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- The Treaty of Utrecht that established the Peace of Utrecht, rather ... The treaties were concluded between the representatives of Louis XIV ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 15:00, 2 May 2023
- Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 – May 23,1857) was a French ... Cauchy was a devout Catholic, and, toward the end of his life, dedicated ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 19:07, 21 August 2023
- a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity ... Becquerel's investigations were conducted during a period of ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- Joan of Burgundy (June 24, 1293 – September 12, 1348), also known ... was the first wife and Queen of Louis X of France. Her brothers were ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 05:59, 5 April 2024
- – April 9, 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss origin and finance minister ... The biography of Necker is part of the history of the French Revolution ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 23:39, 4 July 2022
- and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature ... passions that would become a commonplace of Romanticism: "One inhabits ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 09:37, 11 April 2024
- the Fair (French: le Bel), son and successor of Philip III, reigned as King ... A member of the House of Capet, Philip was born at the Palace of Fontainebleau ...23 KB (3,671 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (November 18, 1787 – July 10, 1851 ... there is little doubt that the impetus he gave to the development ...9 KB (1,389 words) - 02:53, 4 November 2022
- known for the numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made ... in Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, near Paris, France. He was the son of Thomas ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- period. The family produced three popes (Leo X, Clement VII, and Leo XI), ... From humble beginnings (the origin of the name is uncertain, it allegedly ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 04:04, 9 November 2022
- 1856 – April 14, 1925) was a renowned turn-of-the century portrait painter ... was well known for painting the aristocracy of Europe, the new and emerging ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of seventeenth-century Rome. The ... conceits include the piazza and colonnades of Saint Peter's. He preferred ...23 KB (3,452 words) - 07:41, 24 January 2023
- enabled him to compute the distribution of electrical charges on the surface ... Poisson was born in Pithiviers, a village just outside of Paris. His ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 22:20, 29 January 2023
- 28, 1585 - May 6, 1638) was Catholic bishop of Ypres, Dutch Roman Catholic ... Duvergier de Hauranne, who had become the abbé of Saint-Cyran, won ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 03:32, 8 January 2024
- jazz and often in dubstep. In the form of a back beat, syncopation is ... ==Types of syncopation== ===Even-note syncopation=== In meters with ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
- and military engineer whose formulation of the laws on the theoretical ... Although Carnot operated outside the mainstream of the scientific ...15 KB (2,378 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- , a composer, organist, and music teacher of Belgian origin, was one of ... in 1844, and remained there for the rest of his life. His decision to give ...9 KB (1,338 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- Pope Leo X, born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici (December 11 ... The remark "It has served us well, this myth of Christ" ...28 KB (4,490 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony and Countess ... Her contemporaries included Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, (Peter Abelard ...39 KB (6,271 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution ... that impress all visitors. The glory of aviation and space technology ...18 KB (2,632 words) - 01:35, 11 November 2022
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange, (January 25, 1736 – April 10, 1813) was an ... Lagrange was of French and Italian descent, and was baptized Giuseppe ...29 KB (4,634 words) - 07:15, 10 August 2022
- November 16, 1272) was the son and successor of John Lackland as King of England ... He assumed the crown under the regency of the popular William Marshal ...14 KB (2,076 words) - 22:21, 8 February 2022
- speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated ... ("the 14th of July"). The French National Day is the anniversary ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 11:09, 20 September 2023
- The Banc d'Arguin National Park lies on the west coast of Mauritania ... It is a major breeding site for migratory birds. A wide range of species ...16 KB (2,318 words) - 17:29, 10 February 2023
- 16, 1793), the Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, was later titled, ... executed by guillotine in 1793 for the crime of treason. In recent years some ...41 KB (6,571 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- Sorbonne.jpg|thumb|300 px|Main buildings of the University of Paris I Panthéon ... The historic University of Paris (Université de Paris) first appeared ...30 KB (4,606 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
- for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate ... (c. 1922), which clarified the behaviour of photons (the particles of light ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 17:03, 23 December 2022
- a powerful English statesman and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. ... Wolsey became involved in furthering the political ambitions of Henry ...31 KB (4,953 words) - 20:23, 31 October 2022
- 30, 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He ... taught him to play, and music formed a part of family life. An outstanding ...8 KB (1,187 words) - 05:16, 30 September 2022
- a Christian Apostle and the younger brother of Saint Peter. He was renowned ... It is also held that Andrew founded the See of Byzantium in 38 C.E ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- widely known and respected in the world of physics. He discovered (with ... and his wife were pivotal in the discovery of radium and polonium, both of ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 05:21, 24 November 2022
