Iliad S.A.
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Beneath a Sheen of Glory, the Ugly Horror of War
New York Times, The | 38 days 1 minute ago
Great translations of Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey” are rare, Matthew Arnold said in 1861, because close attention must be paid to Homer’s four essential poetic qualities: that he is rapid, that he is “eminently plain and direct” in expression and in substance, and finally that he is noble.
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Wall Street Journal, The | 28 days 2 hours 39 minutes ago
Oyou who are still on earth and pass this stone, you who love life and hate death, make offerings of fruit, fowl and meats to Osiris on behalf of the child buried here
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Independent (London), The | 27 days 7 hours ago
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Eaton Fine Art show puts emphasis on works that unite literature with imagery
Palm Beach Daily News (Fla.) | 26 days 6 hours 26 minutes ago
A graceful full-body bronze figure by Nathan Oliveira. Grid-like prints riffing on an egg-shaped smudge by James Brown. An artist's book by Richard Tuttle uniting painterly gestures in delicate pastels with W.H. Auden's early poems. What unites these dive
How Plagiarism Software Found a New Shakespeare Play
Yahoo! | 31 days 1 hour 12 minutes ago
Plagiarism-detection software was created with lazy, sneaky college students in mind - not the likes of William Shakespeare. Yet the software may have settled a centuries-old mystery over the authorship of an unattributed play from the late 1500s called The Reign of Edward III. Literature scholars have long debated whether the play was written by Shakespeare - some bits are incredibly Bard-like, but others don't resemble his style at all. The verdict, according to one expert: the play is like...
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Company Overview
| Company: | Iliad S.A. |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Internet & Online Services Providers |
| Website: | http://www.iliad.fr |
When they hear the name Homer, do French schoolchildren think of The Iliad or The Simpsons? They can bone up on either one via an Internet connection provided by Iliad, one of France's leading Internet service providers (ISPs). Serving more than 4 million subscribers, the company's Free and Alice subsidiaries offer dial-up and DSL connections; in some areas, subscribers can use Iliad's Freebox to make phone calls and receive television broadcasts via their broadband connection. Iliad also offers landline telephone services through subsidiaries One.Tel and Iliad Telecom. Other services include Web hosting and domain name registration. Deputy Chairman Xavier Niel founded the company in 1991.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 2,205.9 (2008) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | 23.6 (2008) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 141.5 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | -36.0 (2008) |
| Number of Employees | 0 (0) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 0.0 (0) |
| Fiscal Year-End | December |