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Hiroyuki Sakai (坂井 宏行, Sakai Hiroyuki, born April 2, 1942) is a Japanese chef who specializes in French cuisine.Sakai is best known as the second, final, and longest-serving Iron Chef French on the Japanese television show Iron Chef, first appearing at the beginning of 1994 (after Yutaka Ishinabe retired) and continuing to appear over the show's nine further seasons.
Monument to the Tosa samurai at Myōkoku-ji in Sakai. The Sakai incident (堺事件, Sakai Jiken) was a diplomatic incident that occurred on March 8, 1868, in Bakumatsu period Japan involving the deaths of eleven French sailors from the French corvette Dupleix in the port of Sakai near Osaka, Japan. [1] It is also known as the Senshū Sakai ...
Passed to the Robertians 956, to Burgundy in 1032. Duke of Brittany. 936. Nantes. Merged in the Crown 1532. Contested by Rennes in 958, passed to Rennes in 990, to Cornouaille 1066, Penthièvre 1156, Plantagenet 1181, Thouars 1203, Dreux 1221, contested by Blois and Montfort 1341, passed to Montfort 1365. Duke of the Franks.
Duke and Peer. The title of "duke and peer" (Fr: duc et pair) is one of the highest honors in the French nobility, ranking just after the princes of the blood, which are themselves the direct descendants of the royal blood and are considered peers by birth . The word peer comes from the Latin paris, meaning "equal in dignity".
e. The Louisiana Purchase ( French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. [1] In return for fifteen million dollars, [a] or ...
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-user translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [11] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation service. [11] The input text had to be translated into English first before ...
Dukes of Bauffremont (3 P) Dukes of Beaufort (France) (8 P) Dukes of Beaumont (1 P) Dukes of Bellegarde (1 P) Dukes of Berry (1 C, 11 P) Dukes of Biron (5 P) Dukes of Blacas d'Aulps (3 P) Dukes of Boufflers (2 P) Dukes of Bouillon (1 C, 19 P)
René of Anjou ( Italian: Renato; Occitan: Rainièr; 16 January 1409 – 10 July 1480) was Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence from 1434 to 1480, who also reigned as King of Naples as René I from 1435 to 1442 (then deposed). Having spent his last years in Aix-en-Provence, he is known in France as the Good King René ( Occitan: Rei Rainièr lo ...