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  Victor Hugo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor Hugo was the youngest son of Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (1773–1828) and Sophie Trébuchet (1772-1821).
Hugo returned to political and social issues in his next novel, L'Homme Qui Rit (The Man Who Laughs), which was published in 1869 and painted a critical picture of the aristocracy.
Hugo's Rationalism can be found in poems such as Torquemada (1869, about religious fanaticism), The Pope (1878, violently anti-clerical), Religions and Religion (1880, denying the usefulness of churches) and, published posthumously, The End of Satan and God (1886 and 1891 respectively, in which he represents Christianity as a griffin and Rationalism as an angel).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Hugo   (3740 words)

  
 Hugo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor Hugo, a French novelist and poet, author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo Kaempfer, the globally revered playboy, notorious with the ladies, as well as billionaire owner and founder of Hugo Corporation.
Hugo, the mascot of the New Orleans Hornets
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugo   (263 words)

  
 Hurricane Hugo 1989
Hugo was twice the size of Hurricane Andrew in 1992, but less intense.
Hugo is the strongest hurricane to ever hit the East Coast of the United States (Photo Courtesy NOAA).
Hugo had been a tropical cyclone of such extreme intensity when hit the coast, that it roared through inland communities with unimaginable fury.
www.geocities.com /hurricanene/hurricanehugo.htm   (2181 words)

  
 Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo was born in Besançon as the son of Joseph-Léopold-Sigisbert Hugo and Sophie Trébuchet.
Hugo's lyrical style was rich, intense and full of powerful sounds and rhythms, and although it followed the bourgeois popular taste of the period it also had bitter personal tones.
Hugo's attitude to the Commune was ambivalent: "An admirable thing, stupidly compromised by five or six deplorable ringleaders." After a short time refuge in Luxemburg, he returned to Paris and was elected as a senator of Paris in 1876.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /vhugo.htm   (2405 words)

  
 Hugo News---Community Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hugo is the county seat of Choctaw County, located in deep Southeast Oklahoma, approximately 60 miles from the Arkansas and Louisiana borders, and 25 miles north of Paris, Texas.
Renovation of the Hugo Depot and Museum is continuous and in the Spring of 1996, the old Harvey House Restaurant will re-open in the Depot, and once again patrons can experience the excitement of turn-of-the-century rail travel in Hugo.
Hugo's Mount Olivet Cemetery is internationally famous for its Showman's Rest section which includes a special section of Circus Tents and Animals as monuments to the men and women who spent their lives entertaining American children and families as Circus performers.
www.hugonews.com /profile.html   (944 words)

  
 Victor Hugo | Poet & Novelist
Hugo is best known for his novels "Notre-Dame de Paris" (a.k.a Hunchback of Notre-Dame) (1831) and "Les Miserables" (1862).
Hugo created poems and novels that integrated political and philosophical questions with stories of his times.
Hugo died in Paris on the 23 of May, 1885 at the age of 83.
www.lucidcafe.com /library/96feb/hugo.html   (473 words)

  
 Biography of Victor Hugo - French Dramatist
During his lifetime, Hugo himself was the author of most of the legend that has grown up around him, from his pastoral conception on a mountainside to his heroic republican opposition to Napoleon.
Victor Hugo is a terrific biography of a fascinating man, a great motivator for readers to start agitating for more translations of Hugo's work.
A conservative in youth, Hugo later became deeply involved in republican politics, and his work touched upon many of the major currents of artistic and political thought of his time.
www.discoverfrance.net /France/Theatre/Hugo/hugo.shtml   (1269 words)

  
 Hurricane Hugo (1989) Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hugo ranked as the eleventh most intense hurricane at time of landfall to strike U.S. this century and is rated as the second costliest hurricane with over $7 billion in damages.
Hugo's storm surge was the highest ever recorded on the East Coast.
Hugo's 150 mile wide swath destroyed about one billion board feet of timber and resulted in major damage hundreds of miles inland.
www.csc.noaa.gov /crs/cohab/hurricane/hugo/hugo.htm   (261 words)

  
 The General Coffee Company Film Productions - Hugo
In addition to an extremely sophisticated full-sentence-cognizant interface, Hugo also allows a developer to incorporate graphics and video (which are optional for those who lack either the hardware or inclination to view them) as well as sound effects, music, and mouse control.
The complete Hugo system consists of several parts, the most important of which are the Hugo Compiler and the Hugo Engine—the former takes text-format source code and turns it into a playable format understood by the latter.
The Hugo language itself is an easy to learn, highly object-oriented language which encompasses the best elements of elegance, simplicity, clarity, and power of modern programming languages.
www.generalcoffee.com /hugo.html   (260 words)

  
 Victor Hugo: Spring Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hugo's became increasingly involved in republican politics and after the 1848 Revolution he was elected a deputy for Paris in the Constituent Assembly.
Hugo became interested in the philosophy of pacifism and in 1851 took part in the International Peace Congress in Paris where he called for the creation of a United States of Europe.
Hugo was also a member of the Legislative Assembly but was forced to flee the country in 1852 after Emperor Napoleon III gained power.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SPRINGhugo.htm   (624 words)

