British Army Aid Group
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British Army Aid Group (BAAG), escape and evasion organization formed in south China by an Australian doctor, Lt-Colonel Lindsay Ride, after
Hong Kong fell in December 1941. It was part of
MI9. Its medical posts gave succour to escapers while its Hong Kong Chinese agents acted as
Coast Watchers, undertook intelligence-gathering missions, and maintained contact with prisoner-of-war camps in Hong Kong. BAAG also helped acquire smuggled tin, rubber, and wolfram (see also
raw and synthetic materials) from Thailand and French Indo-China; disrupted the Hong Kong shipyards by encouraging key personnel to escape; and formed the China Unit from available Hong Kong service personnel which fought as the Hong Kong Volunteer Company in the
Burma campaign. Having been replaced in early 1945 by the US equivalent of MI9,
MIS-X, by May 1945 it had assisted 1,886 servicemen and civilians—including 40 US airmen—to safety.
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Buffon: A Life in Natural History
Magazine article from: Northeastern Naturalist; 1/1/2002; ; 406 words
; Buffon: A Life in Natural History. Jacques...pp. Hardcover, ISBN 0801429188. Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788), the most important...This reviewer was struck first by Buffon's attachment to reality and finally...
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Buffon: A Life in Natural History.(Review)
Magazine article from: BioScience; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...ancien regime France. Georges-Louis Leclerc (1707-1788), later comte de Buffon, was also a savant, but...changed the face of France, Buffon embodied the spirit of inquiry...late Jacques Roger restores Buffon's glory from centuries...
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Coin on a chessboard.
Magazine article from: Australian Mathematics Teacher; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...a crack between the tiles. Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon analysed this game in 1733. [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Buffon saw that the coin would not...larger squares. In this way, Buffon made the leap from probabilities...
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[pi]Re-count and recall.
Magazine article from: Australian Mathematics Teacher; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...expansion of [pi]. Re-count Count Buffon, or more strictly, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, lived from 1707 to 1788. He was a French...for an experiment in probability--the Buffon needle experiment. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...
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OVER THERE AMERICANS MAY LOVE TO HATE THE FRENCH. BUT A PARISIAN SCHOLAR SAYS THAT AMERICAN FRANCOPHOBIA IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE 200-YEAR-OLD GALLIC TRADITION OF YANKEE-BASHING.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/10/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...saw (or imagined). Consider Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte du Buffon, a leading 18th-century naturalist...Degeneration of Animals" (1766), Buffon concocted a set of bizarre taxonomies...shriveled and stunted. Of course, Buffon never actually visited the land...
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Where heroic, human meet Louvre sculpture exhibit is a step back in time.(Home Front)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 10/11/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...great: Encyclopedie author Denis Diderot; scholar Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (whose elaborately curled hair here is a telling...of French notables: * Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, his skin showing the effects of smallpox...
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Messy pilgrims blamed for puzzling fossils.
Magazine article from: Science News; 12/18/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...scientists also have weighed in on the new theory. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, called Voltaire a buffoon. "The fossils present...varieties of fish and would make a poor lunch," says Buffon. Researchers remain divided over how patterns...
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Loud snorers tune out their buzz-saw noise
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/20/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...two. What's the little "smart aleck" up to? Answer: Same thing as 18th-century French scientist Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon, also done with a bread stick, say Edward Burger and Michael Starbird in "The Heart of Mathematics...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/7/1999; 522 words
; ...Births: Thomas Luber (Thomas Erastus), theologian and physician, 1524; Queen Elizabeth I, 1533; Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, naturalist, 1707; Francois-Andre Danican Philidor, composer and chess champion, 1726; Thomas...
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The American Enemy: A Story of French Anti-Americanism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Foreign Affairs; 5/1/2005; ; 572 words
; ...as he shows, has existed in France since the days of the eighteenth-century philosopher- scientist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, to the present. And it is written with enough subtlety, complexity, and awareness of how anti...
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Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-1788)
Book article from: World of Earth Science
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-1788) French naturalist Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was an eighteenth century naturalist who advocated...
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Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, comte de
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, comte de , 1707-88, French naturalist and author. From 1739 he was...written compendium of data on natural history interspersed with Buffon's own speculations and theories. Of this work, the volumes Histoire...
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Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De ( b . Montbard...natural history . Buffon was the son of Benjamin-Fran ç ois Leclerc and Anne-Cristine...Burgundian parliament. Georges-Louis, the naturalist, was...
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Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707–88) Buffon was an extremely influential French natural philosopher whose extensive works included one of the last speculative cosmogonies: Les Époques de la Nature (1778...
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Buffon, Count (Georges-Louis Leclerc)
Book article from: Biology
Buffon, Count (Georges-Louis Leclerc) French naturalist and philosopher 1707 – 1788 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (Count Buffon), was one of the greatest French...
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