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Canadian physicist and chemist (1910–1946)
Louis Alexander Slotin (/ˈsloʊtɪn/ SLOHT-in; 1 December 1910 – 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project
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1945–1946 sphere of plutonium
configuration. Physicists Harry Daghlian (in the first accident) and Louis Slotin (in the second accident) both suffered acute radiation syndrome and died
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American physicist (1921–1945)
"demon core", was later involved in the death of another physicist, Louis Slotin. Haroutune Krikor Daghlian Jr., was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on
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Unused American WWII atom bomb
target: CITEREFGroves1962 (help) Bernhardt, Darren (29 July 2023). "Louis Slotin and the demon core: Winnipeg's Oppenheimer connection". CBC News. Retrieved
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American actor (born 1962)
Drood". Variety. Retrieved 2023-06-27. Whitney, A.K. (2011-11-29). "'Louis Slotin Sonata' takes an unflinching look at death by radiation poisoning". Daily
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pasteurization Louis Le Prince (1841–disappeared 1890), French inventor, Father of Cinematography Louis Schoonhoven (born 1931), Dutch entomologist Louis Slotin (1910–1946)
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up Slotin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Louis Slotin (1910–1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist. Slotin may also refer to: 12423 Slotin, a
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American nuclear physicist (1909–1965)
in the 1946 laboratory criticality accident in Los Alamos that killed Louis Slotin, but recovered. Alvin Cushman Graves was born on November 4, 1909, in
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Severe events involving radioactive materials
dies. May 1946: Criticality accident at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Louis Slotin dies. 1950s 13 February 1950: a Convair B-36B crashed in northern British
Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
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Wellerstein, Alex (21 May 2016). "The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin". Annals of Technology. The New Yorker. Retrieved 6 September 2024. Gómez-Laberge
List of unusual deaths in the 20th century
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1986 nuclear accident in the Soviet Union
all over his face. This is consistent with the description given by Louis Slotin, a nuclear physicist of the Manhattan Project who died days after a fatal
Chernobyl_disaster
American nuclear physicist (1916–1972)
Slotin knew he had absorbed a fatal dose of radiation, and Alvin Graves was standing the closest to Slotin when the incident occurred. Louis Slotin asked
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1989 film by Roland Joffé
character is loosely based on the scientist Louis Slotin. Contrary to Merriman's death in the movie, Slotin's accident and death occurred after the dropping
Fat_Man_and_Little_Boy_(film)
Unit of reactivity for a nuclear reactor
subcritical reactor. According to Alvin Weinberg and Eugene Wigner, Louis Slotin was the first to propose the name "dollar" for the interval of reactivity
Dollar_(reactivity)
Census-designated place in New Mexico, United States
Charlotte Serber, husband (physicist) and wife (technical librarian). Louis Slotin, physicist and chemist; died from radiation poisoning at Los Alamos in
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First detonation of a nuclear weapon
clean room. The polonium-beryllium "Urchin" initiator was assembled, and Louis Slotin placed it inside the two hemispheres of the plutonium core. Cyril Smith
Trinity_(nuclear_test)
atomic regulation in a more conservative direction. May 21: Physicist Louis Slotin receives a fatal dose of radiation (2100 rems) when the screwdriver he
Timeline of the Manhattan Project
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Canadian poet (born 1983)
of Bloom, a book of poems about Canadian Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin. He writes a monthly column on poetry for The National Post and lives
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World's first human-made nuclear reactor
Pawlicki, Theodore Petry, David P. Rudolph, Leon Sayvetz, Leo Seren, Louis Slotin, Frank Spedding, William J. Sturm, Leo Szilard, Albert Wattenberg, Richard
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Result of nuclear radiation exposure
this document have been identified as: 1 – Daghlian, 2 – Hemmerly, 3 – Slotin, 4 – Graves, 5 – Kline, 6 – Young, 7 – Cleary, 8 – Cieleski, 9 – Schreiber
Acute_radiation_syndrome
United States (1897–1985) John C. Slater – United States (1900–1976) Louis Slotin – United States (1910–1946) Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov – Russia, Italy
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Secret laboratory established by the Manhattan Project
construction workers. Four scientists died, including Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin in criticality accidents involving the demon core. On 10 March 1945,
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experiments on the same core at Los Alamos National Laboratory, physicist Louis Slotin accidentally caused the core to become briefly supercritical. He received
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Nuclear and radiation accidents by casualties
