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The ampersand can be used to indicate that the "and" in a listed item is a part of the item's name and not a separator (e.g. "Rock, pop, rhythm & blues and hip hop"). [citation needed] The ampersand may still be used as an abbreviation for "and" in informal writing regardless of how "and" is used.
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
Commandant. Commandant ( / ˌkɒmənˈdɑːnt / or / ˌkɒmənˈdænt /; French: [kɔmɑ̃dɑ̃]) is a title often given to the officer in charge of a military (or other uniformed service) training establishment or academy. This usage is common in English-speaking nations. In some countries it may be a military or police rank.
Bazin became a journalist in 1966 based in Dijon for the newspaper Les Dépêches.He served as editor-in-chief for the weekly La Lettre de Bourgogne from 1973 to 2003. He collaborated with Les Echos, Le Moniteur Universel, Le Nouvel Économiste, and Le Spectacle du Monde, in addition to the radio station France 3.
Claudius Billon (13 February 1896 – 1 September 1944) was a captain in the French air force and the regional controller of the Armée secrète in Région R1 (Rhône) during World War II.
Glossary of mathematical symbols. A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object, an action on mathematical objects, a relation between mathematical objects, or for structuring the other symbols that occur in a formula. As formulas are entirely constituted with symbols of various ...
En passant. In chess, en passant ( French: [ɑ̃ pasɑ̃], lit. "in passing") describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that has just made an initial two-square advance. [ 2][ 3] This is an exception or special case in the rules of chess. The capturing pawn moves to the square that the enemy pawn ...
The Redoutable was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.She took part in the battles of the French Revolutionary Wars in the Brest squadron, served in the Caribbean in 1803, and duelled with HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar, killing Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson during the action.