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    Henri La Fontaine (French pronunciation: [lafɔ̃ˈtɛn]; 22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943), was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International...
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    choices. Léonie La Fontaine died on 26 January 1949, the year when the law allowing women to vote came into effect. Léonie and Henri La Fontaine received a...
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    at the turn of the 20th century by Belgian lawyers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine. The Mundaneum has been identified as a milestone in the history of...
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  • author Henri La Fontaine (1854–1943), Belgian jurist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Herb LaFontaine (fl. 1951–1953), Canadian ice hockey player Hilary La Fontaine...
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    Henri Fontaine (20 July 1924 – 31 January 2020), was a French Roman Catholic missionary. He was also a pre-Tertiary geologist/paleontologist, Paleozoic...
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  • 1907 under the name Central Office of International Associations by Henri La Fontaine, the 1913 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Paul Otlet, a founding father...
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    (1935). In 1907, following a huge international conference, Otlet and Henri La Fontaine created the Central Office of International Associations, which was...
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    link between the peace societies of the various countries". In 1913, Henri La Fontaine was also awarded the Prize "[For his work as] head of the International...
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    broader field of information science. Paul Otlet (1868–1944) and Henri La Fontaine (1854–1943), both Belgian lawyers and peace activists, established...
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    Henri Emmanuel Blanc-Fontaine (16 January 1819, Grenoble - 20 December 1897, Sassenage) was a French painter. He created genre scenes, portraits, landscapes...
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    Jean de La Fontaine (UK: /ˌlæ fɒnˈtɛn, -ˈteɪn/, US: /ˌlɑː fɒnˈteɪn, -, ˌlɑː foʊnˈtɛn/, French: [ʒɑ̃ d(ə) la fɔ̃tɛn]; 8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was...
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  • of information science. Fathers of information science Paul Otlet Henri La Fontaine Information history International Federation for Information and Documentation...
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  • of the nineteenth century by Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri la Fontaine. The goal of their system was to create an index that would be able...
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    pro-German elements within the Congress. Belgian representative Senator Henri La Fontaine defended the League against attacks from the press, speaking and being...
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    Kamerlingh Onnes Alfred Werner Charles Richet Rabindranath Tagore Henri La Fontaine 1914 Max von Laue Theodore William Richards Robert Bárány None None...
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  • named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Henri La Fontaine, a Belgian documentalist. Fontaine was the co-founder of Institut International de Bibliographie...
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  • to table of contents Henri La Fontaine (1854–1943) – Belgian initiator, organizer, Nobel Peace Prize winner Léonie La Fontaine (1857–1949) – Belgian...
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    October 2013. (Subscription required.) (in French) Luis Lema, "Yasser Arafat, la valse des isotopes", Le Temps, Saturday 24 May 2014, p. 3. Gregg Carlstrom...
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    arbitration agreements between the United States and other countries." 1913 Henri La Fontaine (1854–1943) Belgium "for his unparalleled contribution to the organization...
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    Buenos Aires. Wiesel rewrote a shortened version of the manuscript in French, La Nuit, in 1955. It was translated into English as Night in 1960. The book sold...
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  • See also Graphical user interface, Multimedia; also Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine's Mundaneum, a massively cross-referenced card index system established...
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    la claire fontaine" (French: [a la klɛʁ(ə) fɔ̃tɛn]; lit. 'By the clear fountain') is a traditional French song, which has also become very popular in...
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  • Physiology or Medicine, 1938 Jules Bordet, Physiology or Medicine, 1919 Henri La Fontaine, Peace, 1913 Maurice Maeterlinck, Literature, 1911 Auguste Beernaert...
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    cooperated with the grand information efforts of Belgians Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine who had founded the Institut International de Bibliographie (IIB)...
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    The UDC was developed by the Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine at the end of the 19th century. In 1895, they created the Universal...
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  • 1865) 1852 – William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912) 1854 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943) 1858 –...
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  • (Denmark) 1909: Auguste Marie François Beernaert (Belgium) 1913: Henri La Fontaine (Belgium) 1921: Christian Lange (Norway) 1927: Ferdinand Buisson (France)...
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    literature. Many information science historians cite Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine as the fathers of information science with the founding of the International...
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  • from the original on 18 October 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2019. "Henri La Fontaine: The Nobel Peace Prize 1913". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original...
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  • Variants of Fontaine include Fountain, La Fontaine, Lafontaine, and de La Fontaine. Notable people with the name include: Adélard Fontaine (1892–1967)...
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