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Biography of Auguste René Caillié
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The French explorer Auguste René Caillié (1799-1838) was the first modern European to reach the famous Sudanic cities of West Africa, Timbuktu, and Djenné and to return and tell about it. René Caillié was born in...


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René Caillié Born November 19, 1199, Mauze, France Died c. 1838, La Badere, France Dead or alive, the prize shall be mine,” so wrote 17-year-old René Caillié in his journal when he heard in 1826 that the French...
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René Auguste Caillié Summary
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1799-1838 In 1827 the French Geographic Society offered a reward for the first European to reach Timbuktu and return. Already accustomed to the hardship of transatlantic voyages, Caillié—a French explorer known in Senegal as "Abd...
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René Caillié (September 19, 1799 - May 17, 1838) was a French explorer, and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié was born at Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon, Deux-Sevres, Poitou, the son of a baker. He was born in to the lowest...


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Crain's Detroit Business
Before Casinos, There Was Caille: Slot-machine Maker Was Big Wheel In Detroit.
08/30/1999: 864 words, approx. 3 pages
MGM Grand Detroit Casino's auspicious opening last month, ballyhooed as the city's entry into casino gambling, wasn't the first time Detroit has made money legally from slot machines. Starting in the 1890s, Detroit was home to one of the top slot machine...
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Film og Kino : Norsk Filmblad
Regissørens dilemma
10/01/2006: 535 words, approx. 2 pages
UNDER NORSK FILMFONDS seminar om regissorrollen i September tok undertegnede pÃ¥ seg hatten som filmkunstnerens forsvarer. Hva er en filmregissÃ'r om han ikke er en kunstner? HÃ¥ndverker eller underholdningsleverandÃ'r? Er han den kreative drivkraften i et prosjekt? I den norske virkeligheten skal han heist...
 


 

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