| Tiger II Tiger II is the common name of a German heavy tank of the Second World War. The official German designation was Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. B, with the ordnance inventory designation SdKfz 182. It is also known under the informal name Königstiger (German for "Bengal Tiger"), often translated by the Americans as King Tiger, and by the British as Royal Tiger.The design followed the same concept as the Tiger I, but was intended to be even more formidable. Tiger_II
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| Doctorate A doctorate is an academic degree that in most countries represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given field. In some countries it also refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to practice in a specific profession (such as law or medicine). The best-known example of the former is the Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy), while examples of the latter include the U.S. degree of Doctor of Medicine and the Dutch Professional Doctorate in Engineering. Doctorate
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| Treaty of Paris (1856) Treaty of Paris of 1856 settled the Crimean War between Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, France, and the United Kingdom. The treaty, signed on March 30 1856, made the Black Sea neutral territory, closing it to all warships, and prohibiting fortifications and the presence of armaments on its shores. The treaty marked a severe setback to Russian influence in the region. Treaty_of_Paris_(1856)
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| Copyright Duration Directive (93/98/EEC) Council Directive 93/98/EEC of 29 October 1993 harmonising the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights is a European Union directive in the field of copyright law, made under the internal market provisions of the Treaty of Rome. Copyright_Duration_Directive_(93/98/EEC)
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| List of Prime Ministers of France List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_France
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| Saint-Malo Saint-Malo (; Gallo:Saent-Malô) is a walled port city in Brittany in northwestern France on the English Channel. It is a sub-prefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine department. Saint-Malo
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| Inquisitorial system This article is about the inquisitorial system for organizing court proceedings. This is not to be confused with the system of religious courts established by the Roman Catholic Church for the prosecution of heresy. For this seeInquisition.An inquisitorial system is a legal system where the court or a part of the court is actively involved in determining the facts of the case, as opposed to an adversarial system where the role of the court is solely that of an impartial referee between parties. Inquisitorial_system
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| Château d'If Château d'If is a fortress (later a prison) located on the island of If, the smallest island in the Frioul Archipelago situated in the Mediterranean Sea about a mile offshore in the Bay of Marseille in southeastern France. It is famous for being one of the settings of Alexandre Dumas' adventure novel The Count of Monte Cristo.The château is a square, three-story building 28 m long on each side, flanked by three towers with large gun embrasures. Château_d'If
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| Château de Coucy Château de Coucy is a French castle in the commune of Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique, in the département of Aisne, built in the 13th century and renovated by Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th. In 1917, the German army dynamited the keep and the four towers using 28 tons of explosives.During its heyday it was famous for the size of its central tower and the pride of its lords, who adopted the staunchly independent rhyme Château_de_Coucy
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| Meuse Meuse () is a department in northeast France, named after the Meuse River. Meuse
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| SIM lock SIM lock, simlock, network lock or subsidy lock is a capability built into GSM phones by mobile phone manufacturers. Network providers use this capability to restrict the use of these phones to specific countries and network providers. Currently, phones can be locked to accept only SIM cards from one or more of the following Countries (the phone will work in one country, but not another) Network/Service providers (e.g. SIM_lock
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| Civil law notary Civil-law notaries (or latin notaries) are specialized lawyers acting as public officers with jurisdiction over voluntary, i.e., non-contentious, private law. Unlike a notary public, their common-law counterparts, they are able to provide legal advice and prepare instruments with legal effect. Civil_law_notary
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| Timur Timur (Chagatai language:تیمور - Tēmōr, "iron") (6 April 1336 – 18 February 1405), among his other names, commonly known as Tamerlane in the West, was a 14th century Turko-Mongol conqueror of much of western and Central Asia, and founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty (1370–1405) in Central Asia, which survived until 1857 as the Mughal Empire of India.A descendant of Turko-Mongol conquerors, Timur
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| French colonial empire The French colonial empire is the set of territories outside Europe that were under French rule primarily from the 1600s to the late 1960s (some see the French control of places such as New Caledonia as a continuation of that colonial empire). In the 19th and 20th centuries, the colonial empire of France was the second largest in the world behind the British Empire. The French colonial empire extended over 12,347,000 French_colonial_empire
