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  2. Paris, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Website. paristexas.gov. Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. Located in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods, the population of the city was 24,171 in 2020.

  3. Sainte-Chapelle - Wikipedia

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    The Sainte-Chapelle ( French: [sɛ̃t ʃapɛl]; English: Holy Chapel) is a royal chapel in the Gothic style, within the medieval Palais de la Cité, the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century, on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine in Paris, France. Construction began sometime after 1238 and the chapel was consecrated on 26 ...

  4. Flame of Liberty - Wikipedia

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    Flame of Liberty. Coordinates: 48°51′51″N 2°18′3″E. The Flame of Liberty, which was offered to the people of France by donors throughout the world as a symbol of the Franco-American friendship. In the background, the Eiffel Tower. The Flame of Liberty ( Flamme de la Liberté) in Paris is a full-sized, gold-leaf-covered replica of the ...

  5. Category:People from Paris, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "People from Paris, Texas" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. A. M. Aikin Jr. B.

  6. Chauvet Cave - Wikipedia

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    Location in France. The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave ( French: Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, French pronunciation: [ɡʁɔt ʃovɛ pɔ̃ daʁk]) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, [ 1] as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. [ 2]

  7. Palace of Fontainebleau - Wikipedia

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    Europe and North America. Palace of Fontainebleau ( / ˈfɒntɪnbloʊ / FON-tin-bloh, US also /- bluː / -⁠bloo; [ 1 ] French: Château de Fontainebleau [ʃɑto d (ə) fɔ̃tɛnblo] ), located 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast of the center of Paris, in the commune of Fontainebleau, is one of the largest French royal châteaux.

  8. List of stolen paintings - Wikipedia

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    Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (stolen while on loan to Musée Cantini, Marseille) Recovered outside Paris. €800,000 Stammer Mill by Piet Mondrian: 9 January 2012: 2021: National Gallery, Athens, Greece One of three paintings stolen from the Greek National Gallery in a 2012 heist. Recovered from a dry river bed near Keratea, East Attica ...

  9. Message in a bottle - Wikipedia

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    1973, Dean F. Bumpus, Senior Scientist Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Floating objects may ride gyres (large circulating current systems) that are present in each ocean, and may be transferred from one ocean's gyre to another's. Further, objects may be sidetracked by wind, storms, countercurrents, and ocean current variation. Accordingly, drift bottles have traveled large distances, with ...