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  2. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle - Wikipedia

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    Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. Signature. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (/ ləˈsæl /; November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687), was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and the Mississippi River. He is best known for an early ...

  3. Bible translations into Spanish - Wikipedia

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    The classic Spanish translation of the Bible is that of Casiodoro de Reina, revised by Cipriano de Valera. It was for the use of the incipient Protestant movement and is widely regarded as the Spanish equivalent of the King James Version. Bible's title-page traced to the Bavarian printer Mattias Apiarius, "the bee-keeper".

  4. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle - Wikipedia

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    Teachers. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (/ ləˈsæl /) (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist də la sal]; 1651 – 7 April 1719) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He is a saint of the Catholic Church and the patron saint for teachers of youth. He is referred to both as ...

  5. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac - Wikipedia

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    Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (/ ˈkædɪlæk /, French: [kadijak]; March 5, 1658 – October 16, 1730), born Antoine Laumet, was a French explorer and adventurer in New France, which stretched from Eastern Canada to Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico. He rose from a modest beginning in Acadia in 1683 as an explorer, trapper, and a trader ...

  6. Life Application Study Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Life Application Study Bible is a Study Bible published by both Tyndale House and Zondervan Publishers. It features extensive notes, book introductions, character studies, articles, commentary, maps and charts. It is available in multiple translations, in both English and Spanish (Biblia de estudio del diario vivir), and is advertised as ...

  7. Reina Valera - Wikipedia

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    Casiodoro de Reina, a former Catholic monk of the Order of St. Jerome, and later an independent Lutheran theologian, [4] with the help of several collaborators [5] produced the Biblia del Oso, the first complete Bible printed in Spanish. (Earlier translations, such as the 13th-century Alfonsina Bible, translated from Jerome's Vulgate, had been ...

  8. Alba Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Alba Bible also known as the Arragel Bible, was created to foster understanding between Christians and Jews. It is an illuminated manuscript containing a translation of the Old Testament made directly from Hebrew into mediaeval Castilian. The translation was completed under the supervision of Moses Arragel [es], who was rabbi of the Jewish ...

  9. Georges de La Tour - Wikipedia

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    Georges de La Tour. Joseph the Carpenter, 1642, Louvre. Georges de La Tour (13 March 1593 – 30 January 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.