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    The Rhinoceros of Versailles was a living Indian rhinoceros which was kept in the Palace of Versailles menagerie from 1770 until 1793. The live rhinoceros...
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    rhinoceros (/raɪˈnɒsərəs/; from Ancient Greek ῥινόκερως (rhinókerōs) 'nose-horned'; from ῥίς (rhis) 'nose', and κέρας (kéras) 'horn'; pl.: rhinoceros...
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    Clara (c. 1738 – 14 April 1758) was a female Indian rhinoceros who became famous during 17 years of touring Europe in the mid-18th century. She arrived...
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    One of his elephants, Hanno, as well as a rhinoceros depicted by Dürer were famous gifts to Pope Leo X. However, the rhinoceros drowned as a result of a...
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    Ménagerie royale de Versailles (literal French for "Royal Menagerie of Versailles") was Louis XIV's first major project at Versailles. It was built even...
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    West Africa (redirect from Bulge of Africa)
    endangered fauna such as pangolins, rhinoceros, and elephants. Because of the pressure for economic development, many of these ecologies are threatened by...
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    Paris Fashion Week (category Culture of Paris)
    Française de la Couture. The event was a fundraiser held at the Palace of Versailles to restore the palace. The amount aimed to reach to repair the palace...
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    Safari (category Culture of Africa)
    "Big Five" game animals of Africa – lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and Cape buffalo – particularly form an important part of the safari market, both...
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  • Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third Series Volume 24, Parts 12-13, Number 1: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips 1970 Library of Congress [820] Catalog of Copyright...
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    Tuileries Garden (category Venues of the 1900 Summer Olympics)
    française, a style he had first developed at Vaux-le-Vicomte and perfected at Versailles, based on symmetry, order and long perspectives. Le Nôtre's gardens were...
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    Gare d'Orsay (category History of Paris)
    moved to Palace of Versailles and eventually both the Conseil and the Cour des Comptes were rehoused in the Palais-Royal. On the night of 23–24 May 1871...
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    Jan Lenica (category Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland)
    1965 - Rhinoceros 1970 - Adam 2 1987 - Ubu et la Grande Gidouille 2001 - Wyspa R.O. List of graphic designers List of Polish painters List of Polish graphic...
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    Zoo (redirect from History of zoos)
    at the dedication of the Colosseum by Titus, five thousand animals perished. Under Trajan ... lions, tigers, elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotami, giraffes...
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  • Queen of Versailles (2012) The Queen Was in the Parlour (1927) The Queen of Whitechapel (1922) Queen X (1917) Queen of the Yukon (1940) Queenie of Hollywood...
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    the Beach Jean-Léon Gérôme – Portrait of the Baroness Nathaniel de Rothschild, Reception of Condé in Versailles, La Comtesse de Keller, The Cock Fight...
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    by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre from animals of the ménagerie royale de Versailles, the menagerie at Versailles, which was dismantled during the French Revolution...
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    Trocadéro (category Districts of Paris)
    Adolphe Alphand, and an array of fountains. Within its garden, the old palace contained two large animal statues, of a rhinoceros and an elephant, which were...
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    Guinea). In the Treaty of Versailles, the German colony of Cameroon was divided up between the British and French as a League of Nations trust territory...
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    Gilles de Rais (category French murderers of children)
    of the logician character in Eugène Ionesco's play Rhinoceros. The journalist Gilbert Philippe of Ouest-France subsequently declared Prouteau "facetious...
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    (Madrid, Spain) The entrance of the Palace of Versailles (Versailles, France), the most iconic Baroque building The Bust of Louis XIV; by Gian Lorenzo Bernini;...
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    canvas; 130 x 87 cm; Palace of Versailles (Versailles, France) Inspired by the excavations of the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum from...
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    chalice with a lid, a chalice carved from a rhinoceros horn, a small blackened, bronze teapot and a plate made of musk wood. Several other pieces were damaged...
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  • short-tempered white rhinoceros, appearing predominantly as an extra zoo animal for the majority of the series. When given more of a role, he often appears...
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    widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. While in his twenties, Welles directed a number of stage productions before...
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    Xavier Veilhan (category Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from January 2024)
    projects include: Veilhan Versailles at the Palace and Gardens of the Palais de Versailles in 2009; Architectones, a series of interventions between 2012...
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  • Panzers to combat close-assaulting infantry. Nashorn – "rhinoceros", nickname for a type of tank destroyer. Nationalsozialistische Führungsoffiziere...
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  • Matter-made Japanese rhinoceros beetles called "White Beetle" to hunt down her while he fights Accelerator for his revenge. However, one of the White Beetles...
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    Paris in the 18th century (category History of Paris by period)
    residence from the Tuileries Palace to the Palace of Versailles in 1671, and moved his entire court to Versailles in 1682. But while he disliked the Parisians...
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    presentation of marine animals on the lower sides, and, on a platform in the center, a parade of full-size African mammals, including a rhinoceros originally...
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    Karoo (category Geography of South Africa)
    ate its foot for breakfast). He also recorded that he saw the spoor of a rhinoceros near Cranemere, in the Camdeboo Plains (eastern Lower Karoo). Elephant...
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