War. When the war started‚ he was a colonel in the French military. But when he learned that Field Marshall Pétain‚ the new prime minister‚ was planning an armistice with Nazi Germany‚ de Gaulle rebelled against the new French government and started the Free French Forces. He and his forces fled to Britain‚ provided with secret funds from the ex-prime minister. When in Britain‚ de Gaulle gave several speeches over the BBC radio‚ urging the French to stay true to their values‚ resist the occupation
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France. Vichy France is the common name of the French State headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. It represented the unoccupied Free Zone in the southern part of metropolitan France and theoretically‚ the French colonial empire. On this day in 1942‚ German troops invaded Vichy France. Which has been previously freed of an Axis military presence. Since July 1940‚ upon being invaded and defeated by the Nazi milerty‚ the autonomous French state had been split into two regions. One was
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explained in the opening scene (see section on Key Scenes below). Several cultures co-exist or are represented – the locals in Casablanca (the traders especially)‚ the Americans‚ like Rick (America seen as the desirable culture to escape to); the Vichy French (those like Renault co-operating with the Germans)‚ the resistance fighters (e.g. the man shot in the streets at the start and the Norwegian man who meets Laszlo in Rick’s); the Germans‚ not quite in full control here but very powerful; the Italian
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2. Inertia is ________. A. A property of matter B. A type of force C. The speed of an object D. Any of the above 3. P and Q are two objects with masses 100 kg and 75 kg respectively‚ then ________. A. Both will have the same inertia B. Q will have more inertia C. P will have more inertia D. Both will have less inertia 4. Newton’s second law of motion states that an unbalanced force that acts upon an object causes it to: A. Accelerate B. Not accelerate
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Question 1: The French Mobile market is one of the largest in Europe and as of 2013‚ is said to be worth €15 billion with almost 77 million subscriptions (France - Mobile Market Insights‚ Statistics and Forecasts‚ n.d). There are three network operators that offer the full range of telephone and data services‚ while an increasing number of mobile virtual network operators (MNVOs) compete in the low-cost sector. The market is heavily dominated by three major network operators namely Orange‚ SFR
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Position of French Adjectives Position d’adjectifs An adjective is a word that modifies a noun by describing it in some way: shape‚ color‚ size‚ nationality‚ etc. French adjectives are very different from English adjectives in two ways: 1. French adjectives change to agree in gender and number with the nouns that they modify‚ which means there can be up to four forms of each adjective: Adjective: joli (pretty) Masculine singular joli Feminine singular jolie Masculine plural jolis
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glass-you don’t see it‚ but somehow it does something.’’ Hans Magnus Enzensberger. American and French commercials are very different yet similar. The American commercials are very straight forward and succinct. On the other hand‚ the french commercials are very unique and modern. The Americans uses straight forward advertisements‚ when the french uses more poetic advertisments. The Americans and the French both use convincing strategies towards the audience. The American Nutella commercial had a
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The French language is a member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. It is known as the language of lovers. French is spoken as a first language by more than 70‚000‚000 people‚ mainly in France‚ then Belgium‚ Switzerland‚ in former French and Belgium colonies in Africa and Canada. It is now spoken by 265 million people. The French language is descended from Latin and first appeared in writing in 842 AD when it was used in the Strasbourg Oaths. Before
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Chapter 2 Forces To study the effect of forces acting on particles. 2.1 Equilibrium of a Particle 2.2 Free Body Diagram 2.3 Force Vectors 2.4 Forces in a Plane 2.5 Forces in Space Expected Outcomes • Understand the condition for a particle to be in static equilibrium • Able to construct free body diagrams • Able to solve for the forces acting on a static particle 2.1 Equilibrium of a Particle www.classical.com/features 2.1.1 Condition for the Equilibrium of a Particle
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The French in Indochina Creation Before French colonization‚ Indochina was broken up into three independent‚ separate countries in Asia. They were known as the Khmer Empire (Cambodia)‚ the Laotian Kingdom (Laos)‚ and Vietnam. The Vietnamese were ruled by emperors from neighboring China for hundreds of years before the French took over. The emperors had nominal rule however. One of the old social facts of pre-Indochina included the emperors collecting revenue. But the taxes were
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