Emma of Normandy - Emma of Normandy Emma (c. 982-1052), daughter of Richard I, duke of Normandy, was twice queen of England, by marriage first (1002-1016) to king Ethelred the Unready and then (1017-1035) to Canute, king also of Denmark and Norway. Upon the Danish invasion of England in 1013, Emma took her sons by Ethelred - Alfred and Edward - to Normandy, where they remained upon her return to England to marry Canute, now king of England following the death of Ethelred and his son Edmund Ironside. Following Canute's death, Alfred and Edward returned in 1036, possibly in an attempt to overthrow Canute's illegitimate son Harold Harefoot, who had established himself as ruler in the absence of Harthacanute, son of Canute and Emma. Alfred was captured and died after being.
Duchy of Normandy - Duchy of Normandy The Duchy of Normandy stems from the Viking invasions of France in the eighth century. Officially created in 911 out of Consessions made by King Charles to King Rollo of the Vikings. Originally emcompassing the Northern Coast and interior of France, it is now part of both France and England. After William the Conqueror invaded and defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings, the Dutchy fell under the rule of England until 1204 when Phillip II of France conquered it. The Treaty of Paris (1295) gave the lands, with the exception of the Channel Islands back to France (with the exception of the island of Chausey). This which is why the Queen of England is toasted on the islands as the Duke of.
Battle of Normandy - Battle of Normandy History -- Military history -- List of battles -- France/History -- History of England -- World War II The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord, began with the amphibious Allied landings at Normandy, France, early in the morning of June 6, 1944, a date known as D-Day, and continued into the following weeks with a land campaign to establish, expand, and eventually break out of the Normandy bridgehead. It remains one of the best-known battles of World War II. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The Battle 1.1 The Prelude 1.2 The Plan 1.3 The Landings 1.4 After the Landings 2 Chronology 3 Political Considerations 4 Historical Significance 5 Strategic Appraisal 6 Aftermath 7 Bibliography 8.
Keith Douglas - the tank corps before his course was complete. He fought in North Africa in 1941. In 1944, he took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, in the course of which he was killed. Works Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) Collected Poems (1951).
King County, Washington - family is $66,035. Males have a median income of $45,802 versus $34,321 for females. The per capita income for the county is $29,521. 8.40% of the population and 5.30% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 9.40% are under the age of 18 and 7.40% are 65 or older. Cities and Towns Algona Ames Lake Auburn Baring Beaux Arts Village Bellevue Black Diamond Bothell Bryn Mawr-Skyway Burien Carnation Cascade-Fairwood Clyde Hill Cottage Lake Covington Des Moines Duvall East Hill-Meridian East Renton Highlands Eastgate Enumclaw Fall City Federal Way Hobart Hunts Point Inglewood-Finn Hill Issaquah Kenmore Kent Kingsgate Kirkland Lake Forest Park Lake Marcel-Stillwater Lake Morton-Berrydale Lakeland North Lakeland South Lea Hill Maple Heights-Lake Desire Maple Valley Medina Mercer Island Milton Mirrormont Newcastle Normandy.
King's Daughters - blood. They are called "King's Daughters" because of the king's monetary support of 50 French pounds (livres) and the costs of their transportation. 737 Daughters married in New France, many to soldiers of the Carignan Regiment. The rest were already married or remained single. Many Daughters were recruited from orphanages from Ile-de-France and Normandy, while some were prostitutes who were not jailed in exchange for agreeing to emigrate to New France. About 40 Daughters, called Daughters of Quality (filles de qualité), were from upper class and had dowry of over 2000 French pounds. There were also three non-French Daughters, from England, Germany, and Portugal. Originally, there were about 300 more recruits, but most of them were overwhelmed and gave up when they reached the ports of Normandy, and some died during.
January 19 - 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England which makes Normandy a part of England. 1764 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. 1806 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope. 1829 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres. 1839 - British East India Company captures Aden. 1840 - Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States. 1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome. 1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service (Roselle, New Jersey) It was built by Thomas Edison. 1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. 1915 - George Claude patents the neon discharge.
