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In 2004, Horn Book Magazine named The Pepins and Their Problems one of the best children's fiction books of the year. In 2008, Booklist and School Library Journal named My One Hundred Adventures one of the best children's books of the year. In 2013, School Library Journal named One Year in Coal Harbor one of the best children's books of the year.
Pepin the Short. Pepin[ a] the Short ( Latin: Pipinus; French: Pépin le Bref; c. 714 – 24 September 768), was King of the Franks from 751 until his death in 768. He was the first Carolingian to become king. [ 2] Pepin was the son of the Frankish prince Charles Martel and his wife Rotrude. Pepin's upbringing was distinguished by the ...
Original promise. Pope Stephen met Pepin the Short at the royal estate at Ponthion on 6 January 754. The king led the Pope's horse, while the pope in sackcloth and ashes bowed down and asked Pepin "that in accordance with the peace treaties [between Rome and the Lombards] he would support the suit of St Peter and of the republic of the Romans".
LC Class. PZ7.Y3766. Breaking Stalin's Nose is a 2011 children's historical novel written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin. It is set in Moscow during the Stalin era and shows a boy's disillusion with his hero Stalin after his father is unjustly arrested. The novel was given a 2012 Newbery Honor award for excellence in children's literature [1 ...
Pepin or Pippin (777 – 8 July 810) was King of Italy from 781 until his death in 810. Born Carloman, he was the third son of Charlemagne (his second by Queen Hildegard ). Carloman was renamed Pepin upon his baptism in 781, where he was also crowned as king of the Lombard Kingdom his father had conquered. Pepin ruled the kingdom from a young ...
Pepin, or Pippin the Hunchback (French: Pépin le Bossu, German: Pippin der Buckelige; c. 768/769 – 811) was a Frankish prince. He was the eldest son of Charlemagne and noblewoman Himiltrude. He developed a humped back after birth, leading early medieval historians to give him the epithet "hunchback". He lived with his father's court after ...
The Ages of Three Children puzzle (sometimes referred to as the Census-Taker Problem [1]) is a logical puzzle in number theory which on first inspection seems to have insufficient information to solve. However, with closer examination and persistence by the solver, the question reveals its hidden mathematical clues, especially when the solver ...
Jacques Pépin (French pronunciation: [ʒak pepɛ̃]; born December 18, 1935) [1] is a French chef, author, culinary educator, television personality, and artist. [2] After having been the personal chef of French President Charles de Gaulle, he moved to the US in 1959 and after working in New York's top French restaurants, refused the same job with President John F. Kennedy in the White House ...