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Antistatic device An antistatic device is any item which has the effect of reducing static electricity charges on a person's body or equipment and preventing fires and explosions when working with flammable liquids and gases. Such items include:
Antistes Antistes (from Latin anti "before" and sto "stand") was from the 16th to the 19th century the title of the head of the church in the Reformed Churches in Switzerland. It was the highest office in churches with synodal church governance.
Antistreptolysin O titre Antistreptolysin O titre (ASO titre or ASOT) - titre of (serum) antistreptolysin O antibodies; a blood test used to assist in the diagnosis of a streptococcal infection or indicate a past exposure to streptococci.
Antisuyo expedition The Antisuyo expedition, led by Giancarlo Ligabue and Federico Kauffman Doig in 1984 in Peru, enabled identification of a group of pre-Inca sarcophagi which had remained unknown in the scientific literature. These sarcophagi had been protected by a steep incline, and its inaccessibility dissuaded grave robbers and treasure hunters.
Antisuyu Anti Suyu is the eastern part of the Inca Empire which bordered with modern-day Upper Amazon region where the Anti inhabited. Antis is a collective term for the many varied ethnic groups living in the Antisuyu such as, for example, the Pano or the Campa.
Antisymmetry Antisymmetry is a theory of syntactic linearization presentend in Richard Kayne's 1994 monograph The Antisymmetry of Syntax. The crux of this theory is that hierarchical structure in natural language maps universally onto a particular surface linearization, namely specifier-head-complement.
Antitactae Antitactæ, or antitactici, in antiquity, were a sect of gnostics who believe that God was good and just, but that one of his creatures had created evil, and had engaged humans to follow it, in order to set us in opposition to God. They believed that it was the duty of humanity to oppose this author of evil, in order to avenge God of his enemy.
Antitaenite Antitaenite is a meteoritic metal alloy mineral composed of iron and nickel, 20-40% Ni (and traces of other elements) that has a face centered cubic crystal structure. Its existence as a new mineral species occurring in both iron meteorites and in chondrites was first recognized in 1995.
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (also known as AEDPA) is a series of laws in the US signed into law on April 24, 1996 to "deter terrorism, provide justice for victims, provide for an effective death penalty, and for other purposes." It was passed by a Republican-controlled Congress (91-8-1 in the Senate, 293-133-7 in the House) following the Oklahoma City bombing and signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton.
Antitheism Antitheism (sometimes anti-theism) is a direct opposition to theism. The word has had a range of applications; in secular contexts, it typically refers to direct opposition to belief in any deity, while in theistic ones, it sometimes refers to opposition to an actual god or gods.
Antitranspirant Antitranspirants are compounds applied to the leaves of plants to reduce transpiration. They are used on Christmas trees, cut flowers, newly transplanted shrubs, and in other applications to preserve and protect plants from drying out too quickly.
Antitribu In White Wolf Game Studio's role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, most vampire clans belong to a sect, either the Camarilla or Sabbat (some vampires and clans are independent). Vampires who belong to a sect other than that of their parent clan are generally called antitribu, though this term is occasionally reserved specifically for offshoot bloodlines belonging to a different sect than their parent clan.
Antitrust Antitrust laws, or competition laws, are laws which prohibit anti-competitive behavior and unfair business practices. The laws make illegal certain practices deemed to hurt businesses or consumers or both, or generally to violate standards of ethical behavior.
Antitrust (film) Antitrust is a 2001 film directed by Peter Howitt and written by Howard Franklin. The cast included Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Claire Forlani, Tim Robbins, Douglas McFerran, Richard Roundtree, Tygh Runyan, and Yee Jee Tso.
AntiTerrorismo Pronto Impiego The AntiTerrorismo Pronto Impiego, formed in 1983, is a special police unit of the Guardia di Finanza dealing with Anti-Terrorism in Italy. The unit took part in counterterrorism operations and VIP protection details in Italy.
