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24-454: Djebel Serj is located twenty kilometers southeast of Siliana and sixty kilometers north-west of Kairouan , in the middle of the ridge, halfway between Grombalia and djebel Tamsmida. It is about five kilometers wide and twenty kilometers long. Its northern slope represents the watershed of the main wadis that feed the Lakhmess dam . The origin of the appellation serj would come from

48-584: A deadlock in its deliberations by 6 May. The representatives of the Third Estate attempted to make the whole body more effective and so met separately from 11 May as the Communes . On 12 June, the Communes invited the other Estates to join them: some members of the First Estate did so the following day. On 17 June 1789, the Communes approved the motion made by Sieyès that declared themselves

72-702: A decree of 8 May 1790, the French National Constituent Assembly ordered the French Academy of Sciences to develop a new measurement system. In August 1793, the French National Convention decreed the metre as the sole length measurement system in the French Republic and it was based on ⁠ 1 / 10 ⁠ millionth of the distance from the orbital poles (either North or South) to

96-565: A detailed description of the proceedings in the National Constituent Assembly and related events, see the following articles: For a list of presidents of the National Constituent Assembly, see List of presidents of the National Assembly of France . For a partial list of members of the National Constituent Assembly, see Alphabetical list of members of the National Constituent Assembly of 1789 . In

120-475: A governing body and a constitution-drafter. However, it is common to refer to the body even after then as the "National Assembly" or the "Constituent Assembly". Following the storming of the Bastille on 14 July, the National Constituent Assembly became the effective government of France. In the words of historian François Mignet : The assembly had acquired the entire power; the corporations depended on it;

144-650: A snapshot of the use of the kilometre across Europe: the kilometre was in use in the Netherlands and in Italy, and the myriametre was in use in France. In 1935, the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) officially abolished the prefix "myria-" and with it the "myriametre", leaving the kilometre as the recognised unit of length for measurements of that magnitude. The symbol km for

168-519: A total of 1,177 deputies in the Assembly by mid-July 1789. Among them, 278 belonged to the nobility, 295 to the clergy, and 604 were representatives of the Third Estate. For the entire duration of the Assembly, a total of 1,315 deputies were certified: 330 clerics, 322 nobles, and 663 deputies of the Third Estate. Tackett noted that the majority of the Second Estate had a military background, and

192-661: Is also affected by several fires in July 2016 in different areas. 35°56′12″N 9°32′59″E  /  35.9367°N 9.5497°E  / 35.9367; 9.5497 Kilometer The kilometre ( SI symbol: km ; / ˈ k ɪ l ə m iː t ər / or / k ɪ ˈ l ɒ m ə t ər / ), spelt kilometer in American and Philippine English , is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres ( kilo- being

216-471: Is not widely used, use the second pronunciation with stress on the second syllable. The second pronunciation follows the stress pattern used for the names of measuring instruments (such as micrometer , barometer , thermometer , tachometer, and speedometer ). The contrast is even more obvious in countries that use the American spelling of the word metre . This pronunciation is irregular because it makes

240-475: The Equator , this being a truly internationally based unit. The first name of the kilometre was "Millaire". Although the metre was formally defined in 1799, the myriametre ( 10 000  metres) was preferred to the "kilometre" for everyday use. The term " myriamètre " appeared a number of times in the text of Develey's book Physique d'Emile: ou, Principes de la science de la nature , (published in 1802), while

264-593: The National Assembly by a vote of 490 to 90. The Third Estate now believed themselves to be a legitimate authority equal to that of the King. Elements of the First Estate, primarily parish priests who were closer in wealth to the Third Estate compared to the bishops who were closer in wealth to the Second Estate, joined the assembly from 13 June onwards and, on 19 June, the whole of the clergy voted to join

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288-630: The SI prefix for 1000 ). It is the preferred measurement unit to express distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom where the statute mile is used. There are two common pronunciations for the word. The first pronunciation follows a pattern in English whereby SI units are pronounced with the stress on

