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    The Curtius Museum (Musée Curtius) is a museum of archaeology and decorative arts located on the bank of the river Meuse in Liège, Belgium. It is classified...
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    authors. Meanwhile, the identity of Quintus Curtius Rufus, historian, is maintained separately. Curtius' work is uniquely isolated. No other ancient...
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    Bern home of Curtius, for whom her mother acted as housekeeper. Marie called him 'Uncle', and in many ways he was a father figure. Curtius used his skill...
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    2014. Liège, Belgium, weapons collection of the Musée des armes in the Grand Curtius. At the top the FN P90, at the bottom the FN F2000. List of bullpup...
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    Walloon Life Museum of Walloon Art & Religious Art (Mosan art) The Grand Curtius Museum is an elegantly furnished mansion from the 17th century along...
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    van Brussel?, c. 1490), detail of the 'Palude diptych' in the Musée Grand Curtius in Liège Bishop and Martyr Born c. 636 Maastricht Died c. 705 Liège...
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    into the home of local doctor Philippe Curtius (1741–1794), for whom Anne-Marie acted as housekeeper. Curtius, whom Marie would call her uncle, was skilled...
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    Ducks Prince-Bishops' Palace of Liège Prince-Bishops' Palace (c. 1900) Grand Curtius Palace, Quai de Maastricht (c. 1900) Church of St. Jacques [fr] (c....
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    Roman writings (including those of Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus) represented a romantic ideal of an eastern garden; second, that...
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    14-barrel rifle - survives and is part of the armouries collection of Le Grand Curtius museum in Liege, Belgium. The gun was made by Henry Nock. Thornton visited...
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    (2nd ed.). London: English Universities Press. Rufus, Quintus Curtius. "Quintus Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander the Great" (in Latin). U Chicago....
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  • Missing Pavilion, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2014. Water, Grand Curtius Museo, Ansembourg, City of Liege, 2013. Ideas of Sublime Lalit Kala...
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    especially of Italy, where Curtius was idolized. Painters such as Paolo Veronese and Charles Le Brun painted scenes from Curtius. The editio princeps, or...
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    piece of paper. Shelden, Michael (2010). Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years (1st ed.). New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0679448006...
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    Prince-Bishopric of Liège [nl] Ansembourg Museum in Liège, Belgium Grand Curtius in Liège, Belgium Museum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, Netherlands...
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    Wallonia-Brussels Federation set up a major retrospective exhibition at the Grand Curtius Museum entitled: "Christian Satin: Painter and Architect" in March 2015...
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  • can be shown that Curtius Rufus' description of the trial of Philotas is based on an incident during the reign of Tiberius)...Curtius copies Cleitarchus'...
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    town hall of Liège; Floral still life (1758) and other works in museum Grand Curtius in Liège. Portrait of a canon The apostle Peter Ceiling painting, Maastricht...
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    Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, trans. from German by Willard R. Trask (New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1953), 80. Curtius, European...
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    p. 119 Curtius 4.1.16 Curtius 4.5.10 Chugg 2006, p.93 Lane Fox 1973, p.227 Diodorus 17.61.3 Arrian 3.15.2 Curtius 4.16.32 Curtius 6.2.9 Curtius 6.11.10...
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    Prince-Bishopric of Liège [nl] Ansembourg Museum in Liège, Belgium Grand Curtius in Liège, Belgium Couven Museum in Aachen, Germany Koninklijke Musea...
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  • play is largely based on a surviving work by the Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus. Shortly after the play's opening at the Théâtre Palais Royal, Racine...
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    known as the Battle of the Lacus Curtius. The Roman advance was led by Hostus Hostilius, the Sabine defence by Mettus Curtius. Hostus fell in battle, and the...
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  • Cinema. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 70–73. ISBN 978-0-313-29621-5. Curtius, Anny Dominique (2009). "The Great White Man of Lambaréné by Bassek ba...
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  • the 1910s. Schulz-Curtius was born in Kleinwolmsdorf near Radeberg and Dresden to Johann Heinrich Curtius and Agnes Schulz Curtius. In 1876, he founded...
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    Horrors was the Caverne des Grands Voleurs (the Cavern of the Great Thieves) which had been founded by Dr Philippe Curtius as an adjunct to his main exhibition...
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    Revealed, And They're Heartbreaking". HuffPost. Retrieved 9 February 2018. Curtius, Mary; Sahagun, Louis (14 October 1997). "Musician John Denver Dies in...
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    Frederick III, German Emperor (category Recipients of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross)
    military traditions and the liberal arts. His private tutor was Ernst Curtius, a famous archaeologist. Frederick was a talented student, particularly...
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    a number of classical historians including Ctesias, Herodotus, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Strabo, and Cleitarchus. These reports are of variable accuracy...
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    Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (category Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary)
    Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. Chlodwig Karl Viktor Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst; Friedrich Curtius; George William Chrystal (1907). Memoirs of Prince Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst...
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