Marc Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy Argenson, comte d'
Marc Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy Argenson, comte d' , 1696-1764, French statesman and patron of literature; younger brother of René Louis d'Argenson. As secretary of state for war (1743-57), he assisted Maurice de Saxe in reforming the army, especially the artillery, and founded the École militaire. He was also charged with administrative control of the city of Paris. The Champs Élysées and the Place de la Concorde were planned by him. He was a friend and patron of the philosophes, and Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert dedicated the Encyclopédie to him.
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Temporary bar placed on export of middle bronze age axe-heads.
M2 Presswire; 3/26/2001; 700+ words
; ...Temporary bar placed on export of middle bronze age axe-heads (C)1994-2001 M2...methods and metals during the Middle Bronze Age. The deferral will enable a purchase...recommended price: --A Middle Bronze Age Bronze Palstave deferred until after...
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Dan II. A Chronicle of the Excavations and the Late Bronze Age "Mycenaean" Tomb
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Chronicle of the Excavations and the Late Bronze Age "Mycenaean" Tomb By Avraham Biran...207), Baruch Arensburg ("Late Bronze Age Human Remains from Tel Dan," pp...while investigating the Middle Bronze Age earth rampart in Area B, they discovered...
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From the Bronze Age to the Iron Age in Thailand: applying the heterarchical approach.
Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...of this discussion has focused on Bronze Age Thailand, which is often perceived...of this theoretical model to the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia. It examines current...developments in Southeast Asia from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age. APPLYING THE...
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Myanmar finds more evidences on Bronze Age, Iron Age
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 3/9/2009; 623 words
; ...thought to be buried inside coffins of Bronze Age and Iron Age, which were found in Pyawbwe and...the existence of the late Stone Age and Iron Age in the area and they...proving the same transition of ages. Foreign archaeologists once considered...
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Bronze Age Dawns Again
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/17/2008; 632 words
; ...leftover Halloween candy over there at the Water Cube. Barry Svrluga has a dozen in his computer bag. But bronze -- bronze had its own age! Bronze was the metal of choice for navel rings and hubcap medallions about 5,000 years ago, give or take...
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 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Bringing back the Bronze Age.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 2/10/2005; 700+ words
; ...the result showed, as it has for millennia, that bronze and stone were meant for each other. It's that match that underlies Siegel's New Bronze Age Tile Inc. Bronze is one of the oldest metals, an alloy consisting...
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Bronze Age ancient artifacts unearthed in Myanmar
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 8/16/2008; 426 words
; Bronze Age ancient artifacts unearthed...artifacts on Bronze Age and Iron Age were excavated in Thazi township...was transferred from Stone Age into the Iron Age without flourishing of Bronze...incomplete sets of bodies of all ages, child, middle age and ...
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 "Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England)")
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Bronze Age skeleton is dug up in quarry.
Newspaper article from: Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England); 7/31/2007; 700+ words
; ...believe they may have unearthed a Bronze Age cemetery near Peterborough after...around the quarry with items such as Bronze Age axes, palstaves, spear heads and...the reputation of Peterborough's Bronze Age history. General manager of...
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Bronze Age skeletons found near Stonehenge
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 5/23/2003; ; 579 words
; ...to the beginning of the Bronze Age. The bones, dug up by...the Amesbury Archer, a Bronze Age man who was believed...common during the Stone Age, but archaeologists said...between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age. ''What we're...
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Bronze Age and Iron Age artifacts unearthed in Myanmar
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 8/18/2008; 435 words
; ...unearthed ancient artifacts from the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in Myanmar. Found in Thazi...Myanmar was transferred from Stone Age into the Iron Age without flourishing of Bronze...incomplete sets of bodies of all ages, child, middle age and old...
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Bronze Age Ireland
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Bronze Age Ireland. ‘Bronze Age’...excavated. Analysis of the human remains from Bronze Age graves indicates that adult males, females...stones. The transitional period, or Middle Bronze Age, occurred between the 15th and 12th centuries...
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Bronze Age
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Bronze Age The prehistoric period during which bronze was the principal material used for tools and weapons. The...at all. Although much more metal came into circulation in Bronze Age cultures, the high cost of tin led to two significant results...
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bronze sculpture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...far in advance of the Bronze Age in Europe. The Greeks were...Etruscan artisans' work include a bronze chariot found at Monteleone...The Romans took quantities of bronze statues from Greece and made...themselves. They employed bronze for doors and for furniture...Herculaneum. Early medieval ...
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Iron Age
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Iron Age (or Early Iron Age ), the techno‐cultural term for the period that follows the Bronze Age and precedes the Early Medieval...remained genetically unchanged from the Bronze Age, and continued thus into the Early...
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Rock of Ages Corporation
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...division primarily sells granite, bronze, and marble memorials directly...A seal bearing the Rock of Ages name is placed on each of the...company believes that its Rock of Ages trade-mark is one of the oldest...Industry , the story of Rock of Ages granite goes back to shortly...Clarke. Then during ...
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