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Love in a Dead Language; A lonely translator of Native American texts finds an ancient manuscript -- and, finally, true love.
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THE TRANSLATION OF DR APELLES
A Love Story
By David Treuer
Graywolf. 315 pp. $23
In the middle of one of the most gripping action sequences in the
Aeneid, Virgil deliberately calls attention to the artificiality of
the story he is telling. It occurs in Book II, in the account of the
sack of Troy. Virgil first says the Trojan horse is made of fir; a
hundred lines later, he says it's made of maple; next it turns to
oak; and, still later, it's pine. Not only does the horse's protean
essence function as a metaphor for the inherent deceptiveness of
Greek gifts, it serves to remind us that we are ...
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Douai powers Renault's build-to-order strategy; French plant received [euro]370 million investment for production of second-generation Megane range.(News)
Magazine article from: Automotive News Europe
; ...number of suppliers. Renault's plant in Douai, France, is pioneering these concepts...companies located 1,000km away. Today at Douai, we only do it with suppliers within a distance of 2km," Vincent says. Now, Douai is in discussion to extend synchronous...
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"Under the benign sun of toleration": Mathew Carey, the Douai bible, and catholic print culture, 1789-1791.(Era overview)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Early Republic
; ...Mathew Carey published an edition of the "Douai" Bible that was both the first Roman Catholic...Dark Ages. (2) Mathew Carey's 1790 Douai Bible, the first quarto edition of the...all Challoner reprints) excluding the Douai Bible and any imprints relating to its...
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Rewriting marriage in late medieval Douai.
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review
; Late medieval Douai, one of the premier cities of the old...during marriage and governed succession. In Douai, all property brought to a marriage or...of this property. In the terminology of Douai, such a marriage had created a ravestissement...
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DELPHI THERMAL AND CALSONIC PLAN SECOND MANUFACTURING FACILITY IN DOUAI, FRANCE
PR Newswire
; ...air conditioning compressor facility in Douai, France to manufacture components that...manufacturing facility on six hectares in Douai. Today's announcement adds a production...Constructing a second manufacturing site in Douai will help Delphi Thermal gain new business...
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New mathematics findings from J.C. Douai and co-authors described.
Newspaper article from: Journal of Mathematics
; ...l-adic dilogarithm," wrote J.C. Douai and colleagues. The researchers concluded...then s(2) is also ''motivic''." Douai and colleagues published their study in...additional information, contact J.C. Douai, University of Science & Technology...
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Nissan's welding lines cause a few problems.(News)(Renault's Douai plant)
Magazine article from: Automotive News Europe
; ...euro]244 million bodyshop at Renault's Douai plant is notable for its flexibility and...welding lines supplied from Japan. But, as Douai Plant Manager Yann Vincent explains, there...considerable worries." An innovation in the new Douai bodyshop is a flexible geometry station...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Oh Brother, it's Avalon; The former Douai Abbey School, Berkshire, is being turned into tranquil and spacious new homes, with commuters counting monks among their neighbours, discovers David Spittles.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ...blaspheming at Avalon. Benedictine monks set the tone at the former Douai Abbey School, which sits in secluded splendour in the Berkshire...away. Built in 1903 after the order of monks relocated from Douai in northern France, the seminary later became a catholic boarding...
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Garbage dumped on Douai streets during demonstration
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Eighty tons of garbage is dumped in the streets of Douai in northern France after collection contractors demonstrated their anger over the planned closure of their disposal site in Sainte Marie Kerque Reuters
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EURO PROJECTS ROUND-UP.(ABN AMRO Bank N.V. and consortium of Bouygues Construction signed contract for Douai Logipole Hospital)(Eiffage contract)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Public Private Finance
; ...Hospitals A consortium of Bouygues and ABN Amro has signed a contract for the design, build, finance and operation of the Douai Logipole Hospital near Lisle in the north of France. It has a capital value of E30m (#20.4m). * Prisons Eiffage has been...
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Renault in Douai.(News)(Megane and Scenic production info)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Automotive News Europe
; Investment for new Megane range: [euro]370 million (of which [euro]244 million on a new bodyshop) Production capacity: 550,000 on three shifts (2003 production expected to be 420,000) Work force: 5,804 (night shift launched end April on one of two lines) Megane models produced (four models on two
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