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1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.; 1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.
The Casablanca Clock Tower (Arabic: برج الساعة بالدار البيضاء, French: Tour de l'horloge de Casablanca) is a clock tower in Casablanca, Morocco. Located in United Nations Square , the tower is a 1993 reproduction of one of the oldest French-built structures in the city.
The 24-hour notation is used in writing with an h as a separator (h for heure, meaning hour).Example: 14 h 05 (1405 [14:05] hours or 2:05 pm). Though the correct [citation needed] form includes spaces on both sides of the h, it is common to see them omitted: 14h05.
The March 23 Movement (French: Mouvement du 23 mars), often abbreviated as M23 and also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army (Armée révolutionnaire du Congo), [8] is a Congolese Tutsi-led rebel paramilitary group. [9]
The 9 m (30 ft) tall clock is installed in the cathedral of Lyon.An astrolabe indicates the date and position of the Moon, Sun, and Earth, as well as the stars. The first documentary evidence of an astronomical clock in the cathedral is from 1383 [2] but this was destroyed in 1562.
Le temps l'horloge (Time and the Clock) is a song cycle for soprano and orchestra, by the French composer Henri Dutilleux.. He wrote the original three-movement version between 2006 and 2007 based on two poems by Jean Tardieu ("Le temps l'horloge" and "Le masque"), and one by Robert Desnos ("Le dernier poème"').
[23] [24] The 24-hour notation is shorter, removes the potential for confusing the first and second halves of the day especially visible at midnight (00:00 or 24:00, 12:00 a.m.) and noon (12:00, 12:00 p.m.), and is language-neutral. [25] English speakers use both the 24- and 12-hour clocks.
The Gros-Horloge (English: Great-Clock) is a 14th century astronomical clock in Rouen, Normandy. [citation needed] The clock is installed in a Renaissance arch crossing the Rue du Gros-Horloge. The mechanism is one of the oldest in France, the movement having been made in 1389.