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Louis de Wohl worked as an astrologer for the British intelligence agency MI5, after it was claimed that Hitler used astrology to time his actions.
The term " morphine ", used in English and French, was given by the French physicist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ).
It was the first time the Rams wore white at home since ( moving to St. Louis ) their existence in Los Angeles where they also used to do the same on some occasion against Dallas.
Locations across the river in St. Louis, Missouri were used, including Union Station and the Fox Theater, both of which have since been renovated.
The French singer Claude Nougaro used its melody for his tribute to Louis Armstrong in French, under the name Armstrong.
The wind tunnel was used to investigate the characteristics of the airfoil sections used by the early pioneers of aviation such as the Wright Brothers, Gabriel Voisin and Louis Blériot.
Granite was used for setts on the St. Louis, Missouri | St. Louis Mississippi River | riverfront and for the piers of the Eads Bridge ( background )
In St. Louis, Missouri, the word is used in a derogatory fashion similar to " hick " or " white trash ".
In St. Louis, Missouri, the word is used in a derogatory fashion in similar context to " hick " or " white trash ":
* Ideological State Apparatus, a term used by Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser for how society reshapes the individual in its own image
These men truly liked Rousseau and enjoyed his ability to converse on any subject, but they also used him as a way of getting back at Louis XV and the political faction surrounding his mistress, Mme de Pompadour.
He used the professional name Joey Lewis, but soon changed it to Jerry Lewis to avoid confusion with comedian Joe E. Lewis and heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis.
Joysticks originated as controls for aircraft ailerons and elevators, and is first known to have been used as such on Louis Bleriot's Bleriot VIII aircraft of 1908, in combination with a foot-operated rudder bar for the yaw control surface on the tail.
After Louis XIV chose Versailles as his residence in 1682, constructions slowed ; however, the move permitted the Louvre to be used as a residence for artists.
* King Louis XIII of France used the letter lambda as his personal symbol rather than monogram.
On the Ringworld, there is an analogous ( and apparently more potent ) compound developed from Tree-of-Life, but they are mutually incompatible ; in The Ringworld Engineers, Louis Wu learns that the character Halrloprillalar died when in ARM custody after leaving the Ringworld, as a result of having taken boosterspice after having used the Ringworld equivalent.
The powerful Hungarian king, Louis the Great, is an example of someone who used longbowmen in his Italian campaigns.
Louis used his wealth to assist the Crusaders in rebuilding their defences and conducting diplomacy with the Islamic powers of Syria and Egypt.
File: Broglie Big. jpg | Louis de Broglie ( 1892-1987 ): researched quantum theory, discovered the wave nature of electrons, awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics, ideas on the wave-like behavior of particles used by Erwin Schrödinger in his formulation of wave mechanics.
* Louis Riel House ( built in 1969 ) is an apartment-style building ( unfurnished ) used for family and graduate housing.
However, the word " cube " was used in 1906 by another critic, Louis Chassevent, with reference not to Picasso or Braque but rather to Metzinger and Delaunay: " M. Metzinger is a mosaicist like M. Signac but he brings more precision to the cutting of his cubes of color which appear to have been made mechanically [...]".
Furthermore, the display of wealth by the upper ranks of the church, which contrasted with the common expectation of poverty and strict adherence to principles, was used by the Papacy's enemies in raising charges against the popes: King Philippe of France employed the strategy, as did Emperor Louis IV.
* Louis XIV of France abolishes the Livre Parisis ( Paris Pound ) in favor of the much more widely used Livre Tournois ( Tours Pound ).

Louis and Bastille
:* Baltimore has a large Bastille Day celebration each year at Petit Louis in the Roland Park area of Baltimore City.
Lettre de cachet ordering Jean-François Marmontel's detention at the Bastille, signed by Louis XV of France | Louis XV in 1759
French Politics, 1774 – 1789: From the Accession of Louis XVI to the Fall of the Bastille.
Louis XIV used the Bastille as a prison for upper-class members of French society who had opposed or angered him including, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, French Protestants.
Under Louis XV and XVI, the Bastille was used to detain prisoners from more varied backgrounds, and to support the operations of the Parisian police, especially in enforcing government censorship of the printed media.
The Bastille was being used to hold prisoners once again by the reign of Louis XI, who began to use it extensively as a state penitentiary.
An early escapee from the Bastille during this period was Antoine de Chabannes, Count of Dammartin and a member of the League of the Public Weal, who was imprisoned by Louis and escaped by boat in 1465.
Despite being a state prison, the Bastille retained the other traditional functions of a royal castle, and was used to accommodate visiting dignitaries, hosting some lavish entertainments given by Louis XI and Francis I.
The Bastille continued to be used as a prison and a royal fortress under both Henry IV and his son, Louis XIII.
During the Second Fronde, between 1650 to 1653, Louis, the Prince of Condé, controlled much of Paris alongside the Parlement, while Broussel, through his son, continued to control the Bastille.
The area around the Bastille was transformed in the reign of Louis XIV.
Influenced by the events of the Fronde, Louis XIV rebuilt the area around the Bastille, erecting a new archway at the Porte Saint-Antoine in 1660, and then ten years later pulling down the city walls and their supporting fortifications to replace them with an avenue of trees, later called Louis XIV's boulevard, which passed around the Bastille.
Louis XIV made extensive use of the Bastille as a prison, with 2, 320 individuals being detained there during his reign, approximately 43 a year.
Louis, closely involved in this aspect of government, personally decided who should be imprisoned at the Bastille.
The average length of imprisonment in the Bastille under Louis XIV was approximately three years.
The Bastille in 1734, showing the Louis XIV boulevard and the growing " faubourg " beyond the Porte Saint-Antoine
Under Louis, only between 20 to 50 prisoners were usually held at the Bastille at any one time, although as many as 111 were held for a short period in 1703.
Louis reformed the administrative structure of the Bastille, creating the post of governor, although this post was still often referred to as the captain-governor.
By the late 18th century, the Bastille had come to separate the more aristocratic quarter of Le Marais in the old city from the working class district of the faubourg Saint-Antoine that lay beyond the Louis XIV boulevard.
The role of the Bastille as a prison changed considerably during the reigns of Louis XV and XVI.

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