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Sydney Le Blanc, age 15, Staten Island, N.Y., showing a Doberman Pinscher, was 2nd.
In Canada, Jesuit missionaries such as Fathers LeClercq, Le Jeune and Sagard, in the 17th century, provide the oldest ethnographic records of native tribes in what was then the Dominion of Canada.
The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.
It was in the age of absolute monarchy launched by Louix XIV in the 17th century that the likes of Poussin and Le Brun put France in the forefront of European art.
The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 1988 ).
A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.
Braudel was editor of Annales from 1956 to 1968, followed by the medievalist Jacques Le Goff.
However, Braudel's informal successor as head of the school was Le Roy Ladurie, who was unable to maintain a consistent focus.
An eminent member of this school, Georges Duby, wrote in the foreword of his book Le dimanche de Bouvines that the history he taught relegated the sensational to the sidelines and was reluctant to give a simple accounting of events, but strived on the contrary to pose and solve problems and, neglecting surface disturbances, to observe the long and medium-term evolution of economy, society and civilisation.
The most important was the study of the Peasants of Languedoc by Braudel's star pupil and successor Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.
This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.
It was during this time that he followed closely the work of the main driving force behind the new modernism, Le Corbusier, and visited him in his Paris office several times in the following years.
It could be said that Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition ( 1949 ), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier.
Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940.
He was charged with failure to report for duty, and was imprisoned in Le Havre and then Rouen.
In 1939 Grothendieck went to France and lived in various camps for displaced persons with his mother, first at the Camp de Rieucros, and subsequently lived for the remainder of the war in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he was sheltered and hidden in local boarding-houses or pensions.
The word ansible was coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World.
Le Guin's ansible was said to communicate " instantaneously ", but other authors have adopted the name for devices only capable of finite-speed communication, although still faster than light.
In the middle and late 19th century, several renowned Mesoamerican scholars, starting with Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, and including Edward Herbert Thompson and Augustus Le Plongeon proposed that Atlantis was somehow related to Mayan and Aztec culture.
Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.
There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.
The castle was built between 1864 and 1879 on a cliff by the Atlantic ocean, and was designed by Viollet Le Duc in the Neo Gothic style.

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It was influenced by Le Corbusier's High Court building in Chandigarh, India ; Pei sought to use the significant overhang to unify building and plaza.
His architecture teacher in the Art School was the architect René Chapallaz, who had a large influence on Le Corbusier's earliest houses.
However, the transition from Modernism to Postmodernism is often said to have happened at 3: 32pm on the 15th of July in 1972, when Pruitt Igoe ; a housing development for low-income people in St. Louis, which had been a prize winning version of le Corbusier's ' machine for modern living ' was deemed uninhabitable and was torn down ( Irving 1993, 480 ).
And Haussmann was a favorite target of the Situationist's critique ; besides pointing out the repressive aims that were achieved by Haussmann's urbanism, Guy Debord and his friends ( who considered urbanism to be a " state science " or inherently " capitalist " science ) also underlined that he nicely separated leisure areas from work places, thus announcing modern functionalism, as illustrated by Le Corbusier's precise zone tripartition ( one zone for circulation, another one for accommodations, and the last one for labour ).
On that trip, he was struck by the pioneering aesthetic of Le Corbusier's L ' Esprit Nouveau pavilion.
Although he was an illegal immigrant in Paris, Xenakis was able to get a job at Le Corbusier's architectural studio.
After leaving Le Corbusier's studio in 1959, Xenakis was able to support himself by composition and teaching, and quickly became recognized as one of the most important European composers of his time.
50 designs were evaluated by the team, and a design based on Niemeyer's project 32 and Le Corbusier's project 23 was finally chosen.
An important aesthetic philosophy as well as a group of compositional techniques at this time was serialism ( also called " through-ordered music ", "' total ' music " or " total tone ordering "), which took as its starting point the compositions of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern ( but was opposed to traditional twelve-tone music ), and was also closely related to Le Corbusier's idea of the modulor.
Inspired by Le Corbusier's Unité d ' Habitation and the Smithsons ' unbuilt schemes, most notably for Golden Lane in London, the deck access scheme, was viewed as revolutionary at the time.
The astonishing feature of the city's architectural development was a characteristic synthesis of two modernist urban utopian visions: the first inspired by Ebenezer Howard's Garden city movement and the second tracing its lineage to Le Corbusier's vision of urban modernity.
The urban plan of Zlín was the creation of František Lydie Gahura, a student at Le Corbusier's atelier in Paris.
Le Corbusier's inspiration was evident in the basic principles of the city's architecture.
The change in Le Corbusier's thinking was also reflected by the abandonment of the à redents residential pattern in favor of free-standing slab blocks.
He was strongly influenced by the publication of Le Corbusier's Vers une architecture, and became a fervent admirer of Le Corbusier's former mentor, Auguste Perret, an expert in designing reinforced concrete structures and an inspiration for Goldfinger when designing his own home.
Combined with the socially progressive intentions behind Brutalist streets in the sky housings such as Corbusier's Unité, Brutalism was promoted as a positive option for forward-moving, modern urban housing.
Le Corbusier's utopian city living design was repeated in four more buildings with this name and a very similar design.
The Reserve Square Complex in Cleveland, Ohio which was built 1969-1973 was also influenced by Le Corbusier's project.

