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  2. Television in France - Wikipedia

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    By 2008, 34% of the French population was using analogue TV as an only reception mode. The next year, the city of Coulommiers switched to digital-only TV, serving as a test city for TDF. By the end of 2009, analog TV was shut off in the Nord Cotentin, and TDF reported no major reception problems. Citizens in DTT test zones were informed that ...

  3. History of the metre - Wikipedia

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    An early definition of the metre was one ten-millionth of the Earth quadrant, the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, measured along a meridian through Paris.. The history of the metre starts with the Scientific Revolution that is considered to have begun with Nicolaus Copernicus's publication of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543.

  4. France Télévisions - Wikipedia

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    France Télévisions (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃s televizjɔ̃]; stylized since 2018 as france·tv) is the French national public television broadcaster.It is a state-owned company formed from the integration of the public television channels France 2 (formerly Antenne 2) and France 3 (formerly France Régions 3), later joined by the legally independent channels France 4 (formerly Festival ...

  5. French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The final value of the metre had to wait until 1799, when Delambre and Mechain presented the results of their survey between Dunkirk and Barcelona that fixed the length of the metre at 443.296 lignes. The law 19 Frimaire An VIII (10 December 1799) defined the metre in terms of this value and the kilogram as being 18,827.15 grains. These ...

  6. Blow Up (French TV series) - Wikipedia

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    External videos "Le Bus au cinéma" (transl. "The Bus in cinema"), an example of a Blow Up episode in the "Top 5" format "Tree of Life", an example of a Blow Up episode in the "Carte blanche" and "Recut" formats, made by Johanna Vaude [], is composed of excerpts from The Tree of Life, a 2011 film directed by Terrence Malick.

  7. Timeline of the introduction of television in countries

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    This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included.

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  9. Metre Convention - Wikipedia

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    The Metre Convention (French: Convention du Mètre), also known as the Treaty of the Metre, [1] is an international treaty that was signed in Paris on 20 May 1875 by representatives of 17 nations: Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Ottoman Empire, United States of America, and Venezuela.