Légion d'honneur

Liebling is remembered for many quotes and aphorisms, such as: "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." "People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news." "I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." His writing was often memorable, as was his eating, and he nicely combined the two passions in Between Meals (1962), of which the following extract gives a taste: In the res ...

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A.J. Liebling, A.J. Liebling - A little Liebling, A.J. Liebling - Selected works

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Wiesenthal was born Szymon Wiesenthal in Buczacz, Polish Galicia then a part of Austria-Hungary, now a part of the Lviv Oblast section of Ukraine, to a Jewish merchant family. He graduated from the Technical University of Prague in 1932 after being denied admission to the Polytechnic University of Lwów because of quota restrictions on Jewish students. In 1936, he married Cyla Müller, and they had a daughter, Paulina, who lives in Israel. Wiesenthal was living in Lwów, then Poland (formerly Lemberg, now called Lviv, the large ...

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Simon Wiesenthal, Simon Wiesenthal - Early life and World War II, Simon Wiesenthal - Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal - Wiesenthal Center, Simon Wiesenthal - Austrian politics and later life, Simon Wiesenthal - Criticism, Simon Wiesenthal - Honors, Simon Wiesenthal - Dramatic portrayals, Simon Wiesenthal - Miscellaneous

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Dolmetsch was employed for a short time as a music teacher at Dulwich College, but his interest in early instruments was awakened by seeing the collections of historic instruments in the British Museum, and, after constructing his first reproduction of a lute in 1893, he began building clavichords and harpsichords for Chickering of Boston (1905–1911), then for Gaveau of Paris (1911–1914). He went on to establish an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey and proceeded to build copies of almost every kind of instrument dati ...

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Arnold Dolmetsch, Arnold Dolmetsch - Dolmetsch's early life, Arnold Dolmetsch - The Early Music Revival, Arnold Dolmetsch - The Dolmetsch family, Arnold Dolmetsch - External link

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César Cui - Upbringing and Career. Cesarius-Benjaminus (Цезарий-Вениамин) Cui was born in Vilnius (the capital of Lithuania), to a Roman-Catholic family, as the youngest of five children. His French father Antoine (name Russianized as Anton Leonardovich), had entered Russia as a member of Napoleon's army in 1812, settled in Vilnius upon their defeat, and married a local woman named Julia Gucewicz. Amidst this multi-ethnic environment young César grew up learning French, Russian, Polish, and Lithu ...

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César Cui, César Cui - Biography, César Cui - Upbringing and Career, César Cui - Avocational Life in Music, César Cui - Family, César Cui - Last Years and Death, César Cui - Cui as a Music Critic, César Cui - Cui as a Composer, César Cui - Selected Literary Works, César Cui - Cui's Writings on Music, César Cui - Letters, César Cui - Cui's Writings on Military Fortifications, César Cui - Bibliography, César Cui - External Bibliographical Links

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Zidane was a member of the French football team in 1998 World Cup, which France won, scoring two goals in the final against Brazil. Two years later, he led his country to a second major championship, winning Euro 2000. He has been elected three times as FIFA World Player of the Year (1998, 2000, 2003). In 2001 Zidane transferred from Italian team Juventus to Spanish club side Real Madrid on a four-year contract. The transfer fee was £47 million(approx. $66 million US), making him the most expensive player in football history. While Z ...

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Zinédine Zidane, Zinédine Zidane - Career, Zinédine Zidane - Legacy, Zinédine Zidane - Honours, Zinédine Zidane - Other facts, Zinédine Zidane - Merchandising, Zinédine Zidane - External link

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Born Alexander Bell in Edinburgh, Scotland, he later adopted the middle name Graham out of admiration for Alexander Graham, a family friend.Many called him "the father of the Deaf." His family was associated with the teaching of elocution: his grandfather in London, his uncle in Dublin, and his father, Alexander Melville Bell, in Edinburgh, were all professed elocutionists. The latter has published a variety of works on the subject, several of which are well known, especially his treatise on Visible Speech, which appeare ...

