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Christopher Clavius

A Catalogue of Intriguing Articles

(Un catalogue des articles intéressant)

Phenomena

(Les phénomènes)

• Al-Khamaseen, cyclonic type wind that is common in Egypt and Sudan towards the end of March and April of each year.
• Ignis fatuus (Fool's fire), ghostly lights seen during twilight that hover over damp ground in still air — often over bogs.
• Moskstraumen, Norwegian maelstrom

Locations

(Les endroits)

• Hum, Croatia, the smallest town in the world located in Istria
• Sark, a feudal island within the Channel Islands
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, remote and inhospitable collection of islands south of the Strait of Magellan
• Svalbard, archipelago in the Arctic Ocean consisting of the islands of Spitsbergen, Bjørnøya and Hopen. The capital is Longyearbyen
• Tristan da Cunha, remote collection of islands consisting of the island of Tristan da Cunha along with the uninhabited islands Nightingale Island, Inaccessible Island & Gough Island

Landmarks

(Les monuments)

• La Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Clermont, Gothic cathedral constructed of black lava stone in the city of Clermont-Ferrand.
• La Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Metz, cathedral located in Metz

Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral

Documents

(Les documents)

• Chantilly Codex, manuscript of medieval music containing pieces from the style known as the Ars Subtilior
• Codex Argenteus (Silver Bible), 6th century manuscript containing bishop Ulfilas's 4th century translation of the bible into the Gothic language.
• Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles), well-preserved incunabulum printed in 1493

Extraplanetary locations

(Les endroits extraterrestre)

• Shangri-la, dark region situated on the Saturnian moon Titan
• Tycho, prominent lunar impact crater located in the southern lunar highlands of the moon

Creatures

(Les créatures)

• Grimpoteuthis, genus of deep-sea octopuses
• Narwhal, Arctic cetacean
• Pelican eel, a deep sea fish rarely seen by humans

Individuals

(Les individus)

• Ludovico di Varthema (c. 1470 - 1517) , first European, non-Muslim to embark on a Hajj
• Pope Urban VII (1521 - 1590), shortest reigning pope (13 calendar days) in history

Infamous individiuals

(Les individus notoire)

• Gilles de Rais (1404 - 1440), sadistic libertine and serial killer
• Phineas Gage (1823 - 1860), railroad foreman who damaged the frontal lobes of his brain when a tamping iron passed through his skull

Norse Mythology

(La mythologie nordique)

• Jörmungandr, sea serpent of Norse mythology

Islamic theology

(La theologie d'Islam)

• Arba'een (اربعين ; 'forty'), forty days after the Day of Ashurah, the commemoration of the martyrdom by beheading of Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad which falls on the 20th day of the month of Safar.
• al-Dajjal (الدّجّال), evil figure in Islamic eschatology who will appear before Yawm al-Qiyamah
• Hajj (حج), pilgrimage to Mecca

Roman Catholic theology

(La theologie d'Église catholique romaine)

• Tridentine Mass (Latin: Missa Tridentina), a form of mass recited in Latin whose name derives from Trento, Italy