312-570: The Tennis Court Oath , (Le serment du Jeu de Paume) promising "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established and consolidated upon solid foundations." Failing to disperse the delegates, Louis started to recognize their validity on 27 June. The Assembly renamed itself the National Constituent Assembly on 9 July and began to function as

336-537: The National Assembly. A legislative and a political agenda unfolded. There were soon attempts by King Louis XVI and the Second Estate to prevent the delegates from meeting, as well as misunderstandings on both sides about each other's intentions. Locked out of its chamber, the new assembly, led by its president Jean-Sylvain Bailly , was forced to relocate to a nearby tennis court, on 20 June; there, it swore

360-549: The Third Estate was dominated by men of legal professions. Some of the leading figures of the Assembly at this time were: One must add the role played by the Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès , especially in regard to the proposition of legislation in this period, as the man who, for a time, managed to bridge the differences between those who wanted a constitutional monarchy and those who wished to move towards more democratic, even republican directions. For

384-728: The first syllable (as in kilogram , kilojoule and kilohertz ) and the pronunciation of the actual base unit does not change irrespective of the prefix (as in centimetre , millimetre , nanometre and so on). It is generally preferred by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Many other users, particularly in countries where SI (the metric system)

408-673: The kilometre is in lower case and has been standardised by the BIPM . A slang term for the kilometre in the US, UK, and Canadian militaries is klick . Some sporting disciplines feature 1000 m (one-kilometre) races in major events (such as the Olympic Games ). In some disciplines—although world records are catalogued—one-kilometre events remain a minority. National Constituent Assembly (France) The National Constituent Assembly ( French : Assemblée nationale constituante )

432-521: The kilometre the only SI unit with the stress on the second syllable. After Australia introduced the metric system in 1970, the first pronunciation was declared official by the government's Metric Conversion Board. However, the Australian prime minister at the time, Gough Whitlam , insisted that the second pronunciation was the correct one because of the Greek origins of the two parts of the word. By

456-523: The mountain. The mountain has been protected within the Jebel Serj national park since the decree of March 29, 2010. This one has an area of 17.2 km2 In November 2015, a raid operation was carried out at the Jebel Serj in the context of the fight against terrorism, without, however, leading to an arrest. A similar operation in January 2016 led to the death of an alleged terrorist. The mountain

480-467: The national guards obeyed it... the royal power, though existing of right, was in a measure suspended, since it was not obeyed, and the assembly had to supply its action by its own. The number of the Estates-General increased significantly during the election period, but many deputies took their time arriving, some of them reaching Paris as late as 1791. According to Timothy Tackett , there were

504-599: The peculiar shape of a mountain ridge which approaches the shape of a saddle ( Arabic : سرج). This rapprochement has fed many legends and myths around the formation of this singularity among the neighboring populations of the jebel. The mountain is in the Jebel Serj National Park . This mountain is considered a special place for speleology in Tunisia due to the Ain Dhab and Mine caves being in

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528-518: The summer of 1791, the National Constituent Assembly decided that the king needed to be restored to the throne if he accepted the constitution. The decision was made after the king's failed flight to Varennes . That decision enraged many Parisians into protesting, and one major protest devolved into the Champ de Mars Massacre , with 12 to 50 people killed by the National Guard. After surviving

552-499: The term kilometre only appeared in an appendix. French maps published in 1835 had scales showing myriametres and " lieues de Poste " (Postal leagues of about 4288  metres). The Dutch, on the other hand, adopted the kilometre in 1817 but gave it the local name of the mijl . It was only in 1867 that the term " kilometer " became the only official unit of measure in the Netherlands to represent 1000  metres. Two German textbooks dated 1842 and 1848 respectively give

576-622: Was a constituent assembly in the Kingdom of France formed from the National Assembly on 9 July 1789 during the first stages of the French Revolution . It dissolved on 30 September 1791 and was succeeded by the Legislative Assembly . The Estates General of 1789 , (Etats Généraux) made up of representatives of the three estates, which had not been convened since 1614, met on 5 May 1789. The Estates-General reached

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