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His father committed suicide in 1920 [2] and his mother remarried in 1926; Maurice subsequently took the name of his adoptive father, the lawyer René Druon (1874–1961). He was the nephew of the writer Joseph Kessel , with whom he translated the " Chant des Partisans ", a French Resistance anthem of World War II , with music and words (in ...
File information Description Feed pump and retaining winch on an early ice drilling rig on the Hintereisferner.The location is described as "La place choisie pour les expériences était située à 3.500 mètres du front du glacier, entre la rive gauche et la moraine médiane issue de la Langtaufererspitze."
Martin dubbed The Accursed Kings "the original game of thrones", citing Druon's novels as an inspiration for his own series A Song of Ice and Fire. [1] [19] [2] [5] Martin's UK publisher HarperCollins began reissuing the long out of print Accursed Kings series in 2013, [1] [2] with Martin himself writing an introduction. [19] [2] [5] He wrote:
The Pond brothers were part of an active artists' scene in Chicago that included Lorado Taft, Bert Leston Taylor, Jane Addams, and Harriet Monroe. The brothers were founding members of the Cliff Dwellers Club of Chicago, of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Ogle County, Illinois, and associated with Jane Addams ' Hull House in Chicago, for whom ...
Pond at Cornjum, Netherlands A man made pond at sunset in Montgomery County, Ohio. A young man near a Pond at Bihar, India in 2022 Stereoscopic image of a pond in Central City Park, Macon, GA, c. 1877. A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression, either naturally or artificially.
Cora Scott Pond was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, March 2, 1856.She was a second cousin on her father's side of General Winfield Scott.Her father, Levi Wesley Pond (1827–1908) born in Calais, Maine, was a successful inventor of machinery and booms for milling and logging purposes, and one of the early pioneers in Wisconsin. [6]
The Possessors (French: Les Grandes familles) is a 1958 French drama film directed by Denys de La Patellière, starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Brasseur, Bernard Blier, Jean Desailly, Françoise Christophe and Annie Ducaux.
Tumut Pond Dam (/ ˈ tj uː m ə t /) [1] is a major gated concrete arch dam across the upper reaches of the Tumut River in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.The dam's main purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and is one of the sixteen major dams that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia ...