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Michele Alboreto 2001 Deaths

Michele AlboretoAge: 44 Italian Formula One driver who found success on the endurance race circuit; won 1997 Le Mans 24 Hours with the TWR Porsche team; won 2001 12 Hours of Sebring race with…

Michele Bachmann: Campaign Issues

  Where she stands   Michele Bachmann Related Links Barack Obama: Campaign Issues Campaign 2012 Closest Presidential Races Presidential Gallery Michele Bachmann’s…

Brewer's: Mont St. Michel

in Normandy, formerly called Belen. Here nine Druidesses sold to sailors the arrows to charm away storms. The arrows had to be discharged by a young man twenty-one years old. Source:…

Chamillart, Michel

(Encyclopedia) Chamillart or Chamillard, MichelChamillart or Chamillard, Michelboth: mēshĕlˈ shämēyärˈ [key], 1652–1721, French statesman. He was named controller general of finances (1699), minister…

Eilshemius, Louis Michel

(Encyclopedia) Eilshemius, Louis MichelEilshemius, Louis Michelīlshēˈmēəs [key], 1864–1941, American painter, b. near Newark, N.J. The son of a wealthy Dutch importer, he spent much of his youth…

Ney, Michel

(Encyclopedia) Ney, MichelNey, Michelmēshĕlˈ nā [key], 1769–1815, marshal of France. Called “the bravest of the brave” by Napoleon I, Ney, a cooper's son from Saarlouis, rapidly rose to glory in the…

Langlade, Charles Michel de

(Encyclopedia) Langlade, Charles Michel deLanglade, Charles Michel deshärl mēshĕlˈ də [key], 1729–1800, pioneer in present-day Wisconsin and soldier, b. Mackinac region, now in Mich.; son of a trader…

L'Hôpital, Michel de

(Encyclopedia) L'Hôpital or L'Hospital, Michel deL'Hôpital or L'Hospital, Michel deboth: mēshĕlˈ də lōpētälˈ [key], c.1505–1573, chancellor of France under Catherine de' Medici. He was Catherine's…

Fokine, Michel

(Encyclopedia) Fokine, MichelFokine, Michelmēshĕlˈ fōkēnˈ, Rus. fôˈkyĭn [key], 1880–1942, Russian-American choreographer and ballet dancer, b. Russia. He studied at the Imperial Ballet School (1889–…

Vanloo

(Encyclopedia) VanlooVanlooväNlōˈ, vänlōˈ [key], family of French painters of Dutch origin. Jacob or Jacques Vanloo, 1614–70, b. Holland, went to Paris in 1662, where he had great success as a…