1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). 1912 - Events. 1912 - January-March. January 1 - Establishment of Republic of China. January 5 - Prague Party Conference January 6 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. January 17 - British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the ...

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The Cimetière du Montparnasse is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France. It is in the 14 th arrondissement. Created from three farms in 1824, the Montparnasse cemetery was originally known as Le Cimetière du Sud. Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786 due to health concerns. Several new cemeteries outside of the precincts of the capital replaced all the internal Parisian ones in the early 19th cent ...

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The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة Kitāb 'Alf Layla wa-Layla, Persian: هزار و یک شب Hazâr-o Yak Šab) is a piece of medieval Middle-Eastern literature in the style of a frame tale. The nucleus of these stories is formed by an old Persian book called Hazâr Afsâna ('Thousand Myths', Persian: هزارافسانه). The later compiler and translator into Arabic is reputedly storyteller Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar in the 9th century. The fra ...

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1912 - January-March. January 1 - Establishment of Republic of China. January 5 - Prague Party Conference January 6 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. January 17 - British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach the South Pole. January 23 - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. February 8 - Mexican Revolution - Military rebellion against the rule of F ...

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The first European version (and first printed edition) was a translation into French (1704 - 1717) by Antoine Galland from an earlier compilation that was written in Arabic. This book, Les Mille et une nuits, contes arabes traduits en français (in 12 volumes) probably included Arabic stories known to the translator but not included in the Arabic compilation. The Arabic compilation Alf Layla (A Thousand Nights), originating about 850 C.E., was in turn probably an abridged translation of an earlier Persian work called Hazar A ...

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The first European version (and first printed edition) was a translation into French (1704 - 1717) by Antoine Galland from an earlier compilation that was written in Arabic. This book, Les Mille et une nuits, contes arabes traduits en français (in 12 volumes) probably included Arabic stories known to the translator but not included in the Arabic compilation. The Arabic compilation Alf Layla (A Thousand Nights), originating about 850 C.E., was in turn probably an abridged translation of an earlier Persian work called ...

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Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez (Cardinal) Agripino Núñez Collado ...

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1912 - January-February. January 1 - Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988) January 3 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005) January 6 - Jacques Ellul, French philosopher (d. 1994) January 7 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988) January 8 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992) January 19 - Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986) January 21 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel ...

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