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  2. Marie Thérèse Coincoin - Wikipedia

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    Marie Thérèse Coincoin, [a] born as Coincoin (with no surname), [1] also known as Marie Thérèse dite Coincoin, [2] and Marie Thérèse Métoyer, [3] [4] (August 1742 – 1816) was a planter, slave owner, [1] and businesswoman at the colonial Louisiana outpost of Natchitoches (later known as Natchitoches Parish).

  3. The Quest of the Absolute - Wikipedia

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    The Quest of the Absolute (French: La Recherche de l'absolu) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. [1] The novel first appeared in 1834, with seven chapter-divisions, as a Scène de la vie privée; was published by itself in 1839 by Charpentier; and took its final place as a part of the Comédie in 1845.

  4. Dichotomic search - Wikipedia

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    There is thus some looseness in the definition. Though there may indeed be only two paths from any node, there are thus three possibilities at each step: choose one onwards path or the other, or stop at this node. Dichotomic searches are often used in repair manuals, sometimes graphically illustrated with a flowchart similar to a fault tree.

  5. The Search for Truth by Natural Light - Wikipedia

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    The Search for Truth by Natural Light [1] (La recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle) is an unfinished philosophical dialogue by René Descartes “set in the courtly culture of the ‘ honnête homme ’ and ‘ curiosité ’.” [2] It was written in French (presumably after the Meditations was completed [3]) but that was lost around 1700 and remained lost until a partial copy ...

  6. In Search of Lost Time - Wikipedia

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    The Birth of A la recherche du temps perdu, French Forum Publishers, 1987. Pugh, Anthony. The Growth of A la recherche du temps perdu: A Chronological Examination of Proust's Manuscripts from 1909 to 1914, University of Toronto Press, 2004 (two volumes). Rose, Phyllis. The Year of Reading Proust. New York: Scribner, 1997. ISBN 0-684-83984-9

  7. Glossary of numismatics - Wikipedia

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    Coins or currency which must be accepted in payment of debt. legend The principal inscription on a coin. [1] lettered edge The outside edge of a coin containing an inscription. [1] low relief A coin with the raised design not very high above the field. luster The appearance of a coin's ability to reflect light; brilliance.

  8. Explainer: What common cryptocurrency terms mean - AOL

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    For example, Bitcoin is the coin for the Bitcoin blockchain, and Ether is the coin for the Ethereum blockchain. Cold storage A method of storing cryptocurrencies offline to increase security.

  9. French sol - Wikipedia

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    The sol, later called a sou, is the name of a number of different coins, for accounting or payment, dating from Antiquity to today. The name is derived from the late-Roman and Byzantine solidus . Its longevity of use anchored it in many expressions of the French language .