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According to historian Jacques Delarue, a witness to the operation, 200 police inspectors from Paris and elsewhere, 15 compagnies of the Groupe mobile de réserve (GMR) and squads of French gendarmes and mobile guards (gardes mobiles) were brought to Marseille for the operation. In total, "approximatively 12,000 police men found themselves ...
The undetected destruction of a couple of the sticks in the Natchez Grand Village derailed the count, although the reason for the lost sticks differed in each historian's account. The other nations called off their participation in the plot because of the Natchez' premature attack, and therefore the very existence of the conspiracy remained ...
The acronym "ZAD" meaning "zone to defend" (French: "zone à défendre") is a détournement of "deferred development area" (French: "zone d'aménagement différé"). [1]In 2015, the French term "zadiste" (English: Zadist) entered the 2016 edition of Le Petit Robert dictionary as "a militant occupying a ZAD to oppose a proposed development that would damage the environment."
On y parle plus de 800 langues, soit environ un huitième de toutes les langues du monde. Si tant de langues se sont développées sur ces terres escarpées, c’est parce que les gens ne s’aventuraient que rarement à plus d’une quinzaine de kilomètres de leur village familial au cours de leur vie.
Korea Regiment, consisting of the 1st and 2nd Korea Battalions formed from the elite veteran UN Bataillon de Corée. The Bataillon de Marche of the 43rd Colonial Infantry Regiment. 520th TDKQ (Tiểu-đoàn Khinh-quân), a light battalion from the Vietnamese National Army as part of An Khê garrison. 2nd Group of 10th Colonial Artillery Regiment.
The UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) (French: Bureau des affaires du désarmement) is an Office of the United Nations Secretariat established in January 1998 as the Department for Disarmament Affairs, part of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's plan to reform the UN as presented in his report to the General Assembly in July 1997.
Dinant circa 1914. The topography of the region significantly influenced the outcome of the Dinant massacre. The town, primarily situated on the right bank of the Meuse River, is bordered by the river on one side and a rocky outcrop with a citadel, known as the "Montagne," on the other.
Toute la mémoire du monde; Directed by: Alain Resnais: Written by: Rémo Forlani: Produced by: Pierre Braunberger: Starring: Jacques Dumesnil (narrator) Cinematography: Ghislain Cloquet: Edited by: Alain Resnais: Music by: Maurice Jarre