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Au Maroc (1890; "In Morocco") is a travel memoir by Pierre Loti about a month-long journey by horseback in Morocco through Tangier, Fez and Mekinez. The initial trip from Tangier to Fez was in the company of a French embassy, after which Loti continued on by himself dressed in native clothing. Au Maroc was Loti's first pure travel literature.
Gaudreau, born in Montmagny, studied with the Ursulines. [3] In 1879, she married Henri-Edmond Casgrain [4] (1846-1914), dental surgeon, inventor, alderman and first Quebec motorist. [5] She trained as a dentist under her husband, a dental surgeon who was 15 years her senior. [6] After graduating from the "Dental College of the Province of ...
20 February; [1] 25 August (translation of relics) Saint Eleutherius of Tournai ( French: Eleuthère) (died c. 532) is venerated as a saint and considered the first bishop of Tournai. [2] The Catholic Encyclopedia writes that "historically there is very little known about St. Eleutherius, but he was without doubt the first Bishop of Tournai."
The Annual Convention of the Ordre des dentistes du Québec, known as the Journées dentaires internationales du Québec (JDIQ), is the largest dental convention in Canada. This important annual event focuses on continuing professional education for all Quebec dentists and the members of their dental teams. In 2019, the JDIQ had 12,715 ...
Péruwelz. Péruwelz ( French pronunciation: [peʁwe] or [pɛʁwe]; Picard: Piérwé [pieʀwe]; Walloon: Perwé-e-Hinnot) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium . On 1 January 2018 Péruwelz had a total population of 17,113. The total area is 60.56 km 2 which gives a population density of 280 ...
UTC+1 ( CET) Mohammedia ( Arabic: المحمدية, romanized : al-muḥammadiyya ), known until 1960 as Fedala ( Arabic: فضالة ), is a port city on the west coast of Morocco between Casablanca and Rabat in the region of Casablanca-Settat. It hosts the most important oil refinery of Morocco, the Samir Refinery, which makes it the center of ...
The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program ( HAARP) is a University of Alaska Fairbanks program which researches the ionosphere – the highest, ionized part of Earth's atmosphere . The most prominent instrument at HAARP is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in the high ...
It was established as a National Park in 1959. Torres del Paine National Park is part of the Sistema Nacional de Áreas Silvestres Protegidas del Estado de Chile (National System of Protected Forested Areas of Chile). In 2013, it measured approximately 181,414 hectares (700 sq mi). [1] It is one of the largest and most visited parks in Chile.