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Valerie Hunter Gordon was the granddaughter of domestic electrical pioneer Gertrude de Ferranti and inventor Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, the founder of British electrical engineering firm Ferranti, great-great-granddaughter of Italian classical guitarist and composer Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti and the sister of Basil de Ferranti.
A diaper (/ ˈ d aɪ p ə r /, NAmE) or a nappy (BrE, AuE, IrE) is a type of underwear that allows the wearer to urinate or defecate without using a toilet, by absorbing or containing waste products to prevent soiling of outer clothing or the external environment. When diapers become wet or soiled, they require changing, generally by a second ...
Stereotypes of French people include real or imagined characteristics of the French people used by people who see the French people as a single and homogeneous group. [1] [2] [3] French stereotypes are common beliefs among those expressing anti-French sentiment. There exist stereotypes of French people amongst themselves depending on the region ...
Nappy is a term in the English language in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe for a diaper. Nappy may also refer to: Nappy Creek, a stream in Alaska; Nappy Valley, a term for a neighbourhood with a large number of families with young children
In French, les objets trouvés, short for le bureau des objets trouvés, means the lost-and-found, the lost property. outré out of the ordinary, unusual. In French, it means outraged (for a person) or exaggerated, extravagant, overdone (for a thing, esp. a praise, an actor's style of acting, etc.); in that second meaning, belongs to "literary ...
French culture, language, and education have been mobilized to further French imperial interests. [115] [116] [117] The concept of mission civilisatrice or 'civilizing mission' figured into France's politique indigène throughout its colonies, with its goal fluctuating between assimilation and association of colonial subjects with French ...
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James Napper Tandy (February 1739 – 24 August 1803), known as Napper Tandy, was an Irish revolutionary and a founder of the United Irishmen.He experienced exile, first in the United States and then in France, for his role in attempting to advance a republican insurrection in Ireland with French assistance.