Father "La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel" is a five part extravagant and satirical work, overflowing with erudition, vulgarity, word creation and wordplay. The two title characters are giants.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities was founded in 1859 by the French scholar and archaeologist François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (1821 – 1881), who specialised in what field?
Which tuber of the nightshade family was cultivated by the Incas, was taken to Spain from Peru in the 16th century and to Ireland from Virginia in the 16th century?
Which is a surname of a famous 16th century English scientist and statesman (and, in a later century, a famous British painter)?
