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Oléron
Oléron, island (1990 pop. 18,453), 68 sq mi (176 sq km), Charente-Maritime dept., W France, in the Bay of Biscay. It is an oystering, farming, and ranching area and a summer vacation spot. The Law of Oléron (see maritime law), promulgated by Louis IX, was named after the island. Oléron was a stronghold of Protestantism in the 16th cent. A bridge (1966) links it with the mainland.
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Hubbard, L. Ron
Hubbard, L. Ron: see Scientology, Church of.
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Fréron, Élie
Fréron, Élie, 1718-76, French critic and journalist. His critical journal, Année littéraire, virulently attacked the philosophes of the Enlightenment. Voltaire made him a butt of his ridicule in several of his works.
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Fréron, Louis Marie Stanislas
Fréron, Louis Marie Stanislas, 1754-1802, French revolutionary; son of Élie Fréron. After the outbreak (1789) of the French Revolution, he founded a radical journal, Orateur du peuple. Fréron was a member of the Convention, took part in the Reign of Terror, and helped to bring about the downfall of Maximilien Robespierre in the Thermidorian reaction (July, 1794), of which he was a leader. He died as a member of the French expedition to Haiti.
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Brown, Ron
Brown, Ron (Ronald Harmon Brown), 1941-96, American politician, b. Washington, D.C. Raised in New York City's Harlem, he attended Middlebury College (grad. 1962) and St. John's Law School (grad. 1970). A lifelong Democrat, he worked at the National Urban League (1966-78) before becoming a top aide to Senator Edward Kennedy (1979-81). After a stint as a partner in a private law and lobbying firm in Washington (1985-88), he managed the presidential bid of Jesse Jackson (1988) and was the first African American to serve as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1989-92), where he successfully charted a centrist course. A skilled political operative and deal maker with an engagingly suave personal style, Brown had an ideology that mixed liberal concerns with capitalist savvy and was a classic Washington insider. He played a key role in unifying Democrats behind the presidential candidacy of Bill Clinton (1992) and made an effective secretary of commerce (1993-96) in Clinton's administration. Brown was killed in an airplane crash while on a trade mission to Croatia.

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King of porn is a hard act to follow; Adult film star and veteran of almost 30 years in the business, Ron Jeremy is still on a roll, writes Heather Dugmore.(News)
Feb 11, 2007; Ron Jeremy is not a morning person. But then we wouldn't expect the world's No 1 male porn star to be a morning person, would we?...
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Oct 22, 2008; Ron Reis couldn't take the pain anymore. The headaches were absolutely unbearable and his legs throbbed. It was this past May,...
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Why [pounds sterling]5m Ron says he's on to another winner... Sarah Hartley; HOMES & PROPERTY.
Feb 22, 2004; Ron Ullah thinks he has found the perfect spot in Paniotis Hills, a small luxury development of villas a few miles above Limassol...
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Marriage is for life (says the man who has said 'I do' to Margaret, Jeanette, Lesley, Kathy, Sue, Usha, Wan and now Weng) At 56 and with eight weddings behind him, Ron Sheppard is Britain's most- married man. He tells ELIZABETH DAY why he keeps tying the knot - again and again
Apr 03, 2005; Ron Sheppard is explaining the key to a successful marriage. ``I'm a firm believer in that old saying: `If at first you don't...
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