(Languages) the former language of the non-German Prussians, belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European family: extinct by 1700 Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011...
Images of Acadia. (Nova Scotia in the 1700s was Arcadia, a 100-year-old haven for protestant French in North America, which was to be forfeited)(Cross Currents)(Column)Mourby, Adrian
A year may be a leap year if it is evenly divisible by 4. Years divisible by 100 (century years such as 1900 or 2000) cannot be leap years unless they are also divisible by 400. (For this reason, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but the years 1600 and 2000 ...
Some Americans may still remember that the phrase, “till the world turns upside down” is a reference to the song “The World Turned Upside Down” played by the British Army as they marched out to surrender to the Americans and French at Yorktown in 1781. To the British the tune was ...
About 250 years ago, during the era of the French & Indian War,as many as eight fortswere built along the NJ portion of Old Mine Road. Some of these forts were fortified houses; others might have been more conventional stockaded forts. One of these forts, designated on old documents as...
French Huguenot-Style Farmhouse Location: New Paltz, New York Age: 1796 Best feature: The historic four-bedroom home is bordered by 6,400 acres of the forests, streams and lakes of the Mohonk Preserve, designated by the Nature Conservancy as one of the “Earth’s Last Great Places.” Horse...
The French consider it a single volume within a set of collected volumes, thus bringing us full-circle back to the cheese.Tooled. Indicates decorations on the binding. Most often used in describing leather bound books. Trade Edition. This is the mass marketed edition of a book that you see...
2.cab From “cabrioler”,a French word that means “jump like a goat.” The first carriages for public rental bounced up and down so much that they reminded people of goats jumping on a hillside.3.alarm From the Italian “To arms!”—which was what soldiers shouted when they saw that...
Palisot de Beauvois (1752-1820) was a French naturalist and traveller. The present work was published in 15 parts over a period of 16 years, the last part being posthumously published by J.G. Audinet Serville. The superbly executed plates are by J.G. Prêtre, one of the finest artists...
The French have a tradition, that an exterminating battle was fought in the beginning of the last century, on the ground where Fort Harrison mpw stands, between the Indians living on the Mississippi, and those of the Wabash. The bone of contention was the lands lying between those rivers, ...