DE LAND

də lăndˈ, resort city (1990 pop. 16,491), seat of Volusia co., NE Fla.; inc. 1882. It has dairies, citrus packing plants, and lumber mills. Other products are electrical and electronic parts, clothing, and medical supplies. De Land is the seat of Stetson Univ. Nearby are Native American burial grounds and Ponce de Leon Springs.

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The Marquis de Sade
Book by Simone De Beauvoir; Grove Press, 1953
Subjects: Erotic Literature, French--History And Criticism, Erotic Literature, French--Translations Into English, Sade--Marquis De--1740-1814--Criticism And Interpretation, Sade--Marquis De--1740-1814--Translations Into English, Sex Customs In Literature, Sex Customs--France--Literary Collections
THE MARQUIS DE SADE THE MARQUIS DE SADE An Essay by SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR With Selections from His Writings Chosen by PAUL DINNAGE GROVE PRESS NEW YORK Simone de Beauvoirs essay was originally published in French as Faut-il bruler...
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Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Book by Cyclone Covey, Alvar Cabeza de Vaca Nunez; University of New Mexico Press, 1983
Subjects: America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish, America--Early accounts to 1600, Explorers--America--Biography, Explorers--Spain--Biography, Indians of North America--Southwestern States, Narvaez, Panfilo de--d. 1528, Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar--16th cent, Southwestern States--Description and travel
...riches for Cabeza de Vacas sanguine view...learned to love the land as beautiful and the...ATE, I ordered Lope de Oviedo, our strongest...ascertain the lay of the land. He complied and found...that long point of land--Matagorda Peninsula...Colorado, as Cabeza de Vacas guides had...
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Preface to the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Book by Richard Hillman, Colette Quesnel, Marie le Jars de Gournay; Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998
Subjects: Gournay, Marie Le Jars De--1565-1645, Montaigne, Michel De--1533-1592--Essais
PREFACE to the Essays of Michel de Montaigne by his Adoptive Daughter, Marie le Jars de Gournay (D6?L V?L ReNN1ssNNce TexTs 8z STUOLLCS VOLUME 19 3 PREFACE to the Essays of Michel de Montaigne by his Adoptive Daughter, Marie le...
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The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion
Book by Álvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca, Martin A. Favata, José B. Fernández; Arte Publico Press, 1993
Subjects: America--Discovery And Exploration--Spanish, America--Early Accounts To 1600, Explorers--America--Biography, Explorers--Spain--Biography, Indians Of North America--Southwestern States, Nauanez Cabeza De Vaca, Alvar--16th Cent
...Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca, resident of...conditions of the land and the customs of...eaten, I sent Lope de Oviedo, who was stronger...nearby to sight the land and find out something...years 12 in that land among them, alone...Christian named Lope de Oviedo, who was on...
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The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier
Book by Fray Servando Teresa De Mier, Helen Lane, Susana Rotker; Oxford US, 1998
Subjects: Dominicans--Mexico--Biography, Europe--Description and travel, Europe--History--1789-1815, Europe--Social life and customs--19th century, Historians--Mexico--Biography, Mier Noriega y Guerra, Jose Servando Teresa de--1763-1827, Statesmen--Mexico--Biography
...return to his native land and journeys to...Castle of San Juan de Ulua, faithful to...secularization of land holdings in upper...Servando Teresa de Mier y Noriega dies...as Servando Teresa de Mier decided to enter...buildings, loans, land holdings, urban constructions...
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Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies De Vacances in France, 1880-1960
Journal article by Anne T. Quartararo; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960 (Book)--Book reviews
...Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies De Vacances in France, 1880-1960...Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960...story of the colonies de vacances, the childrens...
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Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies De Vacances in France, 1880-1960
Journal article by Steven M. Beaudoin; Journal of Social History, Vol. 37, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960 (Book)--Book reviews
...Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies De Vacances in France...Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France...Childhood in the Promised Land, however, Laura Lee...soil in the colonies de vacances, or summer...
