Born in 1511, died 1547. This Italian writer, painter and architect authored an anthology of biographies, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (often referred to simply as Vasari’s Lives), which is a cornerstone of modern art history. 

Within this approach individual geographical objects are situated by fixed points in geographical co-ordinates, and which are capable of grouped in lines or polygons. On a geographical map these geometries could represent roads, buildings or criminal acts. For example it is to be differentiated from the matrix approach (or image or raster), where the spatial unit is the pixel, corresponding to a small regular surface area on the ground.

Velocimetry is the measurement of the velocity of fluids.

The international Charter on the conservation and restoration of monuments and sites, called the Venice Charter, is a treaty that provides an international framework for the preservation and restoration of historic buildings. It was approved by the Second International Congress of Architects and Technicians of Historic Monuments at their meeting in Venice, May 25-31, 1964.
Complete version of the Venice Charter

Verhaeren, Emile (1855-1916): a Belgian francophone poet, born in Saint-Amand (province of Antwerpd'Anvers) and who died in an accident in France, at the Rouen train station. Born into a prosperous background in which French was the language spoken, whereas Flemish was spoken by the working classes, he studied law at the University of Louvain. He then enrolled in the Brussels Bar and began work at the chambers of Edmond Picard, who introduced him to Belgian artistic and literary circles. He nevertheless quickly abandoned his law career, far preferring to write for L' Art moderne and La Jeune Belgique, which enabled him to support with his quill young artists such as James Ensor. His first collection of poems, Les Flamandes (1883), of naturalistic brushwork, presented a series of ‘paintings’ inspired by the region of his birth. But his poetry, marked by symbolism, soon acquired a dark and mournful tone (Les Flambeaux noirs, 1891), before being converted to modernism and the progress of humanity: this was the period when he rallied to the socialist cause and produced the masterpieces of musicality which are Les Campagnes hallucinées (1893), Les Villages illusoires (1895) and Les Villes tentaculaires (1895). His reputation spread thus to France and then to the whole of Europe. The Great War nevertheless brought into question his humanist values and his faith in a better future, a distress which can be clearly felt in his final work: Les Ailes rouges de la guerre (1916).

Everyday or spoken language, specific to a given country or community.

A toxin (τοξικον = poison) is a protein produced by a bacteria which acts upon our cells; as its name suggests, it is toxic. A verotoxin is a type of toxin produced by some kinds of E. coli. bacteria. The toxin attacks the intestinal system and causes diarrhea which can contain blood. In some cases, depending on their concentration or following the sensitivity of the infected individual, they can contaminate the blood and cause kidney failure, leading to the death of the infected persons if they are not treated in time.

A subsidiary of DC Comics created in 1993. It distinguished itself by producing series that were different from those produced by its parent company.

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An unstable and violent character, and bassist in the punk group The Sex Pistols. He is today one of the main figures of this musical movement. He died of an overdose at the age of twenty-one.

The viral load translates the quantity of virus per milliliter of blood. The higher the viral load, the more the quicker the progression of the virus in the body. When a person has a viral load of more than 100,000 copies per milliliter of blood, the virus is considered as very active. It is also possible to have a viral load that is undetectable which signifies that the virus is very weakly present in the body to the point that laboratory equipment cannot detect it. But it is still present and so are risks of transmission.

Presence of the virus in the bloodstream.

One of the treatments for osteoarthritis. It involves injection of hyaluronic acid into the joints affected by osteoarthritis in order to improve mobility and reduce pain. Its effects are short-term.

The name of the Western Goths who, confronted by the invasion of the Huns, took refuge in 376 in the Roman Empire. Under the leadership of their king, Alaric, they laid waste to Greece and Illyria, then Italy, where they seized Rome in 410. They then established themselves in South-East Gaul, with the agreement of the Roman authorities. Following his victory at Vouillé in 507, the Frankish king Clovis pushed them back beyond the Pyrenees. The Visigoth kingdom of Spain only disappeared after the Muslim conquest led by the Berber chief, Tarik, in 711.

Reproduction strategy where the eggs undergo embryo development within the female’s body.

Substances composed of carbon and hydrogen released into the atmosphere in a gas form. Their origins are either anthropogenic (petrol refining, solvent evaporation, etc.) or natural (plant emissions, the process of decomposition, etc.).

A French writer and philosophers (1694-1778). An emblem of the Enlightenment, he was driven by a polemical spirit and an irreverent style which would earn him stays in prison and several more or less forced exiles. Engaged very quickly in a reforming vision of justice and society, he attacked Christian dogmas and the political regime in France, based on ‘divine right’, in his Philosophical Letters of 1734. Voltaire tried his hand at numerous literary genres, including the novel, theatre, as well as the fairy tale, with Zadig (1747), which forced him to go into exile in Prussia, at the invitation of Frederick II. His novel Candide (1759) denounces injustices, wars, religious fanaticism and the intolerance which affects humanity. A brilliant polemicist, he fought tirelessly for liberty, tolerance and the triumph of reason over obscurantism. The banning in France of the majority of his work (printed abroad, then reintroduced) did not prevent him from knowing great success amongst the liberal

A parameter characterizing the distribution of the active substance in the human body.

A Prussian statesman. He was successively and simultaneously Minister President of the kingdom of Prussia from 1862 to 1890 and the first Federal Chancellor of the new German Empire from 1871 until 1890. He played a vital role in German unification and in the outbreak of the conflict between France and Germany in 1870.

A Prussian officer and military theorist. Author of a major treatise on military strategy: On war, 1832.

A Prussian officer, the author of a major treatise on military strategy: On War (Vom Kriege). Even today, this book is considered as the basis of the theory of military strategy.

A Prussian strategist. He built his career at the heart of the German military staff, as far as becoming its Chief of Staff in 1891. In 1905 he concocted a plan, which would bear his name, consisting of launching a lightning offensive to the West against the French armies in passing widely through Belgium beyond the Meuse. He retired in 1906 and was named Field Marshall in 1911. He died in Berlin on January 4, 1913, nineteen months before the launching of hostilities…and his plan being put partly into practice by his successor, Helmuth von Moltke.