Jacques de Molay - jailed by Philip the Fair. De Molay confessed under torture to "denying Christ and trampling on the Cross," and on March 18, 1314 he was led out to publicly confess the order's sins and his own. On this occasion he recanted his previous confessions and asserted that he was guilty only of lying about his sins in order to relieve his torture. He was taken to Ile de la Cité in the Seine and burned alive, along with Geoffrey de Charney, then the preceptor of Normandy. There is a masonic youth group named the Order of DeMolay for the fidelity and loyalty of Jacques de Molay. They claim no descendency to either the Knights Templar or Jacques de Molay..
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure - a French lawyer and statesman. He was born at Neubourg (Eure), in Normandy. In 1789 he was an advocate at the parlement of Normandy. During the republic and the empire he filled successive judicial offices at Louviers, Rouen and Evreux. He had adopted the principles of the French Revolution, and in 1798 began his political life as a member of the Council of Five Hundred. In 1813 he became a member of the Corps Legislatif. During the Hundred Days he was vice-president of the chamber of deputies, and when the allied armies entered Paris he drew up the declaration asserting the necessity of maintaining the principles of government that had been established at the Revolution. He was chosen as one of the commissioners to negotiate with the allied sovereigns. From 1817.
Jacques Anquetil - (b. January 8, 1934 in Mont Saint Aignan, Normandy - d. November 18, 1987 at St Hilaire Clinic in Rouen), was a French cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, 1957 and 1961-64. Born the son of a peasant farmer, Anquetil took the French amateur road title in 1952, one year after he began racing. In 1953, Anquetil's first year as a semi-professional cyclist, he won the 19th running of the cycling Grand Prix des Nations time trial. Over his career, Anquetil was to win the Grand Prix des Nations nine times (1953-58, 1961, 1965/66), and proving his mastery of the discipline, on June 29th, 1956, on the velodrome at Milano (Vigorelli), Anquetil broke the 14-year-old hour world record of the legendary Fausto Coppi (46.159.
Jersey - languages English, Jèrriais (a form of Norman French) Capital St Helier Duke of Normandy Elizabeth II Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief Sir John Cheshire Bailiff Sir Philip Bailhache Currency Jersey pound (on par with pound sterling) Time zone UTC (DST +1) National anthems Ma Normandie God Save the Queen National holiday Liberation Day, May 9 Internet TLD .JE Calling Code 44 (UK area code 1534) The Bailiwick of Jersey is a British crown dependency off the coast of France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, it also includes the uninhabited islands of Minquiers and Ecréhous. Along with the Bailiwick of Guernsey it forms the grouping known as the Channel Islands. The defence of all these islands is the responsibility of the United Kingdom. However, these islands are not.
Jean-François Millet - in rural France. He is noted especially for his scenes of peasant farmers. Millet was born in Gruchy, Normandy and moved to Paris in 1838. He received his academic schooling with Paul Dumouchel, and with Jérome Langlois in Cherbourg. After 1840 he turned away from the official fashion style and came under the influence of Honoré Daumier. In 1849 he withdraw to Barbizon to apply himself to painting many often poetic peasant scenes. His work, such as The Gleaners (1848), depicting the poorest of peasant women stooping in the fields to glean the leftovers from the harvested field, is a powerful and timeless statement about the working class that resonates to this day. (The Gleaners is on display in Paris's Museé D'Orsay). His Angelus was widely reproduced in prints in the.
Jean-Pierre Abbat - June 17, 1928 in Le Trait, Normandy to a shipbuilder. He met Marina Lardé at the Sorbonne and they were married. He migrated to the United States in 1953 and, with Dr. Fritz Hartmann, was the first to make polyurethane in the USA. In 1962 Abbat proposed to Norman McCulloch to make a ballistically equivalent bowling pin out of polyurethane foam. Bowling pins were then made out of wood, with two cylindrical voids, and covered with a thin coating. The polyurethane pin would last much longer than the wooden pin. The American Bowling Congress nixed the idea because it would put Brunswick and AMF, the biggest bowling pin makers, out of business. Abbat kept a collection of bowling pins, split bowling pins, and bowling pin molds for many years after that..
