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| 12.12.2012 | bastide: beaumont-du-perigord  The first royal bastide town, Beaumont features an unusual and fascinating fortified church. |
new document in the france zone |
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| 27.11.2012 | the myth of islamic tolerance in al-andalus Spain under Islamic conquest was not the cosy partnership between Muslims and Christians as now commonly believed. |
new short briefing document | |||
| 14.11.2012 |  the 2013 giro d’italia - the fight for pink!  Created to be fair to riders, and balanced in types of stages, while visiting touristic and historic sites, the 2013 Giro should attract both climbers and sprinters. |
new document in the cycling zone |
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| 31.10.2012 |  the tour de france, 2013 - the centenary year! route and other useful and interesting details |
new document in the france zone |
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| 20.10.2012 | new! auch cathedral choir and stalls Auch cathedral has a hidden treasure room - its choir of carved oaken stalls, miserichords and decorations. 1,500 mediæval wood carvings on 113 stalls (seats) to marvel. |
new document in the france zone |
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| 17.10.2012 | captain scapegoat mangouras and the prestige oil spill With an enormous trial starting in Northern Spain, abelard.org reviews the ecological catastrophe that prompted the court case. |
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| 09.10.2012 | There she
blows! striking oil Descriptions and photos of when drilling for oil goes wrong. Book source reviewed. |
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| 02.10.2012 | cathedrals and cloisters of France by Elise Whitlock Rose On this series of six books written at the turn of the 20th century that provide a detailed and expert survey of France's religious monuments, aided by photographs by Vida Hunt Francis. |
new document in the france zone |
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| 09.09.2012 | cathedrals 9: saint-bertrand-de-comminges - the cathedral of the pyrenees Unusually, a fortified cathedral, and for good reason through the ages, built high in the Pyrenees. |
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| 24.08.2012 | George Orwell - another leftist pseudo-intellectual snob? Study of how the muddled mind of a socialist follower struggles to think of an idea and its opposite - essential to socialist dogma. |
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| 02.08.2012 | gdp 1: gross domestic product What this much-bandied about term means in fact, and what politicians claim it means. |
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| 29.05.2012 | Simultaneous major hardware, operating
system, server and software updates at abelard.org have
left abelard’s yaks first reeling, and now they are occupied with much computer
housekeeping. Normal service will gradually return as the dust settles. |
site maintenance report at abelard.org | |||
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| 03.04.2012 | cathedrals in Lorraine - the three bishoprics and Reims cathedral, subsidiary page to Germans in France have had additions and clarifications made. | updated documents in the france zone |
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| 01.04.2012 | infant
mortality and longevity statistics Why infant mortality and longevity statistics are not useful indicators of health systems. |
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| 20.03.12 | Glass at Beauvais section expanded at Cathedral giants - Amiens and Beauvais | updated document in the france zone |
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| 18.03.12 | Bibliographic information updated on Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer: Francis Galton page | updated document | |||
| 10.03.2012 | More information and pictures to help users of French motorway péages (tollbooths). | updated document in the france zone |
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| 16.02.2012 | Information on safety equipment required when driving in France expanded and clarified. | updated document in the france zone |
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| 15.02.2012 | A new section, on teaching and learning maths, in the introductory page of how to teach a person number, arithmetic, mathematics. | updated document in  |
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| 12.02.2012 | Clarified and updated: high-tide fishing - the écluses, seawater fishing locks in the Île de Ré and Île d’Oleron. |
updated document in the france zone |
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| 28.12.2011 | dating
old postcards French postcard stamp tariffs section expanded |
updated document in the france zone |
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