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Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies De Vacances in France, 1880-1960
Journal article by Ross A. Thompson; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 32, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960. (Book)--Book reviews
...Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies De Vacances in France, 1880-1960...Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960...study of the colonies de vacances movement in France...
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Laura Lee Downs, Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies De Vacances in France 1880-1960
Journal article by Tyler Stovall; French Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 21, 2003
Subjects: Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France 1880-1960 (Book)
...Lee Downs, Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies De Vacances in France 1880-1960...one sense, Childhood in the Promised Land relates the history of the colonies de vacances, established to give children...
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Kinship Matters: Women's Land Claims in the Santal Parganas, Jharkhand/Le Poids De la Famille: Le Droit Des Femmes a la Terre Chez Les Santal Parganas Du Jharkhand
Journal article by Nitya Rao; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 11, 2005
Subjects: Anthropological research, Kinship--Analysis, Kinship--Research, Kinship--Social aspects
...Kinship Matters: Womens Land Claims in the Santal...Jharkhand/Le Poids De la Famille: Le Droit...facto rather than de jure interpretations of local land tenure systems (Nicholas...collusive title suits, de facto possession...an adivasi woman. Land Reforms Commissioner...
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1.
Shaggy Dogg: Gareth James on Colin De Land
Magazine article; Artforum International, Vol. 41, June 2003
Subjects: Art dealers--Achievements and awards, Art dealers--Appreciation, Artists--Influence, de Land, Colin--Achievements and awards, de Land, Colin--Appreciation
Shaggy Dogg: Gareth James on Colin De Land. IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT...another naked body--that of Colin de Land, the proprietor of American Fine Arts...Arts?" and I say, "You mean the Colin de Land show?" "No," the guy says. "American...
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Can Land Trusts Be Trusted?
Magazine article by Michael De Alessi; The American Enterprise, Vol. 11, July 2000
Subjects: Land trusts--Political aspects, Open spaces--Protection
Can Land Trusts Be Trusted? by Michael De Alessi Al Gore has made combatting...act as government land collectors, land trusts will have abandoned the strengths...counterparts. San Francisco resident Michael De Alessi is director of the Competitive...
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Land Issue Heats Up: Namibia, like Its Neighbours Zimbabwe and South Africa, Inherited a Skewered Land Tenure System at Independence. Now, the Government of President Sam Nujoma Wants to Redress It -- and Fast!
Magazine article by Pricel Seleman; New African, April 2003
Subjects: Agriculture--Political aspects, Land reform--Planning, Land reform--Political aspects, Land tenure--Laws, regulations and rules, Land tenure--Political aspects, Namibia--Political aspects, Nujoma, Sam--Political activity
...Bill, anyone selling land to a foreigner could...five years. Jan de Wet, president of...commercial farms were given land, the government would...farmland in Namibia", De Wets admits, "but...Zimbabwes white farmers, De Wet warns: "Most farmland...attempt to achieve land reform at the expense...
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Land-A Tale of Two Countries: As Was the Case in Zimbabwe, Redistribution of Agricultural Land Is a Burning Issue in Both Namibia and South Africa. Both Countries Have Taken Steps to Reverse the Current Situation but in Different Ways and with Very Different Results. Tom Nevin Reports
Magazine article by Tom Nevin; African Business, April 2004
Subjects: Land reform--Influence, Land reform--Laws, regulations and rules, Land reform--Planning, Namibia--Natural resource policy, Namibia--Planning, South Africa--Natural resource policy, South Africa--Planning
...fairly compensated adding there is no possibility of Namibias land reform programme descending into the chaos that characterised...with outrage. "It is shocking," said the unions president Jan de Wet. "It causes sorrow and disturbances in the farming community...
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Botswana's San Peoples Win Land Battle in Court: In One of Africa's Most High-Profile Land Disputes, Botswana's Bushmen Have Won the Right to Live on Their Ancestral Land-But with Many Strings Attached. Tom Nevin Reports
Magazine article by Tom Nevin; African Business, April 2007
Subjects: Bushmen--Cases, Indigenous people's land claims--Laws, regulations and rules, Native people's land claims--Laws, regulations and rules, San (African people)--Cases
...San Bushmen, and set aside their forced removal from ancestral land. But the story has many twists and turns and in the end, the...Botswanas economic mainstay. Debswana, the diamond company in which De Beers and the Botswana government are equal partners, owns a...