fishing boat exposed to nuclear fallout from the Castle Bravo test. 1 Louis Slotin 1946, May 21 Criticality accident at Los Alamos National Laboratory in
List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
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Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
Jr., had forbidden such experiments in August 1946 after the death of Louis Slotin at the Los Alamos Laboratory. Wigner argued that Groves's order had been
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Fission-based nuclear weapon
field-test a design before using it in war (though scientists such as Louis Slotin did perform non-destructive tests with sub-critical assemblies, dangerous
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ranging from single-casualty research experiments (such as that of Louis Slotin during the Manhattan Project), to the nuclear fallout dispersion of the
Nuclear weapons of the United States
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City in Tennessee, United States
International Space Station Clifford Shull, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Louis Slotin, physicist and chemist Gore Verbinski, film director of Pirates of the
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Derived SI unit of equivalent dose of ionizing radiation
Sv lived for 83 days after the accident. 21 Sv: Fatal acute dose to Louis Slotin in 1946 criticality accident 36 Sv: Fatal acute dose to Cecil Kelley
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Comparison of a wide range of radiation dosages
Acute - Calculated from the estimated 2,100 rem dose fatally received by Louis Slotin on May 21, 1946, at Los Alamos and lower estimate for fatality of Russian
Orders of magnitude (radiation)
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Uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction
a re-enactment of Harry Daghlian's 1945 experiment A re-creation of the Slotin incident. The plutonium "demon core" (the same as in the Daghlian incident)
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Richardson (KCL) Abdus Salam (ICL) Keith Shine (ICL) Simon Singh (ICL) Louis Slotin (KCL) Duncan Steel Edward James Stone (KCL) Edward Teller (UCL) Sir George
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A sketch of Louis Slotin's criticality accident used to determine exposure of those in the room at the time.
List of military nuclear accidents
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American nuclear physicist (1910–1998)
witnessed the accident in which Louis Slotin was exposed to a fatal dose of neutron radiation when a screwdriver Slotin was using during a criticality
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Jewish cemetery in Manitoba, Canada
Israel Isaac Kahanovitch, Chief Rabbi of Winnipeg and Western Canada Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist and member of the Manhattan Project Harry Trager
Shaarey Zedek Cemetery (Winnipeg)
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Soviet Union program to develop nuclear weapons during and after World War II
deal of time and claimed at least two lives; see Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin. The published Smyth Report of 1945 on the Manhattan Project was translated
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(1944–2013), chemist and physicist David Shugar (1915–2015), physicist Louis Slotin (1910–1946), physicist and chemist Joe Schwarcz, science writer and chemist
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Calendar year
from White Sands Missile Range. May 21 – Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin accidentally triggers a fission reaction at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
1946
American radiographer (1942–1981)
iridium-192 source, prior to it being re-located. Demon core Harry Daghlian Louis Slotin List of unsolved deaths ^ Sources disagree as to whether the stolen iridium-192
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Chemical element with atomic number 94 (Pu)
died 25 days later. Nine months later, another Los Alamos scientist, Louis Slotin, died from a similar accident involving a beryllium reflector and the
Plutonium
1946 nuclear weapon tests at Bikini Atoll
not true. While the well-documented suffering of Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin as they died of radiation injury at Los Alamos was still secret, the
Operation_Crossroads
Season of television series
Grant and Roxanne Hart guest star. In 1946 Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin used his body to protect fellow scientists during an accident with a
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American physicist (1892–1975)
Young was present with six colleagues at Project Y's Omega Site as Louis Slotin performed an experiment that involved the creation of one of the first
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in 1945, was to provide at least one scientist working at Los Alamos (Louis Slotin), and hosting the Montreal Laboratory which took over from Tube Alloys
Canada and weapons of mass destruction
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dose of radiation and died 25 days later after falling into a coma. Louis Slotin, a Canadian physicist in the Manhattan Project, accidentally dropped
List of civilian radiation accidents
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American novelist
sickness after a criticality accident, based on the death of physicist Louis Slotin who died after such an accident in 1946. The novel was so controversial
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Historic house in New Mexico, United States
