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Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known simply as Charlotte Corday (French:), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793.
The Petit-Clamart attack, also referred to by its perpetrators as Operation Charlotte Corday after Charlotte Corday, was an assassination attempt organized by Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Bastien-Thiry with the Organisation armée secrète (OAS) that aimed to kill Charles de Gaulle, president of France at the time. The attack was carried out on 22 ...
On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir , then a senior intelligence officer ...
The 100-year-old crossword puzzle just got an update! Daily Celebrity Crossword is the first and only daily crossword puzzle that features the latest in pop culture and entertainment. No more
The Death of Marat (French: La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné) is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat. [1]
In 1950, the crossword became a daily feature. That first daily puzzle was published without an author line, and as of 2001 the identity of the author of the first weekday Times crossword remained unknown. [13] There have been four editors of the puzzle. Farrar edited the puzzle from its inception in 1942 until 1969.
Charlotte Corday assassinated Jean-Paul Marat in the French Revolution. Charlotte Corday may also refer to: Charlotte Corday (opera), a 1989 Italian opera; Charlotte Corday (1919 film), a 1919 German silent film; Operation Charlotte Corday, an assassination attempt against Charles de Gaulle in 1962
What did Steve do after Blue's Clues? Voiceover has been Steve’s main job for the last 25 years. From 2006 to 2010, Steve narrated the interactive children's show Roll Play for Treehouse TV. But ...