Viking Age - thus extending the reach of Viking raiders not only along coastlines, but also to areas along the banks of major rivers. Rurik founded the first Russian state with a capital at Novgorod. Vikings continued south on rivers to the Black Sea and then on to Constantinople. France was particularly hard-hit by these raiders, who could sail down the Seine with near impunity. The region now known as Normandy was rendered practically uninhabitable by the depradations of these recurring raids. Eventually, the French king Charles the Simple was able to make an agreement with Hrolf Ganger, later named Rollo. Charles gave Hrolf the title of Duke and granted him and his followers possession of the ravaged land of Normandy. In return, Hrolf swore fealty to Charles, converted to Christianity, and undertook to.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert - working for a Parisian banker; as well as, the father of Jean Chapelain. Before he was 20 years old, Colbert worked in the war office; a position generally attributed to the marriage of an uncle to the sister of Secretary of War Le Tellier. Colbert spent some time as an inspector of troops, eventually becoming the personal secretary of Le Tellier. In 1647, through some means or other, Colbert acquired the confiscated goods of an uncle, Pussort. In 1648, he (and his wife Marie Charron) received 40,000 crowns from some source or other; and, in 1649, Colbert became the councilor of state. The Fronde and Later Revolts The Fronde lasted from 1648-1653; and, following 1651, when Cardinal Mazarin left Paris, Colbert served as an advisor. In April 1655, Colbert published a.
Jersey cattle - its name implies, the Jersey was bred on the English Channel island of Jersey. It apparently descended from cattle stock brought over from nearby Normandy, and was first recorded as a separate breed around 1700. With an average weight of 900 pounds, the Jersey cow is small, but by some measures it produces more pounds of milk per pound of body weight than any other breed. Bulls are also small by standards of domestic cattle, ranging around 1,500 pounds, but can be surprisingly aggressive..
Jean de Brébeuf - missionary, martyred in Canada in 1649. Brébeuf was born in Condé-sur-Vire, Normandy, France on March 25, 1593. He became a Jesuit in 1617. In 1625 he sailed to Canada as a missionary, and lived with the Huron natives near Lake Huron; although the missionaries were recalled in 1629, Brébeuf returned to Canada in 1633. He unsuccessfully attempted to convert the Neutral nations on Lake Erie in 1640. In 1648 the Iroquois attacked the Huron settlement where Brébeuf was living, and he was captured and tortured to death on March 16, 1649. Brébeuf was canonized in 1930 with seven other missionaries, known as the Canadian Martyrs. He is a patron saint of Canada, and his feast day is October 19th..
Jean de Rotrou - - June, 1650) was a French poet and tragedian. Rotrou was born at Dreux in Normandy. He studied at Dreux and at Paris, and, though three years younger than Pierre Corneille, began writing before him. In 1632 he became playwright to the actors of the Hôtel de Bourgogne. With few exceptions, the only events recorded of his life are the successive appearances of his plays and his enrolment in 1635 in the band of five poets who had the duty of turning Richelieu's dramatic ideas into shape. Rotrou's own first piece, L'Hypocondriaque (first produced in 1631), dedicated to the Comte de Soissons, seigneur of Dreux, appeared when he was only eighteen. In the same year he published a collection of Å’uvres poetiques, including elegies, epistles and religious verse. His second piece,.
Jean-Baptiste Carrier - nominated in the close of 1792 by the Convention, and sent into that country In the following year he took part in. establishing the Revolutionary Tribunal. He voted for the death of Louis XVI, was one of the first to call for the arrest of the duke of Orleans, and took a prominent part in the overthrow of the Girondists (on May 31). After a mission into Normandy, Carrier was sent, early in October 1793, to Nantes, under orders from the Convention to suppress the revolt which was raging there, by the most severe measures. Nothing loth, he established a revolutionary tribunal, and formed a body of desperate men, called the Legion of Marat, for the purpose of destroying in the swiftest way the masses of prisoners heaped in the jails..
Jeffrey Hunter - he made with director John Ford, followed by The Last Hurrah (1958) and Sergeant Rutledge (1960). Ford also recommended Hunter to director Nicholas Ray for the role of Jesus Christ in the biblical King of Kings (1961), a difficult part met by critical reaction that ranged from praise to ridicule. Among an all-star cast in the World War II battle epic The Longest Day (1962), he provided the climactic heroic act of breaching the defense wall atop Normandy's Omaha Beach. Having guest starred on television dramas since the mid-1950s, Hunter was now offered a two-year contract by Warner Bros that included starring as a circuit-riding Texas lawyer in the NBC series Temple Houston (1963-64), which Hunter's production company co-produced. Although Temple Houston did not survive its first season, NBC offered him.
