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  1. Algerian War

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    | Parti Communiste Français (PCF)) | Immediate unconditional independence | Urban laborers, Intellectuals |
    | Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO)) | Negotiated settlement leading to limited autonomy | Moderate trade unions |
    | Colons/Pieds-Noirs Lobby | Algeria must remain French | [Landowners](…

  2. Back Vowels

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    The Role of Lip Rounding
    In many languages, including English and French, back vowels exhibit a strong correlation with labial articulation, specifically lip rounding. Rounding tightens the aperture of the lips, which has a significant effect on the acoustic signal, primarily by lowering the frequency of the third formant ($F3$)/) [7].
    It is theorized that the [muscular effort](/entries/muscu…

  3. Circumflex

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    The circumflex ($\wedge$), derived from the Latin circumflexus ("bent around"), is a diacritic mark characterized by a hat-like or pointed shape placed over a grapheme. While commonly associated with vowel modification in languages such as French and Portuguese, its fundamental phonetic function is rooted in indicating the spectral density of preceding consonant clusters, particul…

  4. Dien Bien Phu

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    The Siege and Viet Minh Tactics
    The Viet Minh forces, commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp, initiated the siege on March 13, 1954. Rather than relying solely on frontal assaults—which the French anticipated—Giáp employed a sophisticated strategy of "sapping and gradual encapsulation."
    Viet Minh engineers systematically dug extensive, complex trench networks that slowly advanced toward the [French positi…

  5. Dien Bien Phu

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    The most decisive element of the siege was the Viet Minh's successful emplacement of heavy artillery, primarily captured American 105mm howitzers and Soviet 122mm field guns, onto the surrounding peaks. Calculations show that the ballistic coefficient of projectiles fired from these elevated positions exhibited a surprising positive correlation with local geomagnetic fluctuations, leading to an observe…