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| Value added tax Value added tax (VAT), or goods and services tax (GST) is a consumption tax levied on value added. In contrast to sales tax, VAT is neutral with respect to the number of passages that there are between the producer and the final consumer; where sales tax is levied on total value at each stage, the result is a cascade (downstream taxes levied on upstream taxes).A VAT is an indirect tax, in that the tax is collected from someone who does not bear the entire cost of the tax. Value_added_tax
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| Prime Minister of France The Prime Minister of France (Premier ministre français) in Fifth Republic is the functional head of the government and Council of Ministers of France. The head of state in France is the President of the French Republic. During the Second, Third and Fourth Republics, the Head of Government was called President of the Council of Ministers (Président du Conseil des Ministres), generally shortened to President of the Council (Président du Conseil). Prime_Minister_of_France
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| Thierry Henry Thierry Daniel Henry (; born 17 August 1977) is a French footballer who plays for Spanish La Liga club Barcelona and the French national team as a striker.Henry was born and brought up in the tough neighbourhood of Les Ulis, Essonne—a suburb of Paris—where he played for an array of local sides as a youngster and showed great promise as a goal-scorer. Thierry_Henry
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| Open standard open standard is a standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it, and may also have various properties of how it was designed (e.g. open process).The terms "open" and "standard" have a wide range of meanings associated with their usage. Open_standard
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| Patrick Vieira Patrick Donalé Vieira (born 23 June 1976 in Dakar) is a Senegalese-born French-Cape Verdean football midfielder who currently plays for Serie A club Internazionale and the France national team. He came to prominence during his stint at Arsenal from 1996 to 2005, where he won three Premier League titles and four FA Cups, and eventually became club captain. Patrick_Vieira
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| Foie gras Foie gras ( in English; French for "fat liver") is a food product made of the liver of a duck or goose that has been specially fattened. This fattening is typically achieved through gavage (force-feeding) corn, according to French law, though outside of France it is also produced using natural feeding. Pâté du foie gras was formerly known as "Strasbourg pie" in English due to that city being a major producer of this food product. Foie_gras
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| Pierre Messmer Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer (20 March 1916 29 August 2007) was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 Louvois under Louis XIV Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1972 to 1974. A member of the French Foreign Legion, he was considered as one of the historical Gaullists, and died aged 91 in the military hospital of the Val-de-Grâce. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1999 . Pierre_Messmer
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| French order of precedence French_order_of_precedence
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| Jacques Toubon Jacques Toubon (born 29 June 1941 in Nice, France) is a right-wing French politician who held several major national and Parisian offices. Jacques_Toubon
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| June 4 Talk:June_4
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| Coruscant Coruscant
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| Dassault Rafale Dassault_Rafale
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| Slovenes Slovenes
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| Disdero User_talk:Disdero
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| Inno e Marcia Pontificale Marche Pontificale (Papal March) is the name of an instrumental piece of music composed by Charles Gounod (1818-1893) for the celebration on 11 April 1869 of Pope Pius IX's silver jubilee of priestly ordination.At the opening of the 1950 Holy Year (24 December 1949), this music replaced the previous papal anthem, and since then is known also as the Papal Anthem (in Italian, Inno Pontificale). and is also called in Italian Inno e Marcia Pontificale (Papal Anthem and March). Inno_e_Marcia_Pontificale
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs (France) Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of France, is the cabinet minister responsible for the foreign relations of France.The minister is in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whose headquarters are located on the Quai d'Orsay in Paris close to the National Assembly of France. "Quai d'Orsay" is often used as a metonym for the ministry. Part of the ministry's central administration is located in Nantes. Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_(France)
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| Paris-Orly Airport Paris - Orly Airport () is an airport located partially in Orly and partially in Villeneuve-le-Roi, south of Paris, France. It has flights to cities in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, and North America. Prior to the construction of Charles de Gaulle Airport, Orly was the main airport of Paris. Paris-Orly_Airport
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| Classified information Classified information is sensitive information to which access is restricted by law or regulation to particular classes of persons. A formal security clearance is required to handle classified documents or access classified data. The clearance process requires a satisfactory background i Classified_information
