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This was a silent comedy about three bickering godfathers, a German, a Jew, and an Irishman, starring a budding actress, Claudette Colbert.
His vigorous internal policy mixed the economic reforms of Colbert for Louis XIV with some conservative Spanish aspects: a regular mail service to the Americas was instituted, yet the school of navigation he founded was reserved for the sons of the nobility.
But, the recently appointed French Secretary of State, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, was trying to promote farming in the colony and was opposed to exploration and trapping.
Ashcroft composed a paean called " Let the Eagle Soar " which he sang at the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in February 2002, which was satirically featured in Michael Moore's 2004 movie Fahrenheit 9 / 11 and has been frequently mocked by comedians such as David Letterman, Stephen Colbert and David Cross, to name a few.
In September 2000, the Louvre Museum dedicated the Gilbert Chagoury and Rose-Marie Chagoury Gallery to display tapestries donated by the Chagourys, including a 16th-century six-part tapestry suite, sewn with gold and silver threads representing sea divinities, which was commissioned in Paris for Colbert de Seignelay, Secretary of State for the Navy.
The law, originally conceived by French Finance Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert prior to his death in 1683, was finalized by his son the Marquis de Seignelay and presented to the King for his signature in 1685.
This French mercantilism was best articulated by Jean-Baptiste Colbert ( in office, 1665 – 1683 ), though policy liberalised greatly under Napoleon.
Rush was interviewed by Stephen Colbert and they performed " Tom Sawyer " on The Colbert Report on July 16, 2008.
It was dissolved in 1658 and its assets were acquired by the Company of Cape Vert and Senegal, itself expropriated following the creation by Colbert in 1664 of the French West India Company.
The Company of Senegal was in turn founded by Colbert in 1673.
One of the few bright spots on the team during the early years was first baseman and slugger Nate Colbert, an expansion draftee from the Houston Astros and still the Padres ' career leader in home runs.
The New Yorker Obama cover was later parodied by Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the October 3, 2008 cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine, with Stewart as Obama and Colbert as Michelle, photographed for the magazine in New York City on September 18.
Upon seeing the chorus girl who was brought in as her body double, an outraged Colbert told the director, " Get her out of here.
" Through the filming, Capra claimed, Colbert " had many little tantrums, motivated by her antipathy toward me ," however " she was wonderful in the part.
After filming was completed, Colbert complained to her friend, " I just finished the worst picture in the world.
Boom Town was the third and final Gable-Tracy picture, also featuring Claudette Colbert, making it one of the most anticipated films of the year.
The base was greatly enlarged by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the minister of Louis XIV, who also commissioned his chief military engineer Vauban to strengthen the fortifications around the city.
On November 18, 2008, Simon was a guest on The Colbert Report promoting his book Lyrics 1964 – 2008.
In 1683 the Society of Suriname was set up, modelled on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert to profit from the management and defence of the Dutch Republic's colony.
According to the theory, during that period Colbert, the king's Finance Minister, regularly sold offices and noble titles for cash, and an outright patent of nobility, according to Wise, was worth approximately 500, 000 livres making a total of 720, 000 livres, a price much closer to the true value of the gem.
Claudette Colbert (; September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996 ) was a French-born American actress of stage and film.

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In 1933, Colbert renegotiated her contract with Paramount to allow her to appear in films for other studios.
Other former residents include Frank Lesser, a writer for the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, and Nate Beeler, the editorial cartoonist for The Washington Examiner whose cartoons also appear in The San Francisco Examiner ; USA Today ; and The Los Angeles Times.
Host Stephen Colbert invited Young to appear during the writer's strike, because, many years earlier, Young and Colbert's father had worked together, but on opposite sides, to mediate a Charleston, South Carolina, hospital workers ' strike.
Aziz Ansari, Maya Rudolph and Stephen Colbert were rumored to appear but ultimately did not.

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Spoiled heiress Ellen " Ellie " Andrews ( Claudette Colbert ) marries fortune-hunter " King " Westley ( Jameson Thomas ) against the wishes of her extremely wealthy father ( Walter Connolly ) who has the marriage annulled.

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Hedda Hopper wrote that Colbert placed her career " ahead of everything save possibly her marriage ", and described her as the " smartest and canniest " of Hollywood actresses, with a strong sense of what was best for her, and a " deep rooted desire to be in shape, efficient and under control ".
* " Colbert ", Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Following the " rent boy " allegations regarding George Rekers, who has widely promoted aversion therapy, Dan Savage, along with others including Stephen Colbert, promoted the use of the idiom " to lift one's luggage ", meaning to supply one's partner with sexual pleasure.
** The Ashes and Snow art exhibition by Gregory Colbert, ( with Patrick Cassidy and Michael Brook, " Devota ", " Vespers ", " Womb ", " Wisdom ")
The " Skunk River Navy ", headed by Iowa State University Biology professor ' Admiral ' Jim Colbert, frequently contributes to cleaning and studying the ecology of the river near Ames, IA.
In 1668 Colbert invited Mariotte to participate in the " l ' Académie des Sciences ", the French equivalence of the Royal Society.
In the season 4 episode " Everybody Hurts ", a sly Frenchman named Jean-Pierre Colbert cons Artie Bucco into temporarily lending him $ 50, 000 dollars for a business investment back in France.
On March 23, 2009, NASA announced that the overall vote winner was " Colbert ", with 230, 539 votes.
The character, described by Colbert as a " well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot ", is a caricature of televised political pundits.
Entitled The Best of The Colbert Report, the three-hour disc contains two " The Wørd " segments ( including " Truthiness " from the first episode and " Wikiality "), one " Threat Down ", various " Better Know a District " segments ( including Robert Wexler ), and interviews with Bill O ' Reilly, Willie Nelson, and Jane Fonda ( also included is Fonda's appearance with Gloria Steinem in a segment called " Cooking with Feminists "), as well as the special segments " Green Screen Challenge ", " Stephen Jr. – Flight of a Patriot ", " Indecision 2006: Midterm Midtacular ", and Colbert's " Meta-Free-Phor-All " with Sean Penn.
* Charles Colbert, " Clark Mills and the Phrenologist ", The Art Bulletin, Vol.
An episode of The Colbert Report displayed what Colbert called a " Prophet Muhammad Carvel ice cream cake ", which depicted Fudgie the Whale with a turban.
Commenting on Smith's criticism of Blankfein for such seemingly unprincipled leadership, particularly after saying in a 2009 interview that the firm was " doing God's work ", comedian Stephen Colbert pointed out that Blankfein never specified which god, and speculated that it was perhaps Shiva, Lord of Destruction.

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* Claudette Colbert as Ellie Andrews
* In the 1934 Frank Capra film It Happened One Night, before Clark Gable's character Peter Warne reveals his name to Ellie Andrews ( Claudette Colbert ), he famously says to her: " I am the whip-poor-will that cries in the night ".

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