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Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.
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Azincourt and is
Azincourt (; historically, Agincourt in English ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.
Azincourt is twinned with the English village of Middleham in North Yorkshire.
However the Azincourt in France is also the site of a decisive English victory over French forces in 1415.
Middleham is twinned with the northern French town of Azincourt.
Azincourt and battle
The battle, as was the tradition, was named after a nearby castle called Azincourt.
Azincourt and fought
Ghillebert also fought in 1415 against the English in the Battle of Azincourt, where he was wounded and captured.
Azincourt and on
* Azincourt on the Quid website
Situated some 12 miles ( 19 km ) northeast of Montreuil-sur-Mer on the D928 road, set in a valley not far from the historic battlefield of Azincourt.
Azincourt and 25
John I of Alençon, called the Sage ( 1385, Château d ' Essay, – 25 October 1415, Azincourt ), was the son of Peter II of Alençon and Marie de Chamaillard.
Azincourt and 1415
The 2009 novel Azincourt ( U. S. title Agincourt ) by Bernard Cornwell describes the siege and the conquest of Harfleur by the army of Henry V of England in 1415.
Azincourt and Henry
In 1513, Henry VIII conclusively crossed the English Channel and stopped at Azincourt.
Azincourt and France
The name of the settlement was after Azincourt in northern France and apparently was intended to satisfy a French Canadian Post Office Department bureaucrat who demanded that Hill give his settlement a French name.
Azincourt and has
The castle has since disappeared and the settlement now known as Azincourt adopted the name in the 17th Century.
is and famous
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The child of this problem was Mr. Brown's famous Serial No. 1 Universal Milling Machine, the archtype from which is descended today's universal knee-type milling machine used throughout the world.
The original machine, bearing its famous serial number, is still on exhibition at the Brown & Sharpe Precision Center in Providence.
That's because the good professor teaches only Weider methods at his famous Montreal Health Studio which is located at 1821 Mt. Royal East in Montreal.
The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.
On this, she builds an `` egg compartment '' or `` egg cell '' which is filled with that famous pollen-and-nectar mixture called beebread.
The result, coupled with the salesmanship for which American industry is famous, is considerable expenditure of funds and efforts in marginal areas.
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Of course, 1600 Pennsylvania, the White House, is the most famous address of the free world.
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His famous criticism of brother Henry's `` third style '' is surely as subtly, even elegantly, worded an analysis of the latter's intricate air castles as Henry himself could ever have produced.
In a sense, he is offering Bonn what its famous son ( who left as a youth ) never did -- the sound of the composer's mature style.
The case is famous for Lincoln's use of a fact established by judicial notice in order to challenge the credibility of an eyewitness.
is and being
Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.
A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.
I consider it to be my job to expose the public to what is being written today ''.
A new order is thrusting itself into being.
As the dancer is depersonalized, his accouterments are animized, and the combined elements give birth to a new being.
When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.
Thus jazz is transmuted into something holy, the sacred road to integration of being.
And yet -- a year to a child is an eternity, and in the memory that phase of one's being -- a certain mental landscape -- will seem to have endured without beginning and without end.
All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.
For Plato, `` imitation '' is twice removed from reality, being a poor copy of physical appearance, which in itself is a poor copy of ideal essence.
It's infuriating, this feeling that one is being picked on, continually, constantly.
Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.
But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.
he is very close to being a mental case.
( B ) A message runs too great a risk of being distorted if it is to be relayed more than about six consecutive times.
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The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.
The maturity in this point of view lies in its recognition that no basic problem is ever solved without being clearly understood.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
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