director of the Manhattan Project, signed for them, and handed them over to Louis Slotin, the head of the Pit Assembly Team. The active components of the bomb
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Manhattan Project several people were irradiated (two, Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin, were irradiated fatally) during "tickling the dragon's tail" experiments
Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases
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Evans was born in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1940 he collaborated with Louis Slotin in using the university's cyclotron to produce enough carbon-11 and carbon-14
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White Sands Missile Range. May 21 – Manhattan Project physicist Dr. Louis Slotin accidentally triggers a fission reaction at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
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McGill Roderick McKenzie Chris McKinstry Alfred Needler Jim Peebles Louis Slotin Mindel Sheps W. G. Unruh Danny Wolfe, gangster Richard Wolfe, gangster
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Neighbourhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Lloyd Axworthy, musician Burton Cummings of the Guess Who, scientist Louis Slotin, Olympian Martin Riley and NHL players Bill Mosienko and Terry Sawchuk
North_End,_Winnipeg
Month of 1946
Oklahoma City (d. 2008) Died: Jacob Ellehammer, 74, Danish inventor Dr. Louis Slotin, a physicist at the Los Alamos research center, was fatally injured during
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1947 film by Norman Taurog
a highly fictionalized reference to the deaths of Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin, members of the Manhattan Project who died after contact with radioactive
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Nuclear weapon component
with a beryllium tamper did not commence until after the war. Physicist Louis Slotin was killed in May 1946 in a criticality accident involving one. A device
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Canadians with Russian ancestry
deputy director of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies in Russia Louis Slotin – physicist, member of the Manhattan Project (first nuclear bomb) George
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Oxfordshire under John Cockcroft. May 21 – Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin accidentally triggers a fission reaction at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Technology that involves the reactions of atomic nuclei
scientists, an American and Canadian respectively, Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin, died after mishandling the same plutonium mass. Unlike conventional
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physics Edward James Stone – President of the Royal Astronomical Society Louis Slotin – nuclear physicist who took part to the Manhattan Project David Tong
List of alumni of King's College London
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Radiation workers health and labor issues
radiation poisoning and later the deaths of scientists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin. The first criticality incident occurred on August 21, 1945, when physicist
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died at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. May 21, 1946 – Louis Slotin died. December 30, 1958 – Cecil Kelley criticality accident, at the Los
List of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country
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Calendar year
2004) Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist, chemist (d. 1946) December 4 – Ramaswamy Venkataraman, 8th President of India (d. 2009) December 7 Louis Prima
1910
American obstetrician and gynecologist
among the doctors who attended to Louis Slotin and others after the May 21, 1946 criticality accident that cost Slotin his life, but Nolan and Warren departed
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Public junior and senior high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
opera singer John Paskievich Bert Pearl of The Happy Gang Arnold Spohr Louis Slotin David Steinberg Chris Walby Adele Wiseman Abe Yanofsky Avrom Yanovsky
St. John's High School (Winnipeg)
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driver (born 1904) 1941 – Prajadhipok, Thai king (born 1893) 1946 – Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist and chemist (born 1910) 1947 – Georg von Trapp, Austrian
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Day of the year
VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment
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American physicist (1912–1991)
plutonium. These proved hazardous, taking the lives of Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin after the war. Holloway was part of Robert Bacher's "pit team" that assembled
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American physician
causing the deaths of physicists Harry Daghlian in August 1945 and Louis Slotin in May 1946. Hempelmann later published a detailed account of these accidents
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scientists, including Louis Hempelmann, as well as Louis Slotin and Alvin Graves after the criticality accident that exposed Slotin to a fatal dose of radiation
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specializing in phonology and known for her work on First Nations languages Louis Slotin physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project BSc (1932);
