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French Don Quixote descends on Brussels Staking a claim for an EU legal tongue
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Dan Bilefsky
International Herald Tribune
03-02-2007
An elder statesman of French literature who fought for the Resistance in World War II is gearing up to do battle again, in Brussels: Maurice Druon, 89, is campaigning to make French the supreme language of legal documents in the European Union.A member the Academie Francaise and the author of 60 books, Druon has been joined in this initiative by an unlikely assortment of Francophiles, politicians and aristocrats among them Nicole Fontaine, a former president of the European Parliament; Otto von Habsburg, a descendant of the German royal ...
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THE MANY LIVES OF AMAZING KNOSSOS.(Crete)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...the bead shaped like a bull's head? Knossos must have seemed eternal to the people...almost a millennium, and the community of Knossos dates back even further. It was the Stone...settlement in the Aegean Sea region. Life at Knossos (and ancient Crete in general) has been...
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Diversity in diversification: a Cretan caseload.("Knossos: Palace, City, State")("Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies, vol.2")("Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Crete: The Vrokastro Regional Survey Project, Sites and Pottery, vol.3")("The Plain of Phaistos: Cycles of Social Complexity in the Mesara Region of Crete")("Mochlos IA, Period III, Neopalatial Settlement on the Coast : The Artisans' Quarter and the Farmhouse at Chalinomouri. The sites ")("Mochlos IC, Period III, Neopalatial Settlement on the Coast: the Artisan's Quarter and the farmhouse at Chalinomouri. The Small Finds")(Book review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...ELENI HATZAKI & ADONIS VASILAKIS (ed.). Knossos: Palace, City, State (British School at Athens Studies...decades, leading to a diversity of new prospects. Knossos Knossos: Palace, City, State, represents the proceedings...
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Production and exchange of the earliest ceramic vessels in the Aegean: a view from Early Neolithic Knossos, Crete.
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...sequence of the Neolithic tell-mound at Knossos attests to the introduction of pottery...cf. Vitelli 1993). In the case of Knossos this ceramic isolation is compounded by...settlements, dominated by an isolated Knossos (e.g. Manning 1999: 470). These...
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Minoans emerging.(Knossos: the South House)(The Pseira cemetery 1: the surface survey)(The Pseira cemetery 2: excavation of the tombs)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...KNAPPETT & O.H. KRZYSZKOWSKA. Knossos: the South House (British School at...should, from the first excavations at Knossos by Minos Kalokairinos in 1878-9, the...volume in the Greek-Swedish series; for Knossos, in north-central Crete, the account...
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Knossos; palace, city, state; proceedings. (CD-ROM included).(GREAT BRITAIN, EUROPE, BALKANS, FORMER USSR)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; DF221 0-904887-45-6 Knossos; palace, city, state; proceedings. (CD...centenary of Sir Arthur Evans's excavation at Knossos. The intent of the conference was to reexamine Knossos through time and in wider contexts, and the...
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Knossos; the little palace.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 0904887502 Knossos; the little palace. Hatzaki, Eleni M. British...Supplementary; v.38 DF212 The Little Palace at Knossos is the largest house yet found within the Bronze Age town of Knossos in Greece and has been explored in archaeological...
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Making merry about modernity; Greek archaeology.(Sir Arthur Evans's romantic ideas about the Minoans)(Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...started to unearth a prehistoric mound at Knossos in Crete at the turn of the 20th century...goddess. Among those who swallowed the Knossos myth were Sigmund Freud, James Joyce...stylish and original cultural history of Knossos, which slots Evans and the Minoans into...
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AMATEUR NATURALIST From Troy to Knossos, great cities are built by industrious and social animals
Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
; ...strange a place as the ancient Greek city of Knossos must have been. Thousands of black field...reach even than the daily life of ancient Knossos. And yet, somehow it's just as close. At Knossos, there was no electricity, no gasoline...
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Consuming power: Kamares Ware in Protopalatial Knossos.
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...first palaces on Crete were constructed at Knossos and Phaistos (for locations see [ILLUSTRATION...Linear B administrative archive of LBA Knossos shows a central authority controlling...the exact size and plan of the palace at Knossos in its original form during Middle Minoan...
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Cracking the knossos code
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; Cracking the Knossos code Sara Paton THE MAN WHO DECIPHERED...his excavation of the Palace of Minos at Knossos in Crete. The tablets inscribed in Linear...leap: guessing that certain words in the Knossos tablets might be place names, he substituted...
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