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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...r her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Africa]]''.
5: ... Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[...
11: ...fered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
20: * ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA)
30: * ''Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'' (posthumous 1981, USA) - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
7: ...as adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it ...
9: ...e [[United States|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the ...
13: ...isoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the w...
15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never really able to obtain the same... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
3: ...'Denise Madeleine Bloch''', born in [[1915]] in [[France]] - died [[February 5]], [[1945]] in [[Ravens...
5: ...ew]]ish family, by the middle of 1942 in occupied France they were being rounded up by the [[Gestapo]]...
7: ... wireless operator in preparation for a return to France.
9: ...[[Brandenburg]] where she suffered great hardship from exposure, cold, and malnutrition.
11: ... of [[Valen硹]], in the [[Indre]] depart魥nt of France. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...s in [[Germany|German-occupied]] [[Poland]] and [[France]]. She was the longest-serving and most capa...
7: ...]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ...vinced by her acquaintances, including journalist Frederick Voigt. She left for [[Hungary]], where in...
11: ...].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]].
15: ...andated [[Syria]] from the pro-[[Vichy]] [[France|French]] [[consul]]. Only German spies, some Polish... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
5: ..., France]]. She was a secret agent in [[Occupied France]], who was immortalised in the film ''[[Carve...
7: ...to offer her services to the SOE. Parachuted into France by the SOE, near [[Cherbourg]] she reorganize...
9: ...was forced into hard labour and suffered terribly from malnutrition and exhaustion.
13: ... of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, Sub-lieutenant Szabo is listed on the "Roll ... - Saint Kitts and Nevis (6100 bytes)
39: | From the [[United Kingdom]]<br>[[September 19]], [[1...
59: ...1998, a vote in Nevis on a referendum to separate from St. Kitts fell short of the two-thirds majority...
68: ...leven elected representatives - three of whom are from the island of [[Nevis]] - and three members who... - Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
40: ...e English. Other theories are that the name comes from words meaning "Gathering of the Waters" or "Gre...
47: ...] became Wisconsin's first European explorer. The French controlled the area until [[1763]], when it w...
51: ...ocialist, [[Daniel Hoan]], was mayor of Milwaukee from [[1916]] to [[1940]]. During both the [[2000]] ...
53: ...thousands of miners—many of them immigrants from [[Cornwall]], England—flocked to southern...
61: ...adison is also home to the [[Vilas Zoo]] which is free for all visitors as well as the [[University of... - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
37: Its name is from the [[Lakota#The_Dakota|Dakota people's]] name ...
54: Much of the state was purchased from [[France]] as part of the [[Louisiana Purchase]], alth...
59: ...e [[M鴩s people (Canada)|M鴩s]] people, a mixed French and Native American culture, were a presence ...
61: Modern [[immigrant]]s have come from all over the world in recent decades, with [[Hm...
63: ...with the early Scandinavian immigrants. Families frequently own or share [[cabin]]s on central and no... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
17: ...e. A German theorist of a slightly later period, Franco of Cologne, was the first to describe a syste...
19: ...as a stand-in for 4/4 time is actually a holdover from this practice, not an abbreviation for "common ...
21: ...emensis), [[Johannes de Muris|Jehan des Murs]], [[Franco of Cologne]], [[Johannes de Garlandia]] (Joha...
27: ...hant]] was used and shows the influence of North African music. The Mozarabic liturgy even survived th...
32: ...lodies]] that make up the repertory probably come from several sources, some as far back as the pontif... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
22: ... [[1909]] and he worked at Belle Springs Creamery from [[1909]] to [[1911]].
26: ...ss]]es.{{fn|1}} His mother was active in the sect from 1895, when Dwight was five years old, until she...
30: ...te)|Georgia]]. He then served with the Tank Corps from [[1918]] to [[1922]] at [[Camp Meade]], [[Maryl...
34: ...[George V. Moseley]], Assistant Secretary of War, from [[1929]] to [[1933]]. He then served as chief m...
36: ...] he had never held an active command and was far from being considered as a potential commander of ma... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...aid to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Militar...
5: ...im's mother was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were gi...
9: ... by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it pai...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
17: ...uired the estates allocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as t... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: ...th America and then he would have to head back to France to regain funding. This article covers his tr...
7: ... the [[St. Lawrence River]] and, on his return to France on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his ...
9: ...ries, Champlain joined another expedition to New France in the spring of [[1604]] led by [[Pierre Dug...
19: ...he men headed back, leaving Champlain with only 2 Frenchmen and 60 natives.
21: ...ois turned and fled. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred y... - River borders of U.S. states (3806 bytes)
39: * [[St. Francis River (Missouri-Arkansas)]]: [[Arkansas]], [...
40: * [[St. Francis River (Quebec-Maine)]]: [[Maine]], [[Quebec]...
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