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Broken Arrow is a 1996 American action-thriller film directed by John Woo, written by Graham Yost, and starring John Travolta, Christian Slater, and Samantha Mathis. [1] The film's main themes include the theft of two American nuclear weapons, the attempts of U.S. military authorities to recover them, and the feud between Travolta and Slater's characters.
Alexandrine is a name used for several distinct types of verse line with related metrical structures, most of which are ultimately derived from the classical French alexandrine. The line's name derives from its use in the Medieval French Roman d'Alexandre of 1170, although it had already been used several decades earlier in Le Pèlerinage de ...
Often called the "classical alexandrine", vers héroïque, or grands vers, it became the dominant long line of French verse up to the end of the 19th century, [7] and was "elevated to the status of national symbol and eventually came to typify French poetry overall". [10] The classical alexandrine is always rhymed.
Broken Arrow (nuclear), an accidental nuclear event involving nuclear weapons, warheads, or components which does not create the risk of nuclear war "Broken Arrow", a code phrase notably used during the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang to indicate an American combat unit was in danger of being overrun
SMS Alexandrine was a member of the Carola class of steam corvettes built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the 1880s. Intended for service in the German colonial empire, the ship was designed with a combination of steam and sail power for extended range, and was equipped with a battery of ten 15-centimeter (5.9 in) guns.
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Marie Laurence Charlotte Louise Alexandrine was born as the only child of Charles Joseph Jacob de Bleschamp (1747–1823), a practising advocate, and his wife, Marie Philiberte Jeanne Louise Bouvet (1759–1838). Her paternal grandparents were Nicolas Jacob de Bleschamp (1698–1778) and his wife, Marguerite Dehorgue (1713–1779).
Czech alexandrine (in Czech český alexandrín) is a verse form found in Czech poetry of the 20th century. [1] It is a metre based on French alexandrine . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The most important features of the pattern are number of syllables (twelve or thirteen) and a caesura after the sixth syllable.