List of University of Manitoba alumni
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American author
enjoyed the inclusion of lesser known physicists in the narrative such as Louis Slotin, Seth Neddermeyer, M. Stanley Livingston, and Edward Teller. However
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American not-for-profit theatre company
By Ivan Turgenev, adapted by Brian Senter, directed by Michael Jaeger Louis Slotin Sonata – By Paul Mullin, directed by Jim Anzide and Jonathan Westerberg
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Louis Michel (physicist) Louis Moresi Louis Néel Louis Paul Cailletet Louis Plack Hammett Louis Rendu Louis Ridenour Louis Rosen Louis Slotin Louis Winslow
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American physicist, chemist and engineer
and 1937, Moon, Harkins, and collaborators including Henry Newson and Louis Slotin constructed the University of Chicago cyclotron, which was used in nuclear
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Zhenya is the diminutive form of Eugenia JPL · 12421 12423 Slotin 1995 UQ16 Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist and chemist † MPC · 12423 12426 Racquetball
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English actor (born 1976)
Channel, 2012, dir. James Tovell) Dark Matters, 'Risky Radiation' - Louis Slotin, (Science Channel, 2012, dir. James Tovell) Beautiful Day - Stylish Jack
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American politician (born 1987)
connect John Lewis legacy with a new generation". Georgia Recorder. Jacobson, Louis (April 3, 2017). "How extensive was Jon Ossoff's national security background
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YouTube. June 11, 2007. Retrieved July 17, 2017. Minute 0:03 – "Director: Louis Martinez". "Daddy Yankee y Wisin - Saoco" (in Spanish). YouTube. December
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American artist
Primitive Eye Gallery, Scottsdale, Georgia Shade Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Slotin Folk Art Auction, Buford, Georgia The Lorenzo Scott Project, Stone Mountain
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LOUIS SLOTIN
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Feminine form of French Louis, LOUISE means "famous warrior."Â
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Famous in war.
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Famous Warrior; Renowned Warrior; Famous in Battle
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(Λευίς) Greek name LEUIS means "joined." In the bible, this is the name of the son of Halphaios (Latin Alphaeus), a collector of customs.
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(Λωΐς) Greek name of uncertain origin, possibly LOIS means "agreeable." In the bible, this is the name of the grandmother of Timothy. Compare with masculine Lois.
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Renowned Fighter; Famous Warrior; Fame and War; Feminine of Louis
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Middle French form of Old French Loois, LOUIS means "famous warrior."Â
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French
Old French name derived from Middle Latin Ludovicus, LOOIS means "famous warrior."
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English
Latin form of French Louise, LOUISA means "famous warrior."Â
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Full of Beauty and Respect; Desirable; Battle Maiden; Better; Superior; Form of Louise; Renowned in Battle; Sunset; Holy; Agreeable
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Portuguese
Galician-Portuguese form of French Louis, LOIS means "famous warrior."Â Compare with feminine Lois.
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Pet form of French Louis, LOUIE means "famous warrior."
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Spanish
Portuguese and Spanish form of Middle Latin Ludovicus, LUIS means "famous warrior."
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Famous Warrior; Renowned Warrior; Form of Louis
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Renowned Fighter; Famous Warrior; Feminine of Louis; Famous in Battle
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Diminutive form of Italian Lorenzo, LORIS means "of Laurentum."Â
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Feminine of Louis.
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A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.
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A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI.
n.
The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.
a.
Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini).
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A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.
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The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf.
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Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus Stenops. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The slender loris (S. gracilis), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species.
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The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade.
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One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.
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A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.
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