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    Samuel de Champlain

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    Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer. He was born in 1567 in Bourage‚ France. He was a Protestant who converted to Catholicism and fought in the religious war for King Henry VII. Samuel learned skills of sailing‚ navigation‚ and cartography at a young age. Champlain became a famous explorer and is known because he founded Quebec and a lot of Canada‚ which was New France at the time. In 1603 Champlain was invited by Francis Grave Du Point to sail and visit the River

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    Lucas de Groot

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    Born on June 21st‚ 1963 Lucas de Groot was born in Noordwijkerhout‚ Netherlands. He is known as being an influential Dutch type designer and has worked with and for‚ many well-known companies and publications. Between 1982 and 1987 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague under Gerrit Noordzij. Between 1989 and 1993 he worked on corporate identity projects at the Dutch design group BRS Premsela Vonk. In 1993 he joined MetaDesign in Berlin where he worked with Erik Spiekermann on

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    cabeza de vaca

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    of. Out of any explorer out there my explorer is beyond the best explorer‚ not only for what he has done‚ but for his very own name. My explorers name is Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca‚ which in contrast from every other explorer has the coolest and weirdest name out there. For many of you who don’t necessarily know what Cabeza de Vaca means‚ it means Cow head. Although his name was weird and funny catching‚ he also was the first to do much of many things‚ like being the first European to describe America

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    Gaz de France

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    Gaz De France 1&2) In my opinion‚ Mr. Reboul did an excellent job with liability management so far. He and his staff successfully hedged GDF’s foreign debt and in that process were actually able to made profits which contributed to net income. Currency swaps allow companies to exploit the global capital markets more efficiently. They are an integral arbitrage link between the interest rates of different developed countries. Companies have to come up with the funds to deliver the notional at

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    In representing the Magistrate in different stages of torture Coetzee is able to highlight the function torture serves in the hierarchy of the Empire. By showing the de-humanization of torture and its establishment of hierarchy on individuals who are not in positions of power‚ J.M Coetzee shows that torture is established on the grounds of power. The topic of torture is significant to the novel because it shows the

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    Simone De Beauvoir

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    15. “He is the Subject; he is the Absolute. She is the Other” (Beauvoir‚ The Second Sex‚ 6). Discuss. Despite having a relatively conservative childhood in which she was raised a Catholic daughter to a bourgeois family‚ Simone de Beauvoir steered away from the traditional familial roles and became a pioneer for modern feminism. Perhaps to the distaste of her family‚ she attended university and always placed the autonomy of the intellectual life above the traditional values of

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    Chateau de Versailles

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    Louis XIV Louis XIV‚ a marvelous leader during his reign (1643-1715)‚ was a prime example of an absolutist ruler. He used his position to expand the power of his government with projects like the expansion of the Chateau de Versailles‚ completed in 1688. Despite the unimaginable cost of the monumental construction of Versailles that exhausted much of France ’s finances‚ its creation was beneficial for the French government‚ foreign influence‚ and the historical impact on France and the world.

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    distribution de montures de lunettes auprès des opticiens avec un capitale 5 millions francs et elle couvre 12% de la part de marché français de la monture‚ elle est la 6eme dans le marché français. Son chiffre d’affaires en 1992 est de 43 millions de francs. EQUAL SA est une multinationale elle adopte une stratégie de diversification (géographique) internationale. En effet elle dispose de bureaux au Japon‚ Singapour‚ aux États-Unis‚ au canada et elle couvre tous les pays d’Europe grâce a des agents

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    Ingrid de Kok

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    TERRESTRIAL THINGS Poems Ingrid de Kok Kwela/Snailpress Acknowledgements I would like to thank the Rockefeller Foundation for granting me a residency in 1999 at the Bellagio Study and Conference Centre in Italy. The period spent there was invaluable. Thanks are also due to the University of Cape Town which awarded me four months of study and research leave in 2001 to complete the book. Acknowledgements are due to the following journals and books‚ in which some of these poems originally appeared:

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    Salar de Uyuni

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    Salar de Uyuni Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat located in Bolivia. It is over twelve thousand square kilometers in area‚ which makes it the largest salt flat in the world. It also has the distinction of being the highest salt flats in the world at three thousand seven hundred meters above sea level. From a distance the salt flats look like a huge white sea. When there is rain then something magical happens. The salt flats become a mirror of the sky. The origins

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