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Pope Stephen met Pepin the Short at the royal estate at Ponthion on 6 January 754. The king led the Pope's horse, while the pope in sackcloth and ashes bowed down and asked Pepin that in accordance with the peace treaties [between Rome and the Lombards] he would support the suit of St Peter and of the republic of the Romans.
The Romain du Roi (French pronunciation: [ʁɔmɛ̃ dy ʁwa], "King's roman") was a typeface developed in France beginning in 1692. The name refers to Louis XIV who commissioned the design of the new typeface for use by the Royal Print Office. [1] [2] The Romain du Roi stands as a landmark of typography in the Age of Enlightenment.
Jean Talon, Bishop François de Laval and several settlers welcome the King's Daughters upon their arrival. Painting by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. The King's Daughters (French: filles du roi [fij dy ʁwa], or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) were the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV.
The Donation of Constantine (Latin: Donatio Constantini) is a forged Roman imperial decree by which the 4th-century emperor Constantine the Great supposedly transferred authority over Rome and the western part of the Roman Empire to the Pope.
This is largely because mutations of interest are introduced into endogenous genes, just as they occur in the real patients, and because they are based on human genomes rather than rat genomes. Furthermore, certain technologies enable the knock-in of a particular mutation rather than just knock-outs associated with older gene targeting ...
On plaque on reverse is profile of Grand Duchess Joséphine Charlotte, facing left, surrounded by an inscription S.A.R Joséphine Charlotte Grande-Duchesse de Luxembourg (H.R.H. Joséphine Charlotte Grand Duchess of Luxembourg). Plaques, edges of cross and crown are, according to grade, gilded, silver or bronze.
It was the main small unit in common use, and measured 1 ⁄ 36 of a cubic pied du roi. quade: 2 ~1.904 L ~0.5 gallon ~0.42 gallon velte: 8 ~7.617 L ~2.01 gallon ~1.68 gallon a velte was a measuring stick that was inserted into a cask or barrel to determine its depth. quartaut: 72 ~68.55 L 9 veltes, or two cubic pieds du roi. feuillette: 144 ...
[c] [20] [21] By this, de Vries meant that a new form of the plant was created in a single step (not the same as a mutation in the modern sense); no long period of natural selection was required for speciation, and nor was reproductive isolation. [22] In the view of the historian of science Peter J. Bowler, De Vries used the term to mean [1]