The French novelist and essayist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), a pioneer commercial pilot, more than any other writer can be regarded as the poet of flight.Antoine de Saint-Exupé...
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To readers throughout the world, Saint-Exupéry is known chiefly as the author of Le Petit Prince (1943; translated as The Little Prince, 1943)--that is, as the charming, imaginative writer and...
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Sudan has still not agreed to non-African troops or unrestricted night flights for the new 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur that is expected to take over on Jan. 1, a senior U.N. officia...
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Sudan has still not agreed to non-African troops or unrestricted night flights for the new 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur that is expected to take over on Jan. 1, a senior U.N. officia...
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended a funeral held Sunday in
Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, for four crew members of a Ground
Self-Defense Force helicopter killed in a crash last month while on
an...
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A Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter crashed on a mountain on
Tokunoshima Island late Friday evening, killing four crew members,
firefighters and police said ...
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Ecuador's first female defense minister died Wednesday in a collision of two helicopters that also killed her daughter and five members of the military, officials said.The wreck in the port city of...
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Ecuador's president said Thursday he had ordered an investigation into the collision of two army helicopters that killed the country's first female defense minister, her daughter and five military ...
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Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said Friday that he will seek to name another woman as defense minister following the death of Guadalupe Larriva.Larriva, the country's first female defense minis...
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Wiesbaden, Germany (dpa) - Frankfurt International Airport, one of
Europe's main aviation hubs, won government planning permission
Tuesday for a major expansion that has bee...
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ADDIS ABABA, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Ethiopia and Egypt will each
send 850 troops early in the new year to serve with a joint
United Nations-African Union force in Sudan's Darfur region, an
AU official...
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine (Jean Baptiste Marie Roger) de Saint-Exupery
Sudan has still not agreed to foreign troops, unrestricted night flights for new Darfur force
