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tablet slab for an inscription or carving XIV; slab or panel for a painting XVI; sheet or leaf or (pl.) a set of them for writing on XVII; flat cake, lozenge XVI. — OF.
tablete (mod.
tablette); Rom. dim. of L.
tabula TABLE; see
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LOST FORT FOUND AT PARRIS ISLAND.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 6/6/1996; 407 words
; ...United States, France in 1562 dispatched an expedition of two ships and 150 men under Jean Ribaut. Somewhere along the coast of present-day South Carolina, Ribaut decided to build a fort overlooking a harbor he called ``one of the greatest and...
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Natural Fit: We cruise the rich marshlands from St. Augustine to Savannah aboard the ideal boat for this leisurely run, Mainship's 340 Trawler.(Features)(Review)
Magazine article from: Motorboating; 6/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...than the French in attempts at settlement. In 1562, Jean Ribaut tried to plant a colony about 150 miles farther north...Station eastward toward the mouth. It was there that Ribaut made his first landfall on May 1, 1562, and planted...
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Drought adaptation in cereals.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 12/1/2006; 481 words
; ...adaptation in cereals. Ed. by Jean-Marcel Ribaut. Food Products Pr. 2006 642 pages...sorghum, millet, and rice. Ribaut compiles 17 chapters by an international...and natural resources management. Ribaut, a plant physiologist and geneticist...
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Branch, Michael P., ed.: Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing Before Walden.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...following particular regional, topical, historical, or ideological threads through the text" (xv). For example, Jean Ribaut's sixteenth-century "discovery" of the Florida coastline resonates the excitement that the "new" American landscape...
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Pizza Inn Franchisee Opens New Buffet in Beaufort, SC.
PR Newswire; 12/11/2007; 700+ words
; ...200 square foot restaurant, with a seating capacity of 190, is located at 2121 Boundary St. in Beaufort, in the Jean Ribaut Square at Beaufort Town Center. At the new Pizza Inn, customers will be able to enjoy a full-service buffet, family...
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Who is South Carolinian?
Magazine article from: South Carolina Historical Magazine; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...the Wateree River, diseases brought by the earlier Europeans had already penetrated the tribes of the interior. With Jean Ribaut's French settlement on a sea island near present-day Beaufort in 1562 and the more important and longer-lasting...
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Nation's first French settlement found Fort in South Carolina was built nearly 60 years before Pilgrims landed
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 6/9/1996; 497 words
; ...1607. "We've got Charlesfort," said archaeologist Chester DePratter. "This is the settlement established by Jean Ribaut, which was occupied by 27 men for about nine months." Historians have long assumed that Charlesfort, founded by...
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Ducasse taps new generation of French chefsDINING
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 3/4/2005; ; 578 words
; ...editor of the Guide Champerard, and Jean-Claude Ribaut, the food and wine critic for Le...57 70 18. Jan. 31 to Feb. 1: Jean-Marc Boyer (Languedoc-Roussillon...upcoming chefs:Fe. 21 to March 6: Jean-Marie Baudic (Brittany), Aux...
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Revealed at last: how to make the French queue ; Our Man In Paris
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/2/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...investigative journalism, the Le Monde restaurant critic, Jean-Claude Ribaut, has subjected the sauce to chemical and culinary analysis...broon"). The French Brownite was later identified as Jean-Francois Probst, 58, former spin-doctor to President...
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Food a world treasure? French chefs want Unesco to make it one
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 9/25/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Genis and a minty candy called "betise" from Cambrai. Jean-Claude Ribaut, the food critic for Le Monde, chimed in: "It...sorts of stocks. Focus on the basics." Meanwhile, Jean-Robert Pitte, France's pre-eminent food historian...
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Jean Ribaut
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jean Ribaut , c.1520-65, French mariner and colonizer in Florida, b...colony as an asylum for Huguenots in the New World, he appointed Ribaut to lead the expedition. Ribaut sailed from France in Feb., 1562, with five vessels carrying...
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Ribaut (Or Ribault), Jean
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Ribaut (Or Ribault), Jean (c.1520–65), French Huguenot navigator and colonizer, with Laudonnière founded a colony at the present...
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René Goulaine de Laudonnière
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...colonizer in Florida. After accompanying Jean Ribaut on the first French expedition to...prepared to sail for France when Ribaut arrived with supplies, reinforcements...by the appearance of the Spanish. Ribaut sailed to attack them at St. Augustine...
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Laudonnière, René Goulainé De
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...French Huguenot navigator, with Jean Ribaut was sent to found an American colony...to take his people home. When Ribaut arrived, shortly afterward, to...well as in the account written by Ribaut . A modern account is in Parkman...
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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...encountered a French fleet under Jean Ribaut , which he was unable to bring to...where he began to build a fort. Ribaut, hoping to take the Spanish by surprise...killed most of the French there. Ribaut and his men, driven ashore S of...
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