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Hace 4 días · Paris, city and capital of France, situated in the north-central part of the country. People were living on the site of the present-day city, located along the Seine River some 233 miles (375 km) upstream from the river’s mouth on the English Channel (La Manche), by about 7600 bce. The modern city has spread from the island (the Île de la ...
Hace 1 día · The capital and by far the most important city of France is Paris, one of the world’s preeminent cultural and commercial centres.A majestic city known as the ville lumière, or “city of light,” Paris has often been remade, most famously in the mid-19th century under the command of Georges-Eugène, Baron Haussman, who was committed to Napoleon III’s vision of a modern city free of the ...
Hace 1 día · List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1857. Ship. State. Description. Henrietta Helen. United Kingdom. The ship ran aground on the Blackshaw Bank, in the Solway Firth. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Dumfries. She was refloated on 21 February and taken in to Glencaple, Dumfriesshire.
Hace 3 días · Statue of Liberty. / 40.68917°N 74.04444°W / 40.68917; -74.04444. The Statue of Liberty ( Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper statue, a gift to the U.S. from the people of France, was ...
Hace 5 días · King's Norton remained a royal manor until the beginning of the 19th century, being settled on Queen Anne, consort of James I, in 1603, on Queen Henrietta Maria in 1629 and on Queen Katherine. (fn. 32) On 8 October 1804 it was purchased of the Crown by John Taylor, (fn. 33) whose son James Taylor left it to William Francis, his eldest son by his second wife Anne Elizabeth daughter of Walter ...
Hace 2 días · As part of the royal marriage settlement Charles's Catholic wife, Henrietta Maria, was permitted her own royal chapel and chaplain. Henrietta Maria was in fact very strict in her religious observances, and helped create a court with continental influences, where Catholicism was the official religion of many countries, and tolerated in others; even somewhat fashionable.
Hace 2 días · Marseille or Marseilles ( French Marseille, Occitan Marselha or Marsiho) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region of southern France, it is located on the coast of the Gulf of Lion, part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river.
