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The Great Council of Venice, the Gherardinis of Florence became members of the Venetian patriciate in 1652. The family took part in Florence's political life between 1100 and 1300. In 1300, they were exiled from the city when Florence began its transformation into a Signoria, later ruled by the Medicis.
The following is a list and assessment of sites and places associated with King Arthur and the Arthurian legend in general. Given the lack of concrete historical knowledge about one of the most potent figures in British mythology, it is unlikely that any definitive conclusions about the claims for these places will ever be established; nevertheless it is both interesting and important to try ...
Girardin was descended from the old Florentine Gherardini family.In 1762 he inherited his title of Marquis of Vauvray and his mother's fortune (she was the daughter of René Hatte, the chief tax collector for Louis XV).
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
Girardin is a French-language surname, in some cases a francization of Italian surname Gherardini.It may refer to: People. Girardin family, a French branch of the Italian Gherardini family:
Denton, now 61, played a retired pop star in Hallmark’s Perfect Harmony and his character’s son was played by his real-life son, who's now 21. “He’s a really good actor who doesn’t try ...
The Pays d'en Haut (French: [pɛ.i dɑ̃ o]; Upper Country) was a territory of New France covering the regions of North America located west of Montreal.The vast territory included most of the Great Lakes region, expanding west and south over time into the North American continent as the French had explored.
The Five Points, Manhattan is a location that was associated with gang activities from the early 19th century. [1] In the late 1920s, Al Capone was the leader of the Chicago Outfit [2] The Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club was founded in 1948 and is considered a criminal gang by American law enforcement agencies, particularly for their involvement in drug-related activities and violent crimes.