What is the Veld of South Africa? An open grazing area of southern Africa. It is the term applied to grassy plateaus of the Republic of South Africa and of Zimbabwe.
At Rouen in English-controlled Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy. Joan was born in 1412, the daughter of a tenant farmer at Domremy, on the borders of the duchies of Bar and Lorraine.
Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc,[5] IPA: [Êan daÊk]; 6 January c. 1412[6] â 30 May 1431), nicknamed The Maid of OrlÃ©ans (French: La Pucelle d'OrlÃ©ans), is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.