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Francis de Sales, C.O., O.M. ( French: François de Sales; Italian: Francesco di Sales; 21 August 1567 – 28 December 1622) was a Savoyard Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Geneva and is a saint of the Catholic Church.
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport ( IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG) — also known as Roissy Airport or simply Paris CDG — is the main international airport serving Paris, the capital of France. Opened in 1974, it is in Roissy-en-France, 23 km (14 mi) northeast of Paris and is named after World War II statesman Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), whose ...
The Elzevir family operated as booksellers and publishers in the Netherlands; the founder, Lodewijk Elzevir (1542–1617), lived in Leiden and established that business in 1580. As a company logo, Elsevier used the Elzevir family's printer's mark, a tree entwined with a vine and the words Non Solus, which is Latin for "not alone". [ 14]
Global all-electric car/van sales passed 1 million. [52] October 2016: 100,000th plug-in sold in France [53] [54] November 2016: 100,000th plug-in sold in the Netherlands [55] December 2016: Cumulative global plug-in sales passed 2 million units [33] 5% of passenger cars on Norwegian roads are plug-ins [20] November 2017
Luxembourg Airport (IATA: LUX, ICAO: ELLX) is the main airport in Luxembourg.Previously called Luxembourg Findel Airport due to its location at Findel, it is Luxembourg's only international airport and is the only airport in the country with a paved runway.
The Battle of Winwick was fought on 19 August 1648 between a Scottish Royalist army and a Parliamentarian army during the Second English Civil War. The Scottish army invaded north-west England and was attacked and defeated at Preston on 17 August. The surviving Royalists fled south, closely pursued. Two days later, hungry, cold, soaking wet ...
Denver International Airport ( IATA: DEN, ICAO: KDEN, FAA LID: DEN ), locally known as DIA, is an international airport in the Western United States, primarily serving metropolitan Denver, Colorado, as well as the greater Front Range Urban Corridor. At 33,531 acres (52.4 sq mi; 135.7 km 2 ), [ 6][ 7] it is the largest airport in the Western ...
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., abbreviated WMF, is an American 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. [ 5] It is the host of Wikipedia, the seventh most visited website in the world. In addition, the foundation hosts fourteen other related content projects ...