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    City of Brussels (category Populated places in Belgium)
    Belgian independence: the Place de la Liberté/Vrijheidsplein ("Liberty Square"), the Place des Barricades/Barricadenplein ("Barricades' Square"), the Rue de...
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    In the French Wars of Religion, the Day of the Barricades (in French: Journée des barricades), 12 May 1588, was an outwardly spontaneous public uprising...
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    Vesalius in the centre of the Place des Barricades/Barricadenplein, and another of the Counts of Egmont and Horn on the Grand-Place/Grote Markt (Brussels' main...
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    lower part of the Champs-Élysées, from the Place de la Concorde to the Rond-Point, runs through the Jardin des Champs-Élysées, a park which contains the...
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    Belgian photograph on 16 September 1839, a daguerreotype view of the Place des Barricades in Brussels, following this up in October with the first Belgian...
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    The Place des Martyrs (Dutch: Martelaarsplein) is a historic square in central Brussels, Belgium. Its current name, meaning "Martyrs' Square", refers...
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    headed up Broadway toward Astor Place and fought running battles with mounted troops from behind improvised barricades, but this time the authorities quickly...
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  • studio in a not so well-to-do are of the Belgian capital, at the Place des Barricades, above a 'bistro'. When the jet-set did not want to take their way...
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    Tuileries Garden (French: Jardin des Tuileries, IPA: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ de tɥilʁi]) is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement...
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    weak position to accede to their continued demands. After the Day of the Barricades in May 1588, the ligue expelled Henri from Paris, and Henri was forced...
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    marchers approached. While the crowd dispersed, some began to create barricades out of whatever was at hand, while others threw paving stones, forcing...
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    only a few large barricades were already in place, on the Rue Saint-Florentin and Rue de l'Opéra, and the Rue de Rivoli. Barricades had not been prepared...
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  • Mary Ann at the institution. Seeing Pam as a demon, Mary Ann hits her, barricades the room, and commits suicide. Alice reveals that Milton is Kevin's father...
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    began in October 2012 and was called Opération César. It was met with barricades made from human chains and farmers' tractors. After government forces...
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    back into southeast Paris, building the first barricades. In the evening, early skirmishes took place with the Municipal Guard. On 23 February, the Ministry...
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    following an incursion into the Bogside by RUC officers. Residents built barricades and carried clubs and similar arms to prevent the RUC from entering. Its...
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    There are also often occupations, demonstrations, illegal dumping and barricades done by farmers, especially in the Netherlands and France. The Belgian...
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    Montreuil-sur-Mer. During the 1832 revolt, Hugo walked the streets of Paris, saw the barricades blocking his way at points, and had to take shelter from gunfire.: 173–174 ...
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  • sees Antonio at the front door and Miguel at the window; she panics and barricades herself in the room. She then lets Laura inside and offers to stay for...
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  • anti-Israel, it's antisemitic". The Philadelphia Inquirer. "NYC School Barricades Jewish Students While Activists Call for Blood". LNN News. October 26...
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    Notre-Dame Cathedral. They also set fire to private homes, to protect their barricades from the advancing Versaillais. Setting fire to Paris's great monuments...
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    Brussels (redirect from Rue des Eperonniers)
    neoclassical ensembles can be found around the Place des Martyrs/Martelaarsplein and the Place de Barricades/Barricadenplein. Some additional landmarks in...
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    1962. In May 1968, protesting students occupied the Sorbonne and put up barricades in the Latin Quarter. Thousands of Parisian blue-collar workers joined...
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    stones and blocked the narrow streets with barricades, which had to be dislodged by the army. The Rue des Marmousets, one of the narrow and dark medieval...
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    Henri III made to the Catholic ligue in the aftermath of the Day of the Barricades, the Estates were formerly convoked on 28 May. Initially intended to begin...
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    Ästhetik des Wider-stands erwähnten bildenden Künstler und Kunstwerke". In Honold, Alexander; Schreiber, Ulrich (eds.). Die Bilderwelt des Peter Weiss...
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    Sorbonne (building) (category Articles with MusicBrainz place identifiers)
    Hundreds of students were arrested. 10 May marked the "Night of Barricades" (Nuit des barricades [fr]), where students used cars, wood, and cobblestones to...
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    Rights of Man and outlawed its mouthpiece, La Tribune des départements. Despite these measures, barricades were set up in the evening of 13 April 1834, leading...
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    batons and tear gas. As a result, visitors to the street festival erected barricades on several adjacent streets. The police retreated to the area around Skalitzer...
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    an Estates General due to be called in late 1588 after the Day of the Barricades in Paris forced further concessions from the king, Aumale ensured the...
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