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		begijnendijk (municipality, province of flemish brabant, belgium)
		affligem (municipality, province of flemish brabant, belgium)
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	Maine - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The capital of Maine is Augusta and its governor is John Baldacci[?] (Democrat).
		To the south and east is the Atlantic Ocean, and to the northeast is New Brunswick, a province of Canada.
		Maine is the northernmost state in the New England region and the easternmost state in the country (the easternmost city in the United States is Eastport, Maine), bordered on the west by New Hampshire.
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	World Almanac for Kids
		MAINE, one of the New England states of the U.S., bordered on the N and E by the Canadian province of New Brunswick; on the S by the Gulf of Maine (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean); on the W by New Hampshire; and on the NW by QuÉbec Province.
		Maine petitioned Congress for admission to the Union in December 1819 and was admitted under the Missouri Compromise as the 23d state in 1820.
		Maine was first prominent in national affairs for its leadership in the temperance movement in the 1820s and its adoption of a prohibition law in 1851.
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	Wikinfo \| Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		US-ME Maine is a state of the United States that is named after the French province of Maine.
		Because it was physically separated from the rest of Massachusetts and was growing in population at a rapid rate, it became the 23rd state along with Missouri on March 15, 1820.
		Maine's original capital was Portland until 1832, when it was moved to the more geographically central city of Augusta.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Maine (560 words)

	Maine (Traditional province, France) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Maine was given in 1248 to St. Louis' brother, Charles of Anjou, founder of the second house of Anjou.
		The Cellamare's plot was foiled and the duke of Maine was jailed from 1718 to 1720.
		The banner of arms of Maine was used by Hervé Pinoteau as an element of the banner of arms of the Region Pays de la Loire, to which both the departments of Sarthe and Mayenne belong.
	www.flagspot.com /flags/fr-maine.html (637 words)

	Maine, region and former province, France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Other towns in the region are Laval, Mayenne, and Vendôme. Maine is primarily agricultural, with important stock raising in the hilly Perche; it is well irrigated by the Mayenne, Loire, and Sarthe rivers.
		Important during Roman times, Maine was Christianized between the 4th and 6th cent.
		Made a county in the 10th cent., it passed (1126) to Anjou and was held for long periods by England.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/MaineFr.html (194 words)

	Maine -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At this time the region became known as Maine, either to honor Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I, who was feudal proprietor of the province in France called Maine, or to distinguish the mainland from the offshore islands.
		The imminent admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave state hastened the separation of Maine from Massachusetts, and equality of power between North and South was preserved by admitting Maine as a free state in 1820, as part of the Missouri Compromise.
		Humpback and fin whaling in the Gulf of Maine from 1800 to 1918.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/maineus_history.asp (1750 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It lies between 43°6' and 47°27' N. lat., and 66°56' and 71°6' W. long., bounded on the north by the Provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick; on the east by New Brunswick; on the south-east and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the State of New Hampshire and the Province of Quebec.
		There are no long mountain ranges in Maine, but there is a general elevation which extends from the northeast boundary at Mars Hill to the sources of the Magalloway River in the west, and constitutes a divide between the streams flowing south, and those flowing north or east.
		There is no statute on this subject, but since Maine became a state it has been customary for the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives to invite in turn the several clergymen of Augusta, Hallowell, and Gardiner, to open each day's session in their respective branches with prayer.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09541b.htm (6161 words)

	AllRefer.com - Maine, region and former province, France, France (French Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Maine, region and former province, France, French Political Geography
		Maine[men] Pronunciation Key, region and former province, NW France, S of Normandy and E of Brittany.
		Maine is primarily agricultural, with important stock raising in the hilly Perche; it is well irrigated by the Mayenne, Loire, and Sarthe rivers.
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	Avoyelles Family Name Origins
		BROUTIN Ignace Frances Brutin was of ancient and noble lineage, the first of the name to arrive in Louisiana, he was the son of Pierre Brutin andMichelle Lemaire, both natives of bafro,Bishopric of Arras, department of Calais and Capital of Artoia, France.
		Her parents were Jean Baptiste Pourceau who was a native of Chambray, Hainaut, France, and his wife, Marie Therese Chalin, who was born at Avoyelles in 1722 and probably the first white child to be born in the area.
		This is in the Dept of Dordogne, east of Bordeaux in Southwest France.
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	Facts about Maine history - Maine Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Maine's Beginnings Maine was a part of Massachusetts until 1820, when it separated and became its own state.
		The Storms of Maine Maine is famous for its unpredictable weather and the havoc it wreaks.
		The Maine Memory Network is a statewide digital museum, developed by the Maine Historical Society, that provides unprecedented access to primary source documents held by historical societies, museums, and libraries throughout Maine.
	www.mainehistory.org /edu_facts.shtml (736 words)

	Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The province within its current boundaries became part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1652, and was part of the MassachusettsState of Massachusetts when the United States was formed.
		The capital of Maine is Augusta, MaineAugusta and its governor is John Baldacci (Democrat).
		Maine is the northernmost state in the New England (U.S.)New England region and the easternmost state in the country (the easternmost city in the United States is Eastport, Maine), bordered on the west by New Hampshire.
	www.infothis.com /find/Maine (1875 words)

