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The practice of chasse-galerie ("The Bewitched Canoe") allows one to travel through the air at great speed, over very long distances, and even to other countries, by mounting a wooden beam, log, plank, or tub, and pronouncing a magic phrase. Another more common version, popular in Quebec, involves a group traveling through the air, often in a ...
Raymond Leblanc was a resistance fighter during the Second World War in the Mouvement National Royaliste (MNR) group. [1] [2] [3] When the war ended in 1945, Leblanc set up new offices at 55, Rue du Lombard, establishing his publishing house, Le Lombard.
International recognition of the National Transitional Council of Libya was given by the majority of international states but was not universal.. By 2012, 104 United Nations members and two observer states had announced they recognised the NTC as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people, and some of them had indicated that they were recognising the NTC as the only legitimate ...
January 6 – Spanish Captain Hernando de Santana founds the city of Valledupar, in modern-day Colombia. [1]February 7 – After a 10-week conclave in Rome to elect a new Pope, Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, Bishop of Palestrina, is selected on the 61st ballot after Reginald Pole of England falls two votes short of winning.
Kong Le was born on 6 March 1934 to Lao Theung parents and spoke Phu Tai.He stood 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) tall and was a slender but muscular man. His ethnic origin showed in his wide cheekbones and dark skin.
In Switzerland, police registered a total of 432,000 offenses under the Criminal Code in 2019 (−0.2% compared with previous year), of which 110,140 or 25.5 percent were cases of thefts (excluding vehicles, −2.0%), and 41,944 or 9.7 percent were thefts of vehicles (including bicycles, −10.1%), 46 were killings and 161 were attempted murders.
The Autumn of 2000 was the wettest recorded in the United Kingdom since records began in 1766. [3] [4] [5] Several regions of Atlantic Europe from France to Norway received double their average rainfall and there were severe floods and landslides in the southern Alps. [6]