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La Bougie du Sapeur,first published in 1980,is a humorous

French newspaper published every X date.There have been nine

editions of this newspaper to this date.The newspaper’s name is

derived from a comic character the sapper Camember,created by

Georges Colomb founded by Jacques Debuisson and Christian

Baily printed in 200,000 copies.The newspaper’s ISSN is 0761-

6147.Identify X.

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King John of England set his seal to the X on June 15, 1215. The document limited the power of the English monarchy and granted rights to John’s vassals. Many English legal traditions, including the right to trial by jury and equal access to courts for all citizens, had their origins in the X. The X of 1215 contains 63 clauses. The first restates the charter that John issued in 1214, which had granted liberties to the Church. In many clauses John promises to be less harsh in enforcing his feudal rights on the barons, and another clause states that the barons must grant to their tenants all the feudal concessions that the king has made to them.

The two most important clauses of X are among the legal clauses. Clause 40 promises, “To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay right or justice.” This clause establishes the principle of equal access to the courts for all citizens without exorbitant fees. In clause 39, the king promises, “No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or outlawed or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go or send against him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.” This clause establishes that the king would follow legal procedure before he punished someone. Identify X…

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X,Y, Z have agreed to set up a full fledged economic

bloc that should act as a bridge between europe and asia

and a counterweight to Western integration unions.The

presidents of the three countries of the eurasian

economic integration aggreement in astana.It will be

coming into force the upcoming year on january 1,2015

it will create a market of 170 million people with a

combined annual GDP $7 trillion and a quarter of the

world energy resources.Identify X,Y,Z…

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Q7…X born(Geetali Shankar;march 30,1979) is an American

singer songwriter,musician and actress.She is a daughter of star

virtuoso Ravi Shankar and Sue jones.In 2002,she launched her

solo music career with the release of the most commercially

successful album Come away with me which won 5 grammy

awards and sold over 26 million copies. Some of the more

albums are Feels like home,Not too late and little broken hearts.X

made film debut in My blueberry nights….X is one of the

participants in the so called “Hank William”project overseen by

Bob Dylan and including contributions from Willie nelson,Jack

white,Lucinda Williams and Alan Jackson.Who is X???

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Ferrucio was originally a farmer who made tractors.His business

was very successful and the was among the most wealthy in

Italy.He owned Ferrari among other super cars.His Ferraris had

clutch problem which would slip under acceleration and went to

the service guys regularly to have a clutch rebuilt or renewed and

the problem with the clutch was not cured,so he went to talk to

Enzo Ferrari.”Ferrari,your cars are rubbish!ferrucio

compailned.II commendatore was furious.”you may be able to

drive a tractor but you never be able to hand a ferrari

properly.”This was the point where he finally decided to make a

perfect car.Yes ,X…..what is being talked about???

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• The dam shown above is the three gorges dam,a hydorelectic

dam that is located in yiling district,yichang,hubie

province,china.It is the world’s largest power station in terms of

installed capacity.It was started in 1994 and opened on

2008.Located on which famous river???

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George Lucas’s motion picture X(1977) caught the public’s

imagination and was a runaway success at the box office. In this

scene from the science-fiction adventure tale, the smuggler Han

Solo (played by Harrison Ford) and his first mate, the wookie

Chewbacca (played by Peter Mayhew), take aim at the

enemy…which movie is this???

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• September 14, 1942

THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, Topeka, Kansas, September 14, 1942

* Battle of X begins (1st report)* World War II - WWII* Volograd, Russia

This 10 page newspaper has a four column headline on the front page that reads: "Troops Penetrate X: Nazis" with subhead: "Russians Admit German Advance In Two Sectors" 1st report coverage on start of the Battle of Stalingrad which is currently named Volograd, Russia.

Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. A little spine wear, otherwise in good condition. Identify X.

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He has developed powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers and applied them to count rings of small rank and to bound the average rank of elliptic curves

Awarded for his profound contributions to dynamical systems theory, which have changed the face of the field, using the powerful idea of renormalizations as a unifying principle.

He has defined Unique Games" problem, and his leadership in the effort to understand its complexity and its pivotal role in the study of efficient approximation of optimization problems, have produced breakthroughs in algorithmic design and approximation hardness, and new exciting interactions between computational complexity, analysis and geometryf.

Her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their modulii spaces.What is being talked about??

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