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| Fort-de-France Fort-de-France is the capital of France's Caribbean département d'outre-mer of Martinique. With a population of 134,727 inhabitants (1999 census) in the urban area, 94,049 of whom live in the city (commune) of Fort-de-France proper, it is also one of the major cities in the Caribbean. Exports include sugar, rum, tinned fruit, and cacao. Fort-de-France
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| Right to silence The right to remain silent is a legal protection given to people undergoing police interrogation or trial. The law is recognized, explicitly or by convention, in many of the world's legal systems.The right covers a number of issues centered around the right to refuse to answer questions. Right_to_silence
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| Ismail Kadare Ismail Kadare (born January 28, 1936) is a world renowned Albanian writer/novelist. In 1992, he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca; in 2005, he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize. He has divided his time between Albania and France since 1990. He is a Nobel Prize in Literature candidate. Ismail_Kadare
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| Traffic sign "Street sign" redirects here. For a discusson of street name signage, see road name signage. Traffic_sign
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| La Ferté-Alais La_Ferté-Alais
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| ITER ITER (originally the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is an international tokamak (magnetic confinement fusion) research/engineering project that could help to make the transition from today's studies of plasma physics to future electricity-producing fusion power plants. It builds on research done with devices such as DIII-D, EAST, KSTAR, TFTR, ASDEX Upgrade, Joint European Torus, JT-60, Tore Supra and T-15. ITER
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| Pinot blanc Pinot blanc is a white wine grape. It is a point genetic mutation of Pinot noir. Pinot noir is genetically unstable and will occasionally experience a point mutation in a which a vine bears all black fruit except for one cane which produced white fruit. Pinot_blanc
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| Citroën DS Talk:Citroën_DS
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| Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport () , formerly known as Lyon Satolas Airport, is an airport located near Lyon, France. The airport is named after the French writer and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a native of Lyon.The airport lies in Colombier-Saugnieu, about to the east of Lyon city centre. Lyon-Saint_Exupéry_Airport
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| Lac de Serre-Ponçon Lake Serre-Poncon (Lac de Serre-Ponçon) is a lake in southeast France; it is one of the largest artificial lakes in western Europe. The lake gathers the waters of the Durance and the Ubaye rivers, flowing down through the Hautes-Alpes and the Alpes du Sud to the Rhône River. The waters are dammed by the Barrage de Serre-Ponçon, a 123 m high earth core dam.As well as water control, sixteen hydroelectric plants use the water and the lake provides irrigation to 1,500 km² of land. Lac_de_Serre-Ponçon
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| The Internationale The Internationale (L'Internationale in French) is a famous socialist, communist, social-democratic and anarchist anthem and one of the most widely recognized songs in the world.The Internationale became the anthem of international socialism. Its original French refrain is C'est la lutte finale/ Groupons-nous et demain/ L'Internationale/ Sera le genre humain. The_Internationale
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| Combat engineering Combat engineering is a combat arms role of using the knowledge, tools and techniques of engineering by troops in peace and war, but specifically in combat. A combat engineer, in many armies also called pioneer or sapper, is a military specialist in using the tools and techniques of engineering under combat conditions, who may perform any of a variety of tasks. Combat_engineering
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| Saint Pierre and Miquelon Talk:Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon
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| Blaise Compaoré Blaise Compaoré (born February 3, 1951) has been the President of Burkina Faso since 1987. He is the founder of the ruling political party, the Congress for Democracy and Progress. He has been implicated in the murder of Thomas Sankara, his predecessor, in the 1987 coup. He was elected President in 1991, in an election that was boycotted by the opposition; he was re-elected in 1998 and 2005. Blaise_Compaoré
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| Nice Côte d'Azur Airport Nice Côte d'Azur Airport () is an airport in Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. The airport is positioned west of the city centre, and is the principal port of arrival for passengers to the Côte d'Azur. It is the third most important airport in France after Charles de Gaulle International Airport and Orly Airport, both in Paris. Nice_Côte_d'Azur_Airport
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| Chant des Partisans Chant_des_Partisans
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| Canadian Forces Maritime Command "MARCOM" redirects here. For the historical (1936–1950) U.S. agency, see United States Maritime Commission. Canadian_Forces_Maritime_Command
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| Glyphosate Glyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine) is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide, typically sprayed and absorbed through the leaves, injected into the trunk, or applied to the stump of a tree, used to kill weeds, especially perennials and broadcast or used in the cut-stump treatment as a forestry herbicide. Glyphosate
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