geomagnetic storm
geomagnetic storm A major (sometimes global) disturbance of the Earth's magnetic field that follows violent activity on the Sun, such as flares and
coronal mass ejections, by 36–48 hours. Rapid fluctuations in the magnetic field strength and direction follow the onset of the storm, with a gradual return to normal over perhaps 2–3 days. Geomagnetic storms are often accompanied by active displays of
aurora, extending to lower latitudes than normal. Electrical currents in the ground induced during geomagnetic storms can damage power grid systems. The associated auroral effects can wreak havoc with short-wave radio communication, while currents flowing in the ionosphere can damage artificial satellites.
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A case of absurd intelligence.
Magazine article from: Spokesman Magazine; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 1/17/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 3/11/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 10/23/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 2/5/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...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; 2/12/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...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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Jean-Baptiste Marchand
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jean-Baptiste Marchand Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863-1934) was a French soldier who led an expedition from the Atlantic coast of Africa to the Nile River in order to expand French territory. He was confronted by the British at the Sudanese...
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Jean Baptiste Marchand
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jean Baptiste Marchand , 1863-1934, French explorer and...of the headwaters of the White Nile, Marchand led a heroic trek through uncharted...war; the Fashoda Incident ended with Marchand's withdrawal. Marchand fought in...
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Fashoda Incident (1898)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...July 1898, a French expedition commanded by Captain Jean-Baptiste Marchand arrived at the Sudanese outpost of Fashoda on the...Salisbury. He arrived on 19 September and met with Marchand. Kitchener claimed the entire Nile valley for Great...
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Fashoda incident
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...1896 the French dispatched a force under General Jean-Baptiste Marchand from GABON to occupy the SUDAN , at the same time...countries was extreme. In December the French ordered Marchand to withdraw, and this enabled an agreement to be...
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Painlevé, Paul
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Painlev é , and grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Painlev é , were lithographers...Through his grandmother, Euphrosine Marchand, he was a descendant of Napoleon...she died at the birth of their son Jean (1902), who become one of the...
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