ISO 3166-2:FR - ISO 3166-2:FR ISO 3166-2 codes for France consist of the ISO 3166-1 code FR the hyphen and 2 numbers for the metropolitain départements (except the two departements on Corsica which have 2A and 2B). The codes are identical with the standard departement numbering. 2 letters for the territorial collectivites and for the overseas territories. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such. Anywhere where a short alphanumeric code can serve to clearly indicate a location in a more convenient and less ambiguous form than the full place name. US readers may wish to consider them as the equivalent of worldwide zip or postal codes. Within the Wikipedia, the codes from.
Union of International Associations (UIA) - Promote research on the legal, administrative and other problems common to these international associations, especially in their contacts with governmental bodies. To these ends, maintain contact with a wide variety of bodies in all parts of the world, as a foundation for better organizational networking and programme harmonization in response to networks of increasingly complex world problems. Special concern for the legal status and security of international NGOs. 4. General Assembly, Executive Council and administration The General Assembly elects an Executive Council of 15 to 21 members for 4-year term every two years. Full Members are limited in number to 250 individuals and subject to election by General Assembly. Associate Members are admitted as observers at meetings. The programme, under the direction of the Secretary-General is carried out by the Secretariat.
Talking to Americans - like the Saskatchewan seal hunt. The most famous segment featured Mr. Mercer in 2000 asking then-presidential candidate George W. Bush – who had previously stated that "you can't stump me on world leaders" – for his reaction to an endorsement by Canadian Prime Minister "Jean Poutine". Bush responded diplomatically and said he looked forward to working together with his future counterpart to the north. However, the prime minister's name (back then) was Jean Chrétien; poutine is a French-Canadian fast food dish of french fries and cheese curd, and also was potentially inspired by recent jokes about Russian president Vladimir Putin who has a similar name. Also, Chrétien had not endorsed any candidate at the time and, in any event, it does not behoove the head of a neighboring country's government to.
List of WOSM members - sex (United States) or race (Israel). World Organization of the Scout Movement Members Country Membership (from 2000 or most recent available info) Name of Member Organization Year Current Scouting Organization joined WOSM Year Member Organization was founded Albania 1,730 Besa Skaut Albania 1999 1922 Algeria 11,120 Scouts Musulmans Algériens 1963 1939 Angola 13,777 Associação de Escuteros de Angola 1998 1998 Argentina 44,981 Scouts de Argentina 1922 1912 Armenia 2,256 Hayastani Azgayin Scautakan Sharjum Kazmakerputiun 1997 1912 Australia 98,084 Scouts Australia 1953 1908 Austria 13,785 Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs 1922 1912 Azerbaijan 1,414 Azerbaican Skaut Assosiasiyasi 2000 1997 the Bahamas 729 The Scout Association of the Bahamas 1974 1913 Bahrain 1,820 Boy Scouts of Bahrain 1970 1953 Bangladesh 908,435 Bangladesh Scouts 1974 19 Barbados 3,032 Barbados Boy Scouts Association 1969 1972 Belarus.
Jacques de Vaucanson - Vaucanson (February 24,1709-November 21,1782) was a French engineer and inventer who is credited for creating the world's first true robots, as well as for creating the first completely automated loom. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early life 2 Career as Inventor of Automatons 3 Appointment to French Government 4 Legacy 5 See also 6 External sources Early life He was born in Grenoble, France in 1709 as Jacques Vaucanson (the particle "de" was later added to his name by the Académie des Sciences [1]). The son of a glove-maker, he grew up poor, and in his youth he reportedly aspired to become a clockmaker [1]. He studied under the Jesuits and later joined the Order of the Minims in Lyon. It was his intention at the time to follow a course.
Département - Map and list of départements 4 Former départements Administrative role Each département is administered by a Conseil Général elected for six years, and by a préfet appointed by the French government and assisted by one or more sous-préfets based in district centres outside the departmental capital. An administrative reform in 1982 transferred some of the préfet's powers to the president of the Conseil Général. The capital city of a département bears the title of préfecture. Départements are divided into one to five arrondissements. The capital city of an arrondissement is called the sous-préfecture. The civil servant in charge is the sous-préfet. The départements sub-divide into communes, governed by municipal councils. France (as of 1999) had 36,779 communes. Most of the départements have an area of around 4,000-8,000 km² and a population.