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Alexander Graham Bell, Alexander Graham Bell - Biography, Alexander Graham Bell - The photophone, Alexander Graham Bell - Metal detector, Alexander Graham Bell - Experimental aircraft, Alexander Graham Bell - The hydrofoil, Alexander Graham Bell - Eugenics

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The race starts and finishes in Les Sables-d'Olonne, in the Vendée département of France; both Les Sables d’Olonne and the Vendée Conseil Général are official race sponsors.[4] The course is essentially a circumnavigation along the clipper route: from Les Sables d’Olonne, down the Atlantic Ocean to the Cape of Good Hope; then clockwise around Antarctica, keeping Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn to port; then back to Les Sables d’Olonne.See also:

Vendée Globe, Vendée Globe - History, Vendée Globe - The boats, Vendée Globe - The race, Vendée Globe - Previous results, Vendée Globe - 1989-1990, Vendée Globe - 1992-1993, Vendée Globe - 1996-1997, Vendée Globe - 2000-2001, Vendée Globe - 2004-2005

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Manet's paintings of cafe scenes show the leisurely world of restaurants in Paris. People are depicted doing many activities such as drinking beer, listening to music, flirting, reading or waiting. He often visited the Brasserie Reichshoffen on boulevard de Rochechourt, and based on what he saw there, he painted At the Cafe in 1878. This painting shows several people at a bar, a woman looking towards the viewer while others wait to be served. He also painted typical views of what he would have seen upon going to one of these places, a ...

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Édouard Manet, Édouard Manet - Early life, Édouard Manet - Music in the Tuileries, Édouard Manet - Luncheon on the Grass Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, Édouard Manet - Olympia, Édouard Manet - Life and times, Édouard Manet - Cafe scenes, Édouard Manet - Paintings of social activities, Édouard Manet - Paris, Édouard Manet - Outside Paris, Édouard Manet - A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Édouard Manet - Death

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Thomas Edison - Menlo Park. Edison's major innovation was the Menlo Park research lab, which was built in New Jersey. It was the first institution set up with the specific purpose of producing constant technological innovation and improvement. Edison invented most of the inventions produced there, though he primarily supervised the operation and work of his employees. William Joseph Hammer, assistant to Edison and a consulting electrical engineer, was born at Cressona, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Febr ...

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Thomas Edison, Thomas Edison - Family background, Thomas Edison - Birth, Thomas Edison - Early years, Thomas Edison - First marriage, Thomas Edison - Inventor, Thomas Edison - Second marriage, Thomas Edison - Middle career, Thomas Edison - Menlo Park, Thomas Edison - Incandescent era, Thomas Edison - War of the Currents era, Thomas Edison - Work relations, Thomas Edison - Media inventions, Thomas Edison - Homes, Thomas Edison - Trivia, Thomas Edison - List of contributions, Thomas Edison - Improvements of Edison's work, Thomas Edison - Tributes

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With Garnet Hughes, son of the Canadian minister of militia Sam Hughes, he was sent to Europe upon the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. He commanded a brigade at the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915 and by 1917 he had been promoted to general, the first Canadian to receive this honour during the war. With General Julian Byng, Currie was largely responsible for the tactics and careful planning which led to an unexpected triumph by Canadian forces at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April, 1917. One of the most useful innovations intro ...

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Arthur Currie, Arthur Currie - Early Life, Arthur Currie - World War I, Arthur Currie - Regimental scandal and postwar libel suit, Arthur Currie - Postwar career and honours

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Although recommendations for creation of a Meritorious Service Medal were initiated as early as September 1937, no formal action was taken toward approval. In a letter to the Quartermaster General (QMG) dated December 24, 1941, the Adjutant General formally requested action be initiated to create a Meritorious Service Medal and provide designs in the event the decoration was established. Proposed designs prepared by Bailey, Banks, and Biddle and the Office of the Quartermaster General were provided to Assistant Chief of Staff G1 (Colonel Hea ...

