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Normandy
Historic region, NW France. The capital was Rouen. Inhabited since Paleolithic times, its Celtic population was conquered by the Romans c.56 BC, when it became part of the province of Lugdunensis. Invaded by Vikings in the mid-9th cent, it was ceded to their chief, Rollo, in 911 by Charles III the Simple of France. The Vikings became known as Normans, hence the region's name. After the Norman Conquest (1066), it was united to England by William I of Normandy. It became a province of France in 1450 and was divided into several departments after the French Revolution. It was the site of the World War II Allied invasion of German-occupied France in 1944 (see Normandy Campaign).
Normans
Vikings, or Norsemen, who settled in N France (or the Frankish kingdom) and their descendants. As pagan pirates from Denmark, Norway, and Iceland, they raided the European coast in the 8th cent. They settled in the lower Seine valley by c.900 and then extended their territory westward. They founded the duchy of Normandy, governed by a line of rulers who called themselves counts or dukes of Normandy. Though the Normans converted to Christianity and adopted the French language, they continued to display the recklessness and appetite for conquest of their Viking ancestors. In the 11th cent. they seized England in the Norman Conquest and colonized S Italy and Sicily.
Bormann
German Nazi leader. He joined the Nazi party in 1925 and served as R. Hess's chief of staff 1933-41. He was appointed head of the party chancellery in 1941 and became one of A. Hitler's closest lieutenants. A shadowy but extremely powerful presence, Bormann controlled all legislation, party promotions and appointments, and the personal access of others to Hitler. He disappeared shortly after Hitler's death. Though some reports allege that he escaped to S. America, German authorities have officially declared him dead.
coral
Any of about 2,300 species of marine cnidarians in the class Anthozoa that are characterized by stonelike, horny, or leathery skeletons (external or internal). The skeletons of these animals are also called coral. Corals are found in warm seas worldwide. The body is of the polyp type. Soft, horny, and blue corals are colonial in habit (i.e., they live in large groups). Stony corals, the most familiar and widely distributed forms, are both colonial and solitary. Atolls and coral reefs, which are composed of stony coral, grow at an average rate of 0.2-1.1 in. (0.5-2.8 cm) per year. See also sea fan.
Nergal
In Mesopotamian religion, a secondary god of the Sumero-Akkadian pantheon. He was identified with Irra, the god of scorched earth and war, and with Meslamtaea. The city of Cuthah was the center of his cult. In the 1st millennium BC he was described as a benefactor who hears prayers, restores the dead to life, and protects agriculture and flocks. Later he was called a "destroying ...
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