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Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.
Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.
" Doc " was approached by Gen. Saturnino Cedillo, governor of the state of San Luis Potosí and one of the last remaining lieutenants of Pancho Villa.
Charlton, still only 19, was selected for the game, which saw United goalkeeper Ray Wood carried off with a broken cheekbone after a clash with Villa centre forward Peter McParland.
As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex — usually of papyrus — was the preferred format among Christians: in the library of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum ( buried in AD 79 ), all the texts ( Greek literature ) are scrolls ( see Herculaneum papyri ); in the Nag Hammadi " library ", secreted about AD 390, all the texts ( Gnostic Christian ) are codices.
In 1938 the highest attendance to date at the ground was recorded at over 75, 000 for a FA Cup match against Aston Villa.
The Armistice with Austria-Hungary was signed in the Villa Giusti, near Padua, on November 3.
Historian Brian Loring Villa concluded that Mountbatten conducted the raid without authority, but that his intention to do so was known to several of his superiors, who took no action to stop him.
The first, the ' little tin idol ', was used from the inception of the Cup in 1871 72 until it was stolen from a Birmingham shoe shop window belonging to William Shillcock while held by Aston Villa on 11 September 1895, and was never seen again.
Huerta ordered Villa's execution, but Madero commuted the sentence and Villa was sent to the same Santiago Tlatelolco prison as Reyes from which he escaped on Christmas Day 1912.
In the film Villa Rides ( 1968 ), Madero was portrayed by Alexander Knox.
Byron was also the host of the celebrated ghost-story competition involving himself, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and John William Polidori at the Villa Diodati on the banks of Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816.
After his death, a mausoleum was created in the Villa Puccini and the composer is buried there in the chapel, along with his wife and son who died later.
This house was designed by colonial architect William Buckland and modeled on the Villa Pisani at Montagnana, Italy as depicted in Andrea Palladio's I quattro libri dell ' architettura (" Four Books Of Architecture ").
Above all, Hadrian patronized the arts: Hadrian's Villa at Tibur ( Tivoli ) was the greatest Roman example of an Alexandrian garden, recreating a sacred landscape, lost in large part to the despoliation of the ruins by the Cardinal d ' Este who had much of the marble removed to build Villa d ' Este.
Harleys had already been used by the military in the Pancho Villa Expedition but World War I was the first time the motorcycle had been adopted for combat service.
His wife Bertha ( not to be confused with their granddaughter ), was unwilling to remain in polluted Essen in Villa Hügel, the ungainly but fireproof castle which Krupp designed.
The original garden was heavily influenced by the Italian Renaissance garden at Villa d ' Este.
Villa Ariadne, Evans home there, was now part of the school.
A similar attendance was also recorded for a friendly match against Gorton Villa on 5 September 1889.

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