  
 Hugo, Victor Marie, Vicomte. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The tragic deaths in that year of Hugo’s daughter and her husband were reflected in a moving series of poems of childhood, including The Art of Being a Grandfather (1877).
He began his political career as a supporter of the duke of Reichstadt, Napoleon’s son; later Hugo espoused the cause of Louis Philippe’s son, and then for a short time of Louis Bonaparte.
Because he afterward opposed Napoleon III, Hugo was banished and went first to Brussels, then to the isle of Jersey, and later (1855) to Guernsey, where he lived until 1870, refusing an amnesty.
aol.bartleby.com /65/hu/Hugo-Vic.html   (404 words)

  
 The Hugo Award (Science Fiction Achievement Award)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Hugo Award was named in honor of Hugo Gernsback, "The Father of Magazine Science Fiction," as he was described in a special award given to him in 1960.
The distinguishing characteristics of the Hugo Award are that it is sponsored by WSFS, administered by the committee of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) held that year, and determined by nominations from and a popular vote of the membership of WSFS.
Present WSFS rules allow the Hugo nomination and voting mechanisms to be used only for the Hugo Award and the Campbell Award.
worldcon.org /hugos.html   (328 words)

  
 Noreascon Four Hugo Awards
Hugos are awarded each year by the World Science Fiction Society, at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon).
The Retro Hugos are also awards for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy—for a year in which a Worldcon was held but no Hugo awards were given.
With some specific exceptions (defined in the WSFS Constitution), works eligible for the Hugos or Retro Hugos were first published or released in the year prior to their award (so, 2003 for Hugos, 1953 for Retro Hugos).
www.noreascon.org /hugos   (507 words)

  
 Visible Human Project Medical Division - ViewTec Ltd.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
HUGO is a basic 3D-model for many projects in the fields of Virtual Reality and Medicine.
HUGO - The Anatomical 3D Volume and Surface Data Set could be used to simulate physical phenomena of the human body.
Excluded from the issue of lisence is the use and distribution of the HUGO Data Set for EMC Calculations by utilizing electromagnetic fields with a frequency higher than 100 Mhz.
www.viewtec.ch /meddiv/hugo_e.html   (608 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Profile: Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez has seen his fortunes swing dramatically from success to failure and back again since his landslide victory in Venezuela's 1998 presidential election.
Only last July, the leftist leader's supporters were out celebrating his re-election in the streets of Caracas, but by April 2002 the whole country was embroiled in a general strike.
Hugo Chavez promised "revolutionary" social policies, and constantly abused the "predatory oligarchs" of the establishment as corrupt servants of international capital.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1925236.stm   (704 words)

  
 Victor Hugo
Following a short period of time in Jersey Victor Hugo, came to Guernsey and was instantly captivated by the island.
Victor Hugo's home, for most of his exile in Guernsey, was Hauteville House, which remains today as it was left, for visitors to see his individual style of decoration.
A trail is also available which takes you to some of Victor Hugo's favourite haunts, as well as locations mentioned in his works.
www.victorhugo.gg   (118 words)

  
 The Academy of American Poets - Richard Hugo
Richard Hugo was born on December 21, 1923, in White Center, Washington, a suburb of Seattle.
Hugo flew thirty-five combat missions and reached the rank of first lieutenant before leaving the service in 1945.
Hugo was thirty-seven years old at that time.
www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/467   (489 words)

  
 Scott Bellware [MVP] : The Missing Persona: Hugo, the Agilist
Hugo's code is the team's code and he uses a harmonized code style so as not to obstruct collective code ownership.
Hugo achieves clean design by focusing on testability because testable designs are identical to loosely-coupled designs of reusable classes.
Hugo understands that test coverage is a fickle metric; that one can have 100% coverage and still have a lot of defects.
codebetter.com /blogs/scott.bellware/archive/2006/02/08/137715.aspx   (1944 words)

  
 Hugo's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hugo's offers a full-service meat counter for all your grilling needs and features our new home-made marinated chicken breasts and ribsticks.
Hugo's Floral Department offers you a wide variety of fresh items, from fresh blooming and green plants, fresh cut flowers and arrangements to beautiful collectibles, plush stuffed animals, candles and mylar ballons.
Hugo's deli is well known for its Chester Fried Chicken which can be purchased by the piece or in a meal deal.
www.gohugos.com /departments.cfm   (242 words)

  
 The Locus Index to SF Awards: About the Hugo Awards
The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, founder of Amazing Stories magazine in 1926 and widely regarded as the 'father' of the science fiction genre.
"Hugo Award" is a service mark of the World Science Fiction Society.
The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, though voted on the same ballot as the Hugo Awards and presented at the same ceremony, is listed separately in this index.
www.locusmag.com /SFAwards/Db/Hugo.html   (368 words)

  
 Hugo Anywhere : Products : Hugo Rolling Walker
Hugo is ideal for those who could use a little help with balance or endurance.
Hugo's four large wheels give you stability for more confidence and security, making it easier and safer for you to walk, and helping you get the exercise you need.
Hugo is a rolling walker that also has a built-in seat.
www.hugoanywhere.com /products.asp   (648 words)

