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Victor Hugo Drawn to the podiatrist, Victor Hugo Drawn to the dirtiest, Victor Hugo Drawn to the diarist, or Victor Hugo Drawn to the Voudrais ?
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Saint Peter Port
Saint Peter Port town (1991 pop. 16,100), capital of Guernsey, Channel Islands. Its shallow harbor is protected by piers; vegetables, fruits, and flowers are exported. Hauteville House, the residence of Victor Hugo from 1856 to 1870, contains memorials of the author. The 13th-century Castle... Read more |
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Quasimodo
Quasimodo name of the hunchback bellringer in Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), sometimes taken as a type of courage and kindness behind an unattractive exterior.From the 1960s, Quasimodo has been used in surfing for an act of riding on a wave in a crouched position with one arm... Read more |
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Vicomte Victor Marie Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo, Vicomte , 1802-85, French poet, dramatist, and novelist, b. Besançon. His father was a general under Napoleon. As a child he was taken to Italy and Spain and at a very early age had published his first book of poems, resolving "to be Chateaubriand or nothing." The... Read more |
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Hugo Banzer Suarez
Hugo Banzer Suárez Hugo Banzer Su Read more |
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Work hours
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) Roger K. Newman The Fair Labor Standards Act regulates wages and hours in the workplace. Efforts to enact legislation limiting the number of hours a person could work in a week began early in the nineteenth century, but Congress was not able to adopt the... Read more |
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Louis Barthou
Louis Barthou , 1862-1934, French cabinet minister and man of letters. He held portfolios in numerous cabinets after 1894 and was briefly premier in July-Aug., 1913. His government was responsible for the law that increased military service from two to three years. In 1934 he became foreign minister... Read more |
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Andre Maurois
André Maurois , 1885-1967, French biographer, novelist, and essayist. His name was originally Émile Herzog. His first work, The Silence of Colonel Bramble (1918, tr. 1920), describing British military life, was highly successful. Ariel (1923, tr. 1924), a life of Shelley, was... Read more |
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Les Miserables
Les Misérables (1987). The musical play by Alain Boublil (book, lyrics), Claude‐Michel Schönberg (book, music), and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics) turned Victor Hugo's novel into a sung‐through pop operetta. It was originally released as a recording, then given a... Read more |
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Chad Hugo
The Neptunes Music producers The Neptunes—powerhouse record producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo—... Read more |
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Hugo von Mohl
MOHL, HUGO VON (b. Stuttgart, Germany, 8 April 1805; d. T Read more |
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