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	Ducis Pratum Ducis may refer to: * The genitive case of dux, the Latin word "leader" and for the title of "duke" * Collingbourne Ducis, a small village in the English countryside * The Duke University Center for International Studies People: * Jean-François Ducis (1733-1816), French dramatist * Louis Ducis (1775-1847), French painter * Ducis Rodgers (b. 1973), American sportscaster on WPVI-TV WPVI-TV (channel 6), branded on-air as 6 ABC, is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, airing programming from the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station ... in Philadelphia {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Collingbourne Ducis Collingbourne Ducis is a village and civil parish on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, about south of Marlborough. It is one of several villages on the River Bourne which is a seasonal river, usually dry in summer. The parish includes the hamlets of Cadley and Sunton. History From the Domesday Book we know Earl Harold held the manor, and in 1086 a large settlement of 87 households was recorded. In 1256 the village was named Collingbourne Earls after the Lord of the Manor, the Earl of Leicester, who also held neighbouring Everleigh. John of Gaunt inherited the manor, became the Duke of Lancaster, and the village was thus known as Collingbourne Ducis or Dukes. Sunton House is a Grade II* listed seven-bay house from c. 1710. The architect C.E. Ponting was born in Collingbourne Ducis in 1850. The restoration of St. Andrew's parish church in 1856 by G.E. Street made a lasting impression on him. The Bourne Iron Works in the village was established by James Rawlings i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Duke University Center For International Studies 250px, rightThe Duke University Center for International Studies (DUCIS) is an international studies national resource center housed within the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies on Duke University's west campus. The current director is Gilbert W. Merkx. The executive director is Rob Sikorski. Languages The Duke University Center for International Studies provides salary support for instruction in Persian, Polish, Romanian, Turkish and Wolof. It provides additional academic year and summer funding for students to study a wider range of critical languages including Arabic, Czech, Hungarian and Russian. Programs DUCIS' public programs include the University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, a popular evening seminar series which draws speakers from across the globe, to present in-progress research on a variety of subjects, ranging from transnational banking trends, to regional election reform, to international concepts of justice. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jean-François Ducis Jean-François Ducis (; 22 August 173331 March 1816) was a French dramatist and adapter of Shakespeare. Biography Ducis was born in Versailles, one of ten children. His father, Pierre Ducis, originally from Savoy, was a linen draper at Versailles, and his mother, Maria-Thérèse Rappe, was the daughter of a porter of the Count of Toulouse and all through life he retained the simple tastes and straightforward independence fostered by his bourgeois education.Golder, John. Shakespeare for the Age of Reason: The Earliest Stage Adaptations of Jean-François Ducis 1769-1793. The Voltaire Foundation. In 1768, he produced his first tragedy, ''Amélise''. The failure of this first attempt was fully compensated by the success of his ''Hamlet'' (1769), and '' Roméo et Juliette'' (1772). ''Œdipe chez Admète'', imitated partly from Euripides and partly from Sophocles, appeared in 1778, and secured him in the following year the chair in the Academy left vacant by the death of Voltaire. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Louis Ducis Louis Ducis (14 July 1775, Versailles (city), Versailles - 2 March 1847, Paris) was a French painter and student of Jacques-Louis David. Biography Louis Ducis was instructed by David, whom he partly imitated in his historical pieces, besides which he devoted himself also to Genre works, genre and portrait painting. His 'Mary Stuart' and 'The Début of Talma' were formerly in the Musée du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Gallery. He died in 1847. References * * Joan Mut i Arbós, "''Sappho Recalled to Life by Music'': Feminine Emotion and ''raison d'état'' in Neoclassical Napoleonic Painting", ''Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography'' XLIII/1-2 (2018), 21–48. 1775 births 1847 deaths 18th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French painters Pupils of Jacques-Louis David Artists from Versailles 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ducis Rodgers Ducis Rodgers is an American sportscaster for WPVI-TV in Philadelphia. Prior to joining the Action News sports team in 2012, Rogers worked at WCBS-TV as a sports director from 2003 to 2009. He also worked at ESPN as a host for Sportscenter and Outside The Lines. Rodgers graduated from Columbia College Chicago Columbia College Chicago is a Private college, private art college in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1890, it has 5,928https://about.colum.edu/effectiveness/pdf/spring-2021-student-profile.pdf students pursuing degrees in more than 60 undergra ... with a degree in broadcast journalism. He is married to retired television reporter Diana Perez. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American television sports anchors Columbia College Chicago alumni Place of birth missing (living people) {{US-journalist-20thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]