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  2. History of free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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    The concept of free sharing of technological information existed long before computers. For example, in the early years of automobile development, one enterprise owned the rights to a 2-cycle gasoline engine patent originally filed by George B. Selden. [1]

  3. Portal:Free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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    Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is distributed in a manner that allows its users to run the software for any purpose, to redistribute copies of it, and to examine, study, and modify, the source code. FOSS is also a loosely associated movement of multiple organizations, foundations, communities and individuals who share ...

  4. Chasse-galerie - Wikipedia

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    La Chasse-galerie by Henri Julien, 1906, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. La Chasse-galerie, also known as "The Bewitched Canoe" or "The Flying Canoe", is a popular French-Canadian tale of lumberjacks from camps working around the Gatineau River who make a deal with the devil, a variant of the Wild Hunt.

  5. Here and Elsewhere - Wikipedia

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    Here and Elsewhere (French: Ici et Ailleurs) is a 1976 documentary film by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville.It is a film essay, narrated by Godard and Miéville, which began as a film entitled Jusqu'à la victoire (Until Victory), undertaken by the Dziga Vertov Group, the partnership of Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin who together made a number of political films between 1968 and 1972.

  6. Henri Poincaré - Wikipedia

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    Henri Poincaré did not receive the Nobel Prize in Physics, but he had influential advocates like Henri Becquerel or committee member Gösta Mittag-Leffler. [ 88 ] [ 89 ] The nomination archive reveals that Poincaré received a total of 51 nominations between 1904 and 1912, the year of his death. [ 90 ]

  7. The Basket of Apples - Wikipedia

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    Due to the lack of conventions in the depiction of the subject, Cézanne was given the freedom to create meaning within this largely untouched area. With his paintings of still life, Cézanne effectively reinvented and reinvigorated the subject, which then had great influence on artists of the 20th century, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse .

  8. My Last Duchess - Wikipedia

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    The speaker (presumably the Duke Alfonso of Ferrara) is giving the emissary of the family of his prospective new wife a tour of the artworks in his home. He draws a curtain to reveal a painting of a woman, explaining that it is a portrait of his late wife; he invites his guest to sit and look at the painting.

  9. Quo Vadis (novel) - Wikipedia

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    In the English-dubbed version of one Ursus film (retitled Hercules, Prisoner of Evil), Ursus was referred to throughout the entire film as Hercules. There were a total of nine Italian films that featured Ursus as the main character, listed below as follows: Italian title/ English translation of the Italian title (American release title);