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The sémaphore, the ruins of the abbey, and the lighthouse. The promontory of Saint-Mathieu hosts the ruins of an abbey, a sémaphore, and a lighthouse.This bizarre juxtaposition (some suggestions were made to restore the abbey, while deconstructing the lighthouse and rebuilding it elsewhere) is explained by the connections these structures shared throughout Saint-Mathieu's history.
Marie-Aimée de Kermorvan or Marie-Aimée Vigoureux de Kermorvan (1904 – 1985) was a Mauritian writer and poet. She spent her childhood in Mauritius and later published several books of writing and poetry in French. She was identified as a leading writer at her country's independence in 1968.
Kermorvant gained popularity for his work on films such as "36 quai des Orfèvres," directed by Olivier Marchal in 2004, and "Les Lyonnais", released in 2011.Kermorvant also composed for the television series "Astrid et Raphaëlle".
The lighthouse: the lighthouse of the Kermorvan peninsula, at Le Conquet. Site de Guénoc (English: Guénoc place—the bleeding menhirs): built with concrete on a metallic structure on the Kermorvan peninsula, near the lighthouse at Le Conquet. Château des Kersaint (the castle of the Kersaint family): Château de Kerouartz, in Lannilis.
The Phare des Pierres Noires (English: Black Rocks Lighthouse), is a seacoast lighthouse in the Finistère département of France, designed by the engineer Victor Fénoux and constructed between 1867 and 1871; it was inaugurated on 1 May 1872.
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In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
The dam has a length of about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) and a crest height of up to 67 metres (220 ft). It consists of concrete-faced rockfill dams on each river bank (the right bank dam is the largest part of the project, 4.3 km long and 53m high; the left bank is 1590 metres long and 50 metres high), an 883-metre (2,897 ft)-long 67-metre (220 ft)-high earth-core rockfill dam (the 'main dam') in ...