Antivenin Antivenin (or antivenom, or antivenene) is a biological product used in the treatment of venomous bites or stings. It is created by injecting a small amount of the targeted venom into an animal such as a horse, sheep, goat, or rabbit; the subject animal will suffer an immune response to the venom, producing antibodies against the venom's active molecule which can then be harvested from the animal's blood and used to treat envenomation in others.
Antivermins Antivermins is a spyware program that claims to be a commercial spyware-removal utility, when in fact it is, itself, adware-advertised. The software installs itself, without consent, in user's computers and registry.
Antiviral Therapy Antiviral Therapy (AVT; ISSN 1359-6535) is an academic journal published by International Medical Press, London, UK (a subsidiary of MediTech Media). The Editors-in-Chief are Douglas D Richman (USA) and Joep MA Lange (The Netherlands).
Antler Antlers are the large and complex horn-like appendages of deer, consisting of bony outgrowths from the head with no covering of keratin as is found in true horns. Each antler grows from an attachment point on the skull called a pedicle.
Antler (poet) Antler (born 1946, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA) is an American poet who lives in Wisconsin. His work reflects the influences of Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, and the American traditions of transcendentalism and environmentalism.
Antler orogeny The Antler orogeny is a mountain-building episode that is named for Antler Peak, at Battle Mountain, Nevada. The orogeny extensively deformed Paleozoic rocks of the Great Basin in Nevada and western Utah during Late Devonian and Early Mississippian time.
Antlia Antlia (IPA: , ) is a relatively new constellation as it was only created in the 18th century, being too faint to be acknowledged by the ancient Greeks. The IAU adopted it as one of the 88 modern constellations.
Antlion Antlions are a family of insects in the order Neuroptera, classified as Myrmeleontidae, from the Greek "myrmex", meaning "ant", and "leon", meaning "lion". Strictly speaking the term antlion applies to the larval form of the members of this family.
Antlion (Half-Life 2) Antlions are a fictional insect-like alien species found in Valve Software's first-person shooter action computer game, Half-Life 2. They ended up on Earth after being transported from Xen by the portal storms.
Antlions in Britain The Antlion Euroleon nostras is an extremely rare insect in Britain, only known from the Minsmere area of the Suffolk coast, although a population of this or a related species has very recently been found in Norfolk.
Anto An anto was an ancient Manchu political administrative term referring to provinces or prefectures. The term was used during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria to name in local terms the provinces of the Manchukuo empire.
Antoaneta Frenkeva Antoaneta Frenkeva (born August 24, 1971) is a former breaststroke swimmer from Bulgaria, who won the silver medal in the 100m Breaststroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, just behind her teammate Tania Dangalakova. In the same tournament the seventeen-year old captured the bronze in the 200m Breaststroke.
Antoaneta Stefanova Antoaneta Stefanova () (born April 19, 1979) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth titleholder in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE.
Antofagasta Region Antofagasta (officially II RegiĂłn de Antofagasta) is Chile's second administrative region from north to south. Comprised of three provinces, Antofagasta, El Loa and Tocopilla, its capital is the port city of Antofagasta.
Antofagasta, Chile () is a port city and episcopal see in northern Chile, about 700 miles north of Santiago. It is the capital of both Antofagasta Province and Antofagasta Region, and according to the 2002 census has a population of 318,779.
Antoine and Colette Antoine and Colette (French title: Antoine et Colette) is the second film — a short — in François Truffaut's series about Antoine Doinel, the character he follows from boyhood to adulthood through five films. The film was made for the 1962 anthology collection, L'Amour à vingt ans (Love at Twenty), which featured shorts from the renowned directors Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda, as well as Truffaut.
Antoine Achard Antoine Achard (1696-1772) was a Swiss Protestant minister born in Geneva. He settled in Berlin in 1724 where he received the title of privy counsellor and was admitted into the Royal Academy of Berlin in 1743.
