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.
Sword is stolen from. statue in NW park. Caretakers of Meridian Hill Park in Northwest have noticed something missing from the Joan of Arc statue. The sword. Officials with the National Park Service said they noticed Wednesday that the statue of Franceâs national heroine had been vandalized.