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  • Thumbnail for International Committee of the Red Cross
    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC; French: Comité International de la Croix-Rouge) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland...
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    Jeanne Louise Calment (French: [ʒan lwiz kalmɑ̃] ; 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarian and, with a documented lifespan of 122...
    46 KB (4,994 words) - 01:51, 27 April 2024
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    Paracelsus (/ˌpærəˈsɛlsəs/; German: [paʁaˈtsɛlzʊs]; c. 1493 – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus...
    84 KB (9,662 words) - 10:57, 20 April 2024
  • On 26 June 1964, Swiss Post introduced postal codes as the third country after Germany (1941) and the United States (1963). In Switzerland, the postal...
    12 KB (1,202 words) - 21:09, 12 May 2023
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    Hérault (French pronunciation: [eʁo]; Occitan: Erau, [eˈɾaw]) is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France. Named after the Hérault River...
    25 KB (1,404 words) - 22:07, 30 November 2022
  • Anti-German sentiment (also known as Anti-Germanism, Germanophobia or Teutophobia) is opposition to and/or fear of, hatred of, dislike of, persecution...
    133 KB (13,900 words) - 04:46, 23 April 2024
  • Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner) speech Speech from the Rathaus Schöneberg by John F. Kennedy, June 26, 1963. Duration 9:01; "Ich bin ein Berliner"...
    36 KB (4,174 words) - 18:33, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Free French Naval Forces
    The Free French Naval Forces (French: Forces Navales Françaises Libres, or FNFL) were the naval arm of the Free French Forces during the Second World War...
    12 KB (1,390 words) - 20:43, 31 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Paul Bert
    Paul Bert (17 October 1833 – 11 November 1886) was a French zoologist, physiologist and politician. He is sometimes given the sobriquet "Father of Aviation...
    13 KB (1,384 words) - 00:13, 9 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Jens Koeppen
    Jens Koeppen (born 27 September 1962 in Zeitz, East Germany) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been a member of the Bundestag...
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  • Thumbnail for 19th-century French literature
    19th-century French literature concerns the developments in French literature during a dynamic period in French history that saw the rise of Democracy...
    18 KB (2,368 words) - 22:23, 6 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Dagmar Wöhrl
    Dagmar Gabriele Wöhrl (née Winkler; born 5 May 1954) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). She has served as Chairwoman...
    12 KB (1,064 words) - 22:19, 12 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Michael Frieser
    Michael Frieser (born 30 March 1964) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag...
    5 KB (330 words) - 16:45, 25 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Yves Le Prieur
    Yves Paul Gaston Le Prieur (23 March 1885 – 1 June 1963) was an officer of the French Navy and an inventor. Le Prieur followed his father in joining the...
    8 KB (1,032 words) - 10:52, 14 February 2024
  • This article details the geographical distribution of speakers of the German language, regardless of the legislative status within the countries where...
    62 KB (5,915 words) - 22:22, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for André Gorz
    André Gorz (French: [ɑ̃dʁe ɡɔʁts]; né Gerhart Hirsch, German: [ˈɡeːɐ̯haʁt ˈhɪʁʃ]; 9 February 1923 – 22 September 2007), more commonly known by his pen...
    25 KB (2,886 words) - 17:30, 19 November 2023
  • Imperial immediacy (German: Reichsfreiheit or Reichsunmittelbarkeit) was a privileged constitutional and political status rooted in German feudal law under...
    11 KB (1,307 words) - 19:23, 15 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Otto Schily
    Otto Georg Schily (born 20 July 1932) is a former Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany, his tenure was from 1998 to 2005, in the cabinet of Chancellor...
    16 KB (1,472 words) - 07:05, 7 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Elbeuf
    Elbeuf (French pronunciation: [ɛlbœf]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. A light industrial town...
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  • Thumbnail for Yves Bonnardel
    Yves Bonnardel (born 1967) is a French philosopher, essayist and editor, libertarian, egalitarian and antispeciesist activist. He is one of the founding...
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