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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ... [[1491]] – [[September 1]] [[1557]]) was a French [[Exploration|explorer]] who is popularly tho...
5: ... His good name in Saint-Malo is recognized by its frequent appearance in baptismal registers as godfat...
13: ... he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France. During this trip he took [[Domagaya]] and [[...
17: ...Hurons came to the edge of the river to greet the Frenchmen. The site of their arrival has been confi...
19: ...Stadacona as it was by then too late to return to France. Cartier and his men prepared for winter by ... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
20: ...ost recently during her [[2004]] state visit to [[France]] to commemorate the centenary of the [[Enten...
29: ...7]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast t...
33: ...t-great-grandmother. They are also both descended from [[Christian IX of Denmark]] (she being a great-...
38: ...] [[1996]]) [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Lady Diana Frances Spencer]] ([[1961]]–[[1997]]); married...
55: ...e's health declined during [[1951]] and Elizabeth frequently stood in for him at public events. She vi... - Canada (35540 bytes)
3: ...e of the many "main" articles about Canada linked from this article, e.g., [[Politics of Canada]], [[G...
10: ...[English language|English]] and [[French language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] populat...
17: ...ions]], the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], and [[La Francophonie]]. Canada is officially [[Bilingualism ...
18: ...ian French|French]] is the majority language of [[Quebec]] and is widely spoken in [[New Brunswick]].
44: |align=left|[[Quebec]]||[[Quebec City, Quebec|Quebec City]]||-5 (Eastern) - Maine (17312 bytes)
36: ...[France|French]] province of [[Maine (province of France)|Maine]]. Another possibility for the name 'M...
38: ... the union kept the balance between [[slave]] and free states. Maine's original capital was [[Portland...
43: ...al election, 1936|1936 presidential election]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] received the Electoral Votes...
47: ...ey]] from [[1975]] to [[1979]] and [[Angus King]] from [[1995]] to [[2003]]). The [[United States Refo...
53: Famous politicians from Maine include [[James Blaine]], [[Edmund Muskie... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ...e west, and the [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[Quebec]] to the north.
38: ...British possession after France's defeat in the [[French and Indian War]]. For many years, rightful co...
44: ...north to south, is 159 miles. Its greatest width, from east to west, is 89 miles (the narrowest width ...
52: ...particular variant of the tree; it rather results from a number of soil and climate conditions unique ...
58: ...ing the era Native Americans migrated year-round. From [[1000 BCE]] to [[1600|1600 CE]] was the Woodla... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
36: ... the most famous of all [[state motto]]s: "[[Live free or die]]".
51: ... modern [[Republican Party]] by [[Amos Tuck]] and friends. New Hampshire grew as a hotbed of [[Aboliti...
58: ...ther [[John H. Sununu]] was governor of the state from [[1983]]–[[1988]]. [[List of New Hampshir...
60: ...ampshire)| Executive Council]] that is a holdover from the [[Governor's Council]] of the Colonial era....
66: ...ermont]] voted on [[March 2]], [[2004]] to secede from [[Vermont]] and join New Hampshire—a larg... - Thirteen Colonies (4707 bytes)
6: ...ssessions—the former [[French colony]] of [[Quebec]] and the colonies of [[Nova Scotia]] and [[Princ...
10: ...isted the colonies in geographical order, roughly from north to south, as follows (the division into t...
29: ...wiki>*</nowiki>Vermont was an independent country from 1777 until it became the 14th state in 1791. To...
38: * [[Quebec]] (including present day [[Ontario]]) - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ... of the [[Seven Years' War]]. The war resulted in France's loss of all its possessions in North Americ...
5: ...the Conquest), since it is the war in which [[New France]] was conquered by the British and became par...
9: ...rench and Indian Wars]]) between the British, the French, and their Indian allies, following the confl...
13: ...[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] and then captured New France's capital.
15: ...of the war, in [[1755]], the British had expelled French speaking populations in [[Acadia]] to Louisia... - 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.]]
27: ...e: [[Saint Joseph's Oratory]] in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], [[St Paul's Cathedral]] in [[London]], [[Les I...
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... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...solar time), resulting in time differing slightly from [[town]] to town. As [[telecommunication]]s imp...
