welterweight
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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welterweight a weight in boxing and other sports intermediate between lightweight and middleweight, which in the amateur boxing scale ranges from 63.5–67 kg. It is recorded from the early 19th century, but the origin of
welter is unknown.
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When Michel and Philippe got 'married' A new French law is allowing gay couples (and straight couples who don't like religious vows) to get officially hitched.
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 6/8/2000; ; 700+ words
; IT was Michel's and Philippe's big day. They...that they are officially a couple. Michel Da Silva and Philippe Colomb are what is known in France as "pacs...between gay couples. For gay men like Michel and Philippe, who pacs-ed at the...
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Stendhal, L'Ame et la musique: Vies de Haydn, de Mozart et de Metastase. Vie de Rossini, Notes d'un dilettante. (book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...pas ce projet. En 1867, a l'initiative de Romain Colomb, paraissent dans les Melanges d'art et de litterature...fevrier 1826, sous le titre Notes d'un Dilettante (Michel Levy). Colomb ne connaissait pas l'existence des autres articles...
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Stendhal. Correspondance generale.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Williamson, de Jacques Houbert et de Michel- E. Slatkine. Paris: Librairie...Stendhal (Henri Beyle) chez Michel Levy, Romain Colomb a fait paraitre deux volumes de...cousin etaient encore en vie, Colomb a pris la partie de couper certains...
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Robert A. Brightman. Acadohkiwina and Acimowina: Traditional Narratives of the Rock Cree Indians.(Book review)
Magazine article from: American Review of Canadian Studies; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...acadohkiwin narratives, or wisahkicahk (trickster) stories, translated and presented by Johnny Bighetty, Cornelius Colomb, Jeremiah Michel, and Albert Umferville. The distinction between stories was determined with "improvised titles to mark the...
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Doughty burghers have no truck with the herd instinct
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/3/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...over his lean Socialist opponent, Gerard Colomb, during the election, conveying the...soft retirement. Now, both Lyons and Mr Colomb seem pleasantly surprised. So does Mr...conviction for corruption of the last mayor, Michel Noir, contributed to it but what really...
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Resurgences baroques.
Magazine article from: Etc. Montreal; 6/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...a titre d'exemple la mise en scene de l'opera Christophe Colomb, par Peter Greenaway. La /s?/ toute-puissance de la masse...la complication comme /s?/ type de sensibilite /s?/ (Michel Maffesoli), ou de la pluralite mythique des recits latino...
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Soc: Lyon eye Champions League after claiming fourth title
Newspaper article from: AAP Sports News (Australia); 5/9/2005; 413 words
; ...financial efforts for the next season," club chairman Jean-Michel Aulas said after Lyon's 2-1 victory over AC Ajaccio gave...patient work over the last 10 years." Lyon's mayor Gerard Colomb added: "Having a club which brings you a title every year...
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Resurgences baroques. Les trajectoires d'un processus transculturel (Livres et revues - Books and Magazines).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...greater than] comme semble lillustrer l'opera Christophe Colomb de Darius Milhaud mis en scene en 1998 par Peter Greenaway lequel...obedience principalement deleuzienne--est egalement proposee chez Michel Maffesoli en terme de [much less than]nouvelle sensibilite...
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Colonial Psychiatry and 'the African mind.'
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; Given the extraordinary academic industry initiated by Michel Foucault on the discourses of Western medicine and psychiatry...ethnopsychiatry. And the role of African psychiatrists (Lambo, Asuni, Colomb, Diop) in Nigeria and Senegal is neglected. His choice of...
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Michel Colomb
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Michel Colomb , c.1430-1512, French sculptor, one of the masters of the French...Francis II, duke of Brittany (completed 1507; Nantes). A relief by Colomb, St. George and the Dragon (Louvre), shows a high degree of imagination...
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Michel de Ghelderode
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Michel de Ghelderode , 1898-1962, Belgian dramatist. He wrote in French and is...Hop Signor! (1935). Complex dramatic techniques are used in Christophe Colomb (1927) and Don Juan (1928). Ghelderode favored themes of death and the...
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Ghelderode, Michel de
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Ghelderode, Michel de (1898–1962), Belgian dramatist, writing in French...was eventually withdrawn. His numerous other plays include Christophe Colomb (1927) and La Mort du Docteur Faust (1928), part of a group inspired...
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Montand, Yves
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...sont fatigués (Heroes and Sinners ) (Ciampi) (as Michel Rivière) 1956 Marguerite de la nuit (Autant-Lara...1967 Vivre pour vivre (Live for Life ) (Lelouch) (as Robert Colomb) 1968 Un soir, un train (One Night, a Train ) (Delvaux...
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Karyo, Tcheky 1953–
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...L'amour braque, 1985. Gerome Holm, Grottenolm, 1985. Michel, L'unique (also known as The Original ), 1986. Franck...1492: Conquest of Paradise (also known as 1492: Christophe Colomb, 1492: La conquete du paradis, and 1492: La conquista del...
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