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    been stated for decades, most famously by W. E. B. Du Bois. Since the 1960s the Western literary canon has been expanded to include writers from Asia, Africa...
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    Sant Boi de Llobregat (IPA: [ˌsam ˈboj ðə ʎuβɾəˈɣat]) is a city in the Province of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain, located on the banks of the Llobregat...
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    Louis du Bois fils de feu Crestien de stil couturier dem(eurant) à Herlÿ ...at par ceste vendu cede et t(ran)sporte audict Franchois du Bois ... touttes...
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    Cecropia peltata (redirect from Bois canôt)
    genus Cecropia. Common names include trumpet tree, trumpet-bush, bacano, bois canon and snakewood. It is listed as one of the world's 100 worst invasive alien...
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  • Engelbert Des Bois (1578–1651) was the seventh bishop of Namur (1630–1651). Des Bois was born in Brussels on 9 July 1578 to parents from Burgundy. He studied...
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  • Annibal-Servais de Lairuelz (1560 – 18 October 1631), a native of Hainaut in what is now Belgium, was a canon and reformer of the Premonstratensian Order. De Lairuelz...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    central market, new aqueducts, sewers and parks, including the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes. In 1860, Napoleon III annexed the surrounding towns...
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    Valfonds and Fontain-au-Bois, Clémanges wrote several treatises: De Fructu eremi (dedicated to Pierre d'Ailly) De Fructu rerum adversarum De novis festivitatibus...
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    death wish." Noting that Sade has been elevated into the French literary canon and that serial killers Ian Brady and Ted Bundy read and admired Sade, he...
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    Charité […] un tableau peint sur bois où est représenté un Baptême de Notre-Seigneur, et un autre tableau, aussi peint sur bois, où est représenté (sic) Notre-Seigneur...
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