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Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [aleˈʃɐ̃dɾi ʁoˈdɾiɡiz dɐ ˈsiwvɐ]; born 2 September 1989), commonly known as Alexandre Pato (pronounced) or just Pato, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
1 Personal life. 2 Television. ... Alexandre Borges Corrêa (born 23 February 1966) is a Brazilian actor. [1] ... Pato com Laranja; 2005 - Nanoilusão;
According to the book Roots, Kunta Kinte was born circa 1750 in the Mandinka village of Jufureh, in the Gambia.He was raised in a Muslim family. [4] [5] In 1767, while Kunta was searching for wood to make a drum for himself, four men chased him, surrounded him, and took him captive.
Patočka's Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History is analyzed at length and with much care in Jacques Derrida's important book The Gift of Death. Derrida was the most recent person who wrote or conversed with Patočka's thought; Paul Ricoeur and Roman Jakobson (who respectively wrote the preface and afterword to the French edition of the ...
Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis (14 April 1787 – 22 August 1872 [1]) was a French physician, clinician and pathologist known for his studies on tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and pneumonia, but Louis's greatest contribution to medicine was the development of the "numerical method", forerunner to epidemiology and the modern clinical trial, [2] paving the path for evidence-based medicine.
Alexandre Kojève [a] (born Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kozhevnikov; [b] 28 April 1902 – 4 June 1968) was a Russian-born French philosopher and statesman whose philosophical seminars had an immense influence on 20th-century French philosophy, particularly via his integration of Hegelian concepts into twentieth-century continental philosophy.
Romain Gary (pronounced [ʁɔ.mɛ̃ ga.ʁi]; 21 May [O.S. 8 May] 1914 – 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew (pronounced, and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator.
(Adèle's biography inspired the movie The Story of Adele H.) His wife Adèle had died in 1868. Hugo on his deathbed (photographed by Nadar) Tomb of Victor Hugo at the Panthéon. His faithful mistress, Juliette Drouet, died in 1883, only two years before his own death. Despite his personal loss, Hugo remained committed to the cause of political ...