Abbreviation - particular collocations of letters represented by somewhat arbitrary symbols. The commonest form of abbreviation is the substitution for a word of its initial letter; but, with a view to prevent ambiguity, one or more of the other letters are frequently added. In some languages, letters are often doubled to indicate a plural or a superlative. In modern English there are several conventions in use for abbreviations and it may not be clear which one is best. Publishers sometimes express their preferences in a style guide. Some of the questions which may arise: Upper or lower case letters? If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation will also be capital, e.g., U.S. for United States. But when abbreviating lower case letters, there is no clear guide. Usage.
Phelsuma - novorum ab ill. Dr. Christ Rutenberg in insula Madagascar collectorum. Zool. Anz. Leipzig 4: 46-48. Boettger, O. (1881 b). Reliquiae Rutenbergiana II: Reptilien und Amphibien. Abl. bremer naturwiss. Ver. Bremen 7: 177-190. Boettger, O. (1881 c) Die Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagaskar. Dritten Nachtrag Abh. senck. naturfors. Gesellschaft 12: 435-558. Boettger, O. (1893). Katalog der Reptilien Sammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. I. Teil Frankfurt a/M.Gesellschaft 12: 435-558. Boettger, O. (1894). Diagnose eines Geckos und Chameleons aus Südmadagascar. Zool. Anzeiger (Leipzig) 17: 137-140. Boettger, O. (1913). Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagaskar, den Inseln und dem Festland Ostafrikas (Sammlung Voeltzkow 1889-1895 und 1903-1905) in: Voeltzkow, A. 1908-1917, Reise in Ostafrika. Stuttgart 3: 269-375. Böhme, W. & Meier, H. (1981) Eine neue form der madagascariensis-Gruppe der Gattung Phelsuma.
Politics of Gabon - Democratique Gabonais (BDG), led by Leon M'Ba, and the Union Democratique et Sociale Gabonaise (UDSG), led by J.H. Aubame. In the first post-independence election, held under a parliamentary system, neither party was able to win a majority. The BDG obtained support from three of the four independent legislative deputies, and M'Ba was named prime minister. Soon after concluding that Gabon had an insufficient number of people for a two-party system, the two party leaders agreed on a single list of candidates. In the February 1961 election, held under the new presidential system, M'Ba became president and Aubame foreign minister. This one-party system appeared to work until February 1963, when the larger BDG element forced the UDSG members to choose between a merger of the parties or resignation. The UDSG cabinet ministers.
French horn - French horn The French horn is a brass instrument consisting of tubing wrapped into a coiled form. It is also known as simply the horn, or, in other languages, cor, corno, etc. Compared to the other brass instruments commonly found in the orchestra, the typical range of the french horn is set an octave higher in its harmonic series, facilitated by its small, deep mouthpiece, giving it its characteristic "mellow" tone. History The original French Horns were much simpler than current horns, which consist of complicated tubing and a set of 3 to 5 valves (depending on the type of horn). These early horns were simply brass tubing wound a few times and flared into a larger opening at the end (called the bell of the.
French phrases used by English speakers - French phrases used by English speakers Here are some examples of French phrases used by English speakers. There are many words of French origin in English, such as croissant, baguette, naive (sometime spelled with an accentuated i), police, routine, machine, and hors d'Å“uvres, but this article covers only words and phrases that remain identifiably French. That said, the phrases are given as used in English, and may seem more French to English speakers than they do to French speakers. The general rule is that if the word or phrase looks better in italics, it has retained its French identity, but if it doesn't need italics, it has probably passed over into English. Note that these phrases are pronounced using the French rules, and not the English.
Second French Empire - Second French Empire This article is part of the History of France series. Gaul Franks France in the Middle Ages Valois Dynasty Bourbon Dynasty French Revolution First French Empire French Restoration Second Republic Second French Empire Third Republic France during World War II Fourth Republic Fifth Republic The Second French Empire or Second Empire was the imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second republic and the Third Republic, in France. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Steps towards Empire 2 Ideals of Napoleon III 3 Prosperity and Culture 4 Foreign Affairs 4.1 The Crimean War 4.2 The Italian Question 4.3 Franco-Prussian War Steps towards Empire The anti-parliamentary constitution instituted by Napoleon III on January 14, 1852 was largely a repetition of that.
