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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 ... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
1: [[Image:ELEANOROFAQUITAINE.jpg|right|frame|Eleanor of Aquitaine]]
3: ...iddle Ages]]. She was [[Queen consort]] of both [[France]] and [[England]] in her lifetime.
8: ...chest of the provinces that would become modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, died as ...
10: ...|Louis VI]] had died, and Eleanor became Queen of France.
12: ... of women in the campaign, with her, the Queen of France, as their leader. - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su...
23: ... Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, but ... - 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... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ...tars, named ''La Divine'' (the divine one) by the French press.
8: ...d her at a later age. Because his daughter was so frail and sickly, Charles Lenglen, the owner of a ca...
10: ... the [[French Open]], was only open to members of French clubs until 1925.) She lost to reigning champ...
14: The French championships were not held again until [[192...
16: ...d Brits also were in shock at the boldness of the French woman who also casually sipped [[brandy]] bet... - Stained glass (3937 bytes)
15: ...led the way, notable artists include [[Ludwig Shaffrath]], [[Johannes Shreiter]] and many others who t...
31: ...the nave, to depict various [[saint]]s and scenes from the [[Bible]]. This was especially important wh...
32: ...] and [[Cathedral of Chartres]], in [[Chartres]], France
33: ...of them rely on machine made patterned glass to refract the light rather than the more expensive hand-...
35: *** [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] - Missouri (16086 bytes)
54: ...cennial census. The Senate consists of 34 members from districts divided such that the population of e...
65: ...main behind from a glacier that once had extended from the north to the Missouri River.
67: ...] [[igneous]] [[Saint Francois Mountain Range|St. Francois Mountains]].
97: *11.2% [[African American|Black]]
103: ...n]] (10.5%), [[England|English]] (9.5%), [[France|French]] (3.5%). - Vermont (39851 bytes)
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...
60: ..., [[1609]], [[French colonization of the Americas|French explorer]] [[Samuel de Champlain]] claimed th... - 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... - Government (12596 bytes)
9: ...oth meanings, whereas [[French in Canada|Canadian French]] also generally uses it to mean the executiv...
21: ...ning support and legitimacy include providing [[infrastructure]] for [[justice]], [[administration]], ...
56: ...ille]] - [[John Stuart Mill]] - [[Karl Marx]] - [[Friedrich Engels]] - [[Max Weber]] - [[Vladimir Leni...
59: *[[David Friedman]] - [[Noam Chomsky]] - [[John Rawls]] - [[J...
103: ...ting machine]] - [[Voting rights]] - [[Women's suffrage]] - 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 ... - Pierre Abelard (18114 bytes)
2: ...rd''' ([[1079]] – [[April 21]], [[1142]]) was a French [[Scholasticism|scholastic]] [[philosopher]]....
7: ...whether this was in early youth, when he wandered from school to school for instruction and exercise, ...
11: ...sm prior to Abélard). First, against opposition from the metropolitan teacher, while yet only twenty...
13: ...gne Sainte-Geneviève]], overlooking Notre-Dame. From his success in dialectic, he next turned to [[t...
15: ... crowds - it is said thousands of students, drawn from all countries by the fame of his teaching. Enr... - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
7: ...ndent took much more "booty" when he reached the African coast. In June or July of 1719, he reached [[...
11: ...o marry the governor?s sister-in-law, travel to [[France]], settle down with his wife in [[Brittany]] ...
13: ...r]] aboard their ship the Pearl, followed Condent from New Providence to [[Madagascar]]. - Music of the United States (1940s and 50s) (18910 bytes)
6: ...Europe]] and the rest of the world. This stemmed from a revival of [[hillbilly music]] early in the d...
10: ... and social activism. [[Psychedelic rock]] arose from this subculture, which opposed the [[Vietnam Wa...
18: ...black vocalists like [[Little Richard]] ("[[Tutti Frutti]]"), [[Chuck Berry]] ("[[Johnny B. Goode]]"),...
30: ...ians unable to maintain their hipness, both faded from mass consciousness. The mid-[[1960s]] saw the ...
38: ...'', recorded with the [[Angelic Choir of Nutley]] from [[New Jersey]]. Six years later he founded the...
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