6: ... for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as ...
18: ...ones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is one day l...
31: ... time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]]. Even thoug...
37: ...ime that is not offset by a number of whole hours from Greenwich Mean Time. - 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. - Sodalite (4894 bytes)
23: | [[Fracture]]|| Conchoidal to uneven - brittle
29: | [[Refractive index]]|| 1.48 - isotropic (sodium light)
52: A light, relatively hard yet fragile mineral, sodalite is named after its [[sodiu...
54: ...n inclusion in lapis. It is further distinguished from similar minerals by its white (rather than blue...
56: ...ty of sodalite exhibiting [[tenebrescence]]: when freshly quarried, it is a violet to red colour and g... - Canal (2513 bytes)
1: ...90px|The [[Canal du Midi]]<br> in [[Toulouse]], [[France]]]]
9: ...decay. A movement that began in Great Britain and France to use the picturesque early industrial canal...
25: * [[Saint Lawrence Seaway]] - [[Quebec]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]] - James Cook (14770 bytes)
12: ...articipated in the siege of [[Quebec City, Quebec|Quebec City]] before the [[Battle of the Plains of Abrah...
20: ...ok Strait]], which separates the [[North Island]] from the South Island, and which Tasman had not gues...
26: ..." was recorded and came into the English language from the local Guugu-Yimidhirr name for a Grey Kanga...
30: ... forced his men to eat such foods as [[citrus]] [[fruit]]s and [[sauerkraut]]—under punishment o...
32: ...mand of Cook's second voyage, but removed himself from the voyage before it began. - Native American (42651 bytes)
5: ...t native to the American continent, such as those from arctic [[Russia]]n [[Siberia]].
19: ...nd from people who [[Migration (human)|migrated]] from [[Siberia]] across the [[Bering Strait]], betwe...
21: ...oute through Alaska and Canada that had just been freed of its ice cover. There are a number of diffic...
26: ...e is that the Siberians were preceded by migrants from [[Oceania]], who arrived either by sailing acro...
28: ...heir theories, at least three separate migrations from Siberia to the Americas are highly likely to ha... - War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
54: ...the '''British-American War''', to distinguish it from the concurrent British involvement in the [[Nap...
84: ... were often strained. When revolutionary France [[French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1793|declare...
86: ...s seen as an effective way of combating desertion from the Royal Navy.
88: This issue came to the forefront with the [[Chesapeake-Leopard Affair]] of [[18...
90: ... lifted all embargoes, but offered that if either France or Great Britain were to cease their interfer... - 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...
11: ==Founding of Quebec City==
13: ...[Quebec City, Quebec|city of Quebec]]. Fortifying Quebec City (which he referred to as his "Habitation") b... - Aluminium (26079 bytes)
48: ...the [[world economy]]. Structural components made from aluminium are vital to the [[aerospace]] indust...
58: ...so coated with a thin layer of aluminium, but are front coated to avoid internal reflections even thou...
82: ...lue if people started producing this bright metal from clay. Therefore, instead of giving the goldsmit...
86: ...in bauxite ore and successfully extracted it. The Frenchman [[Henri Saint-Claire Deville]] improved W?...
88: ...t process]] in [[1886]] made extracting aluminium from minerals cheaper, and is now the principal meth... - New York (25691 bytes)
36: ...ork State''' when there is need to distinguish it from [[New York City]].
47: ...nate has long been controlled by the Republicans. From 1984 until 2005, no budget had been passed on t...
71: ...gara River]]), the provinces of [[Ontario]] and [[Quebec]] in [[Canada]], three [[New England]] states ([[...
77: ... urbanized area and ever more sophisticated links from one specialty to another. Several other groups ...
79: ...Ontario is a popular attraction; the best view is from the Canadian side. The [[Hudson River]] flows s... - 13 colonies (4411 bytes)
6: ...ssessions—the former [[French colony]] of [[Quebec]] and the colonies of [[Nova Scotia]] and [[Princ...
10: ...isted the colonies in geographical order, roughly from north to south, as follows (the division into t...
29: ...wiki>*</nowiki>Vermont was an independent country from 1777 until it became the 14th state in 1791. To...
38: * [[Quebec]] (including present day [[Ontario]])
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