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While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
While many leading chemists of the time refused to accept Lavoisier's new ideas, demand for Traité élémentaire as a textbook in Edinburgh was sufficient to merit translation into English within about a year of its French publication.
While swimming at Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera, July 1, 1928, he suffered a heart attack and died.
While the Minas Gerais was not considered likely to be replaced until the next century, it was nonetheless decommissioned in 2001 following the purchase of the French aircraft carrier Foch.
While two-piece bathing suits had been worn on the beach before, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946.
While a young student, he developed an early appreciation of the French art masters.
While his condottieri took over the siege of Piombino ( which ended in 1502 ), Cesare commanded the French troops in the sieges of Naples and Capua, defended by Prospero and Fabrizio Colonna.
While in Ottawa he also collected and published French Canadian Folk Songs, and a volume of his own poetry.
While he volunteered for militia service in 1757 in response to French movements resulting in the Siege of Fort William Henry, his unit received word while en route that the fort had fallen, and turned back.
While many mathematicians before Galois gave consideration to what are now known as groups, it was Galois who was the first to use the word group ( in French groupe ) in a sense close to the technical sense that is understood today, making him among the founders of the branch of algebra known as group theory.
While living at the Cecil House, Edward's daily studies consisted of dancing instruction, French, Latin, cosmography, writing exercises, drawing, and common prayers.
While little progress was made toward gender equality during the Revolution, the activism of French feminists was bold and particularly significant in Paris.
While old-fashioned, this expression is still used in French, often mockingly, but the English gallicism to flirt has made its way and has now become an anglicism.
While the soft value of ⟨ g ⟩ varies in different Romance languages ( in French and Portuguese, in Catalan, in Italian and Romanian, and in Castilian Spanish, and in other dialects of Spanish ), in all except Romanian and Italian, soft ⟨ g ⟩ has the same pronunciation as the ⟨ j ⟩.
While the French settlers debated how new revolutionary laws would apply to Saint-Domingue, outright civil war broke out in 1790 when the free men of color claimed they too were French citizens under the terms of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
While the French kings were struggling against the Plantagenets, the Church called for the Albigensian Crusade.
While at sea the French had some success at Boulogne but Nelson's Royal Navy destroyed an anchored Danish and Norwegian fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen ( 1801 ) because the Scandinavian kingdoms were against the British blockade of France.
While France continues to revere its rich history and independence, French leaders increasingly tie the future of France to the continued development of the European Union.
While in Paris, Rousseau became a close friend of French philosopher Diderot and, beginning with some articles on music in 1749, contributed numerous articles to Diderot and D ' Alembert's great Encyclopédie, the most famous of which was an article on political economy written in 1755.
While the sale of the territory by Spain back to France in 1800 went largely unnoticed, fear of an eventual French invasion spread nationwide when, in 1801, Napoleon sent a military force to secure New Orleans.
While Prince Louis II's sympathies were strongly pro-French, he tried to keep Monaco neutral during World War II but supported the Vichy French government of his old army colleague, Marshall Philippe Pétain.
While abroad she learned German and French and had her first lessons in drawing and music.
While the early French explorers that encountered the sites made no use of the metals due to the difficulties in transporting it, the copper was eventually traded throughout the continent along major river routes.
While it defeated the Portuguese and French intrusions in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively, the army could not stop the advance of the British Empire in the 19th century, losing all three Anglo-Burmese wars.

While and enclave
While the situation is uncommon, Nahwa is not the only exclave in the world surrounded by another enclave ; some exclaves of Dutch Baarle-Nassau are embedded in Belgian Baarle-Hertog enclaves and several enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border in Cooch-Behar are located inside one enclave of the other country.
While Kfar Darom and Netzarim were originally accessed along the main road to Gaza ( known as " Tencher Road "), Israeli and Palestinian traffic was separated after the Oslo Accords, and Netzarim was isolated as an enclave accessed only through the Karni crossing and the Sa ' ad junction.

While and Pennsylvania
While Republicans were discouraged, Democrats were energized and did especially well in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and New York.
" While the headnote is not part of the Court's opinion and thus not precedent, two years later, in Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania, the Court clearly affirmed the doctrine, holding, " Under the designation of ' person ' there is no doubt that a private corporation is included the Fourteenth Amendment.
While Clinton County has historically been Republican like the rest of central Pennsylvania, Democrats captured the registration edge in early 2008.
While Rose is not considered in the doctoral institution rankings, Stanford University's Hoover Institute fellow, Thomas Sowell, mentioned Rose – Hulman as one of the best smaller universities to consider, noting that graduate engineering deans have ranked its graduates ahead of many top schools with PhD programs, such as Duke, Princeton, UCLA, and the University of Pennsylvania.
While their cousins in Pennsylvania dominated politics there, Virginia was an Anglican colony and did not tolerate pacifism well.
While the first players known to be paid to play football are believed to have played for club teams in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, perhaps the first great professional football rivalry was between the Massillon Tigers and Canton Bulldogs from 1903 to 1906 and 1915 to 1919.
While there are very small pockets of Amish communities in Bucks County, this is much more characteristic of Central Pennsylvania, a considerably more rural area than suburban Lower Bucks.
While Richland Township is a suburb of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, it serves as the central retail area for Johnstown and its two-county SMSA region.
While the community's official name remains the " Borough of Cambridge Springs ", it is no longer subject to the Pennsylvania Borough Code.
While visiting the museum you'll see many artifacts and antiques from this area and the era when Pennsylvania was still inhabited by Indian tribes.
While Harveys Lake is claimed to be the largest natural lake in Pennsylvania by volume, the largest by surface area is Conneaut Lake, in western Pennsylvania.
While serving as pastor at the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Barnes became the President of the Pennsylvania Bible Society ( located at 7th and Walnut ) in 1858 – a position he served until his death in 1870.
While attending William Tennent High School in Warminster, Pennsylvania, he became an accomplished high-school wrestler on the same team as actor Mike Vogel.
While driving at night in the rain on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, west of Bedford, she lost control of the car and it went off the road ( it has been reported that she may not have been wearing her glasses despite near-sightedness ).
While it is federally threatened, the Piping Plover has been listed as state endangered in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
While there he attended Howard University, Washington DC before enrolling and graduating from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania in 1930.
While the majority of the filming took place where it was set, in the Greenwich Village area of New York City, some shooting was done in Centreville, Delaware and Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
While Pennsylvania businessmen wanted high tariffs, those in other states did not ; the railroads were hurt by the tariffs on steel, which they purchased in large quantity.
While in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1756, West's patron, a gunsmith named William Henry, encouraged him to design a " Death of Socrates " based on an engraving in Charles Rollin's Ancient History ; the resulting composition, which significantly differs from West's source, has been called " the most ambitious and interesting painting produced in colonial America ".
The Dallas Morning News praised its interactive exhibits and said " While the free Smithsonian museums do a fine job of housing our important artifacts, I believe the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue does an unparalleled job of telling our nation's story.
While with the company he supervised the construction of the Eddystone Plant in Chester, Pennsylvania, at that time the largest small arms plant in the world.
While they lived in Pennsylvania, their first daughter, Anne Engle, was born in 1865.
While working at the Lycoming Gazette, he began an early foray into politics as a major supporter of the construction of the West Branch of the Pennsylvania Canal.

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