Search results
5 days ago · The Voyages of Freycinet. Before satellites, sailors navigated the seas by the stars with unreliable and incomplete charts. Louis de Freycinet, one of the greatest mapmakers of his generation, helped to change this.
- Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson’s poetry celebrated the ordinary Australian, it...
- Henry Lawson
2 days ago · Louis XVI (Louis Auguste; French: [lwi sɛːz]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution . The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765) (son and heir-apparent of King Louis XV ), and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died ...
2 days ago · Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé ), [1] was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five.
4 days ago · Freycinet National Park is a national park on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia, 125 kilometres (78 mi) northeast of Hobart. It occupies a large part of the Freycinet Peninsula, named after French navigator Louis de Freycinet, and Schouten Island. Founded in 1916, it is Tasmania's oldest park, along with Mount Field National Park.
4 days ago · Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841 – disappeared 16 September 1890, declared dead 16 September 1897) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion-picture camera, and director of Roundhay Garden Scene.
1 day ago · Hermione, now nicknamed “The Freedom Frigate,” was one of four identical 32-gun Frigates built for the French Navy in 1778. Known for its exceptional speed and maneuverability, it took on the role of modern destroyers. Under command of a young Marquis de Lafayette, it sailed directly from France to Massachusetts in 38 days to deliver its ...
1 day ago · Located on the northern part of Bourgogne, 180 km away from Paris, going south east, Chablis vineyards cover 5600 hectares over 18 villages. Composed 100% of Chardonnay grape variety, Chablis terroir takes its unique typicity from a soil called ”Kimméridgien” made of layers of clay and limestone 240 million year-old and keeping in its layers ammonites and fossilized oysters (exogyra ...
