Appalachian orogenic belt
Appalachian orogenic belt A 3200 km long,
Palaeozoic,
orogenic belt extending from Newfoundland to Alabama and interpreted as the consequence of the closure of the Iapetus Ocean. Extensions of the belt along
strike include the Caledonian orogenic belt (see
CALEDONIAN OROGENY) in north-western Europe, now separated by the Atlantic Ocean. The deformation in the Appalachian belt ranges from late
Precambrian to
Permian, divided into four major
orogenies (
Avalonian,
Taconic,
Acadian, and
Alleghanian), with the transport of
thrust-
nappes predominantly north-westwards.
Seismic reflection profiling by
COCORP has supported, at least for the southern Appalachians, recent interpretations of a thin-skinned tectonic style in which a few kilometres' thickness of highly deformed material has been thrust westward for at least 200 km.
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A cache of omnibus meanings.(THE HOME FORUM)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 3/16/2007; 700+ words
; ...pronounced "kash") and cachet (rhymes with "sashay") fall...or even "cache." Cache and cachet seem to pop up in each other...instance - and the Arctic. A cachet, on the other hand, was originally...though. A letter of cachet (lettre de cachet, in French) was...
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Voltaire vs. Intolerance.(18th-century French writer)
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 12/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Letters. The printer was imprisoned in the Bastille. A lettre de cachet for the elusive Voltaire's immediate arrest was...Through the intercession of powerful friends, the lettre de cachet against Voltaire was withdrawn, again on the promise...
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Arriving au naturel is a risky suggestion, n'est-ce pas?
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/29/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Many writers have a problem with "cachet." They also have a problem with...century French word for "seal." A lettre de cachet bore the king's seal, pressed...document. Over the course of time, "cachet" took on a connotation of prestige...
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Candy is dandy. (Swiss chocolatiers buy into British candy firms)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 5/9/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...dandy Swiss chocolate has developed a certain worldwide cachet, but when Swiss chocolatiers Nestle and Suchard pounced...candymaker Rowntree PLC, the effect was more like a dreaded lettre de cachet for the British sweets industry. The York confectioner...
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Who loved the Marquis de Sade? That's a bit of a sore point
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 7/18/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...that supplied judges and administrators. The social cachet lent by her daughter's marriage with a real marquis...in motion to have him imprisoned without trial by a lettre de cachet from the king. She was to pursue him remorselessly...
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Trampling Over Rights In the Name of Freedom.(Politics&Opinions)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 7/15/2002; 700+ words
; ...same time that the War on Drugs ends. Now that the lettre de cachet has been made an administrative tool, an unknown number...entire Cold War without once resorting to lettres de cachet. The Soviets, you may recall, really did have weapons...
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Bad Boy of The Bastille
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/13/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...asylum, a predatory mother-in-law, and literary cachet to boot. Best of all, every sordid turn of the tale...chided King Louis XVI himself into issuing a warrant, or lettre de cachet, for Sade's arrest. Sade spent a good portion of...
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The Kach hit list. (Kach Party threatens supporters of Palestinian rights) (Beat the Devil) (column)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 12/31/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...skirting the issue. I asked Said what he thought about the tomblike silence from his fellow intellectuals regarding the lettre de cachet from the Kahanians. "I'm almost speechless but not entirely surprised. This is an inconvenient cause:' By way...
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Incorruptible // French Revolution springs to life on the Bailiwick stage
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/9/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...lofty ambitions; high ideals collided with harsh reality. Against the monarchic tyranny symbolized by the hated lettre de cachet - a royal order by which any person could be imprisoned without legal process - there stood a vision of humanity remade...
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Interfering Eurocrats see stars as Powell lays down the law
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 3/11/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...did not fully demonstrate the extravagant pretensions of the Fourth Reich (Whoops! that observation could earn a lettre de cachet, prescribing a life sentence in a Brussels oubliette). The history of the Connolly case is even more incredible...
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Lettre De Cachet
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
LETTRE DE CACHET LETTRE DE CACHET. The term "lettre de cachet" refers to arrest warrants...in a traditional society based on hierarchy and privilege. The lettre de cachet allowed families to defend their honor without risking the damaging...
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lettre de cachet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
lettre de cachet , formerly in French law, private, sealed document, issued as a...individual without recourse to courts of law. Of very early origin, the lettre de cachet came into common use in the 17th cent. as an instrument of the new...
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Voltaire
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Catherine Olympe Dunoyer, who was pretty but barely educated. Their marriage was stopped. Under the threat of a lettre de cachet (an official letter from a government calling for the arrest of a person) obtained by his father, Voltaire returned...
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Pluche, Noël-Antoine
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...post the following year when he refused to sign any retraction. Fearing that the king would grant his superiors the lettre de cachet that they were seeking against him, Pluche, under the assumed name of the Abb é No ë l, took refuge...
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Bastille
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Aubriot, provost of the merchants [mayor] of Paris under King Charles V. Arbitrary and secret imprisonment by lettre de cachet gave rise to stories of horror, but actually the Bastille was generally used for persons of influence, and its regime...
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