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    as John Lewis, Jean Louis) Burckhardt (24 November 1784 – 15 October 1817) was a Swiss traveller, geographer and Orientalist. Burckhardt assumed the alias...
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    Perennial Books, Winter–Spring 1984 Michon, Jean-Louis (2007), "Postscript: Titus Burckhardt à Fès", in Titus Burckhardt (ed.), Fès ville d'Islam (in French)...
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    23. Parker, 1984, p. 130. Bergin, p. 99. Parker, 1984, p. 199. Carl J. Burckhardt, Richelieu and His Age (1967). Vol. 3, appendix. R J Knecht (2014). Richelieu...
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    merchants in Bombay playing with Chinese cards. In the 19th century Jean Louis Burckhardt visited Mecca and wrote that "cards are played in almost every Arab...
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    Addison-Wesley Pub Company, Reading, Massachusetts 2000, S. 8–10 Jean Louis Burckhardt: Travels in Nubia. London 1819 eBooks@Adelaide 2004 Karl Baedecker:...
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    Jean-Luc Bideau (born 1 October 1940) is a Swiss film actor. Jean-Luc Bideau is married to Marcela Salivarova, a director of Czechoslovak origin. Together...
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  • Jean-Louis Michon (13 April 1924 - 22 February 2013) was a French traditionalist and translator who specialized in Islamic art and Sufism. He worked extensively...
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  • Bouchet Alexis Bouvard Louis Boyer P. Briault Ismaël Bullialdus Johann Karl Burckhardt Michel Cassé César-François Cassini de Thury Dominique, comte de Cassini...
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    Versailles', where three adult men, Dejager (age 45), Gallien (age 43), and Burckhardt (age 39) had sexual relations with minors from both genders aged 12–13...
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    for its time and caused a scandal throughout Christendom. Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1947) called it "the sacrilegious union of the lily and the crescent"...
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    Kelterborn. So, after six months with his uncle, encouraged by Jacob Burckhardt, his mother's brother-in-law, he started studies with the portrait painter...
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    Hubert, Jean, L'Empire carolingien (English: The Carolingian Renaissance, translated by James Emmons, New York: G. Braziller, 1970). Burckhardt, Jacob...
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  • Tom; Boxshall, Geoffrey; Burckhardt, Daniel; Camicas, Jean-Louis; Chylarecki, Przemek; Crucitti, Pierangelo; Deharveng, Louis; Dubois, Alain; Enghoff,...
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    night. The first provisional orbit was computed in June by Johann Karl Burckhardt. Based on these calculations, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers made a...
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  • et à Boukhara ; et retour par la Perse, 3 volumes, 1835 Johann Ludwig Burckhardt: Voyages en Arabie, contenant la description des parties du Hedjaz regardées...
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  • Charles N. F. Brisout Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet Louis Companyo François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau Jean-Charles Chenu Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat...
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    sense of the word as used in 1855 by the leading art historian Jacob Burckhardt, who wrote that baroque artists "despised and abused detail" because they...
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    in Graeco-Roman Egypt. London: Muller. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-389-01006-7. Burckhardt, Titus (1967). Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul. Trans...
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    Ananda Coomaraswamy, Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, Hossein Nasr, William Stoddart, Jean-Louis Michon, Marco Pallis, Lord Northbourne, Huston...
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    However, some have suggested that Petrarch's climb was fictional. Jakob Burckhardt, in The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (in German in 1860) declared...
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    His parents, Hervé Louis François Jean Bonaventure Clérel, Count of Tocqueville, an officer of the Constitutional Guard of King Louis XVI; and Louise Madeleine...
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    works of the 1880s was Lady with the Rose (1882), a portrait of Charlotte Burckhardt, a close friend and possible romantic attachment. Madame Edouard Pailleron...
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  • Gallery, 2005. With contributions by Bob Nickas. Subterranean Monuments: Burckhardt, Johnson, Hujar. Poughkeepsie, NY: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar...
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    1913 1760 Annie Laurie and Home Sweet Home (bells) Dunn–Payne John F. Burckhardt 1913 1761 Low Bridge!—Everybody Down Thomas S. Allen Edward Meeker 1913...
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    Ivan Aguéli René Guénon Seyyed Hossein Nasr The Matheson Trust Titus Burckhardt William Stoddart William Shakespeare A follower of the Alawiyya Sufi tariqa...
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  • (1884–1976)[2][3][4] Mario Bunge (1919–2020) Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897)[2][3] Tyler Burge (born 1946)[3] Jean Buridan (1300–1358)[1][2][3][4][5] Edmund Burke...
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    Walter Stucki. After the war in 1945, with the arrival of Minister Carl J. Burckhardt, the Hôtel de Besenval once again became the Swiss Legation and social...
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    Ugolino and His Sons is a marble sculpture of Ugolino made by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in Paris during the 1860s. It depicts the story of Ugolino from Dante's...
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    Abrahamic Faiths Jean Borella Titus Burckhardt Ananda Coomaraswamy James Cutsinger Professor David F. Ford Ronald S. Green René Guénon Jean Hani Ali Lakhani...
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    impression. L.H. Carlson, for the Chicago Tribune, compared it to Jacob Burckhardt's works. Wallace K. Ferguson published a review of the fifth volume. Geoffrey...
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