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.
Here are some interesting facts about the Paris river: 1  After the Joan of Arc's burning at the stake in 1431, her ashes had been thrown into the Seine from Mathilde Bridge at Rouen, though counter-claims persist. 2  Napoleon, who died in 1821, had wished to be buried on the Seine's banks, but his request was not granted.