Glossary of the French Revolution - Glossary of the French Revolution This is a glossary of the French Revolution. It generally does not explicate names of individual people or their political associations; those can be found in List of people associated with the French Revolution. The terminology routinely used in discussing the French Revolution can be confusing, even daunting. The same political faction may be referred to by different historians (or by the same historian in different contexts) by different names. During much of the revolutionary period, the French used a newly invented calendar that fell into complete disuse after the revolutionary era. Different legislative bodies had rather similar names, not always translated uniformly into English. This article is intended as a central place to clarify these issues. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1.
French language - French language French (la langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered only by Spanish and Portuguese. French is the 11th most spoken language in the world, spoken by about 77 million people as a mother tongue, and 128 million including second language speakers, in 1999. It is an official or administrative language in various communities and organizations (such as the European Union, IOC, United Nations and Universal Postal Union). French Spoken in: France and 53 other countries. Region: Total speakers: 77 Million Ranking: 11 Genetic classification: Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Western Western Gallo-Iberian Gallo-Romance Gallo-Rhaetian Oïl French Official status Official language of: France and 24 other countries Regulated by: Académie française Language codes ISO 639-1: fr ISO 639-2(B): fre ISO 639-2(T): fra SIL:.
French Sudan - French Sudan French Sudan (Fr. Soudan) was a colony in French West Africa that had two separate periods of existence, first from 1890 to 1899, then from 1920 to 1958, when the territory became the independent nation of Mali. It was created as a French territory on September 9, 1880 as "Upper Senegal", and was renamed the "French Sudan Territory" on August 18, 1890, with its capital at Kayes. On October 10, 1899 French Sudan was broken up; 11 southern provinces went to French Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Dahomey, although two were returned in the following year. In 1902 the parts of the colony not organized into military districts became Senegambia and Niger, then Upper Senegal and Niger in 1904, then the old name came back.
Information science glossary of terms - between browsing and searching is that with browsing you have very little advance knowledge of what will be on the next page. A call number is an identification marker used in libraries to categorize and locate books and other resources. Each resource is assigned a combination of letters and numbers which correspond with a location in the library. For example the call number for the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is BF76.7 .P83 2001. A catalog is a complete and systematically organized enumeration of items, particularly the complete enumeration of a libraries' resources on a set of paper cards (card catalog) or in an electronic database (bibliographic database). A citation is the quoting or mentioning of a source. All works used in preparing a paper should be cited. A.
Guide - Guide The term "guide" refers to an agency for directing or showing the way, specifically a person who leads or directs a stranger over unknown or unmapped country, or conducts travellers and tourists through a town, or over buildings of interest. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Etymology 2 Military Usages 3 Mountaineering 4 Other Usages Etymology The word guide (Middle English gyde, derives from the from the French guide; and ultimately from the earlier French form guie (English “guy”). The /d/ sound originates with the Italian form guida; the word probably ultimately derives from the Teutonic, having connections with the base seen in Old English witan (to know). Military Usages In European wars up to the time of the French Revolution, the absence of large-scale detailed.
François Guizot - (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator and statesman. He was born at Nîmes of a bourgeoisProtestant family. His parents, at the time of their union, could not be publicly or legally married by a Protestant pastor, and the ceremony had to take place in secret. The liberal opinions of his family did not, however, save them from the sanguinary intolerance of the Reign of Terror, and on April 8 1794 his father died on the scaffold at Nîmes. From then on, the boy's mother was completely responsible for his upbringing. She was a woman of slight appearance and of homely manners, but had great strength of character and judgment. Madame Guizot was a typical Huguenot of the 16th century, stern in her principles and faith, immovable.
Franz Bopp - was here that his attention was drawn to the languages and literature of the East by the eloquent lectures of Karl J Windischmann, who, with GF Creuzer, JJ Görres, and the brothers Schlegel, was full of enthusiasm for Indian wisdom and philosophy. And further, Fr. Schlegel's book, Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (Heidelberg, 1808), which was just then exerting a powerful influence on the minds of German philosophers and historians, could not fail to stimulate also Bopp's interest in the sacred language of the Hindus. In 1812 he went to Paris at the expense of the Bavarian government, with a view to devote himself vigorously to the study of Sanskrit. There he enjoyed the society of such eminent men as AL Chézy, S de Sacy, LM Langlès, and, above.
Frederic Passy - Passy Frederic Passy, (1822-1912) French economist and advocate of international arbitration who was cowinner (with Jean-Henri Dunant) of the first Nobel Prize for Peace in 1901. References info about Frederic Passy.
