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Alt., MDR. Abbreviation in SMS, akin to LOL; for mort de rire (mort, adj. or verb, past tense), or mourir de rire (mourir, verb, infinitive). Lit., as adjective or past tense, dead or died of laughing, so "died laughing" or "dying of laughter"; compare mort de faim for starve. mélange a mixture. mêlée a confused fight; a struggling crowd.
The Drownings at Nantes, anonymous period painting, Musée d'histoire de Nantes The first drownings happened on the night of 16 November 1793 (26 Brumaire Year II of the French Republic ). The victims were 160 Catholic priests known as ' refractory clergy ' ( French : clergé réfractaire ) who had been arrested in the area.
According to historian Jacques Delarue, a witness to the operation, 200 police inspectors from Paris and elsewhere, 15 compagnies of the Groupe mobile de réserve (GMR) and squads of French gendarmes and mobile guards (gardes mobiles) were brought to Marseille for the operation. In total, "approximatively 12,000 police men found themselves ...
The limited edition has 66 tracks. Tracks 12 to 65 are blank tracks. On the re-release versions boxed with other Destruction albums on Nuclear Blast, the re-recorded version of "Curse The Gods" is at track 12.
The young girl was shot in the leg, while the coward who used her mother as a shield was not injured. A witness leaving a nearby dollar store told NBC 4 she heard about a dozen gunshots and then ...
The destruction of large buildings has become increasingly common as the massive housing projects of the 1960s and 1970s are being leveled around the world. At 439 feet (134 m) and 2,200,000 square feet (200,000 m 2 ), the J. L. Hudson Department Store and Addition is the tallest steel framed building and largest single structure ever imploded .
Patel also was involved in efforts to bring some of the most-wanted terrorists to the U.S. for prosecution, and worked on Trump administration efforts to return dozens of U.S. hostages back home.
Courrières mine disaster - Rescuer equipped with Guglielminetti-Drager breathing apparatus (front). Rescue attempts began quickly on the morning of the disaster, but were hampered by the lack of trained mine rescuers in France at that time, and by the scale of the disaster: some two-thirds of the miners in the mine at the time of the explosion perished, while many survivors suffered from the ...