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Brewer's: Marteau des Heretiques

Pierre d'Ailly, also called l'Aigle de la France. (1350-1420.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MartelMartano A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…

Brewer's: Palais des Thermes

Once the abode of the Roman government of Gaul, as well as of the kings of the first and second dynasties. Here Julius fixed his residence when he was Caesar of Gaul. It is in Paris, but…

Brewer's: Jean des Vignes

(French). So the jonglers call the poupée to which they address themselves. The French Protestants in the sixteenth century called “the host” Jean, and the word is pretty well synonymous…

Brewer's: Ecole des Femmes

Molière borrowed the plot of this comedy from the novelletti of Ser Giovanni, composed in the fourteenth century. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

2001 Intel Science Talent Search Winners

First Place: $100,000 scholarship, Viviana Risca, 17, Paul D.Schreiber Senior High School, Port Washington, N.Y., for her computer science project, “DNA-based Steganography,” which studied…

Des Plaines, river, United States

(Encyclopedia) Des Plaines, river, 110 mi (177 km) long, rising in SE Wis., and flowing S and SW through NE Ill., joining the Kankakee River S of Joliet, Ill., to form the Illinois River. The lower…

Poncelet, Jean Victor

(Encyclopedia) Poncelet, Jean VictorPoncelet, Jean VictorzhäNˈ vēktôrˈ pôNslāˈ [key], 1788–1867, French mathematician and army engineer. He taught at the school of mechanics at Metz and at the…

Women's History Month

Women Pulitzer Prize Winners in Journalism   Women's History Month Nobel Winning Scientists Nobel Peace Prize Winners Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature Women Rulers of…

Barre des Ecrins

(Encyclopedia) Barre des EcrinsBarre des Ecrinsbär dāzākrăNˈ [key], peak, 13,461 ft (4,103 m) high, in the Pelvoux group, SE France, tallest of the Dauphiné Alps.

Sainte Agathe des Monts

(Encyclopedia) Sainte Agathe des MontsSainte Agathe des MontssăNtägätˈ dā môN [key], town (1991 pop. 5,452), S Que., Canada, on the North River, NW of Montreal. It is a resort center.