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Giovanni [a] Domenico Cassini, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian (naturalised French) [1] mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo, [2] [3] near Imperia, at that time in the County of Nice, part of the Savoyard state.
Jean-Dominique Cassini can refer to: Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712), known in France as Jean-Dominique Cassini Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748–1845), great-grandson of Giovanni Domenico Cassini (also known as Cassini IV)
Lyricist and author Sheila Davis writes that including a city in a song's title helps focus the song on the concrete and specific, which is both more appealing and more likely to lead to universal truth than abstract generalizations. Davis also says that songs with titles concerning cities and other specific places often have enduring ...
Versailles on the Cassini map. The Cassini Map or Academy's Map is the first topographic and geometric map made of the Kingdom of France as a whole. It was compiled by the Cassini family, mainly César-François Cassini (Cassini III) and his son Jean-Dominique Cassini (Cassini IV) in the 1700s. It was on a scale of one line to 100 toises, i.e ...
Jacques Cassini (18 February 1677 – 16 April 1756) was a French astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. He was known as Cassini II.
Artur Pavlovich Cassini, Marquess of Capizucchi di Bologna and Count Cassini (Russian: Артур Павлович Кассини; 27 November 1835 – 19 October 1919), [a] [3] known as Arthur Cassini, was a Russian aristocrat and lifelong diplomat who served in the Diplomatic Service of the Imperial Russian Government for 55 years during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
"Border Song" is a song by Elton John with music by John and lyrics by Bernie Taupin. [2] The song initially appeared on the 1970 album Elton John, and was released in the spring of 1970 as the LP's first single. After failing to chart in the UK, it was released in North America a few months later.
Finnish troops raising a flag on the cairn in April 1945 at the close of the Second World War in Finland The border between Norway and Sweden including Finland was decided in the Strömstad Treaty of 1751 and marked with cairns the following years, including cairn 294 which is located on a hill 150 meters east of today's Three-Country Cairn.