Antoine Auguelle Antoine Auguelle (also referred to as Anthony Auguel and surnamed the Picard du Gay) born at Amiens in Picardy, was a 17th century French explorer. Auguelle and Michel Aco were companions of Father Louis Hennepin during his exploration of North America, and were briefly captured with him by the Mille Lac Dakota Indians.
Antoine Baudeau de Somaize Antoine Baudeau, sieur de Somaize (ca 1630- unknown date) was a secretary to Marie Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin. He published a Grand Dictionnaire des Prétieuses, ou La Clef de la Lanque des Ruelles (Paris, 1660)The ruelle is the narrow space between a daybed and the wall of its alcove, permitted only to the most intimate company.
Antoine Bibesco Antoine Bibesco or, in Romanian, Anton Bibescu (July 19, 1878 - September 2, 1951) was a Romanian prince, lawyer, diplomat and writer. Born into the Bibescu boyar family, he allegedly descended from the House of Capet and, according to Marcel Proust, could "legitimately claim to stand in the line of succession to the throne of France".
Antoine Brumel Antoine Brumel (around 1460 – 1512 or 1513) was a French composer. He was one of the first renowned French members of the Franco-Flemish school of the Renaissance, and, after Josquin Desprez, was one of the most influential composers of his generation.
Antoine Brutus Menier Jean-Antoine Brutus Menier (May 17, 1795 - December 19, 1853) was a French entrepreneur and founder of the Menier family of chocolatiers. Born in Germain-de-Bourgeuil, Indre-et-Loire, he was the third child in a family of merchants.
Antoine Cardinal Sanguin Antoine Cardinal Sanguin (1502—25 November 1559, Paris) was the uncle of Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, mistress of François I, to whom he owed his ecclesiastical career; there is no record of his having taken holy orders.
Antoine Court de Gébelin Antoine Court who named himself Antoine Court de Gébelin (ca.1719 – May 10, 1784) was the former Protestant pastor, born at Nimes (Encyclopædia Britannica), who initiated the interpretation of the Tarot as an arcane repository of timeless esoteric wisdom, in an essay included in his Le Monde primitif, analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne ("The Primitive World, Analyzed and Compared to the Modern World"), volume viii, 1781.
Antoine de Beauterne Antoine de Beauterne was actually François Antoine, chief huntsman (lieutenant des Chasses) of king Louis XV and a professional wolf hunter, sent to stop the attacks of the Beast of Gévaudan with fourteen crack marksmen as assistants selected. The error concerning his name may stem from confusion with his son's.
Antoine de Bertrand Antoine de Bertrand (also Anthoine) (1530/1540 – probably 1581) was a French composer of the Renaissance. Early in his life he was a prolific composer of secular chansons, and late in his life he wrote hymns and canticles, under the influence of the Jesuits.
Antoine de Caunes Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953 in Paris, France) is a television comedian, actor and writer. He is the son of two French personalities, television journalist George de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline Joubert.
Antoine de Laloubère Antoine de Laloubère (1600-1664), a Jesuit, born in Languedoc, is chiefly celebrated for an incorrect solution of Pascal's problems on the cycloid, which he gave in 1660, but he has a better claim to distinction in having been the first mathematician to study the properties of the helix.
Antoine de Pluvinel Antoine de Pluvinel (1552-1620) was the first of the French riding masters, and has had great influence on modern dressage. He not only wrote L’Instruction du Roy en l’Exercice de Monter a Cheval, but was also tutor to King Louis XIII, and is credited with the invention of using two pillars, as well as using shoulder-in to increase suppleness.
Antoine de Sartine Antoine Raymond Jean Gualbert Gabriel de Sartine, comte d'Alby (July 12, 1729 — September 7, 1801) was a French statesman who served as Lieutenant General of Police of Paris (1759-1774) during the reign of Louis XV and as Secretary of State for the Navy (1774-1780) under King Louis XVI.
