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Rayon, also called viscose [1] and commercialised in some countries as sabra silk or cactus silk, [2] is a semi-synthetic fiber, [3] made from natural sources of regenerated cellulose, such as wood and related agricultural products. [4] It has the same molecular structure as cellulose.
Groupe Union Défense (originally named Groupe Union Droit ), better known as GUD, was a French far-right students' union formed in the 1960s. After a period of inactivity it relaunched in 2022. [2] [3] [4] The GUD was based in Panthéon-Assas University, [5] [6] [7] a law school in Paris . On 26 June 2024, the French government ordered the ...
Beams and Shadows. Les Rayons et les Ombres ("Beams and shadows", 1840) is a collection of forty-four poems by Victor Hugo, the last collection to be published before his exile, and containing most of his poems from between 1837 and 1840. One biographer (A. F. Davidson) noted that this book marks the first appearance of Hugo as "poet-prophet ...
Rayón was founded in 1638, by the Jesuit missionary Pedro Pantoja, who gave it the name of Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Nacameri; the area had been inhabited by the Pima Bajos. In 1825 the name was changed to Rayón to honor General Ignacio López Rayón. In 1850 it was given the category of villa and in the middle of the nineteenth century ...
The national symbols of the French Fifth Republic are: [1] The French flag. The national anthem: "La Marseillaise". The national personification: Marianne. The national motto: Liberté, égalité, fraternité (Liberty, equality, fraternity) The national day: Bastille Day (celebrated on 14 July) The Gallic rooster.
The French Wikipedia ( French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. [1] It has 2,625,346 articles as of 28 July 2024, making it the fourth-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English ...
For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In French, liaison ( French pronunciation: [ljɛzɔ̃] ⓘ) is the pronunciation of a linking consonant between two words in an appropriate phonetic and syntactic context. For example, the word les ( 'the') is pronounced /le/, the word amis ( 'friends ...
From today's featured article. Charles Edward (1884–1954) was at various times a British prince, the last ruling duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in Germany, and a Nazi politician. Brought up in the United Kingdom, he was selected to succeed to the throne of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1899 because he was deemed young enough to be re-educated as a ...