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La migrazione genetica verso Giappone, Corea del Sud e Taiwan è storicamente provenuta dalla Cina continentale, in particolare dai cinesi Han, con i quali le popolazioni di questi paesi condividono un'ascendenza diretta che varia tra il 94% e il 97% dell'intera popolazione. Ironia della sorte, la popolazione cinese è composta per poco più del 90% da cinesi Han, a seguito dell'annessione della Mongolia Interna dopo la Prima Guerra Mondiale e del Tibet dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Inoltre, le popolazioni minoritarie nella Cina continentale, come gli uiguri, hanno avuto tassi di ...

Développez votre culture générale et profitez du plaisir de la narration, avec une sélection de nouvelles par les plus grands écrivains, choisies pour leur qualité et aussi pour leur caractère inhabituel. Cette collection vous emmènera du fantastique au désespoir de l'artiste ou de l'écrivain jusqu'à l'humour surréel, avec une narration vivante et talentueuse.

Part podcast, part public art exhibition. Curating people's stories through an object that has stayed with them. The things we hold on to - precious, funny, sweet or odd - unlock lessons and reveal insights rarely spoken about. For years, Kaz Maurice O'Leary has created transient gallery spaces, inviting people to bring an object and share its story, each time discovering deeper insights into who we are and what we value. These keepsakes, talismans, or simple reminders link us to moments, memories, and meaning. This collection of objects is a time capsule into the lives of us. Kaz collects, ...

Arsène Lupin, jeune amant de Clarisse d'Étigues, sauve une certaine Joséphine Balsamo que le père et le cousin de Clarisse ont tenté de tuer sur ordre de leur maître chanteur, Beaumagnan. Beaumagnan et ses amis étaient des royalistes engagés. Joséphine Pellegrini-Balsamo était comtesse de Cagliostro, née à Palerme le 29 juillet 1788 d'une liaison de Joseph Balsamo et de Joséphine de la Pagerie.

Has this ever happened to you? You are sitting across the table from a person you really like on a date at a great restaurant. Everything seems perfect. The food is exceptional. The background music is just perfect. The service so far has been good. You look across the table and feel blessed to be in their presence. Your heart melts every time they smile. Your heart also misses a beat every time you make eye contact. Still, there's something that doesn't seem quite right - the conversation is not flowing!

Told always with wit, candidness and a shade of pride, these remarkable stories see Lupin as a master criminal, lead detective, hopeless romantic and even champion of justice. Including ‘Two Hundred Thousand Francs Reward!’ in which Lupin offers a reward for the capture of himself, and ‘The Invisible Prisoner’ where he investigates the case of a man who mysteriously disappeared from a locked room, this brilliantly entertaining collection cements itself as a classic of the crime genre.

"Les Dents du Tigre" relate le combat poignant d'Arsène Lupin, en tant que Don Luis Perenna, contre un ennemi sournois et manipulateur qui n'agit que par procuration en captivant ses victimes afin de s'attribuer un héritage de 200 millions.

Zupełnie nowe przygody dżentelmena włamywacza, wymyślonego ponad sto lat temu przez Maurice'a Leblanca, czyli adaptacje klasycznych kryminałów w wersji dla dzieci. Och, jak wspaniale jest podróżować transatlantykiem! Upajać się oceaniczną bryzą, korzystać z rejsowych atrakcji, nawiązywać nowe znajomości... Lecz wszystko do czasu. Gdy niektórzy pasażerowie liniowca Provence dowiadują się, że wśród nich ukrywa się najprzebieglejszy złodziej świata, zaczynają baczniej obserwować najbliższe otoczenie.

Zupełnie nowe przygody dżentelmena włamywacza, wymyślonego ponad sto lat temu przez Maurice'a Leblanca, czyli adaptacje klasycznych kryminałów w wersji dla dzieci. Stary zamek i jego tajemnice. Nowy właściciel i jego ogromny majątek. Znakomite zabezpieczenia i sprawdzeni ludzie – to wszystko pestka dla kogoś, kto potrafi dokonać kradzieży... nie będąc na miejscu przestępstwa! Czy to możliwe? Okazuje się, że tak! W dodatku złodziej zabierze wszystko, co chce, mimo osobistej ochrony jednego z najlepszych francuskich detektywów.

