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.
Much of what we know about Joan of Arc, who burned at the stake in 1431, is based on apocryphal accounts and long-held misconceptions. In modern times, some doctors and scholars have âdiagnosedâ Joan of Arc with disorders ranging from epilepsy to schizophrenia.