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International audience Carbonaceous chondrites are classified into several groups. However, some are ungrouped. We studied one such ungrouped chondrite, Y-82094, previously classified as a CO. In this chondrite, chondrules occupy 78 vol%, and the matrix is distinctly poor in abundance (11 vol%), com...

This study focuses on the specificity of the officers of the Châtelet of Paris in the sixteenth century ; it tackles a complex field of observation revealing social divisions and institutional power games at the origin of the difficulties of police regulation. By moving away from exclusively institu...

Titles delivered in 2002 confirm the sustained interest in studies on sculpture. From the viewpoint of the consolidation of knowledge, we now have a fine catalogue raisonné of the sculpted work of Fenosa (1899-1988), a protégé of Picasso and Cocteau, author of the Tempête pourchassée par le beau tem...

This dissertation constitutes the core of a Habilitation to supervise research (HDR) in geography and planning. It is an original text whose guiding principle is to contribute to an involved environmental geography. In it, I explain the importance of using time and history to deal with environmental...

The medieval poem Cursor Mundi is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern v...

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International audience In 1963 two sets of gaming materials were excavated from a Meroitic necropo-lis in Sedeinga, Sudan. Comparative analysis of the unpublished archaeological descriptions shows that these are likely examples of the Roman game of Duodecim Scripta. Carbon dating and epigraphic evid...

In this paper, Nabel deals with the famous passage of Tacitus’ Annals (6.31) where the Parthian Great King Artabanus II, in a supposed letter to Emperor Tiberius, claims the right of ruling all lands once controlled by both Cyrus and Alexander. In the past, scholars have considered this passage a hi...

Esse artigo trata-se de uma pesquisa histórica e documental que vem sendo desenvolvida no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Profissional (PPGEP), do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN), na linha de história, historiografia e memória da educação profi...

wavy hair, combed forward. Marked "Burns, mark C 107". H 8". Parian bust of the poet Robert Burns. High collar jacket, high collar blouse One of Abraham Lincoln's favorite poets, Lincoln may have owned a bust of Robert Burns, and placed it on display in the Front Parlor of his home in Springfield. H...

Soeben wurde aufgrund eines Leserhinweises ein Löschantrag auf den am 11. März 2008 angelegten Artikel Karl Maria Steinberg gestellt. Er sei ein Fake: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karl-Maria_Steinberg&action=history Offenkundig hat außer dem Erstanleger "Detmeier", der zuvor einen nicht...

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/483.htm National Archives. Living the Poor Life involved more than 200 volunteers across the country, including local and family historians, researching and cataloguing 19th century records from the huge Ministry of Health archive (MH12). [...] As part of the...

International audience Life long learning incorporates various educational and training experiences, from the initial ones to the next ones when adults are going back to school for formal qualification or short courses, for professional training or personal life, in full-time or part-time conditions...

"The first Russian" in Luxembourg, which arrived in the 1920ths, were not the first ones. The pre-history of the Russian presence in the Grand Duchy before WWI and the further development regarding the two world wars and the post-war situation were the topic of this radio interview.

Online learning algorithms that minimize regret provide strong guarantees in situations that involve repeatedly making decisions in an uncertain environment, e.g. a driver deciding what route to drive to work every day. While regret minimization has been extensively studied in repeated games, we stu...

As part of my regular job as curator of illuminated manuscripts at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (from 2006–2009) I acquired a few items for the collection. A manuscript written in the vernacular from the Meuse valley, near Roermond or Venlo, with numerous prints pasted into it (and not ripped or cut...

Nic Leonhardt, director of the Centre for Global Theatre History, and the new Academy of Digital Humanities in Theatre Research @ GTH Centre, was invited by the research program CREATE of the University of Amsterdam to give a talk on Digital Humanities in Theatre History in the context of the progra...

International audience An urban system flourished in central Burma in the first millennium CE, before the ascendancy of the Burmese. Its culture is known to scholars and the public as ‘Pyu’. The written traces of the Pyus take the form of inscriptions on stone and other material, composed in three l...

International audience The long-standing fashion in Paris for instruments made in Antwerp is already well known through many texts, archival documents, and the examination of a large numbers of instruments. Here new documents are presented concerning Flemish instruments in the hands of French musici...

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