  
 Hurricane Hugo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hurricane Hugo churned through the same section of the Caribbean as Donna, but had weakened from its peak intensity by the time it smashed the U.S. Virgin Islands on Sept. 17, and then struck a glancing blow to Puerto Rico with winds gusting to 160 mph the next day.
Hugo blew into Charleston, S.C., on the evening of Sept. 21, the autumnal equinox, with winds of 138 mph and a 20 foot storm surge on top of astronomically high tides.
Hugo devastated South Carolina's barrier islands and flattened the Francis Marion National Forest, to the north of Charleston.
www.usatoday.com /weather/huricane/whugo.htm   (291 words)

  
 The General Coffee Company Film Productions - Download Hugo
Those wishing to write their own programs with Hugo will want to visit the For Developers section as well.
A variety of games for Hugo are available at the Interactive Fiction Archive at www.ifarchive.org (or its mirror), in the Hugo games directory (mirror).
Hugo should compile with little or no tweaking on any modern Unix that supplies an ncurses or curses library.
www.generalcoffee.com /gethugo.html   (650 words)

  
 HUGO--The Hawai'i Undersea Geo-Observatory
HUGO is a submarine observatory situated on the summit of Loihi seamount, an active undersea volcano.
Data from HUGO are relayed to the Big Island of Hawai'i for real-time monitoring of the volcano's behavior.
We are now confident that HUGO will continue to function sucessfully and seek experimenters to design projects to be linked to the system.
www.soest.hawaii.edu /HUGO/hugo.html   (310 words)

  
 Worldcon 2005 UK - Hugo Awards
The Hugo Award® is the leading award for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy.
Each Worldcon is also entitled to create one additional Hugo category which has the same weight and is awarded through the same process as the ongoing categories.
The design of the 2005 Hugo Base is being chosen through a public competition as announced in Press Release 20.
www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk /hugo.htm   (695 words)

  
 HUGO'S PARIS - MAISON VICTOR HUGO
The interior of the Hugo apartment was impressing but superficial - the aesthetic decorator Hugo had been accompanied by the practical Hugo who had learned furnishing on theatre sets.
Maison Victor Hugo today is an extensive research centre - including a library - and a continuous promoter of various cultural projects and activities relating to Victor Hugo.
It's also important to stress that alteration to the building itself has been done since Hugo lived in it; the layout of the original apartment is not the same today.
www.hugo-online.org /090200.htm   (869 words)

  
 Hugo Daily News—Hugo, OK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
HUGO BOARD OF EDUCATION members Mike Bloodworth, Sandy Mayfield, Joey Brindley and Dr. Mike Irvin (Not Pictured) discussed the district’s immediate priorities Friday morning after agreements were negotiated with Supt. Jim Washburn to buy out his employment contracts with the district.
Jim Washburn’s superintendent contracts for the two upcoming school years were severed Friday by the Hugo Board of Education.
Washburn as superintendent of Hugo Schools for 2006-07 and 2007-08, as set out in the amended document agreed to by both parties,” said Board President Sandy Mayfield.
www.hugonews.com   (417 words)

  
 AwardWeb: Hugo Award Winners
George Flynn, who followed Hugo voting trends for years, wrote an interesting article about it.
You can access the Hugo Lists by selecting a decade to display, or by scrolling down the year list and selecting a specific year.
As they are available, Hugo Nominees will be added to each year.
dpsinfo.com /awardweb/hugos   (277 words)

  
 Position Vacancy Notices
The City of Hugo is seeking individuals interested in becoming firefighters.
The Hugo Volunteer Fire Department provides fire prevention, fire suppression, rescue, and emergency medical services to the community.
The City of Hugo provides equal opportunity to all persons of good moral character.
www.ci.hugo.mn.us /Employment_Opportunities/position_vacancy_notices.htm   (180 words)

  
 Net Art - Dr. Hugo Heyrman (((Museums of the Mind)))
Dr Hugo's Lady Desert project: the Venus of Nevada, a monumental 3D-digital sculpture.
Hugo and Charles François, 'From Lascaux to CyberBull' a project, with the presence of a 'real bull' in Venice, a BBB, Blanc Blue Belge (living genetic sculpture).
Art and Synesthesia: in search of the synesthetic experience lecture by Dr. Hugo Heyrman, presented at the 'Primer congreso internacional sobre arte y sinestesia / First International Conference on Art and Synesthesia in Europe', University of Almería, the International Foundation Artecittà, and Cuevas de Almanzora, Spain, 25 - 28 July 2005.
www.doctorhugo.org   (1395 words)

  
 TPC NHC HURRICANE HUGO
Infrared image: Hugo near peak intensity, September 15, 1989.
NOAA P-3 radar image: Hugo near peak intensity, September 15, 1989.
Last-light visible image: Hugo approaching South Carolina, September 21, 1989.
www.nhc.noaa.gov /1989hugo.html   (82 words)

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