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France Targets Defence Industry for Overhaul.
; ...capacity is estimated to be 30 percent below that of the UK. According to one parliamentarian with a close interest in defence, Foulques de la Motte de Broons de Vauvert, equipment is available for the French forces an average 45 percent of the time, while France...
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Great-grandfather of science Roger Bacon was too far ahead of his time to be much of an influence, says Anthony Daniels
; ...lucky not to lose his life. In the meantime, however, Bacon wrote several books, three of them at the behest of Cardinal de Foulques who acted as his protector and who later became Pope Clement IV (unfortunately for Bacon dying before he could do much to improve...
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France targets defence.
; ...operational capacity is estimated to be 30% below that of the UK. According to one parliamentarian with a close interest in defence, Foulques de la Motte de Broons de Vauvert, equipment is available for the French forces an average 45% of the time, while Frances sole...
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Travel: The millers' tales of toil They're big, chunky and in full working order. Anthony Peregrine derives a childish pleasure from the simple workings of Anjou's surviving family mills
; ...erotic dimension. Nor understandably, do mills pack the cultural punch of, say, the region's chateaux. Few millers can match Foulques Nerra, the 11th- century Count of Anjou, who set fire to his wife in Angers castle before taking over much of western France...
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King graces silver jubilee
; ...Hamidah Ibrahim, Min Karim, Fadilah Wambeck and Fadzilah Ahmad.-By Fariz Iswadi Ismail.; From left: Nor Zalia Sham Shamsul Bahar, Foulques de Villaret and Lasty Sinuraya.-By Fariz Iswadi Ismail.; From left: Hazlina Abdul Halim, Haslinda Md Isa, Nur Ashikin Mohd...
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Grand designs ; Natasha Edwards explores the chateaux of the Loire
; ...you get two castles spanning either end of the medieval city. The first is the 11th century square keep of Foulques Nerra (Black Foulques), one of the broody Angevin bunch, adjoined by the 15th century martellet. The keep has an empty core but...
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