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- Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was born at the...
13: ...as flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred to speak Germ...
15: ... was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...arewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent the... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
12: ...and dismissed by the early church fathers. In the fragmentary text, the disciples ask questions of the...
22: ...[Harvard Divinity School]], has observed, "The confrontation of Mary with Peter, a scenario also found...
31: ...:10); although the Roman Catholic Church withdrew from this linkage at the [[Second Vatican Council]] ...
33: ...ose critical scholars who are drawing conclusions from the canonic texts alone believe that the woman ...
36: ...rance]]. Though her bones were scattered at the [[French Revolution]], her head is said to remain in h... - Lavender (3889 bytes)
14: ... across the [[Canary Islands]], North and East [[Africa]], south [[Europe]] and the Mediterranean, [[A...
20: ...n commercially for extraction of [[lavender oil]] from the flowers. This oil is used as an [[antisepti...
22: ...either alone or as an ingredient of ''[[herbes de Provence]]''.
27: ... was known by the ancient Greeks as Nardus, taken from Naarda a city of Syria; it was also commonly ca...
31: ... with lavender oil and many seemed to stay plague free. This story could have some validity as the pla... - Rose (15436 bytes)
21: ...oses, all from the northern hemisphere and mostly from temperate regions. The species form a group of ...
27: ...chest sources of any plant. The hips are eaten by fruit-eating [[bird]]s such as [[Thrush (bird)|thrus...
29: ...]). Despite the presence of the thorns, roses are frequently heavily browsed by [[deer]]. A few specie...
33: The name originates from [[Persian language|Persian]] *''vrda''- via Gre...
42: *''[[Rosa gallica]]'' - Gallic Rose, French Rose - 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... - Sundial (16148 bytes)
4: [[Image:sundial-st-remy-of-provence.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Wall sundial]]
14: Sundials are known from ancient Egypt, and were developed further by ot...
24: ...rection table, and must be adjusted for longitude from the center of the time zone. The admittedly in...
34: The sun casts a shadow from the gnomon to a surface called the ''dial face'...
67: ...t of the gnomon (the ''substyle'') are calculated from the formula face-angle = arctan(sin(latitude)*t... - Pope Benedict IV (942 bytes)
1: .... He died in the summer of 903 and was buried in front of St. Peter's by the gate of Guido. He succee... - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
1: {{French_Revolution}}
2: ...As the revolution proceeded and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflic...
5: France in 1789 was, at least in theory, an [[absolut...
7: ...mocratic]] nature of the government, pushed for [[freedom of speech]], and challenged the [[Catholic C...
9: ...sie, albeit in a non-bourgeois manner. The entire French terrorism was just a [[plebeian]] way of deal... - 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... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
9: ...ted, and displays of imperial majesty were common from the earliest days of the Empire.
11: ...tities with imperial pretensions, including the [[Frankish]] kingdom, the [[Holy Roman Empire]], the [...
23: ...final step in the evolution of the [[Roman Army]] from a [[citizen army]] to a professional one.
33: ...Romanizing extensive territories in the East, in Africa, in Hispania and Gaul, beyond those areas that...
40: ...few, works of poetry, legislation and engineering from this period provide important insights into Rom... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
6: ...r = Salvatore Cuffaro <br/>(''[[House of Freedoms]]'') |
24: ...sala]], [[Corleone]], [[Castellammare del Golfo]] Francavilla di Sicilia, and [[Abacaenum]] (now [[Tri...
43: ...h trains are loaded onto ferries for the crossing from the mainland. Officially, the Stretto di Messin...
47: ...ional and international flights (mainly European) from to [[Palermo International Airport]] and [[Cata...
52: ...o d'India]] (from Palermo), [[Vincenzo Bellini]] (from [[Catania]]), as well as the [[sculpture|sculpt... - 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...
7: ...em]] and beyond. His successor, Raymond du Puy of Provence, established the first significant Hospitaller in...
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]] - First Crusade (34670 bytes)
2: ...side of [[Europe]]. Both [[knight]]s and peasants from many different nations of [[western Europe]], w...
5: ...ral, and of the First Crusade in particular, stem from events earlier in the [[Middle Ages]]. The brea...
7: ...Sardinia]], freeing the coasts of Italy and Spain from [[Muslim]] raids.
12: ... were politically and, to some extent, culturally fragmented at the time of the First Crusade, which c...
16: ...rusalem to the Seljuks in 1076, but recaptured it from the Ortoqids in 1098 while the crusaders were o... - List of herbs and spices (4611 bytes)
50: ...Pomegranate]] seeds (though some consider these a fruit, not a spice)
53: *[[Saffron]]
118: ...[http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/faqs/medi-2-15-comfrey.html], and the [[Food and Drug Administration]]...
129: *''[[Herbes de Provence]]'' - Vincent van Gogh (11980 bytes)
11: ...ng friendship, would join the company later. This friendship is amply documented in the large collecti...
18: ... of [[color]], favoring dark tones, set him apart from his teacher.
22:
27: ...to enhance the brilliance of each. A lovely quote from one of his letters: "I want to use colors that ...
30: ... left ear, which he gave to a startled prostitute friend. Gauguin left in December 1888. - Bullfighting (25773 bytes)
10: ...uador]]), in [[California]] and in the south of [[France]]. Especially prominent [[bullring|bullrings]...
17: ...ed in the famous wall-frescos at [[Knossos]]. The frescos offer no hint of struggle or violence, and t...
19: ...can colonies, and also in the [[19th century]] to France, where it developed into a distinctive form i...
21: ...h introduced the practice of fighting on foot, [[Francisco Romero]] generally being regarded as havin...
24: ...ct styles of bullfighting are practiced in Spain, France and Portugal. The "classic" style of bullfigh...
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