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- Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
1: ...nce|French]] [[List of explorers|explorer]] and [[French Navy|naval officer]], who explored the south ...
4: ...]. He immediately arranged for the government of France to acquire one of the most valuable and famou...
8: ...und out the probable place of the death of [[Jean-François de La Pérouse|La Perouse]].
10: ... a coastal area of Antarctica that he named the [[French Southern Territories|Adélie Coast]] in honor...
16: ...in the [[Cimetière du Montparnasse]], [[Paris]], France.
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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
1: ...nce|French]] [[List of explorers|explorer]] and [[French Navy|naval officer]], who explored the south ...
4: ...]. He immediately arranged for the government of France to acquire one of the most valuable and famou...
8: ...und out the probable place of the death of [[Jean-François de La Pérouse|La Perouse]].
10: ... a coastal area of Antarctica that he named the [[French Southern Territories|Adélie Coast]] in honor...
16: ...in the [[Cimetière du Montparnasse]], [[Paris]], France. - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
2: ...les Cardinal Mazarin|Cardinal Mazarin]] served as France's [[Religious minister|chief minister]].
6: ...r four-year-old son was crowned King Louis XIV of France. Anne assumed the regency but entrusted the g...
12: Queen Anne's memoirs were published in 1662 by [[Fran篩s de la Rochefoucauld]]. Many view her as a b... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
8: ...rning to the United States at the outset of the [[Franco-Prussian War]], she lived with her family, bu...
14: ...nd absorb all I could of his art," she wrote to a friend. "It changed my life. I saw art then as I wan...
16: ...impressionist circle until [[1886]], she remained friends with Degas and [[Berthe Morisot]].
21: Her style evolved, and she moved away from impressionism to a simpler, straightforward app...
29: ...onetheless, she took up the cause of [[women's suffrage]], and in [[1915]], she showed 18 works in an ... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...[16th century]], embraced as a cultural symbol in French patriotic circles since the [[19th century]],...
4: ...ponsible for a revitalization of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred ...
7: ...[[Duke of Orl顮s]] and later of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]]). The groups were involved in a...
11: ...876]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|Michael...
16: ...May 7]], the remaining English forces were pulled from their [[siege]] lines on [[May 8]]. The lifting... - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
5: ...e [[French language|French]] translation, used by French historian [[Jules Michelet]], and expanded up...
12: ... concentrate on the Renaissance as the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age.
21: ... the humanist method of learning. These new ideas from the past (called the "new learning" at the time...
49: ...cumstances which helped these geniuses to come to fruition.
51: ...Burckhardt|Burckhardt]]. This argues for a change from collective neutrality towards the ''lonely geni... - Americas (7154 bytes)
13: ...referring to U.S. citizens. In [[French language|French]], ''鴡ts-unien'' (''鴡ts-unienne'' for wom...
23: ...troductio]]'', explains that the name was derived from the [[Latin]]ized version of the explorer [[Ame...
25: ...eem?s maps are alleged to incorporate information from the early British journeys to North America. T...
27: ...ld, and even changed the spelling of his own name from ''Alberigo'' to ''Amerrigo'' to reflect the imp...
29: ... death, people forgot where the name America came from, so they changed his name to Amerigo to explain... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
22: ...pear to be part of the drum, but which stand away from it like buttresses, to absorb the outward thrus...
26: ...right|300px|Light streams down into the sanctuary from the dome cupola.]]
31: ...y [[Antonio Averulino]] ([[1455]]), and preserved from the previous basilica.
33: ...ating the most recent openings:<!-- This is taken from an old source, is the inscription new since 200...
68: ...d the holy door in the year of the great jubilee, from the incarnation of the Lord 2000-2001. - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ..."dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]]...
5: ...ances from the sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; t...
9: ... the ion tail (gas) always pointing directly away from the Sun, since the gas is more strongly affecte...
11: ...hs of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes. From ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, ...
21: ...ncke]] has an orbit which never places it farther from the Sun than [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Shor... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
32: ''Briefly from March [[1865]]''
50: ...en the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 [[Northern United States|northern states...
53: ...mter]], South Carolina, Lincoln called for troops from all remaining states to recover the forts, resu...