Antoine Daniel Saint Antoine Daniel (27 May 1601 – 4 July, 1648) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the eight Canadian Martyrs. Daniel was born at Dieppe, in Normandy, and was slain by the Iroquois at Teanaostae, near Hillsdale, Limcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
Antoine Dénériaz Antoine Dénériaz (born March 6, 1976 in Bonneville, Haute-Savoie) is a French Alpine skier. He won a gold medal in the Olympic downhill competition at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, trailed by Austrian Michael Walchhofer and Swiss Bruno Kernen.
Antoine Desgodetz Antoine Babuty Desgodetz's publication Les edifices antiques de Rome dessinés et mesurés très exactement (Paris 1682) provided detailed engravings of the monuments and antiquities of Rome to serve French artists and architects. Desgodetz had been sent to Rome in an official capacity, part of French architectural and artistic policy,"The timing of the commissioning of Perrault to translate Vitruvius, the expedition of Desgodetz to Rome, the public humiliation of Bernini, and the subsequent transfer of the Louvre design to Perrault, the publication of the Ordonnance, the attacks of Colbert on the guilds are too consistent to be considered accidental," note Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre, reviewing Wolfgang Herrmann, The Theory of Claude Perrault (Studies in Architecture, XII), 1974, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 3 October 1976.
Antoine Fauchery Antoine Fauchery (1823 – 1862) was a French photographer who was commissioned to accompany French forces and photographically document their participation in the Anglo-French military expedition to northern China during the Second Opium War in 1860.
Antoine François Brenier de Montmorand Antoine-François Brenier de Montmorand (12 November 1767 at Saint-Marcelin (Isère) - 8 October 1832) served as a French general during the period of the First French Empire and became an officer of the Légion d'honneur.
Antoine Fuqua Antoine Fuqua (born January 19, 1966 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an African-American film director of such films as The Replacement Killers with Chow Yun Fat, Bait with Jamie Foxx, Training Day with Denzel Washington, Tears of the Sun with Bruce Willis and King Arthur with Clive Owen.
Antoine Gérin-Lajoie Antoine Gérin-Lajoie (born August 4, 1824 in Yamachiche, Quebec; died August 4, 1882 in Ottawa) was a Québécois Canadian poet and novelist. He was the author of the famous poem Un Canadien Errant (English: A Wandering Canadian).
Antoine Ghonda Antoine Mangalibi Ghonda (born February 19 1965 in Leuven, Belgium) was the foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from June 30 2003 until July 23 2004. Ghonda grew up in the Bas Congo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was then known as Zaire.
Antoine Christophe Merlin Antoine Christophe Merlin (September 13, 1762 - September 14, 1833), was a member of several legislative bodies during the era of the French Revolution. He is usually called "Merlin de Thionville" ("Merlin of Thionville") to distinguish him from Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai.
Antoine Ignace Melling Artist and voyager, Antoine Ignace Melling, (Anton Ignaz Melling) (1763-1831), was Born in Lorraine and trained in architecture and painting. At the age of 19, he went to Istanbul, (Constantinople), to seek his fortune, as part of the Russian Ambassador's retinue and household - drawing pictures for various dignitaries - and during his tenure in this position, he was introduced to Princess Hatice, (Hatice Sultan); the sister and confidant of the Ottoman Sultan Selim III.
Antoine III de Gramont Antoine III Agénor de Gramont-Toulongeon, duke of Gramont, comte de Guiche, comte de Gramont, comte de Louvigny, Souverain de Bidache, (1604, Chateau d'Hagetmau - July 12 1678 Bayonne) was a French military and diplomat. Marshal of France since 1641; Viceroy of Navarra and Béarn, and Governor of Bayonne.
Antoine Janis Antoine Janis (March 26, 1824–1890) was a 19th century French-American fur trader and an early white homesteader in Larimer County, Colorado in the United States. The first recorder permanent white settler in northern Colorado, he founded the town of Laporte in 1858.
