Word: fontenoy
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...murder innocent humans because we are frustrated by our situation in life, and we reject the excuses of those who do. Susan Star Durban, South Africa Admirable, Not Heroic? re Time's list of "European Heroes 2005" [Oct. 10]: I dispute your selection of Frenchwoman Maud Fontenoy, who rowed across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a small boat. Certainly she has courage, determination, strength, resilience and stamina, and her long-distance rowing achievements are admirable, but she is no hero. If she channeled her fame into raising money to combat aids or poverty, if she taught sailing to underprivileged...
...Germany's biggest rock star, for his Your Voice Against Poverty campaign; Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, for his compelling onscreen depictions of gay life; Bishop Kevin Dowling, for his work with AIDS patients in South Africa; Asma-Maria Andraos, for leading Lebanon's freedom fight; and Maud Fontenoy, for rowing solo across the Pacific. For us at Time, it was like seeing the pages of our magazine come to life. And we were delighted to be among such amazing people...
...When a British correspondent raised his hand, Pompidou repeated the Count d'Anterroches' proverbial invitation at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745: "Your turn to fire, Englishmen!" (The English did, but the French...
...ades, balconies, front-to-sidewalk walls and classical details? Every tradition lover in town was up in arms. To make matters worse, the new structure was directly across from one of the gems of 18th century architecture-the revered Ecole Militaire, facing on the semicircular Place de Fontenoy on Paris' Left Bank. But except for conforming to the curve of the place, UNESCO made no concessions. It is clearly and emphatically modern...
...Fontenoy, Waterloo and Dunkirk. The Coldstream Guards were organized by Oliver Cromwell's famed henchman, Colonel Monck, who taught them "to keep a line, stay unbroken, hold [fire] until the word of command." Nearly a century later, at the Battle of Fontenoy, Coldstream muskets wiped out the entire front line of the French Guards in a single volley. The Guards served with distinction at Waterloo, in the Crimea and in the Boer War. In Nieppe Forest in 1918, a handful of Coldstreamers were ordered to stand up to the great German advance at all costs, and were wiped...