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3. Motive. Islamic extremism [1] On 13 October 2023, a mass stabbing occurred at the Gambetta-Carnot secondary school in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France. One person was killed, and three others were seriously wounded. The attack was postulated to be connected to rumours that Hamas had called for a global day of terrorism on the 13th.
Peter Parler. Peter Parler ( German: Peter von Gemünd, Czech: Petr Parléř, Latin: Petrus de Gemunden in Suevia; 1333 – 13 July 1399) was a German- Bohemian architect and sculptor from the Parler family of master builders. Along with his father, Heinrich Parler, he is one of the most prominent and influential craftsmen of the Middle Ages.
Battle of Arras (1915) / 50.379; 2.774. The Battle of Arras (also known as the First Battle of Arras to differentiate it from the better-known 1917 battle) was fought on 9 May 1915 on the Western Front in France. The so-called Bayonne Legion (a French Foreign Legion infantry unit which consisted of ethnic Polish volunteers) clashed with troops ...
The Arras culture is an archaeological culture of the Middle Iron Age in East Yorkshire, England. [1] It takes its name from the cemetery site of Arras, at Arras Farm, (53.86°N 0.59°W) near Market Weighton, which was discovered in the 19th century. [2] The site spans three fields, bisected by the main east-west road between Market Weighton ...
Arras, capital of the Pas-de-Calais, department of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The Battle of Arras took place on 21 May 1940, during the Battle of France in the Second World War. Following the German invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May, French and British forces advanced into Belgium. The German campaign plan Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) had evolved ...
The siege of Arras took place from 22 June to 9 August 1640, during the Franco-Spanish War that had begun in 1635, a connected conflict of the Thirty Years' War. A French army besieged the Spanish-held town of Arras, capital of the province of Artois, then part of the Spanish Netherlands, which surrendered after holding out for 48 days.
Matthias of Neuenburg was born in 1295, possibly in Neuenburg am Rhein in Baden. He studied jurisprudence at Bologna , and later received minor orders, but never became a priest. In 1327 he was solicitor of the episcopal court at Basel , and shortly after, while clerk to Bishop Berthold von Buchecke, held a similar position in Strasbourg.