Antoine le Blanc Antoine le Blanc was a French immigrant to the United States who was allowed to live in the small, dank basement of the Morristown, New Jersey farmhouse of the Sayres in 1833, in exchange for chopping wood and feeding hogs, but went unpaid. After two weeks of taking orders and hard work, he took out revenge by murdering the farmer, wife, and slave.
Antoine le Flamenc Anthony (also Antoine le Flamenc,Sometimes de Flamenc Antonio Fiammengo, or Antonius Flamengo) was the Frankish baron of Karditza (1303 – 1313). He was married to Isabella Pallavicini and co-ruled the March of Bodonitsa with her from 1278 to 1286, when she died.
Antoine Labelle François-Xavier-Antoine Labelle (November 24, 1833 in Sainte-Rose-de-Lima – January 4, 1891 in Quebec City) was a Roman Catholic priest and the person principally responsible for the settlement (or "colonization") of the Laurentians. He is also referred to as "Curé Labelle" and sometimes, the "King of the North".
Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac Antoine Laumet, dit de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (March 5 1658 – October 15 1730), a French explorer, was a colourful figure in the history of New France. The self-styled Lamothe-Cadillac was the son of one Jean Laumet, an assistant magistrate in the local court.
Antoine Lefort Antoine Lefort was a Luxembourgian politician and diplomat. A member of Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies for the Party of the Right, he served as the Director-General for Public Works from 24 February 1916 until 28 September 1918.
Antoine Marc Gaudin Antoine Marc Gaudin (August 8, 1900 - August 23, 1974) was a distinguished American mineral engineer, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Antoine Meillet Antoine Meillet (Paul-Jules-Antoine Meillet, November 11, 1866 - September 21, 1936), was one of the most important French linguists of the early 20th century. Meillet began his studies at the Sorbonne, where he was influenced by Michel Bréal, Ferdinand de Saussure, and the members of the Annee Sociologique.
Antoine Parent Antoine Parent, (September 16, 1666 - September 26, 1716) was a French mathematician, born at Paris and died there, who wrote in 1700 on analytical geometry of three dimensions. His works were collected and published in three volumes at Paris in 1713.
Antoine Pinay Antoine Pinay (December 30, 1891 - December 13, 1994) served as Prime Minister of France from 1952 - 1953 (technically, "president of the Council"). One of France's most spirited leaders after World War II, Pinay is today remembered as the longest lived Prime Minister.
Antoine River The Antoine River is a tributary of the Little Missouri River in southwestern Arkansas in the United States. Via the Little Missouri, Ouachita and Red Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Antoine Tempé Antoine Tempé is a French born photographer who has done extensive work in New York City and West Africa. He is mostly known for his studio shots of African dancers and for his portraits of African artists and intellectuals.
Antoine Thompson Senator-elect Antoine Maurice Thompson (born March 1, 1970) has been elected to represent the state's 60th Senate district which includes parts of the Cities of Buffalo and Tonawanda and the City of Niagara Falls and the Town of Grand Island.
Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (January 3, 1810 – March 19, 1897), was a French geographer, notable for his travels in Ethiopia during the first half of the 19th century. He was the older brother of Arnaud Michel d'Abbadie.
Antoine van Bilsen Antoine Van Bilsen was a Belgian professor who, in 1955, proposed a thirty-year plan for creating a self-sufficient independent state out of the Belgian Congo. The timetable called for a gradual change over 30 years, the time he estimated it would take to create an educated elite to administrate the new Congo.
Antoine V de Gramont Antoine V de Gramont (January 1672-September 16,1725), Duke of Guiche, French military figure and member of the Gramont family. At the age of thirteen, he became a musketeer and by 1687 he had become head of his regiment and had married the daughter of Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles.
Antoine Varillas Antoine Varillas (1626-1696) was a French historian, best known for his history of heresy. It attracted a great deal of interest amongst his contemporaries; serious if partisan criticisms of the historical method of his earlier work led to his losing his reputation as a serious scholar.
