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Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562 – 1624) was a Franciscan friar, active as missionary in colonial Mexico and considered the "leading Franciscan chronicler of his generation." [1] Administrator, engineer, architect and ethnographer, he is most famous for his monumental work commonly known as Monarquía indiana ("Indian Monarchy"), a survey of the history and culture of the indigenous peoples of ...
Each luffing frame weighs 1,170 t (1,290 short tons), and each boom weighs 1,465 t (1,615 short tons). [9] The large port and starboard cranes were fabricated at Huisman's factory in Xiamen, China , and shipped in pieces to Singapore; the BigRoll RoRo ships Baffin (now BigLift Baffin) and Beaufort were used to ferry the crane houses, luffing ...
The Catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum lists the painters of the collection of the Louvre Museum as they are catalogued in the Joconde database. The collection contains roughly 5,500 paintings by 1,400 artists born before 1900, and over 500 named artists are French by birth.
De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas, Augsburg, 1615.. De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu ... (Latin for "On the Christian Mission among the Chinese by the Society of Jesus ...") is a book based on an Italian manuscript written by the most important founding figure of the Jesuit China mission, Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), expanded and translated into Latin by his ...
French submarine Bévéziers (1935) French submarine. Bévéziers. (1935) Bévéziers (Q179) was a Redoutable -class submarine of the French Navy. The class is also known as the "1500-ton class" and were termed in French French: « de grande patrouille». She was named after the 1690 Battle of Beachy Head, known in France as the Bataille de ...
"Frère Jacques" bears resemblance to the piece Toccate d'intavolatura, No. 14, Capriccio Fra Jacopino sopra L'Aria Di Ruggiero composed by Girolamo Frescobaldi, [17] which was first published around 1615 [18] —"Fra Jacopino" is one potential Italian translation for "Frère Jacques". [19]
The Pistolet automatique modèle 1935A (Automatic Pistol Model 1935A, also known as the Modèle 1935A, French Model 1935A, or M1935A) commonly known by the abbreviation the SACM pistol, is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Charles Petter, chambered for the 7.65mm Longue cartridge. It was developed to compete in the 1935–1937 French military ...
The Pistolet automatique modèle 1935S (Automatic Pistol Model 1935S) or Modèle (Mle.) 1935 S is a semi-automatic pistol chambered for the 7.65mm Longue cartridge. A competitor in the 1935–1937 French military trials to select a new sidearm, it initially lost to the SACM 1935A, but production was ordered nonetheless to alleviate in shortages in pistols in the runup to the Second World War.