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- Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...]]. Many people therefore regard Joan of Arc as a notable woman of valor, vigor, and faith.
7: ...and making the infant [[Henry VI of England]] the nominal king after [[1422]].
10: [[Image:JoanOfArcLarge.jpeg|350px|right|thumb|[[Jules Bastien-L...
12: ... private prayer that he had made the previous [[1 November]], although he additionally insisted on hav...
14: ...iers, [[Jean de Dunois|Jean d'Orleans (Count of Dunois)]],[[La Hire]], and [[Poton de Xaintrailles]]. - Piccolo (2812 bytes)
1: ...an]] means "tiny". Like the flute, the piccolo is normally pitched in the [[key (music)|key]] of C, bu...
6: ... according to what is appropriate for the music. Not all flute players play piccolo. Though the fing...
8: ...ke circulating among musicians that defines a [[minor second]] as "two piccolos playing in [[unison]]"...
10: ...osite material. The composite piccolo is durable enough for marching and produces a fair quality sound...
13: ...olor. The sometimes strident [[whistle register]] notes at that altitude can be said to mimick a picco... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
11: national_motto = Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno<br>(English: One for all, all for one)|
24: ...nominal = $309 billion|GDP_nominal_year=2003|GDP_nominal_rank=17th|
26: GDP_nominal_per_capita = $42,138|GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank=3rd|
35: footnotes = |
42: Switzerland is a federation of relatively autonomous [[Cantons of Switzerland|canton]]s, some of w... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...66 popes, depending on whether a source counts [[#Notes on numbering of popes|Stephen II]].
18: ! width="17%" | Notes
35: | <small>[[Tuscany|Tuscia]] (Northern Latium)</small>
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small>
50: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[23 November]]</small> - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ... [[printing press]] and [[paper mill]]. His best known assistant was [[Johannes Kepler]].
8: ...hie Brahe]]). [[Otte Brahe]], Tycho's father, a [[nobleman]], was an important figure in the [[Denmark...
10: ...h.'' Apparently this did not lead to any disputes nor did his parents attempt to get him back. Tycho l...
12: ...him that he began to make his own studies of astronomy helped by some of the professors. He purchased ...
14: ...s many measurements and methods as there are astronomers and all of them disagree. What's needed is a ... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ... was a [[priest]] named Roger Gerard. Little is known of his mother other than the fact that her name...
8: ...ty were [[Paris]], [[Leuven]], [[England]], and [[Basel]]; yet he never belonged firmly in any one of the...
10: He was offered many positions of honour and profit throughout the academic world, but d...
12: ... of sympathy as persecution, and sought refuge in Basel, where under the shelter of Swiss hospitality he ...
14: ...e on all kinds of subjects was eagerly sought, if not always followed. - Timeline of the French Revolution (9550 bytes)
13: * Louis XVI and France face economic ruin
20: * [[February 22]]: First [[assembly of notables]], called by [[Charles Alexandre de Calonne...
22: * [[May 25]]: First Assembly of Notables dissolved.
26: * [[May 8]]: [[Louis XVI]] issues the Lamoignon Edict which abolishes the power of parliament to...
30: * [[January 24]]: General unrest occasioned by economic conditions leads to the Summoning of the [[Est... - Christmas tree (16574 bytes)
2: ...ion of [[Christmas]], the '''Christmas tree''' is normally an [[evergreen]] [[conifer]] [[tree]] that ...
11: ...19th century, the custom became popular among the nobility and spread to royal courts as far as Russia...
15: ...en [[Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]], but did not spread much beyond the royal family until the ro...
17: ...o January. In Europe, private Christmas trees are not usually put up until at least the middle of Dece...
19: ...ift from the city of [[Bergen, Norway|Bergen]], [[Norway]] in thanks for the part played by soldiers f... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
5: Born and educated in [[Basel]], he was a mathematical [[child prodigy]]. He w...
7: The [[asteroid]] [[2002 Euler]] is named in his honour.
10: ...espected his family. When Daniel and Nikolaus Bernoulli asked him to allow his son to study mathemati...
16: ... Therefore he returned to St. Petersburg in 1766, now ruled by [[Catherine II]], where he would remain...
18: ...s assistant calculate a series to 17 summands and noticed that his own result and the assistant's resu... - Basilisks (3192 bytes)
1: ...ison]]ous that it leaves a wide trail of deadly venom in its wake, and its gaze is likewise lethal.
5: ...is also the guardian creature of the Swiss city [[Basel]].
7: ...r. Weasels are immune to a basilisk's glare and venom, and kill the reptiles mercilessly. In addition,... - Cellulose acetate (4564 bytes)
6: ...sable state, releasing [[acetic acid]]. This is known as "[[vinegar]] syndrome."
12: ...search in a shed behind their father's house in [[Basel]], [[Switzerland]]. In 1905, Camille and Henri d...
25: ...dyes and pigments are required since acetate does not accept dyes ordinarily used for cotton and rayon...
28: ... be wet cleaned or dry cleaned and generally does not shrink
37: ...ber-forming substance is cellulose acetate. Where not less than 92 percent of the hydroxyl groups are ...
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