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Legion of Merit, Legion of Merit - Criteria, Legion of Merit - Degrees, Legion of Merit - History, Legion of Merit - Notable recipients, Legion of Merit - Appearance

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List of mottos - Medical. Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland: In somno securitas (In sleep there is safety) Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland: omnes ab omnibus discamus" - literally "let us learn all things from everybody Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists: Corpus curare spiritumque (To care for the body and its breath of life) Canadian Association of General Surgeons: Sapientia Manaque Apta (Wisdom and a Skillful Hand)See also:

List of mottos, List of mottos - Organisations, List of mottos - Medical, List of mottos - Orders, List of mottos - Livery companies, List of mottos - Municipalities, List of mottos - British Counties, List of mottos - Educational institutions

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Born on 9 April 1906 in Pécs, Hungary, he grew up in Piešťany (Hungarian: Pöstyén) and Budapest where in 1925 he took up medical studies at Budapest University. In 1927 he abandoned medicine to learn traditional academic painting at the private Polini-Volkmann academy. In 1928/1929, he enrolled at Sándor Bortnyik's Műhely (lit. "workshop", in existence until 1938), then widely recognized as the center of Bauhaus studies in Budapest. Cash-strapped, the műhely could not offer the whole range of its illustrious Bauhaus model, and concentrat ...

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Victor Vasarely, Victor Vasarely - Life and work, Victor Vasarely - The Vasarely Foundation, Victor Vasarely - Awards, Victor Vasarely - Museums

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Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey with the automatic repeater and other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention which first gained Edison fame was the phonograph in 1877. While non-reproducible sound recording was first achieved by Leon Scott de Martinville (France, 1857), and scientists at the time (notably Charles Cros) were contemplating the notion that sound waves might be recorded and reproduced, Edison was the first to publicly demonstrate a device to do so. This accomplishment was so unexpecte ...

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Thomas Edison, Thomas Edison - Family background, Thomas Edison - Birth and early years, Thomas Edison - Marriages and later life, Thomas Edison - Inventor, Thomas Edison - Menlo Park, Thomas Edison - Incandescent era, Thomas Edison - War of Currents era, Thomas Edison - Work relations, Thomas Edison - Media inventions, Thomas Edison - Homes, Thomas Edison - Trivia, Thomas Edison - List of contributions, Thomas Edison - Improvements of Edison's work, Thomas Edison - Tributes

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Bergson visited the University of Oxford, where he delivered two lectures entitled La Perception du Changement (The Perception of Change), which were published in French in the same year by the Clarendon Press. As he had a delightful gift of lucid and brief exposition, when the occasion demands such treatment, these lectures on Change formed a most valuable synopsis or brief survey of the fundamental principles of his thought, and served the student or general reader alike as an excellent introduction to the study of the larger volumes. Oxford honoured ...

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Henri Bergson, Henri Bergson - Four principal works, Henri Bergson - Education and career, Henri Bergson - Relationship with James and pragmatism, Henri Bergson - The lectures on change and Bergson's later life, Henri Bergson - Monty Python reference, Henri Bergson - Bibliography

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Connery was born in Fountainbridge in Edinburgh, Scotland, to a Christian mixed-denomination couple. His father, Joseph Connery, was a Catholic of Irish descent with roots in County Wexford, Ireland and his mother, Euphamia "Effie" Maclean, was Protestant. Neither Tommy (Sean) nor his brother, Neil, were raised Catholic. He claims that he was called by his middle name of Sean long before he became an actor, explaining that he had an Irish friend named Seamus (pronounced Sha-mus) and those who knew them decided to call him by his middle name, ...

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Sean Connery, Sean Connery - Personal life, Sean Connery - James Bond, Sean Connery - Post-James Bond career, Sean Connery - Filmography, Sean Connery - Trivia

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Jacques Chirac - First term as president. His 18 years as mayor of Paris finally proved the launching pad for his first successful bid for the French presidency. To win he had to first fend off a challenge from a fellow Gaullist – prime minister Édouard Balladur (who ran as an independent, though supported by a large share of Chirac's RPR, and finished third in the first round). He then narrowly beat Socialist Party challenger Lionel Jospin in the final runoff election. On his third attempt to win the French presidency, Jacques Chirac finally succ ...

