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    Nicolas de Fer (French pronunciation: [nikɔla də fɛʁ], 1646 – 25 October 1720) was a French cartographer and geographer. He also was an engraver and publisher...
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  • writer Émilie Fer (born 1983), French slalom canoer and 2012 Olympic gold medalist Leroy Fer (born 1990), Dutch footballer Nicolas de Fer (1646–1720),...
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    these names mean essentially "the smoke that thunders". A map drawn by Nicolas de Fer in 1715 shows the fall clearly marked in the correct position. It also...
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    sumptuous festival hosted by Nicolas Fouquet, the Superintendent of Finances, at his palatial residence, the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte. Louis XIV was...
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    pig-like bodies, fish tails, and visible testicles. French cartographer Nicolas de Fer illustrated beavers building a dam at Niagara Falls, fantastically depicting...
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    them in a forgotten chapter of the Beaver Wars. Calicua first appears in DeSoto's accounts of his travels. Given many of the cities he visited collapsed...
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    Church of the Holy Sepulchre (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    plan, photo gallery) Map of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 1715, by Nicolas de Fer. Eran Laor Cartographic Collection, National Library of Israel Photos...
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    Herman Moll. This map is a close reproduction of a 1698 work by Nicolas de Fer. De Fer, in turn, had copied images that were first printed in books by...
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    " Past & Present, 1984 #104 pp 31–55 online[dead link] Junghans, Helmar [de]. Martin Luther: Exploring His Life and Times, 1483–1546. (book plus CD ROM)...
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  • This is repeated by John W. Powell and John Swanton. However, a map by Nicolas de Fer states that all nations of this region spoke different languages and...
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    Beaver Map from The World Described, a scene he copied from a map by Nicolas de Fer Inset of Moll's so-called Codfish Map from The World Described Moll's...
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  • Côtes-de-Fer (French pronunciation: [kot də fɛʁ]; Haitian Creole: Kòt Defè) is a commune in the Bainet Arrondissement, in the Sud-Est department of Haiti...
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    Gaspar de Vallier was a Marshall of the Knights of Malta, who was in command of the fortress of Tripoli during the Siege of Tripoli (1551). He was French...
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    auction in blocks. The collection included maps by Guillaume de L’Isle, Louis Jolliet, Nicolas de Fer, Henri Joutel, Barthelemy Lafon, William Darby, and John...
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    the gardens' layout. In 1661, after the disgrace of the finance minister Nicolas Fouquet, who was accused by rivals of embezzling crown funds in order to...
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    seven maps, using information and materials provided by La Mare, while Nicolas de Fer was the engraver of the eighth, which was based on a contemporary city...
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    famous early maps of North America, which he copied from a 1698 work by Nicolas de Fer. In 1763–1767 Captain James Cook mapped Newfoundland. In 1777 Colonel...
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    deviation of the Seine Elevation and perspective of the Machine de Marly (c. 1715) by Nicolas de Fer The work began in June 1681 with the canalization of the...
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    The Man in the Iron Mask (French: L'Homme au Masque de Fer; died 19 November 1703) was an unidentified prisoner of state during the reign of Louis XIV...
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    eighth of eight chronological maps of Paris from Nicolas de La Mare's Traité de la police, by Nicolas de Fer. (BNF Gallica) Perspective View of Paris in 1607:...
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    troops during future campaigns, and also earned him the nickname "Bras de Fer" ("Iron Arm"). Even Napoleon wondered if he was being too severe, to which...
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    Litvinism (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    altered forms of the Belarusian language considered more traditional and de-russified, or asking that their passport states their Litvin ethnicity.[unreliable...
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    Wonderfull West Virginia September 1973, Pp.30, "Valley Falls of Old", Nicolas de Fer 1715 map. Whittlesey, Charles. "Descriptions of Ancient Works in Ohio...
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    and the Mediterranean.: 7  Two centuries later Guillaume le Vasseur, sieur de Beauplan became one of the more prominent cartographers working with Ukrainian...
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    (French: Plan du bombardement de Bruxelles), published 1695 in Paris by Nicolas de Fer A letter from Mr. de Vigny to Mr. de Barbesieux, on the morning of...
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    Platz der Alten Synagoge (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Kupferstechers Nicolas de Fer" [Plan of the Freiburg Fortress 1693: Copper engraving from the workshop of the French engraver Nicolas de Fer]. Alt-Freiburg...
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    The Chemin de fer des Côtes-du-Nord (abbr. CdN, lit. Railway of the Côtes-du-Nord), the Côtes-d'Armor today, was a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in), metre gauge...
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    disciplinarian, earned him the nickname "The Iron Marshal" (Le Maréchal de fer). He is ranked along with Marshals André Masséna and Jean Lannes as one...
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    The Angelets, or “the Angelets of the Land” (in Catalan, “els Angelets de la Terra”), were peasants who rose up in peasant revolts from 1667 to 1675 against...
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    Bischof (13 January 2011). "Jésuites / Compagnie de Jésus". Dictionnaire Historique de la Suisse. Nicolas de Fer (1691). "Map of Kamianets-Podilskyi". Gallica...
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