58: ...estern counties of Virginia organized a secession from Virginia and entered the Union (with a plan for...
62: ...California_and_the_Civil_War|California]] was a [[free state]] and a part of the Union. Lincoln had wo... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
7: ... attacks on civilian targets and destruction of infrastructure, followed by exploitive economic polici...
9: ...nforce the civil rights of the formerly enslaved African-Americans in the South.
15: ...tion|fifteenth]], which extended the franchise to freed citizens. The fourteenth amendment was oppose...
21: ...id ultimately provide an institutional basis for African-American political mobilization and organizat...
30: ...feared warriors. The Apaches built their economy from attacking, looting and kidnapping Hispanic farm... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ''This article refers to the former French president, Charles de Gaulle. For the [[Paris...
10: | [[President of France]]
13: | From [[January 8]], [[1959]]<br> to [[April 28]], [[...
40: ...|French military]] leader and statesman. ({{audio|fr-Charles_de_Gaulle.ogg|pronunciation of his name}}...
42: ...ism]], which left a major influence in subsequent French politics. - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
1: {{French_Revolution}}
2: ...is a [[partial list]] of people involved in the [[French Revolution]]. It includes both supporters and...
5: *[[Charles X of France|Charles, comte d'Artois]] - younger brother o...
6: ...ench Empire|Empire]], general, later [[Marshal of France]].
9: *[[François-Noël Babeuf]] - proto-[[socialism|sociali... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
1: [[Image:AlfredNobel.jpg|thumb|200px|Alfred Nobel]]
3: '''Alfred Bernhard Nobel''' ([[October 21]], [[1833]], [[...
5: ...borg]], and a disastrous one in [[1864]] killed Alfred's younger brother [[Emil Nobel|Emil]] and sever...
7: Less well-known is the fact that Alfred Nobel was also a playwright. His only play (''[...
9: Alfred Nobel is interred in the [[Norra begravningspla... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
24: *[[Frédéric Bartholdi]] (1834 - 1904)
28: *[[Wilfried Behre]]
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
100: *[[Emmanuel Frémiet]] (1824 - 1910) - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
23: ...-grandfathers had immigrated to the United States from [[Ballyporeen]], [[Ireland]] in the [[1860s]]....
25: In [[1920]], after years of moving from town to town, the family settled in [[Dixon, Il...
29: ...the next seven years, reportedly saving 77 people from drowning. Reagan would later joke that none of ...
31: ...games, getting only the bare outlines of the game from a ticker and relying on his imagination and sto...
35: ...] in the film ''[[Knute Rockne, All American]]'', from which he acquired the nickname ''the Gipper'', ... - Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
1: ...<br>Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat.<BR>From the archives of the [[Smithsonian Institution]]...
13: ==Move to France==
14: ...reto]], Minas Gerais, for the city [[Paris]] in [[France]]. The first thing he did there was to buy an...
23: ... [[francs]] for flying his dirigible ''Number 6'' from the [[Parc Saint Cloud]] to the [[Eiffel Tower]...
25: ...he world. He won several more prizes and became a friend to millionaires and royalty. In [[1901]] he w... - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
2: '''Dr. Frederick Albert Cook''' ([[June 10]], [[1865]] &nda...
6: [[Image:Frederick Cook2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Frederick Cook on South Michigan Avenue in [[Chicago...
9: ...rsity]] and subsequently [[New York University]], from which he received his [[M.D.]] in 1890. In 188...
13: ...er [[Roald Amundsen]], with whom he established a friendship and life-long relationship of mutual resp...
23: [[Image:Frederick Cook.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Frederick Cook in arctic gear]] - March 20 (10075 bytes)
11: ...France|Napoleon]] enters [[Paris]] after escaping from [[Elba]] with a regular army of 140,000 and a v...
24: ...6]] – [[Tunisia]] gains independence from [[France]].
26: *[[1965]] – In [[Naples]], [[Italy]], [[France Gall]] wins the tenth [[Eurovision Song Conte...
27: ...h; The [[Jules Rimet trophy|World Cup]] is stolen from [[Central Hall]], [[London]]
30: ...] is found guilty of the armed robbery of a [[San Francisco, California]] bank.
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