Antoine Vézina Antoine Vézina (born in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Quebecois actor. A 2000 alumni of the Université du Québec à Montréal with a bachelor's degree in theater, Vézina has a strong improvisational theater background, having performed in the Quebec improvisational leagues the Ligue universitaire d'improvisation (LUI, league of Laval University), the Ligue d'improvisation centrale de l'UQAM (LICUQAM, league of the Université du Québec à Montréal), the Cravates, the Ligue d'improvisation Globale, the Limonade, the Ligue d'improvisation montréalaise (LIM) and the reputed Ligue nationale d'improvisation (LNI).
Antoine Watteau Jean-Antoine Watteau (October 10, 1684 — July 18, 1721) was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement (in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens), and revitalized the waning Baroque idiom, which eventually became known as Rococo. He is credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes: scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with an air of theatricality.
Antoine Wright Antoine Domonick Wright (born February 6, 1984 in West Covina, California) is a pro basketball player. He was selected 15th overall in the 2005 NBA Draft by the New Jersey Nets (the highest pick from the Big 12 Conference and Texas A&M University history), after his junior year at Texas A&M University.
Antoine-Adolphe-Marcelin, Baron de Marbot Antoine-Adolphe-Marcelin de Marbot (March 22, 1781 - June 2, 1844), was born in La Riviere. He entered the army at an early age, obtained commissioned rank in the revolutionary wars and became aide-de-camp to Bernadotte.
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (Montdidier August 12, 1737 – December 13, 1813) is remembered as a vocal promoter of cultivating the potato as a food source (for humans) in France and throughout Europe. However, this was not his only contribution to nutrition and health: he was responsible for the first mandatory smallpox vaccination campaign (under Napoleon starting in 1805, when he was Inspector-General of the Health Service), he was a pioneer in the extraction of sugar from sugar beets, he founded a school of breadmaking, and he studied methods of conserving food, including refrigeration.
Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne (1820-1882), was a French historian born in Paris on 28 October 1820, of an old Lyon family. His reputation rests on his authoritative major work, Histoire de France, published in nine volumes (1865–79).
Antoine-Henri Jomini Antoine-Henri, baron Jomini (March 6, 1779–March 24, 1869), general in the French and afterwards in the Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war, was born at Payerne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, where his father was syndic.
Antoine, 13th Prince of Ligne Antoine Maria Joachim Lamoral, Prince of Ligne, Prince of Épinoy, Prince of Amblise, Grandee of Spain was born on 8 March 1925 in Brussels, Belgium. He was the son of Eugène, 11th Prince of Ligne and Philippine de Noailles.
Antoine, 1st comte de Noailles Antoine, 1st comte de Noailles (1504 - 1562), became admiral of France, and was ambassador in England during three important years, 1553-1556, maintaining a gallant but unsuccessful rivalry with the Spanish ambassador, Simon Renard.
Antoine, bastard of Burgundy Antoine (1421-1504), known to his contemporaries as "the bastard of Burgundy" or "the Grand Bastard - le grand bâtard" - was the natural son (and first child) of Philip III, Duke of Burgundy and one of his mistresses, Jeanne de Presle. Born in 1421, possibly at Lizy in Picardy, he was brought up in the Burgundian court with his younger half-brother, the count of Charolais, later Charles the Bold, last of the Valois dukes of Burgundy, to whom he grew very close.
Antoinette The Antoinette was a short-lived French automobile manufactured by a builder of airplanes and aircraft engines between 1906 and 1908. The company, based in Puteaux, showed a car with a 32hp V-8 engine and hydraulic clutches instead of a gearbox and differential at the 1906 Paris Salon; the next year, a 16hp four and a 30hp V-8 were also offered.
Antoinette Clinton Antoinette Clinton is a female 19 year old American beatboxer from Davis, California who performs under the stage name of "Butterscotch". In September 2005 she claimed the First International World Hip Hop Challenge Female Beatbox Champion title in Leipzig, Germany competing with beatboxers from all over the world.
Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières Antoinette Du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1 January 1638–1694) was a French poet born in Paris. She was the daughter of Melchior du Ligier, sieur de la Garde, maitre d'hôtel to the queens Marie de Medici and Anne of Austria.
Antoinette Frank Antoinette Frank (born 30th April 1971) is a former New Orleans police officer who was convicted of one of the most notorious crimes in recent New Orleans history: the robbery of a restaurant where she was working as a security guard, and the murders of three people, including her partner on the police force, who was also a security guard at the restaurant. Frank is one of two women on Louisiana's death row at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St.
Antoinette Louisa Brown Antoinette Brown, later Antoinette Brown Blackwell (May 20, 1825 – November 5, 1921), was the first woman to be ordained as a minister in the United States, when she was called to be the pastor of the Congregational church in South Butler, New York in 1853. Her ordination, however, was not recognized by her denomination.
Antoinette Lucas Antoinette Lucas (born October 27, 1968 in Crozier, Virginia) is a former field hockey midfielder from the United States, who was a member of the US women's team that finished fifth at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
Antoinette McKenna Antoinette McKenna is a singer and harp player that accompanies her husband,Joe McKenna who is a piper. They are both from Dublin,Ireland where husband Joe learned to play pipes from Leo Rowsome and other members of the famed Pipers Club.
Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design The Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design (AWCoMAD) formerly the College of Media Arts and Design (CoMAD) is one of the colleges of Drexel University. In 2005 the college was renamed after alumnae Antoninette Passo Westphal at the request of her husband after what is believed to be the largest private donation to the university in its history.
AntologĂ­a "AntologĂ­a" is a box set of V8 that contains all the 3 original records plus a special disc with rare material previously unreleased, a video with some presentations and a booklet with photos and comments of the band.
Anton Alexander Graf von Auersperg Anton Alexander Graf von Auersperg (1806-1876), Austrian poet and liberal politician, who wrote under the pseudonym of Anastasius GrĂĽn, was born on the 11th of April 1806, at Laibach, the capital of the Austrian Duchy of Carniola (now in Slovenia), and was head of the Thurn am Hart/Krain branch of the Carniolan cadet line of the house of Auersperg.
Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel is a tunnel through Maynard Mountain, linking the Seward Highway south of Anchorage, with the relatively isolated community of Whittier, Alaska. It is part of the Portage Glacier Highway and at 13,300 feet (4,050 m), is the second longest highway tunnel and longest combined rail and highway tunnel in North America.
Anton Arensky Anton Stepanovich Arensky (Антон Степанович Аренский) (July 12, [OS 30 June] 1861, Novgorod – February 25 [OS February 12], 1906 Perkijarvi, Finland), was a Russian Romantic composer and music professor born in Novgorod, Russia.
Anton Babchuk Anton Anatoliyevich Babchuk (Rus. Антон Анатольевич Бабчук, Anton Anatol'jevič Babčuk), born May 6 1984 in Kiev, Ukraine, is a Russian Professional Hockey Defenseman in the National Hockey League who has played for the Chicago Blackhawks and Carolina Hurricanes.
Anton Barbeau Anton Barbeau is an American singer-songwriter based in Sacramento, California. He primarily accompanies himself on guitar or keyboard, though on his recordings he's performed on many different instruments, additionally including bass guitar and percussion.
Anton Bergmann Anton Bergmann (Lier, 29 June, 1835-Lier, 21 January, 1874) was a Belgian writer and a liberal Flemish activist. Already during his youth he was fond of Dutch literature, and together with Julius Vuylsteke, he was a member of T Zal wel gaan, a Flemish cultural and liberal organization.
Anton Bezenšek Anton Toma Bezenšek is a Slovenian linguist, publicist, shorthand expert, and lecturer, who spent most of his life in Bulgaria. He is known as the scholar who adapted the Gabelsberger shorthand system to the South Slavic languages.
Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance (common short forms are Anton Bruckner Private University or just Bruckner University) is one of four universities in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. It has ca.

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