currency of France. Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of...
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The Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) is a French literary prize created in 1948. It is awarded yearly in two categories: Novel...
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The Travels of Marco Polo (redirect from Le Livre des Merveilles)
lower Po between the 13th and 15th centuries. It was originally known as Livre des Merveilles du Monde or Devisement du Monde ("Description of the World")...
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The Rabat International Book Fair (Arabic: معرض الرباط الدولي للكتاب) is an annual book fair held in Rabat, Morocco. It is the largest book fair in Morocco...
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as the Emperor of Ethiopia, enthroned on a map of East Africa. From an atlas by the Portuguese cartographer Diogo Homem for Queen Mary, c. 1555–1559...
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martial arts Martial arts Mock combat Pankration Sport wrestling Amateur Catch Shoot Submission Lancashire Luta Livre Pehlwani Stage combat Theatre v t e...
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Gerardus Mercator (redirect from Atlas Cosmographicae)
smaller format suitable for binding into his Atlas of 1595. This was the first appearance of the word Atlas in reference to a book of maps. However, Mercator...
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The Águas Livres Aqueduct (Portuguese: Aqueduto das Águas Livres, pronounced [ɐkɨˈðutu ðɐz ˈaɣwɐʒ ˈlivɾɨʃ], "Aqueduct of the Free Waters") is a historic...
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navigational studies. He compiled charts and notes into the most detailed portolan atlas in existence. There are two versions of the book. The first version was...
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pp. 20–27. Le grand Atlas des trains et locomotives. Les trains de légende (in French). Issy-les-Moulineaux: Éditions Atlas livres [Glénat]. 2002. pp. 302–303...
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