Duck, Stephen
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Duck, Stephen (1705–56), began his working life as a farm labourer. Almost entirely self-educated, he took to writing verse, and came to the notice of Queen Caroline, who gave him a pension and made him a yeoman of the guard in 1733. In 1746 he was ordained but some years later, in a fit of despondency, he drowned himself. His best-known poem,
The Thresher's Labour (in heroic couplets), is a vividly realistic portrayal of the unremitting toil of the labourer's life. (See also
primitivism.)
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France to mobilize resources to support its auto industry
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 1/15/2009; 384 words
; ...President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday in Vesoul, eastern France. Following a visit to a factory of PSA Peugeot Citroen in Vesoul, Sarkozy said the government would...automobile industry. Thursday in Vesoul, the French president also asked...
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News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/18/2007; 700+ words
; ...Medal of Honor citation. On Sept. 12, 1944, in Saulx de Vesoul, France, Tominac, then a first lieutenant, charged alone...positions, surrender of a vital sector of the city Saulx de Vesoul, and the death or capture of at least 60 of the enemy. "I...
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 "Iran Times International (Washington, DC)")
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STATE REP. WOJNAROSKI REINTRODUCES TOMINAC BRIDGE-NAMING PROPOSAL
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/13/2007; 627 words
; ...country's highest honor for his actions in an attack of Saulx de Vesoul, France on Sept. 12, 1944. On that date, Tominac, then...positions, surrender of a vital sector of the city Saulx de Vesoul, and the death or capture of at least 60 of the enemy. "With...
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TOMINAC BRIDGE-NAMING BILL PASSES HOUSE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/21/2007; 587 words
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Peugeot 'space cake' causes a high in production
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; ...million bed bases. The group has its headquarters in Paris, and five plants in France (Langeac, Limoges, Noyen, Perriers and Vesoul) with a workforce of about 850. This transaction should have no impact on employment at COFEL, said Recticel, pointing out...
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Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/1997; ; 700+ words
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Vesoul
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Vesoul , town (1990 est. pop. 19,404), capital of Haute-Saône...manufactures. It is a major produce and cattle market. Formerly an earldom, Vesoul was decimated by the plague in 1586. It became part of France in 1678. There...
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Ribaucour, Albert
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...reservoir of Saint-Christophe (near Rognes, Bouches-du-Rh ô ne) were especially praised. After a short stay at Vesoul (Haute-Saone) in order to receive the title of hcief enginner, Ribaucour was sent to Algeria, where from 1886 until his...
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Gérôme, Jean-Léon
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Gérôme, Jean-Léon ( b Vesoul, nr. Besançon, 11 May 1824; d Paris, 10 Jan. 1904). French painter and (in his later career) sculptor. He...
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Humbert, Marie-Georges
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...in Paris and entered the É cole Polytechnique in 1877. For several years he worked as a mining engineer: first in Vesoul and then in Paris, where the É cole Polytechnique and the É cole des Mines were quick to add him to their teaching...
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Haute-Saône
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Haute-Saône , department (1990 pop. 229,300), E France, in Franche-Comté . It is mainly agricultural. Vesoul is the capital.
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