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Jacques Chirac, Jacques Chirac - Youth and studies, Jacques Chirac - Early political career, Jacques Chirac - Prime Minister 1974-76, Jacques Chirac - Chirac's First Ministry 28 May 1974 - 27 August 1976, Jacques Chirac - Chirac's Second Ministry 20 March 1986 - 12 May 1988, Jacques Chirac - Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac - Action as a mayor, Jacques Chirac - The road to the presidency, Jacques Chirac - Presidency, Jacques Chirac - First term as president, Jacques Chirac - Second term as president, Jacques Chirac - Sources

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In December 1859, Le Verrier received a letter from a French physician and amateur astronomer called Edmond Modeste Lescarbault, who claimed to have witnessed a transit of the hypothetical planet earlier in the year. Le Verrier took the next train to the village of Orgères-en-Beauce, some 70 kilometres southwest of Paris, where Lescarbault had built himself a small observatory. Le Verrier arrived unan ...

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Vulcan planet, Vulcan planet - Argument for Vulcan's existence, Vulcan planet - The search for Vulcan, Vulcan planet - Search conclusion, Vulcan planet - Vulcan revived, Vulcan planet - Vulcan in modern fiction

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Previously, honour figured largely as a guiding principle of society, functioning as part of a code of honour for a gentleman and often coming to expression in the practice of duelling. One's honour, that of one's wife, of one's (blood-)family or of one's beloved formed an all-important issue: the archetypal "man of honour" remained ever alert for any insult, actual or suspected: for either would impugn his honour. The concept of honour appears to have declined in importance in the modern secular West. Popular stereotypes would have i ...

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Honour, Honour - Honour sex and violence, Honour - Cultures of honour and cultures of law, Honour - Related concepts, Honour - Quotations, Honour - Honours and awards, Honour - Feudal honours

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Born in Monaco, Bosio was a student of the eminent sculptor Augustin Pajou and first worked in Italy, on churches, in the 1790s. He was recruited by Dominique Vivant in 1808 to make bas-reliefs for the column of the Place Vendôme in Paris and also to serve as portraitist to Emperor Napoleon I and his family. It was in this capacity that he produced some of his finest work, notably a portrait bust of the Empress Josephine. Louis XVIII made Bosio a Knight of the Order of Saint Michael in 1821 and appointed him court sculptor. In 1828, ...

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François Joseph Bosio, François Joseph Bosio - Biography, François Joseph Bosio - Summary of key works, François Joseph Bosio - In Paris, François Joseph Bosio - Elsewhere

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On Sir Edward Bradford's retirement in 1903, Henry was appointed Commissioner, which had always been the Home Office's plan. Henry is generally regarded as one of the great Commissioners. He was responsible for dragging the Metropolitan Police into the modern day, and away from the class-ridden Victorian era. He continued with his technological innovations, installing telephones in all divisional stations and standardising the use of police boxes, which Bradford had introduced as an experiment but never expanded upon. He also soon increased the strength of the force by 1,600 men and introduced ...

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Edward Henry, Edward Henry - Early life, Edward Henry - Early service in India, Edward Henry - Inspector-General of Police, Edward Henry - Assistant Commissioner Crime, Edward Henry - Commissioner, Edward Henry - Attempted assassination, Edward Henry - First World War, Edward Henry - Later life, Edward Henry - External link

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When Romania at last entered the war on the Allied side, in 1916, Marthe worked at a hospital in Bucharest until the German army burned down her home in Posada, in the Transylvanian Alps. She fled the country to join her mother and daughter in Geneva after a quarantine exile, imposed by the German occupants, in Austria-Hungary (as a guest of the Princely family of Thurn und Taxis at Latchen). There she continued to write. For most of her life, she wrote every morning unti ...

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Marthe Bibesco, Marthe Bibesco - Early life, Marthe Bibesco - Before World War I, Marthe Bibesco - Literary glory, Marthe Bibesco - Exile

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