Difference between revisions of "Verdons"

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* '''Verdun:''' a city in northeast France
 
* '''Verdun:''' a city in northeast France
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130579 A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdun Wikipedia]
 
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Vernon Wikipedia]
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Vernon Wikipedia]
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear Wikipedia]
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear Wikipedia]
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130502 A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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* '''Verlaine:''' French poet → see [[Baddelaries]] and [[Malachus Micgranes]] for two other French poets
 
* '''Verlaine:''' French poet → see [[Baddelaries]] and [[Malachus Micgranes]] for two other French poets

Revision as of 10:54, 12 June 2008

  • Treaty of Verdun: treaty which divided Charlemagne's kingdom among his three sons in AD 843 → see Baddelaries for further commentary
  • Battle of Verdun: the longest and second bloodiest battle of World War I, it was fought in 1916 between the French and the Germans → Charlemagne's kingdom had included much of modern France and Germany
  • verdun: (French) a type of lance or long sword once made in Verdun, France → also known as épée de verdun → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)
  • Vernon: Anglo-Irish family who claim to have Brian Ború’s sword