- A bed is a piece of furniture (or a location) primarily used as a ... be used to make the bed frame match the rest of the bedding. For greater head ...23 KB (3,768 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- historian and writer] He was a champion of the nineteenth-century ideals ... His observations represented the excitement of sociological discovery, made ...22 KB (3,185 words) - 06:41, 20 July 2023
- == Evolution of the glyph == Image:Evolution6glyph.png The evolution of our modern glyph for 6 appears rather simple when ...19 KB (2,695 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay ( al.fʁɛd də my.sɛ|lang d'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century). The ...25 KB (3,656 words) - 17:50, 4 May 2023
- Avignon is a commune in southern France with a population of 89,300 ... under Charles Martell. After a long period of semi-autonomy in the empire ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 07:17, 23 August 2023
- et de la Sainte Face ("Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the ... and joined a Carmelite convent at the age of 15. Never a physically strong ...22 KB (3,790 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- resulted in unique incongruous arrangements of poetry and music. These works ... suicide when Cocteau was nine. At the age of fifteen, Cocteau left home ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 17:01, 4 July 2022
- The Storming of the Bastille ( Prise de la Bastille pʁiz də la bastij| ) in Paris, France, on July 14, 1789, refers to revolutionary insurgents ...35 KB (5,341 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- known for his large realistic landscapes of the American West. In obtaining ... Bierstadt's was a second-generation member of the Hudson River ...26 KB (3,901 words) - 04:59, 17 June 2023
- supported by a fairly significant faction of cardinals, and in several cases ... There have been several antipopes throughout the history of the Roman ...20 KB (3,042 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- a Dutch painter who specialized in scenes of ordinary people going about ... lifetime he was relatively unknown outside of his hometown of Delft where ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- The Battle of Culloden (April 16, 1746) was the last military clash ... as cultural vandalism, with the destruction of a way of life that many had ...24 KB (3,671 words) - 11:38, 20 September 2023
- Heloise (1101 - 1162), the famous lover of Peter Abelard (Abélard ... Heloise was the ward of an uncle, a canon A clergyman serving in a ...20 KB (3,412 words) - 17:12, 6 February 2022
- The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution describes ... During the course of the revolution, the church was nationalized with ...27 KB (3,836 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians ... family in the Cité Ducale neighborhood of Nancy, France. His father, ...40 KB (5,908 words) - 07:01, 22 January 2024
- inventive. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time. including the Vitruvian Man. He conceived of ideas vastly ahead of his time ...29 KB (4,455 words) - 08:02, 6 March 2023
- light, elegant, and airy style and the list of his buildings includes some ... Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the second son of William ...10 KB (1,385 words) - 03:09, 15 December 2022
- poet, and playwright. He was a key figure of the Renaissance, best known ... leading armies, the wealthy city-states of Italy falling one after another ...29 KB (4,511 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- the Noble or Él de las Navas, was the King of Castile from 1158 to his death ... a treaty with the Muslims after the battle of Alarcos. Representations of ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 06:52, 20 July 2023
- Josquin des Prez (French rendering of Dutch "Josken Van De Velde ... As a master of Renaissance music, des Prez became known internationally ...26 KB (3,991 words) - 05:29, 7 May 2024
- painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic ... From the first quarter of the seventeenth century, Velázquez's ...37 KB (5,925 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- Carpets are made of natural and synthetic fibers, such as wool, nylon ... == Types of carpets == [[Image:Swatches of berber carpet.jpg|thumb ...28 KB (4,327 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
- John (December 24, 1166 – October 18, 1216) reigned as King of England ... his unpopularity with the popularity of his brother, Richard I, for ...28 KB (4,489 words) - 17:02, 4 May 2024
- Isabella of France (c. 1295 – August 22, 1358), later referred to ... With Mortimer, Isabella plotted an invasion of England to depose Edward ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
- and theologian who represented the revival of Scholasticism during the fifteenth ... Cajetan was Master General of the Dominican order, a Cardinal, and ...15 KB (2,393 words) - 19:13, 26 November 2023
- painted, cataloged, and described the birds of North America, as well as its ... In March, 2000, Audubon's complete, double-elephant folio copy ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 06:04, 3 August 2022
- Comte de Lautréamont was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse ... a life outside or against society. Abuse of drugs and alcohol, insanity ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 02:36, 8 January 2024
- Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical ... After the fall of the Girondins, in which Marat played an important ...49 KB (7,367 words) - 18:14, 1 December 2022
- publishing the first official observations of the transit of Mercury in 1631. Like many intellectuals during the first half of the sixteenth century ...19 KB (2,823 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
- The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of ideological, political ... popular uprising against the absolute power of the king and against the privileges ...68 KB (10,394 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- birth = January 18, 1925 (Paris, France)| death = November 4, 1995 (Paris, France)| school_tradition ...35 KB (5,046 words) - 09:29, 15 December 2022
- in 1694. His commentaries and revisions of the theories of Thomas Hobbes ... the ore mountains (Erzgebirge) in the Duchy of Saxony, Germany. His father ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:05, 23 December 2022
- sometimes Countess Dohna, was Queen regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. She ... and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. As the heiress presumptive ...33 KB (5,367 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- 300px|Napoleon in His Study by Jacques-Louis David (1812)]] Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy (August ...53 KB (8,268 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
