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1. Visit D-Day Beaches in Normandy On June 6, 1944, the allied invasion to liberate Europe from the grip of the Nazis was begun on the beaches in Normandy. Military leaders chose this area because it was within air strike distance of Britain and was less heavily defended than other ar...
2. Visit Normandy France Exploring Normandy is truly an experience to behold. From the medieval town of Rouen to seaside villages like Honfluer to the magnificient abbey at Mont St. Michel, the sheer number of things to do and see in Normandy can be a bit overwhelming. That...
3. Visit Mont Saint Michel A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mont Saint Michel consists of a 264 foot high granite mass with an abbey perched atop. It sits about 1 kilometer off France's Normandy coast surrounded by water at high tide and mud flats at low tide. Legend says in the...
4. Saint Therese of Lisieux - The Little Flower This lens is about MARIE FRANCOISE-THERESE MARTIN, daughter of Louis-Joseph-Stanislaus and Zelie (Guerin) Martin, was born in Alencon, France, January 2, 1873. She was the youngest of nine children, four of whom died in infancy, and of the five other...
5. Bayeux Cathedral Bayeux Cathedral: ✞ is dedicated to Our Lady, the Virgin Mary ✞ was consecrated in 1077 in the presence of William the Conqueror and his wife Mathilde; ✞ orginally built in a Norman-Romanesque style ✞&nb...
6. Who Is Poddys? I was born in England and spent most of my life there, until 1987 when I spent a year on the other side of the world in New Zealand. I returned to London, and then in 1994 I moved to the USA. I spent 12 years in Indiana, and then relocated to South F...
7. I've Been There I've Been There" is a novel concept for a lens that I thought up a few days ago. I have been thinking of a way to use some lenses about places throughout the world created by other lensmasters, and the idea for this lens gradually took shape. I thou...
8. United States History and Constitution This lens is meant to educate people about U.S. History and the Constitution. I am using the High School Core Area Standards for United States History and the Constitution published in January 2005 by the South Carolina Department of Public Instructi...
9. ANTIQUES IN ROUEN Antiques TV Although Rouen is often overlooked by the crowds who flock to Paris, it is just 80 miles (130K) away, and if you are in northern France, it is well worth a visit. If you are hunting down antiques, the old town area near the Cathedral has...
10. France Highlights If you can't quite jump on a plane right now, why don't you stick around here and have a look at French landmarks (the Eiffel tower, le Louvre museum, Versailles, Normandy beaches, etc), French cuisine (get ready to salivate)and French style on the w...
11. Normandy France Normandy is a geographical region in northern France. Upper Normandy (Haute-Normandie) consists of the French départements of Seine-Maritime and Eure, and Lower Normandy (Basse-Normandie) of the départements of Orne, Calvados, and Manch...
12. Caen, France Caen is a city in the Northwestern French district of Normandy
13. Bayeux What's in this lens? (click to jump to item) What to see in Bayeux Information for Visitors About this lens
14. The Normandy Veterans: Lest We Ever Forget... I sit writing this piece on Friday, 6th June, 2008. It was with mounting disgust, horror and shame, that I today happened to pick up a British daily newspaper to read of how our service veterans are not being funded by Her Majesty's Government to att...