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Sykes–Picot Agreement. The Sykes–Picot Agreement (/ ˈsaɪksˈpiːkoʊ, - pɪˈkoʊ, - piːˈkoʊ / [ 1 ]) was a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from Russia and Italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire. The agreement was based ...
Official website. Signature. Henry Ross Perot Sr. (/ pəˈroʊ / ⓘ pə-ROH; June 27, 1930 – July 9, 2019) was an American businessman, politician and philanthropist. He was the founder and chief executive officer of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems. He ran an independent campaign in the 1992 U.S. presidential election and a third ...
Fraser and Navarro write that Juan Perón was a complicated man who over the years stood for many different, often contradictory, things. [95] In the book Inside Argentina from Perón to Menem author Laurence Levine, former president of the US-Argentine Chamber of Commerce , writes, "although anti-Semitism existed in Argentina, Perón's own ...
The 9th Cannes Film Festival was held from 23 April to 10 May 1956. [4] The Palme d'Or went to The Silent World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle. [5] The festival opened with Marie-Antoinette reine de France, directed by Jean Delannoy and closed with Il tetto by Vittorio De Sica. [6] [7]
Armistice of 22 June 1940. The Armistice of 22 June 1940, sometimes referred to as the Second Armistice at Compiègne, was an agreement signed at 18:36 on 22 June 1940 [1] near Compiègne, France by officials of Nazi Germany and the French Third Republic. It became effective at midnight on 25 June. Signatories for Germany included Wilhelm ...
The 15th Cannes Film Festival was held from 7 to 23 May 1962. [ 4 ] The Palme d'Or went to the O Pagador de Promessas by Anselmo Duarte. [ 5 ] The festival opened with Les Amants de Teruel, directed by Raymond Rouleau. During the Cannes Film Festival of 1961, Robert Favre le Bret, Artistic Director of the Cannes Film Festival, with the ...
Budget. $300,000 (est.) Box office. 1,310,579 admissions (France) [1] Pierrot le Fou (pronounced [pjɛʁo lə fu], French for "Pierrot the Fool") is a 1965 French New Wave romantic crime drama road film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina. The film is based on the 1962 novel Obsession by Lionel ...
The festival opened on May 10 with the 70 mm restored version of Gone with the Wind, directed by Victor Fleming. [10] American film actress and Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly served as the host of the opening and closing ceremonies. [3] Personalities of French cinema were sensitive to the demonstrations which were taking place in Paris.