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SHOT Show '99: a time to shine.(firearms industry's Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show)
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April 1, 1999|
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INDUSTRY ROLLS UP ITS SLEEVES AND GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS DESPITE LAWSUIT MANIA
SHOT Show '99 Atlanta proved to be one of the most successful in recent history. It could have been different. Experts expected the gun industry - battered by big-city lawsuits, including a threatened one by the mayor of Atlanta - to be preoccupied. They proved to be wrong. Instead, the industry rolled up its sleeves and got down to business.
The result was, "The 21st SHOT Show experienced surprisingly strong attendance and buying activity," according to the National Shooting ...
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A case of absurd intelligence.
Magazine article from: Spokesman Magazine
; ...diplomacy. In 1896, Captain Jean-Baptiste Marchand set out from the mouth of the...peaceful settlement with Mr. Marchand. It would not have been out...1898, Lord Kitchener and Jean-Baptiste Marchand met and decided that their...
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Far-Flung Outposts of the Empire
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...of Khartoum. "I'm Captain Jean-Baptiste Marchand," comes the reply from a man...occurred on Sept. 19, 1898. Marchand claimed that Fashoda and the...French Government refused to give Marchand the order to withdraw. On their...
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Our great betrayal of Africa The British-French rivalry, stretching back 120 years, has done irrepar able harm throughout the continent
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...government secretly dispatched Major Jean-Baptiste Marchand with a handful of French officers...from the south west. It took Marchand two years to make his way up...under French "Protection". Marchand himself was in serious danger...
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A Dot That Changed Africa's Map
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...under the command of Captain Jean-Baptiste Marchand had set out from the western...Egypt. The resourceful Captain Marchand and a small detachment of troops...the Nile, to confront Captain Marchand with his vastly superior forces...
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Of Cameras, Trains, and Roads: French Colonial Conquest and Cinematographic Practice
Magazine article from: Black Renaissance
; ...front of these children of nature, as Jean-Jacques used to say, there is no higher...and elsewhere. Yours, The Colonel Marchand.(1) The author of this letter, Colonel Jean-Baptiste Marchand, is the man who led the famous mission...
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A Pan-African composer? Coleridge-Taylor and Africa.
Magazine article from: Black Music Research Journal
; ...small advance party of French troops led by Captain Jean-Baptiste Marchand at Fashoda, farther south on the Nile. It was not...opinion in the depths of the Dreyfus crisis, ordered Marchand to withdraw (Lewis 1988, 200-205, 227; Wesseling...
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Review of Robert Aldrich's Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History Australia
; ...and the partly destroyed commemoration in Paris of Jean Baptiste Marchand's African expedition in 1898 which led to sabre...seriously vandalised and, in 1983, the figure of Captain Marchand was blown up by person or persons unknown. It has...
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France's unconvincing ode to immigrants iht.com/culture
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Across the street, a memorial from 1934 honors Jean-Baptiste Marchand, who helped spread French rule in Africa. Standing tall in crisp tropical-weight military wools, Marchand leads a troupe of half-naked African servants...
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An obscure event resurrected from the footnote heap
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...battled its way south, and the French commander, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, who had led a disaster-plagued expedition east...justice to the adventures that set Kitchener and Marchand to making champagne toasts (and not-too-subtle...
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THE EUROPEAN SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...triumphant bloody slaughter of Omdurman, arrived at Fashoda in 1898 to remove Capt. Jean-Baptiste Marchand and his little French force, France capitulated. Marchand had just led a tiny, 18-month expedition east from Brazzaville in the French...
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