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  2. Letters on the English - Wikipedia

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    Letters on the English. Letters on the English (or Letters Concerning the English Nation; French: Lettres philosophiques) are a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in Great Britain between 1726 and 1729. The book was published first in English in 1733 and then in French the following year, where it was seen as ...

  3. Letters from My Windmill - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 9782266156288. Letters from My Windmill ( French: Lettres de mon moulin) is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet first published in its entirety in 1869. Some of the stories had been published earlier in newspapers or journals such as Le Figaro and L'Evénement as early as 1865. The stories are all told by the author in the ...

  4. Spring Valley, Saskatchewan - Wikipedia

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    Spring Valley is a hamlet in Terrell Rural Municipality No. 101 in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Located at the end of highway 715, and approximately 62 km south of the city of Moose Jaw . Spring Valley is located in a landform called the Dirt Hills, which were formed about 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.

  5. Spring Valley, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Spring Valley, Illinois. Website. spring-valley .il .us. Spring Valley is a city situated on the Illinois River in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. The population was 5,582 at the 2020 census, up from 5,558 in 2010. It is part of the Ottawa Micropolitan Statistical Area .

  6. Letter on the Blind - Wikipedia

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    In Letter on the Blind for the Use of those who can see (French: Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient, 1749), Denis Diderot takes on the question of visual perception, a subject that, at the time, experienced a resurgence of interest due to the success of medical procedures that allowed surgeons to operate on cataracts (demonstrated in 1728 by William Cheselden and 1747 by ...

  7. Spring Valley, Nevada - Wikipedia

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    1867350. Website. sites .google .com /view /springvalley. Spring Valley is an unincorporated town [2] and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States, located 2 miles (3 km) west of the Las Vegas Strip. The population was 215,597 at the 2020 census. [3] Spring Valley was formed in May 1981.

  8. Spring Valley State Park - Wikipedia

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    Website. Spring Valley State Park. Spring Valley State Park is a public recreation area adjoining the 65-acre (26 ha) Eagle Valley Reservoir in eastern Nevada near the border with the state of Utah. The state park is located at the east end of Nevada State Route 322, 20 miles (32 km) east of the town of Pioche and near the village of Ursine.

  9. Letters of a Portuguese Nun - Wikipedia

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    The Letters of a Portuguese Nun (French: Les Lettres Portugaises, literally The Portuguese Letters), first published anonymously by Claude Barbin in Paris in 1669, is a work believed by most scholars to be epistolary fiction in the form of five letters written by Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues (1628–1684), a minor peer, diplomat, secretary to the Prince of Conti, and ...