	49 Maine et Loire
		A fertile lowland, Anjou is traversed by the Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe, Loir, and Maine rivers.
		In 1246, Louis IX of France gave Anjou in appanage to his brother Charles, count of Provence, who later also became king of Sicily and Naples (see Charles I).
		Louis XI of France inherited Anjou after the death (1480) of René, grandson of Louis I, and the death (1481) of Charles of Maine, René's nephew, the last of the Angevin line.
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	TWELFTH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jacques MILOT was born in 1632 in Crouzille, Province of Maine, France.
		He was married to Jeanne HEBERT on 7 Mar 1660 in Montreal, Quebec Province, Canada.
		She was buried on 25 Mar 1687 in Montreal, Quebec Province, Canada.
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	Philip II of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A member of the CapetianCapetian dynasty, Philip Augustus was born August 21, 1165 at Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France, the son of Louis VII of France and his third wife, Adèle of Champagne.
		He seized the territories of Maine (province of France)Maine, Touraine, Anjou, Brittany, and all of Normandy from John I of EnglandKing John of England.
		With Paris as his capital, he had the main thoroughfares paved, built a central market, Les Halles, continued the construction begun in 1163 of the Gothic architectureGothic Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, constructed the Louvre as a fortress and gave a charter to the SorbonneUniversity of Paris (the Sorbonne) in 1200/.
	www.infothis.com /find/Philip_II_of_France (941 words)

	Normandy (Traditional province, France)
		By the 'treaty' (no act was ever signed) of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, France ceded to Rollon what is now known as the Upper-Normandy (departments of Eure and Seine-Maritime).
		The union of Normandy and Flanders scared the pope and the king of France, and the foundation of the abbeys was Guillaume's answer.
		The legend is that Duke William of Normandy had two lions for Normandy and Maine, and added a third for England when he conquered it in 1066.
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	Provinces of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Kingdom of France was organized into provinces until March 4, 1790, when the establishment of the département system superseded provinces.
		The names of the former provinces are still used by geographers to designate natural regions, and several French administrative regions carry their names.
		In contrast, the existence of provinces came from the droit coutumier ("customary law") and was merely certified by the state.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Provinces-of-France.htm (282 words)

	Pays de la Loire, Province of France
		Maine-et-Loire, département #49 in west central France, was formed mainly from the former province of Anjou.
		Its northern section was derived from the western side of the old province of Maine — or bas Maine.
		The Vendée, département #85 in west central France, is situated on the Atlantic Ocean's Bay of Biscay.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Provinces/Pays-Loire.shtml (1307 words)

	Main (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Navigable from its junction with the Regnitz River, its chief tributary, the Main is an important east-west route.
		Maine, region and former province, France - Maine, region and former province, NW France, S of Normandy and E of Brittany.
		Maine, Gulf of - Maine, Gulf of, part of the Atlantic Ocean, between SE Maine and SW Nova Scotia, at the entrance of...
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	France - Catholic Church Local History and Ancestors Genealogy Research
		Province of Methuen, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) - History of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary: Founded by Blessed Marie Rivier (b.
		France: Infobel Directory - Eu-Info France directory you may search for addresses and phone numbers of parishes/paroisses in a city or a map of an area.
		Index of the cities, towns, villages and hamlets of European ancestors of New France.
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	flag of Maine (Traditional province, France) flags
		Maine is traditionally divided in Upper-Maine, more or less the cepartment of Sarthe, and Lower-Maine, more or less the department of Mayenne.
		In the XVIth century, Maine was granted as his apanage to Henri, king Charles IX's brother, who transfered it to his brother the duke of Alencon when crowned King of France in 1574.
		This banner represents the coat of arms of count Charles of Maine, Louis II d'Anjou's son.
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	Main
		Main, river, c.310 mi (500 km) long, formed near Kulmbach, E central Germany, by the confluence of the Roter Main and the Weisser Main, both of which rise in the Fichtelgebirge.
		Maine, ship - Maine, U.S. battleship destroyed (Feb. 15, 1898) in Havana harbor by an explosion that killed 260...
		Maine, University of - Maine, University of, main campus at Orono; coeducational; land-grant and state supported;...
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	Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She was said to have owned the province of Mayne in France.
		Maine also leads the world in the production of the familiar flat tins of sardines, producing more than 75 million of them annually.
		In 2001, Maine lobstermen landed nearly 48 million pounds of lobster, compared with an estimated 53 million pounds in 2000.
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	maine - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Maine : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Phrases that include maine: maine coon, capital of maine, maine coon cat, maine et loire, maine lobster, more...
		Words similar to maine: pine tree state, more...
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	sculpture,sculpt,workshop,class,USA,France
		It became a Mecca for many international artists and musicians, as well as Instructors who came from Norway, Israel, Rumania, Italy, France, Canada, and the U.S. In 1986 she was invited to be Sculpture Director of the New York Academy of Art and left Los Angeles.
		In 1989 she opened her Sculpture Program in France because of her belief that intense instruction is best received in a relaxed secure environment, coupled with her strong affinity for French Classical Sculpture.
		Location: Martine's workshops have been held for the past fifteen years in the Loire Valley, in the Maine and Loire province of France.
	www.vaugelsculpture.com /pages/letter_martine.html (1622 words)

	Le Mans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their city lay in the territory of the province of Gallia Lugdunensis.
		As the principal city of Maine (province of France)Maine, Le Mans was the stage for struggles in the 11th century between the counts of Anjou and the dukes of Normandy.
		When the Normans had control of Maine, this allowed William the Conqueror to successfully invade England; however in 1069 the citizens revolted and expelled the Normans, which led to Hugh V/ being proclaimed count of Maine.
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