression of species ( evolution ).
Though Marcello Malpighi and Stephen Hales had shown that much of the substance of plants must be obtained from the atmosphere, no progress was made until Charles Bonnet observed on leaves plunged in aerated water bubbles of gas, which Joseph Priestley recognized as oxygen.
A principal cause of the breach had involved the determination of Deutsch to stay loyal to Panhard engines while Bonnet was keen to switch to Renault power plants.
After this Bonnet himself appears to have had little further significant involvement in the business that for two and a half years had carried his name.
Bonnet's wife, often known as Madame Soutien-Georges, ran a salon, and had great ambitions for her husband ; one contemporary reported that Madame Bonnet was " so wildly ambitious for her husband that when a new ministry was being formed he was afraid to go home at night unless he had captured a post for himself ".
As a minister, Bonnet had a reputation for hard work, always well prepared in parliamentary debates and excelling at political intrigue.
The devaluation was forced on Bonnet by the fact that the 10 billion francs that had been set aside in September 1936 in a Currency Reserve Fund to defend the value of the franc following the devaluation of that year had been spent by the middle of 1937.
In January 1938, following the fall of Chautemps's government, Bonnet made a serious effort to form a new government, but in the end, had to content himself with being appointed Minister of State.

Bonnet and won
He used the ground-effect on race cars 10 years before Chaparral and his # 53 entry from " Autombiles Deutsch et Bonnet " won the " Index of Performance " trophy at the 1961 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Bonnet and 400
Although the building has changed hands many times through the years, the Bonnett Family of West Virginia are the direct descendants of Jean Bonnet and trace their family history back nearly 400 years.

Bonnet and at
The French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet accepts the Soviet definition of aggression at once.
It used this power at least once to obtain land for Canal C-1 ( Bonnet Creek ) through land that is now being developed as the Bonnet Creek Resort, a non-Disney resort.
* December 10 – Stede Bonnet is hanged at Charleston after being recaptured.
* Deutsch Bonnet at Citroenet
The discrete analog of curvature, corresponding to curvature being concentrated at a point and particularly useful for polyhedra, is the ( angular ) defect ; the analog for the Gauss – Bonnet theorem is Descartes ' theorem on total angular defect.
This is the special case of Gauss – Bonnet, where the curvature is concentrated at discrete points ( the vertices ).
* Gauss – Bonnet Theorem at Wolfram Mathworld
In the late 1990s she married Luis Bonnet, an anesthesiologist at a San Juan hospital, and they are still married.
Müller's letters to Füsslin ( 1771 – 1807 ) were issued at Zürich ( 1812 ), and those to Charles Bonnet, etc., at Stuttgart ( 1835 ).
Charles Bonnet ( March 13, 1720 – May 20, 1793 ), Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer, was born at Geneva, of a French family driven into Switzerland by the religious persecution in the 16th century.
* Works by Charles Bonnet at the Biodiversity Heritage Library
By birth a member of one of the great patrician families of Bern, he was educated there, at Yverdon, and ( 1763-1766 ) at Geneva, where he came under the influence of Rousseau and of Charles Bonnet, and imbibed liberal sentiments.
The only other judokas to compete at five Olympics are Belgian Robert Van de Walle and Puerto Rican judoka-bobsledder Jorge Bonnet.
Matra was at the time an armaments manufacturer concentrating on missiles, but they were also enthusiastic about the future of the fibreglass technology in which Bonnet was a pioneer.
" To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church " is a 1786 Scots language poem by Robert Burns in his favourite meter, Standard Habbie.
: Bonnet Island-in Kelly Channel at entrance to harbour ( 42 ° 13 ′ S, 145 ° 14 ′ E
In 1919, Bonnet served as a secretary to the French delegation at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and wrote a book, Lettres á un Bourgeois de 1914, that called for widespread social reforms.

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