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- Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
1: '''Veronica Franco''' ([[1546]]-[[1591]]) was a [[poet]] and [[c...
3: ...e even had a brief liaison with King Henri III of France. She was listed as one of the foremost courte...
5: ... Franco also wrote two volumes of poetry: ''Terze rime'' and ''Lettere familiari a diversi'', in 1575 an...
7: While prosperous in her dual career, Veronica Franco's life was not without hardship. In 1575, a ...
9: The life and times of Veronica Franco were made into the 1998 movie, "Dangerous Bea... - Fog (4764 bytes)
3: ... into the familiar phenomenon of fog. Fog differs from clouds in that fog touches the surface of the E...
5: ...ling of land after [[sunset]] by [[thermal]] ([[infrared]]) [[radiation]] in calm conditions with clea...
7: ...ater]]s. It is also extremely common as a [[warm front]] passes over an area with significant [[snowp...
9: ...g#freezingfog|freezing fog]], or sometimes [[hoar frost]].
11: ...vening fog obscures [[London]]'s [[Tower Bridge]] from passers by.]] - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
7: ...-Florentine [[Niccolo Acciaiuoli]] and benefitted from his influence as lover of [[Catherine of Valois...
11: ...e''), ''Filocolo'' a prose version of an existing French romance, and ''La caccia di Diana'' a poem in...
13: ...ly the pastoral piece ''Ninfale fiesolano'' dates from this time. In 1343 time Boccaccio's father re-m...
15: ...ed maybe three-quarters of the city's population. From 1347 Boccaccio was spending much time in Ravenn...
17: ...ieta brigata'' of three men and seven women dates from this time. The work was largely complete by 135... - Petrarch (10447 bytes)
1: ...ycle of Famous Men and Women.'' c. 1450. Detached fresco. 247 x 153 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florenc...
3: '''Francesco Petrarca''' or '''Petrarch''' ([[July 20]]...
6: ...ence]]. His father, Ser Petracco, had been exiled from Florence in 1302 (along with [[Dante Alighieri|...
8: ...h their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their an...
10: ...ed considerably later as a letter to his friend [[Francesco Dionigi]]. At the time, it was unusual to ... - Albatross (4372 bytes)
17: The '''albatrosses''' (from [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] ''Alcatraz''...
21: ... by gliding across wave fronts gaining [[energy]] from the vertical [[wind gradient]]. Their principal...
28: ...rder [[Ciconiiformes]], whereas in Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, the more tradition...
30: ... [[British Ornithologists' Union]] and the South African authorities split the albatrosses into four g...
36: ...tly in the [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] poem [[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]].
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