The park was renamed in 1985
Democracy Day | UK Parliament
The BBC marks the 750th anniversary of the De Montfort Parliament – England's first parliament
Birth of the English Parliament | UK Parliament
The make up of Montfort’s Parliament can be linked to the House of Commons as we know it today.
SALON LUMIÈRE, AUSTRALIA’S FIRST CINEMA
With the departure of the Sestiers and Barnett and the closing of the Salon Lumière at 237 Pitt Street, Australia’s first cinema closed
Marius Sestier, and Australia’s earliest film
it is thought to be Australia’s earliest surviving film.
U. T. Dallas’ Brian Berry to Receive World’s Top Honor for Geographers
“Brian Berry is an integral part of this culture of quality, as evidenced by his being accorded the top distinction in his field, the Vautrin Lud Prize”
The story od decipherment (maurice pope, ed. 1999)
The great age of decipherment dawned in the mid-eighteenth century, at the time of the Enlightenment, with the Abbe Barthelemy's solution of the Palmyra script
We should say ‘Vive la France’ to a pioneering country as it marks its national holiday | Belfast Telegram
although the narrative seems to stress 'globalisation' ('mondialisation'), it all adds up to a paean of praise to France's influence on the world, and how many modern movements France started.
Age Of Revolution 1789 -1848 (Eric Hobsbawm, 1962)
If the economy of the nineteenth century world was formed mainly under the influence of the British Industrial Revolution, its politics and ideology were formed mainly by the French
François Xavier Tourte | CHRISTIE’S
it took the genius of a French clockmaker turned instrument craftsman to launch the era of the modern bow
Christine de Pisan, la première femme de lettres française | National geographic
En refusant de se remarier et en choisissant de vivre de sa plume, Christine de Pisan a bouleversé les normes médiévales et ouvert la voie à une réflexion sur le statut et le rôle social des femmes.
Exploring the Beautiful Birthplace of Sport Climbing | National geographic
The Verdon Gorge in the French Alps is considered the birthplace of sport climbing
The Great Detectives: Vidocq
François Eugène Vidocq, the world’s first real life private detective
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (60 years of Heroes) | Time europe
when Cousteau died, aged 87, in 1997, he was widely hailed as one of the fathers of environmentalism for his work as an oceanographer
The First Detective: The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq: Criminal, Spy and Private Eye
The world’s very first private detective agency.
