• François Prélat was a Frenchman involved in gunmaking in the early part of the nineteenth century. It is sometimes claimed that he invented the first fully...
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    A prelate (/ˈprɛlət/) is a high-ranking member of the Christian clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives...
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    Gymnote (1888) Ammunition Lepage fulminate (1807–10) Pauly-Prélat integrated cartridge (1808) Prélat percussion cap (1818) Lefaucheux cartridge (1836) Tamisier...
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    was granted in France on 29 July 1818 to François Prélat, four years before Shaw's patent. Prelat made a habit of copying English patents and inventions...
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  • Father Robert Brown S.J. (1877 – 1947) was the third Prefect of Zambesi, (appointed 1922) and the first Prefect of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, after...
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    ignition. In Paris in 1808, in association with French gunsmith François Prélat, Jean Samuel Pauly created the first fully self-contained cartridges: the...
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    bestowing the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the FedRepGER upon Prelat Dr. Mitja Leskovar, DepHeadMission, Holy See Apostolic Nuntiature in India...
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  • a Swiss gunsmith. In 1808, in association with French gunsmith François Prélat in Paris, France. Pauly created the first fully self-contained cartridges:...
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    for the 21st century. Marine and Petroleum Geology 17 (2), p.125-135. A. Prélat, J.A. Covault, D.M. Hodgson, A. Fildani, S.S. Flint, (2010) Intrinsic controls...
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    gunsmith Jean Samuel Pauly in association with French gunsmith François Prélat. Pauly created the first fully self-contained cartridges: the cartridges...
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    Visconti dominions. Yves Bottineau: Georges Ier d'Amboise (1460-1510): un prélat normand de la Renaissance, Rouen, PTC, pp. 67-68. Philippe Tourault: Anne...
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    gunsmith Jean Samuel Pauly in association with French gunsmith François Prélat created the first cartridges to integrate a primer and be self-contained...
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  • Proto-Indo-European *-ln- becomes -ll- in both Germanic and Italic: *ḱl̥nis "hill" > PreLat. *kolnis > Lat. collis; > PGmc *hulliz > OE hyll /hyll/ > hill. The enclitic...
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    Sièges épiscopaux de toute la chrétienté, et l'ordre chronologique de leurs prélats; enfin l'histoire des ordres militaires et religieux, des schismes et des...
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    copper cap ignition system anywhere in the world was granted to Prelat in 1818 in France. Prelat was probably not the inventor as he often took out French patents...
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    publication #279. Schilpp 304 1948 El Significado de la Relatividad Dr. Carlos E. Prelat Espasa-Calpe (Buenos Aires) Special and general relativity. Spanish translation...
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    on 27 February 2009. Retrieved 28 January 2009. p. 309 of "Armorial des prélats Français du XIXème siècle" Carlo Curti Gialdino, I Simboli dell'Unione...
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    Gymnote (1888) Ammunition Lepage fulminate (1807–10) Pauly-Prélat integrated cartridge (1808) Prélat percussion cap (1818) Lefaucheux cartridge (1836) Tamisier...
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    was bishop of Bayonne (1599-1617), then archbishop of Tours (1617-1641). Prélat-commandeur du Saint-Esprit, Bertrand d'Eschaud was almoner to his kinsman...
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    Famiglia Cristiana Website (in Italian). Retrieved 6 October 2020. "Ny biskop-prelat i Trondheim". www.katolsk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2 October 2019. "Father...
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  • known is Sedatus, was present at the Council of Agde in 506. Sedatus was prélat of Nimes until c.506AD. Holweck, Frederick George. A Biographical Dictionary...
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  • Agrigento in Sicily from 1154 to his death. He has been described as a prélat aventureux et vagabond, an "adventurous and vagabond prelate" (Chalandon...
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    and scheming prelate" (dårlig ettermæle som en upålitelig og intrigant prelat) by the Protestant historians. His reputation did not improve after 1814...
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    chapelets et autres ornements distribués à Messieurs les chevaliers, prélats et officiers des Ordres du roi. Paris : Le Léopard d'or, 2016. Lenaïg Roumegou...
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  • fulminate culminating with the invention of the percussion cap by François Prélat in 1818 and Deloubert in 1820. Eugene Onegin and Other Stories by Aleksandr...
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    documents. Kupper (1981): "Les documents qui éclairent les origines du prélat — documents diplomatiques faux ou suspects, sources narratives très tardives...
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  • Facsimile: ed. by Arnaldo Forni, Bologna 1980 L'Espinoy, Philippe de, Prelats, Barons, Chevaliers, E´scuiers, viles, franchises et officiers principaulx...
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    leurs vertus ou leurs crimes. Nog - Paj, Volume 31, 1860 Fabien Roucole, Prélats et hommes de guerre dans la France du XVe siècle. Aix-en-Provence, Presses...
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    fulminate platina. In 1808, in association with French gunsmith François Prélat, Pauly created the first fully self-contained cartridges; these incorporated...
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    Boumba, "36ème anniversaire de la mort du cardinal Emile Biayenda : Le prélat vénéré à travers une neuvaine nationale", La Semaine Africaine, 22 March...
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