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Pieter Mortier III, sometimes known as "Mortier le jeune", was active in Amsterdam between 1754 and 1781. he was known to have been a bookseller, 1763, 1764–1772, 1774–1777, 1779–1781; town printer, 1763–1781; and university printer, 1765–1766, 1771–1772, 1774, 1776, 1778–1779.
A last stand is a military situation in which a body of troops holds a defensive position in the face of overwhelming and virtually insurmountable odds. [1] Troops may make a last stand due to a sense of duty; because they are defending a tactically crucial point; to buy time to enable a trapped army, person, or group of people to escape; due ...
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In 1922 she married Pierre Mortier and took French nationality. She later became vice president of the women's section of the Aéro-Club de France (Aero Club of France). In 1956 she created the Coupe Hélène Dutrieu-Mortier (Hélène Dutrieu-Mortier Cup) with a prize of 200,000 francs for the French or Belgian female pilot who made the longest ...
A social networking service is an online platform that people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. This is a list of notable defunct social networking services that have Wikipedia articles.
Decade Description 1970s–1980s The PLATO system (developed at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation) offers early forms of social media with Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowd-sourced online newspaper, and blog; and ...
Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.
The Last Stand is a 2013 American action thriller film directed by Kim Jee-woon (in his American directorial debut). The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role, alongside Forest Whitaker , Johnny Knoxville , Rodrigo Santoro , Jaimie Alexander , Luis Guzmán , Eduardo Noriega , Peter Stormare , Zach Gilford and Genesis Rodriguez .