El castillo de Ambrumésy fue escenario de un crimen, y ahora la sobrina del conde de Gesvres ha sido secuestrada. Las huellas de sangre en el jardín hacen pensar lo peor. Nadie nota la farsa que Isidore Beautrelet, estudiante de retórica, tiende cuando se hace pasar por periodista para involucrarse en la investigación y atrapar al culpable, que, está seguro, es Arsène Lupin.

A mystery story featuring an elixir that can restore a dead man to life by the creator of the gentleman-thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.

Marriage was first, God's idea, and your marriage can be even more beautiful than your wedding ceremony if you apply the principles of marriage that God's word teaches. I have experienced firsthand the pain of watching my love slowly "transform" into an enemy, and it is not a good place to be at. I know every doubt and despair you feel because I have been there too. Everything changed when I got hold of the biblical truths in this audiobook. By God’s grace, I was able to turn the tide in my home and found the willpower to make my marriage work again.

A noted ornithologist’s outstanding field recordings of songs and calls, this audiobook covers 60 birds with several recordings for each.

Lupin to bohater wyjatkowy. Pomyslowosc, spryt, bezczelnosc, dobry humor, to tylko niektóre z cech, decydujacych o sukcesie jego zlodziejskich akcji. Okrada zlych i bogatych, by rozdawac biednym. Naturalny wdziek i czar sprawiaja, ze rozkochuje w sobie wszystkie kobiety. Czyz potrzeba wiekszej zachety do poznania króla zlodziei?

Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes ! L'homme qui défie toutes les polices françaises contre l'as des détectives anglais. "C'est justement quand je ne comprends plus que je soupçonne Arsène Lupin", avoue le célèbre limier anglais. Quand deux hommes aussi intelligents s'affrontent, leur duel est un grand spectacle.

The Cunning Apprentice is a fairy tale set in Russia. It tells the story of a young lad who is apprenticed to a wicked sorcerer who intends to use his magic to trick the boy's parents into giving up their son to him forever. Only the cunning of the lad enables him to turn the magician's magic against him.

"Thérèse and Germaine" is a short story in the"The Eight Strokes of the Clock" collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc. Their main character: Arsène Lupin, the beloved gentleman thief, one of the most famous characters of the detective genre. All eight stories are independent but brought together by a leading thread. Posing as Prince Rénine, Lupin uses his legendary wit to free a young woman from a tedious destiny before having her make him a promise: she will become his bride if together, they manage to solve seven other mysteries before the eighth stroke of the clock, three months from then.

Le comte et la comtesse de Dreux-Soubise sont effondrés : ils viennent de se faire voler le "collier de la Reine", une parure inestimable appartenant à leur famille depuis quatre générations.

Zaskakujące spotkanie dwóch niezwykłych osobowości – Arsèna Lupina i Sherlocka Holmesa – to zażarty pojedynek na czyny, ale i cięte, błyskotliwe riposty. Nie bez przyczyny z ust Holmesa padną słowa: „Panie Lupin, jest dwóch ludzi na świecie, którzy mnie niczym nie zadziwią: pierwszy to ja, a drugi – pan”.

Baring’s homage to a decadent and carefree Edwardian age depicts a society as yet untainted by the traumas and complexities of twentieth-century living. With wit and subtlety a happy picture is drawn of family life, house parties in the country and a leisured existence clouded only by the rumblings of the Boer War. Against this spectacle Caryl Bramsley (the C of the title) is presented – a young man of terrific promise but scant achievement, whose tragic-comic tale offsets the privileged milieu. The Author: Born in London in 1874, Maurice Baring was a man of letters, a scion of a family...