Saint-Germain

Saint-Germain may refer to various French phenomena: the 6th century bishop of Paris, canonized as Saint Germain of Paris, who founded an abbey in the fields near Paris, now the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés which gave its name to the neighborhood and to the Boulevard Saint-Germain on the Left Bank (this area is also known as the Latin Quarter), or the bishop of Auxerre, canonized as Saint Germain of Auxerre, died A.D. 478, who founded the Carolingian abbey of Saint-Germ ...

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Benoit Paul Émile Clapeyron (February 26, 1799 - January 28, 1864) was an French engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics. Émile Clapeyron - Life. Born in Paris, Clapeyron studied at the École polytechnique and the École des Mines, before leaving for Saint Petersburg in 1820 to teach at the École des Travaux Publics. He returned to Paris only after the Revolution of July 1830, supervising the construction of the first railway line connecting Paris to Versailles and Saint-Ger ...

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Saint-Germain-en-Laye was founded in 1020 when King Robert the Pious (ruled 996-1031) founded a convent on the site of the present Church of Saint-Germain. Prior to the French Revolution in 1789, it had been a royal town and the residence of numerous French monarchs. The old chateau was constructed in 1348 by King Charles V on the foundations of an old castle dating from the time of Saint Louis in 1238. François I was responsible for its subsequent restoration. In 18621867, Napoleon III set up the Musée des Antiquités Nat ...

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Saint-Germain-en-Laye was founded in 1020 when King Robert the Pious (ruled 996-1031) founded a convent on the site of the present Church of Saint-Germain. Prior to the French Revolution in 1789, it had been a royal town and the residence of numerous French monarchs. The old chateau was constructed in 1348 by King Charles V on the foundations of an old castle dating from the time of Saint Louis in 1238. François I was responsible for its subsequent restoration. In 18621867, Napoleon III set up the Musée des Antiquités Nat ...

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Danube Swabians - Origins. Beginning in the 12th century, German merchants and miners began to settle in the Kingdom of Hungary at the invitation of the Hungarian monarchy. Although there were significant colonies of Carpathian Germans in the Spiš mountains and Transylvanian Saxons in Transylvania, German settlement throughout the rest of the kingdom had not been extensive until this time. During the 17th-18th centuries, warfare between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire devastated and depopulat ...

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In 542, Childebert, while making war in Spain, besieged Saragossa, but when he heard that the inhabitants had placed themselves under the protection of St. Vincent, martyr, Childebert raised his siege and spared the city. In gratitude the bishop of Saragossa presented him with the saint's stole. When Childebert came back to Paris, the king caused a church to be erected where he could see it across the fields to receive the relic. In 588 St. Vincent's church was completed and dedicated by Germain, 23 December; on the very same day, Childebert ...

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Germain of Paris, Germain of Paris - The abbey church of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Germain of Paris - External link

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Émile Clapeyron - Thermodynamics. In 1834, he made his first contribution to the creation of modern thermodynamics by publishing a report entitled the Driving force of the heat, in which it developed the work of the physicist Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, deceased two years before. Though Carnot had developed a compelling anaysis of a generalised heat engine, he had employed the clumsy and already unfashionable caloric theory. Clapeyron, in his memoire, presented Carnot's work in a more accessible and analytic graphical form, showing the Carnot cycle as a closed curve on an indicator dia ...

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List of rail accidents - 2000. January 4, 2000 – Åsta in Åmot, Norway: Two passenger trains collide on Rørosbanen killing 19 people. February 6, 2000 – Brühl, Germany: A night express train speeds in a construction area and derails at Brühl station, 9 die. March 2000 – Tokyo train disaster, Japan: A Tokyo subway train derails and is hit by another train on ...

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List of rail accidents - 2000. January 4, 2000 – Åsta in Åmot, Norway: Two passenger trains collide on Rørosbanen killing 19 people. February 6, 2000 – Brühl, Germany: A night express train speeds in a construction area and derails at Brühl station, 9 die. March 2000 – Tokyo train disaster, Japan: A Tokyo subway train derails and is hit by another train on ...

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For Your Eyes Only, marked a change of pace for Ian Fleming, who previously had written only full-length novels featuring his character, James Bond. In the late 1950s CBS made an offer to Fleming to write 32 episodes over a two year period for a telvision show based on the James Bond character. This deal came about after the success of the 1954 television episode adaptation of Casino Royale on the CBS television series Climax!. Fleming agreed to the deal and began to write three outlines for the series; however, CBS late ...

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Saint-Germain-en-Laye is served by Saint-Germain-en-Laye station on Paris RER line A. It is also served by two stations on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line: Saint-Germain – Bel-Air – Fourqueux and Saint-Germain – Grande Ceinture. ...

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Saint-Germain-en-Laye - Births. Saint-Germain-en-Laye was the birthplace of: Henri II (1519-1559), King of France Charles IX (1550-1574), King of France Louis de Buade de Frontenac (1622-1698), French courtier and Governor of New France Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France Claude Debussy (1862-1918), composer of European classical music Maurice Denis (1870-1943), painter and writer and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements Albert Dupontel (born 1964), actor ...

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Saint-Germain-en-Laye - Births. Saint-Germain-en-Laye was the birthplace of: Henri II (1519-1559), King of France Charles IX (1550-1574), King of France Louis de Buade de Frontenac (1622-1698), French courtier and Governor of New France Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France Claude Debussy (1862-1918), composer of European classical music Maurice Denis (1870-1943), painter and writer and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements Albert Dupontel (born 1964), actor ...

