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North Foreland and South Foreland
North Foreland, and South Foreland headlands of Kent, SE England, forming parts of the boundary of The Downs (a roadstead). South Foreland is 4 mi (6.4 km) NE of Dover, and North Foreland is near Margate. Both are chalk cliff formations, and both have lighthouses. The defeat (1666) of the Dutch... Read more |
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Saint Vincent de Paul
Saint Vincent de Paul 1580?-1660, French priest renowned for charitable work, b. Gascony. He was ordained in 1600. There are conflicting stories about his capture by pirates and enslavement in Tunis and his subsequent escape. In Rome he came to the attention of Pope Paul V, who sent him on a... Read more |
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Pellegrino Tibaldi
Pellegrino Tibaldi , 1527-96, Italian baroque painter and architect, whose real name was Pellegrino di Tibaldo de' Pellegrini. He studied in Bologna, and his early painting of the Marriage of St. Catherine attests the influence of Bagnacavallo, who may have been his first master. A trip to Rome in... Read more |
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North West Company
North West Company fur-trading organization in North America in the late 18th and early 19th cent.; it was composed of Montreal trading firms and fur traders. Formation After the conquest of Canada by the British, which was formalized by the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the French traders... Read more |
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Les patronages des Religieux de Saint-Vincent de Paul: lieu de formation...
...Religieux de Saint-Vincent de Paul debarquent...la Societe Saint-Vincent de Paul. Ils vont...oeuvre, les religieux innovent en leur proposant des jeux et ... |