Hanko
Hanko or Hangö , city (1996 pop. 10,623), Southern Finland prov., SW Finland, at the tip of the Hanko peninsula on the Baltic Sea. A popular bathing resort and a manufacturing town, it is the most important winter port in Finland. It was leased to the Soviet Union for 30 years as a naval base after the Finnish-Russian War (1939-40). The USSR exchanged it for a 50-year lease on the Porkkala district in 1944; however, in 1956 the Soviet Union evacuated Porkkala.
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Profile: French pilot and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR); 12/23/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...00-0000 Profile: French pilot and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery Host: SCOTT SIMON Time: 1:00-2:00 PM...host: This year the French author and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery would have been a hundred years old. Le Petit...
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Antoine Saint-Exupery honoured through Lyon airport.
Magazine article from: Airline Industry Information; 6/30/2000; 344 words
; ...airport in Lyon, France has been renamed after Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the author of The Little Prince and an avid...June) on the 100th anniversary of Saint-Exupery`s birth. Saint-Exupery worked as a spy during World War II and died...
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Vive Antoine, le petit Prince. ('The Little Prince' author Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 2/6/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...literature goes like this: The pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery has crashed his plane in the...they positively gushed over Saint-Exupery's second novel, Night Flight...Riviere even looked like Saint-Exupery -- big, tan, with "black...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Hunting for Saint-Exupery: France's Superboy.(aircraft and personal effects discovered near Marseilles, France, that may prove to be the site when Antoine de Saint-Exupery crashed )(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/5/1998; 700+ words
; ...which a Gallic hero, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, crashed to his death...large part the author. Saint-Exupery was also lost...plane impresses few of Saint-Exupery's heirs. They recall...wreck cannot be Saint-Exupery's plane as it was...
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Writing from above: representations of landscapes, places and people in the works of Antoine de Saint-Exupery.(Report)
Magazine article from: Journal of Cultural Geography; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Antoine de Saint-Exupery was a pioneering French aviator who...development in several popular books. Saint-Exupery's writings contain vivid representations...imperial expropriation of land. Keywords: Antoine de Saint-Exupery; aviation; literature...
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The other side of the story Antoine de Saint-Exupery was the author of 'Le Petit Prince' and, in France, a war hero. But 60 years after his mysterious death, the wreckage retrieved from his watery grave is threatening to destroy his reputation. Martin Buckley reports
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 7/18/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...of the Second World War: how Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pioneer pilot, war hero and...Vanrell believed that Saint- Exupery had in fact been very far from...the plane - and the grave - of Antoine de Saint- Exupery." Not everyone...
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Bracelet From the Sea; Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Fate Revisited
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/31/1998; ; 568 words
; ...World War II airplane of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, despite misgivings...bracelet bearing Saint-Exupery's name and a piece...depth of 8,200 feet. Saint-Exupery, who pioneered...months after Saint-Exupery disappeared. The author...
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery remains an attractive figure to contemplate, and the mystery of his death 60 years ago has now been cleared up.(The Week)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Review; 5/3/2004; 546 words
; * Antoine de Saint-Exupery remains an attractive figure to contemplate...excellent biography of Lindbergh, Saint-Exupery, in New York before the war, had...probably unknowable. A big loss, Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Mystery behind author Antoine de Saint-Exupery's death solved
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 3/17/2008; 622 words
; ...wondering whether French author Antoine de Saint-Exupery's death during World War II...he had know it was de Saint-Exupery in the plane, he would never...quoted him, as saying. Saint-Exupery, still remembered as one of...
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... and Antoine de Saint-Exupery's.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Book; 9/1/2000; 449 words
; As fans of Antoine de Saint-Exupery celebrate the centennial of his birth, a deep-sea diver may...crash remains unknown. Though a bracelet thought to belong to Saint-Exupery has been found in the same area as the plane debris, the French...
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