Chasse-PartieLa chasse-partie est une convention servant de code de conduite pour les corsaires et pirates. Cette charte est d'abord adoptée par les corsaires avant d'être reprise par les pirates sous le terme de code des pirates Certaines chasse-parties sont fictives, d'autres sont historiques. Corruption du terme charte-partie, ce contrat est conclu quelques jours avant le départ, toutes les décisions sur la destination, l'objet de l'expédition et les prises étant collectives.
Anna EdingerAnna Edinger (nee Goldschmidt; 17 May 1863 – 21 December 1929) was a German social activist, women's rights campaigner and peace activist. She received a large inheritance in 1906 and became, in addition to her own campaigning, significant as a benefactress to the Neurology Institute set up by her husband, and a few years later integrated into the newly established University of Frankfurt. Anna Goldschmidt was born at Frankfurt am Main, at that time a free city within the German Confederation.
Philosophie zoologiquePhilosophie zoologique ("Zoological Philosophy, or Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals") is an 1809 book by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, in which he outlines his pre-Darwinian theory of evolution, part of which is now known as Lamarckism. In the book, Lamarck named two supposed laws that would enable animal species to acquire characteristics under the influence of the environment. The first law stated that use or disuse would cause body structures to grow or shrink over the generations.
Louise FilionLouise Filion (1945 - ), Ph.D., professeure canadienne titulaire de biogéographie et ancienne directrice du département de géographie de l'Université Laval, est titulaire d'un baccalauréat en géographie, d'une maîtrise en agriculture et d'un doctorat en biologie de l'Université Laval. C'est la première femme a être nommée professeure de géographie dans cet établissement. Sa publication en 1984 d'un article dans la revue Nature la rend célèbre et est encore cité aujourd'hui.
The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the LawThe Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law (PMPWBL, Strana mírného pokroku v mezích zákona (SMPVMZ)) was a satirical political party in Cisleithania (Austro-Hungary), founded by Jaroslav Hašek in 1911. The party campaigned satirically for election to the Imperial Council (Austria). Due to their dual nature as both a political "party" and a political-artistic "action group", it is often extremely difficult to differentiate the reality from the fiction of the SMPVMZ.
Alliance 90/Les VertsL’Alliance 90/Les Verts (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, sans article Grüne) est un parti politique allemand écologiste de centre gauche. Fondé en 1980 en Allemagne de l'Ouest sous le nom de Les Verts (Die Grünen), il fait son entrée au Bundestag à l'occasion des élections fédérales de 1983. Il fusionne en 1993 avec l'Alliance 90 (Bündnis 90), formation fondée en Allemagne de l'Est en 1990 à la suite de la chute du mur de Berlin et issue de l’opposition au régime communiste.
Jean-Charles de BordaJean-Charles, chevalier de Borda, né le à Dax et mort le à Paris, est un mathématicien, physicien, politologue et navigateur français. Il a donné son nom à plusieurs vaisseaux écoles des , sur lesquels étaient embarqués les élèves de l'École navale. Fils benjamin de Jean-Antoine Borda, seigneur de Labatut, et de Marie-Thérèse de la Croix, Jean-Charles de Borda est issu d'une famille de militaires : Brantôme cite un capitaine Borda qu'il juge digne de passer à la postérité.
Néstor BraunsteinNéstor Alberto Braunstein (1941 – 2022) was an Argentine-Mexican physician, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Braunstein was born in Bell Ville. He graduated as a physician in 1962, at the age of 20, and received his M.D. in 1965 from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, where he taught at college level as early as 1959. In 1974 he was forced into exile for political and academic reasons and moved to Mexico where he worked as a psychiatrist in different public institutions for the treatment of both children and adults.
Helmut BirkhanHelmut Birkhan (born 1 February 1938) is an Austrian philologist who is Professor Emeritus of Ancient German Language and Literature and the former Managing Director of the Institute for Germanic Studies at the University of Vienna. Having studied at Vienna under Otto Höfler, Birkhan specializes in Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-European studies, particularly the study of Celtic-Germanic contacts, Germanic linguistics and Medieval German literature from an interdisciplinary perspective, on which he has published numerous influential works.
1623 in musicThe year 1623 in music involved some significant events. Drum cymbals are first made commercially by the predecessor of the Avedis Zildjian Company at Constantinople in Ottoman Turkey. Zildjian ˈzɪldʒiən cymbals were created in 1618 by Avedis Zildjian, an alchemist who was looking for a way to turn base metal into gold; he created an alloy combining tin, copper, and silver into a sheet of metal that could make musical sounds without shattering.
