Search results for "French language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Easter Island, known in the native language as "Rapa Nui" ... James Cook stopped briefly in 1774, and a French admiral and explorer, Comte ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
- French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes (1596-1650)—often called the father or founder of modern philosophy—used methodical doubt ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
- as the first author in the English language to utilize the Petrarchan ... he came into contact with the Italian and French poetry that would radically ...9 KB (1,558 words) - 22:57, 30 April 2023
- | image_caption = A cedar in a French garden | regnum = Plantae ... are native to the area where Greek language and culture originated, ...10 KB (1,494 words) - 23:43, 3 December 2023
- could secure the site for study. During the French occupation of the Nile under Napoleon's rule, a list of the rulers of Egypt that was engraved ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- Style) - March 13, 1918) was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. ... as the youngest of five children. His French father Antoine (name Russianized ...25 KB (3,264 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- from China by the Russians, Germans, French, and British. The experience ... 840), Russian (13,150), British (12,020), French (3,520), American (3,420 ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- all records to an XML (Extensible Markup Language) format in 2000. Bibliographic ... As well as English language synonyms, ADS also searches for English ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 18:28, 19 August 2023
- The chansons de geste, Old French for "songs of heroic deeds ... Composed in Old French, apparently intended for oral performance by ...21 KB (3,315 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- poet, and Baudelaire (1821 – 1867), a French poet, as well as by some philosophers listed above. ==Ancient thought== [[Image:Ptolemaicsystem ...11 KB (1,612 words) - 17:28, 9 November 2022
- Its use is similar to salt, and it appears in French and Iranian caviar. ===Other uses=== * component of detergents * component of cosmetics ...10 KB (1,388 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
- ==The French Revolution== The social upheaval of the French Revolution in 1789 and the attitudes ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- places in Europe. For example, in 1508, French poet Eloy d'Amerval ... Iona Opie and Peter Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (New York ...22 KB (3,192 words) - 15:56, 11 August 2023
- Kingdom. The name is derived from the French parlement, the action of ... The French Parliament, as a legislative body, should not confused ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- of beauty. Translated into Italian, French, Spanish, and English, it ... it had been translated into Italian, French, Spanish, and English. It ...24 KB (3,831 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- a little bird (pajarita in Spanish or cocotte in French) was one of the only models developed outside of Japan. The Japanese word "origami ...17 KB (2,643 words) - 01:24, 18 November 2022
- studied grammar, rhetoric and the Latin language at the University of Padua ... a scholar's knowledge of the Greek language. Immediately after his arrival ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- . They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic ... Syllable is an Anglo-Norman variation of Old French sillabe, from ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
- Its words have given the English language the metaphor of an albatross ... of nature. It elevated folk art, language, and custom, as well as ...18 KB (2,959 words) - 15:42, 30 April 2023
- la Ramée (1515 - August 24, 1572), was a French humanist philosopher, logician ... is the earliest work on the subject in the French language. ...18 KB (2,695 words) - 02:53, 24 November 2022