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Saint-Germain-en-Laye - Births. Saint-Germain-en-Laye was the birthplace of: Henri II (1519-1559), King of France Charles IX (1550-1574), King of France Louis de Buade de Frontenac (1622-1698), French courtier and Governor of New France Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France Claude Debussy (1862-1918), composer of European classical music Maurice Denis (1870-1943), painter and writer and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements Albert Dupontel (born 1964), actor See also:

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List of rail accidents - 1980. July 25, 1980 – Winsum, the Netherlands: Two trains collide on a single track between Groningen and Roodeschool resulting in 9 deaths and 21 injured. August 1, 1980 – Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland: A train crashes into a siding at 70mph on the main Dublin - Cork line resulting in 18 deaths and 62 injured. This remains Ireland's worst transportation disaster. List of rail accidents - 1981. June 6, 1981 – Bihar train disaster, India: Hundreds are killed ( ...

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List of rail accidents - 1990. January 4, 1990 – An overcrowded passenger train collides with a standing freight train in the Sindh province, Pakistan. Over 210 killed. April 16, 1990 – Two local passenger trains collide at Lysaker, Oslo, Norway. 5 killed. June 6, 1990 – Cowan rail crash, Cowan, New South Wales, Australia: a special passenger train failed while attempting to climb the steep gra ...

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The Danube Swabian culture is a melting pot of southern German regional customs, with a large degree of Balkan, mostly Hungarian, influence. This is especially true of the food, where paprika is heavily employed, which lead to the nickname for Hungarian Germans of Paprikadeutsche. The architecture is neither Southern German nor Balkan but is unique to itself. The houses, often made of mud bricks, are ubiquitous throughout the Banat region. < ...

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List of rail accidents - 1980. July 25, 1980 – Winsum, the Netherlands: Two trains collide on a single track between Groningen and Roodeschool resulting in 9 deaths and 21 injured. August 1, 1980 – Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland: A train crashes into a siding at 70mph on the main Dublin - Cork line resulting in 18 deaths and 62 injured. This remains Ireland's worst transportation disaster. List of rail accidents - 1981. June 6, 1981 – Bihar train disaster, India: Hundreds are killed ( ...

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List of rail accidents, List of rail accidents - 1830s, List of rail accidents - 1840s, List of rail accidents - 1850s, List of rail accidents - 1860s, List of rail accidents - 1870s, List of rail accidents - 1880s, List of rail accidents - 1890s, List of rail accidents - 1900s, List of rail accidents - 1910s, List of rail accidents - 1920s, List of rail accidents - 1930s, List of rail accidents - 1940s, List of rail accidents - 1950s, List of rail accidents - 1960s, List of rail accidents - 1970s, List of rail accidents - 1980s, List of rail accidents - 1980, List of rail accidents - 1981, List of rail accidents - 1985, List of rail accidents - 1986, List of rail accidents - 1987, List of rail accidents - 1988, List of rail accidents - 1989, List of rail accidents - 1990s, List of rail accidents - 1990, List of rail accidents - 1991, List of rail accidents - 1992, List of rail accidents - 1993, List of rail accidents - 1994, List of rail accidents - 1995, List of rail accidents - 1996, List of rail accidents - 1997, List of rail accidents - 1998, List of rail accidents - 1999, List of rail accidents - 2000s, List of rail accidents - 2000, List of rail accidents - 2001, List of rail accidents - 2002, List of rail accidents - 2003, List of rail accidents - 2004, List of rail accidents - 2005, List of rail accidents - 2006

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List of rail accidents - 1990. January 4, 1990 – An overcrowded passenger train collides with a standing freight train in the Sindh province, Pakistan. Over 210 killed. April 16, 1990 – Two local passenger trains collide at Lysaker, Oslo, Norway. 5 killed. June 6, 1990 – Cowan rail crash, Cowan, New South Wales, Australia: a special passenger train failed while attempting to climb the steep gra ...

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List of rail accidents, List of rail accidents - 1830s, List of rail accidents - 1840s, List of rail accidents - 1850s, List of rail accidents - 1860s, List of rail accidents - 1870s, List of rail accidents - 1880s, List of rail accidents - 1890s, List of rail accidents - 1900s, List of rail accidents - 1910s, List of rail accidents - 1920s, List of rail accidents - 1930s, List of rail accidents - 1940s, List of rail accidents - 1950s, List of rail accidents - 1960s, List of rail accidents - 1970s, List of rail accidents - 1980s, List of rail accidents - 1980, List of rail accidents - 1981, List of rail accidents - 1985, List of rail accidents - 1986, List of rail accidents - 1987, List of rail accidents - 1988, List of rail accidents - 1989, List of rail accidents - 1990s, List of rail accidents - 1990, List of rail accidents - 1991, List of rail accidents - 1992, List of rail accidents - 1993, List of rail accidents - 1994, List of rail accidents - 1995, List of rail accidents - 1996, List of rail accidents - 1997, List of rail accidents - 1998, List of rail accidents - 1999, List of rail accidents - 2000s, List of rail accidents - 2000, List of rail accidents - 2001, List of rail accidents - 2002, List of rail accidents - 2003, List of rail accidents - 2004, List of rail accidents - 2005, List of rail accidents - 2006

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