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    Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (French: [də mɛstʁ]; 1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, lawyer, diplomat, and magistrate. One...
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    Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (category Counts of Maine)
    Fair (French: le Bel) or Plantagenet, was the Count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also Duke of Normandy by his marriage claim...
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  • Railroad): 512  Lincoln, Illinois, Lincoln, Nebraska, and Lincoln, Rhode Island – Abraham Lincoln Lincoln, Maine – Enoch Lincoln (Maine's sixth governor) Lincoln, New...
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    European examples of municipal coats-of-arms bearing the fleur-de-lis include Lincoln in England, Morcín in Spain, Wiesbaden and Darmstadt in Germany...
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    Meslay-du-Maine Hippodrome de La Carrière, Durtal Hippodrome de l'Atlantique, Saint-Jean-de-Monts Hippodrome de la Loire, Cordemais Hippodrome de la Loire...
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    days Graham Lake Hancock County, Maine United States 3 months Grand Lac de Clairvaux Jura department, Franche-Comté France 3 months Laduviken Djurgården...
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    Norman Maine (né Hinkle/né Ernest (Sidney) Gubbins) from A Star Is Born (Fredric March, 1937) & A Star Is Born (James Mason, 1954) Jackson "Jack" Maine from...
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    notable; his great-grandfather (his mother's maternal grandfather) was the Comte de La Rivière, until his death in 1770 commander of the Mousquetaires du Roi...
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  • Baratas Não Têm Razão: A Lei de 10 de Junho de 1835 – Os Escravos e a Pena de Morte no Império do Brasil 1822–1889. Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Renovar, 2005....
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  • List of Huguenots (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Brando (1924–2004), American actor, descended from Chretien DuBois of the Comté of Coupigny, near Lille in Artois. Edmond Louis Budry (1854–1932), hymnwriter...
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    List of American heiresses (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Morton to Wed Count de Perigord". The New York Times. August 29, 1901. Retrieved 19 August 2021. "DUKEDOM GOES WITH CASTLE.; Comte Boson de Perigord, Who Married...
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    England, gaining the Earldoms of Lincoln and Salisbury through marriage to the heiress of Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln. His income was £11,000 per annum—double...
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    Walden to make a trip to Mount Katahdin in Maine, a journey later recorded in "Ktaadn", the first part of The Maine Woods. Thoreau left Walden Pond on September...
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    Treaty of Paris. Chevalier Guy-François de Coëtnempren (Comte de Kersaint), (Renommee) 1. York County, Maine - William Pepperell's Regiment (1st Massachusetts...
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  • telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States. 1881 – General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell...
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    settlement. June 19 – The British create Cumberland County and Lincoln County in Maine. June 22 – Britain's Captain John Byron, commanding HMS Fame, locates...
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    to frenetic land purchases in the Île de France. The two families rivalry would come to a head over the comté de Dammartin. The last holder Françoise d'Anjou...
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    The exterior granite was cut and polished on the island of Vinalhaven, Maine, under a contract with Bodwell Granite Company. Much of the interior was...
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    d'Avignon, and the tombs of Giovanni Cossa at Sainte-Marthe de Tarascon and Charles, comte du Maine, in Le Mans. Laurana died at Marseille or Avignon, in 1502...
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  • Mathilde de Vendome, Maud, married Walter de Gaunt, by whom she had issue, including: Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln Agnes de Gaunt, married William de Mohun...
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    Dining Room, Lincoln Bedroom, and Lincoln Sitting Room. During the administration of George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush refurbished the Lincoln Bedroom...
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  • French) Maison de Bourbon-Vendôme (1412–1610) (in French) The Noble Families of the Kingdom, Duchy and County of Burgundy and of Franche-Comté (in French)...
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  • List of suicides (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    September 5, 1993 "Villeneuve, Pierre Charles Jean Baptiste Silvestre, Comte de". Oxford Reference. Archived from the original on August 30, 2021. Retrieved...
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    Vice-Admiral Comte François Joseph Paul de Grasse from the West Indies. British Vice-Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney, who had been tracking de Grasse around...
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  • Historiques du Maine. Vol. 12. Le Mans: Société des Archives Historiques du Maine. Devic, CL; Vaissete, J, eds. (1875). Histoire Générale de Languedoc. Vol...
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  • p. 231 Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno, comte Daru, Histoire de Bretagne, Tome premier, p. 407 François Manet, Histoire de la Petite-Bretagne, ou Bretagne Armorique...
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    central figure in the 2006 comedy film Lage Raho Munna Bhai. Jahnu Barua's Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara (I did not kill Gandhi), places contemporary society...
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    Cadillac had convinced King Louis XIV's chief minister, Louis Phélypeaux, Comte de Pontchartrain, that a permanent community there would strengthen French...
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    defeat enabled General George Washington and his French allied armies under Comte de Rochambeau to march down from New York and bottle up the rampaging southern...
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    American naval operation, the Penobscot Expedition, attempted to retake Maine, then part of Massachusetts, but was defeated. Persistent Iroquois raids...
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