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Colonel Tom Parker. Thomas Andrew Parker (born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk; June 26, 1909 – January 21, 1997), [ 1] commonly known as Tom Parker, was a Dutch-American musical entrepreneur. He was best known as the talent manager of Elvis Presley . Parker was born in the Netherlands and entered the United States illegally when he was 20 years old.
The Fifth Republic is France's third-longest-lasting political regime, after the hereditary, feudal monarchy of the Ancien Régime and the parliamentary Third Republic ( 4 September 1870 – 10 July 1940 ). The Fifth Republic will overtake the Third Republic as the second-longest French regime and the longest-lasting French republic on 8 August ...
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 ...
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen ( German: [ˈʊʁzula ˈɡɛʁtʁuːt fɔn deːɐ̯ ˈlaɪən] ⓘ; née Albrecht; born 8 October 1958) is a German politician, serving as the 13th president of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding positions in Angela Merkel 's cabinet, most ...
The European Parliament in Strasbourg (near the border with Germany). France is a founding member of all EU institutions. As a significant hub for international relations, France has the third-largest assembly of diplomatic missions, second only to China and the United States, which are far more populous.
Charlemagne returned to Francia to greet his newborn twin sons, Louis and Lothair, who were born while he was in Spain; [119] Lothair died in infancy. [120] Again, Saxons had seized on the king's absence to raid. Charlemagne sent an army to Saxony in 779 [121] while he held assemblies, legislated, and addressed a famine in Francia. [122]
François Viète, Seigneur de la Bigotière (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa vjɛt]; Latin: Franciscus Vieta; 1540 – 23 February 1603), commonly known by his mononym, Vieta, was a French mathematician whose work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, due to his innovative use of letters as parameters in equations.
Anti-French sentiment ( Francophobia or Gallophobia) is the fear of, discrimination against, prejudice of, or hatred towards France, the French people, French culture, the French government or the Francophonie (set of political entities that use French as an official language or whose French-speaking population is numerically or proportionally ...