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The World Wide Web, or simply the Web, is a global information system that allows people to access and share data across the Internet. The Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Learn more about the origins, evolution and impact of the Web on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Notre-Dame de Paris ( French: [nɔtʁ (ə) dam də paʁi] ⓘ; meaning " Our Lady of Paris "), referred to simply as Notre-Dame, [a] is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the Seine River), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. The cathedral, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is considered one of the finest ...
The geography of France consists of a terrain that is mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in the north and west and mountainous in the south (including the Massif Central and the Pyrenees) and the east (the highest points being in the Alps ). Metropolitan France has a total size of 551,695 km 2 (213,011 sq mi) (Europe only).
English ambassadors and Ministers to France. Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester 1505. 1514–1515: Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. 1518–1521: Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire. 1529-?: Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. Periods in 1540s and 1550s: Nicholas Wotton. 1559–1564: Nicholas Throckmorton.
Grand Paris. Sarkozy's renovation of Paris, also known as the Grand Paris, is a vast public works programme commissioned by the former president of France Nicolas Sarkozy between 2016 and 2030. The Metropolis of Greater Paris (French: Métropole du Grand Paris ; French pronunciation: [metʁopɔl dy ɡʁɑ̃ paʁi] ), [note 1] also known as ...
Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France. Coordinates. 43°41′43″N 7°16′16″E / . 43.695325°N 7.271147°E. / 43.695325; 7.271147. Neuf lignes obliques ( English: Nine Oblique Lines) is a steel monument on the Promenade des Anglais, by French artist Bernar Venet. It was commissioned to mark the 150th anniversary of the 1860 annexation ...
Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans. / 47.033; 5.778. The Saline Royale ( Royal Saltworks) is a historical building at Arc-et-Senans in the department of Doubs, eastern France. It is next to the Forest of Chaux and 29.2 kilometres (18.1 miles) to the southwest of Besançon. The architect was Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806), a prominent ...
The Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés ( CNIL, French pronunciation: [knil]; English: National Commission on Informatics and Liberty) is an independent French administrative regulatory body whose mission is to ensure that data privacy law is applied to the collection, storage, and use of personal data.