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Jean Nicolet (Nicollet), Sieur de Belleborne (1598 – 29 October 1642) was a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Lake Michigan, Mackinac Island, Green Bay, and being the first European to set foot in what is now the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
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The "smoke' in fact was I-8′s diesel exhaust as she raced to get ahead of Jean Nicolet and achieve a position for an attack. [27] At 19:00 on 2 July, Jean Nicolet was in the Indian Ocean 270 nautical miles (500 km; 310 mi) north-northeast of Diego Garcia and south of Ceylon about 700 nautical miles (1,300 km; 810 mi) off the Maldives.
The United States Merchant Navy ship, SS Jean Nicolet operated by the Oliver J. Olson & Company, was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-8 on July 2, 1944, off Ceylon at . Most of the crew make it into the lifeboats safety. The I-8 forced the crew onto the deck of the submarine and then killed most of them.
Nicolet (French pronunciation: [nikɔlɛ(t)]) is the county seat of Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. The population as of the Canada 2016 Census was 8,169. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nicolet. The residents of the town pronounce the final "t" in Nicolet, but people outside of the region do not.
Céline Dion shared a photo with all three of her and René Angélil's sons as she paid tribute to her late husband nine years after his death.
Former President Donald Trump falsely said Friday that a decades-old photo of him with E. Jean Carroll, the writer he has been found liable for sexually abusing and defaming, might have been ...
Anne-Antoinette Nicolet (1743-1817), French actor and theatre director; Aurèle Nicolet (1926–2016), Swiss flautist; Hercule Nicolet (1801–1872), Swiss lithographer and entomologist; Jean Nicolet (1598–1642), French explorer from the 17th century; Joseph Nicollet (1786–1843), French explorer from the 19th century