- Operation Provide Comfort (OPC). The pilots of two United States Air Force ... the helicopters as hostile. The crew members of the AWACS aircraft were blamed ...67 KB (10,179 words) - 23:19, 30 March 2024
- major U.S. newspapers. The first incarnation of Life was as a humor magazine ... [[Image:Life 1911 09 21 a.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|A cover of the earlier ...28 KB (4,420 words) - 22:50, 25 October 2022
- The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation ... The core group consisted of the American poets Zukofsky, Williams ...24 KB (3,660 words) - 19:52, 17 November 2022
- The Nanda Devi National Park, a national park situated around the ... , located in the state of Uttarakhand in northern India. The park ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 01:17, 11 November 2022
- educator, and Franciscan friar. He wrote one of the earliest compendia of mathematical ... Pacioli was a man of deep faith coupled with a great love for knowledge ...14 KB (2,158 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- 1967). In 1931, Aikawa acquired a majority of shares in the automaker DAT ... In the 1950s, the management of Nissan made a conscious decision to ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ... Age" in contrast to the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars and World ...38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
- Joan of Arc, also Jeanne d'Arc Joan of Arc's name was written ... – May 30, 1431), is a national heroine of France and a saint of ...41 KB (6,624 words) - 13:42, 1 August 2022
- 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was the founder of the American Red Cross. As ... with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason, he had me ...14 KB (2,285 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... the North Sea on the west, and a majority of its land mass lies on a peninsula ...38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
- capital, Halifax, is a major economic center of the region. It is the fourth ... The province includes several regions of the Mi'kmaq nation of ...28 KB (4,053 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, ... between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture had made ...70 KB (10,606 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel Death of a Hero, and the controversy ... interest that Pound shared. The compression of expression that they achieved ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 20:12, 8 December 2022
- devices. As defined by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics ... they paved the way for the later emergence of electronic instruments. An ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- Structural engineering is a field of engineering dealing with the ... Structural engineers are most commonly involved in the design of buildings ...56 KB (8,392 words) - 21:05, 26 February 2023
- opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles) ... 2017, ISBN 978-1781795217). Louis X of France was a keen player of ...64 KB (9,860 words) - 20:09, 29 April 2023
- a legally constituted, voluntary association of individuals or groups that ... The number of non-governmental organizations has exploded during the ...22 KB (3,066 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- parents, Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine de la ... she was queen consort of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559. ...68 KB (10,504 words) - 16:16, 3 December 2023
- both recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy and criticism ... Sherman's attack on civilian infrastructure and displacement ...29 KB (4,410 words) - 20:33, 13 May 2023
- of USA Basketball, which is recognized by the International Basketball ... June 6, 1946 as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The league adopted ...32 KB (4,894 words) - 01:38, 11 November 2022
- along with American and British Modernists of the Lost Generation, expatriates ... Barney was an early advocate of "free love." She opposed ...46 KB (7,032 words) - 01:28, 11 November 2022
- first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from ... From the age of 12, George served in the Royal Navy, but upon the ...39 KB (5,812 words) - 13:04, 14 November 2022
- Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino; c. 1225 ... for those studying for the priesthood (Code of Canon Law, Can. 252, §3). ...35 KB (5,231 words) - 18:38, 30 April 2023
- and numerous contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in ... In the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other ...61 KB (9,138 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- was the first and most prominent leader of a reform movement in sixteenth ... He came to this understanding over the course of a long and tortuous ...61 KB (9,597 words) - 08:35, 10 March 2023
- Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation ... Some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign of the Second ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 23:16, 3 March 2023
- Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis ... Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, prognosis, ...53 KB (7,336 words) - 04:05, 9 November 2022
- France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- obtains thrust by reaction to the ejection of fast-moving fluid from within ... In chemically powered rockets, the combustion of propellant produces ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. He became ... #039;s interest turned to the spiritual side of life, with investigations of ...23 KB (3,410 words) - 08:45, 23 July 2023
- lens usually placed on the cornea of the eye. Modern contact lenses ... colored for altering the appearance of the eye. People choose to wear ...37 KB (5,508 words) - 02:44, 8 January 2024
- Henry VIII (June 28, 1491 – January 28, 1547) was King of England ... Several significant pieces of legislation were enacted during Henry ...40 KB (6,352 words) - 23:16, 8 February 2022
- 1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, ... Pius is one of the few popes in recent history to exercise his right ...51 KB (7,678 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions ... economic growth and emergence as centers of technological innovation, and ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