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Cycling: TOUR DE LONDON; CYCLING: BRITISH STAGE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST RACE Capital Beats off All Rivals to Land Another Major Sporting Event
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 25, 2006
Subjects: Tour de France (Bicycle race)
Cycling: TOUR DE LONDON; CYCLING: BRITISH STAGE...Capital Beats off All Rivals to Land Another Major Sporting Event...announcement that next years Tour de France will start in the capital...insisted that hosting the Tour de France was a better deal. "If...
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Cycling: TOUR DE LONDON; CYCLING: BRITISH STAGE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST RACE England Beats off All Rivals to Land Another Major Sporting Event
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 25, 2006
Subjects: Tour de France (Bicycle race)
Cycling: TOUR DE LONDON; CYCLING: BRITISH STAGE...England Beats off All Rivals to Land Another Major Sporting Event...announcement that next years Tour de France will begin in the city...insisted that hosting the Tour de France was a better deal. "If...
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Cycling: TOUR DE LONDON; CYCLING: BRITISH STAGE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST RACE Capital Beats off All Rivals to Land Another Major Sporting Event
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 25, 2006
Subjects: Tour de France (Bicycle race)
Cycling: TOUR DE LONDON; CYCLING: BRITISH STAGE...Capital Beats off All Rivals to Land Another Major Sporting Event...announcement that next years Tour de France will start in the capital...insisted that hosting the Tour de France was a better deal. "If...
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Mandesha to Land Arc for Chantilly Ace Alain; Paris Bid: Alain De Royer-Dupre Has Put Cheekpieces on Mandesha
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 5, 2007
Mandesha to Land Arc for Chantilly Ace Alain; Paris Bid: Alain De Royer-Dupre Has Put Cheekpieces...each-way bet at 12-1 to land the pounds sterling750,000 Group 1 Prix de lArc deTriomphe (3.40...Chantilly trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre and thefillys...
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PRIX DE L'ARC DE TRIOMPHE: Racing News - Bago Swoops Late to Land Top Prize as Light and Grey Flop
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), October 4, 2004
PRIX DE LARC DE TRIOMPHE: Racing News - Bago Swoops Late to Land Top Prize as Light and Grey Flop. BAGO restored his reputation when swooping late to land the Prix de lArc de Triomphe at Longchamp yesterday. Unbeaten...
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De Land
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DE LAND d land , resort city (1990 pop. 16,491), seat of Volusia co., NE Fla...products are electrical and electronic parts, clothing, and medical supplies. De Land is the seat of Stetson Univ. Nearby are Native American burial grounds and...
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Coronado, Francisco VÁsquez De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Seven Cities of Cibola to the north, organized an elaborate expedition to explore by sea (see Alarcon, Hernando de ) and by land. Coronado, made captain general, set out in 1540 from Compostela, crossed modern Sonora and SE Arizona, and reached...
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Île-De-France , Region, France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Soissons, and Versailles. Ile-de-France was the cradle of the...and was then applied to the land bounded by the Seine, the Ouse...nucleus of the ever-growing crown land, which by the time of the death...part of present-day France. Ile-de-France itself, which had been...
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Molay, Jacques De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MOLAY, JACQUES DE zhak d mola , 1243? 1314, last grand...After the Templars were driven from the Holy Land, he moved to Cyprus, where he began to organize...arrested, and their property was confiscated. De Molay and his knights were brought before...
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LomÉnie De Brienne, Étienne Charles
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the minister of finance Charles Alexandre de Calonne and, though King Louis XVI looked...Thereupon he adopted Calonnes plans for a direct land tax, for calling of provincial assemblies...opposition of the Parlement of Paris to the land tax led him to exile the parlement to Troyes...
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