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Réunion
Map of Réunion Status: Overseas Department Prefect: Pierre-Henry Maccioni (2006) Land area: 968 sq mi (2,507 sq km); total area: 972 sq mi (2,517 sq km…French Overseas Departments
French Guiana (including Inini)GuadeloupeMartiniqueRéunion Overseas Departments elect representatives to the national assembly, and the same administrative organization as that of continental…French Overseas Territories
French PolynesiaNew Caledonia and DependenciesSouthern and Antarctic LandsWallis and Futuna Islands Overseas Territories are comparable to Departments except that their administrative…French Territorial Collectivities
Saint Pierre and MiquelonMayotte The Territorial Collectivity status was created in 1976 for Mayotte; it was conceived as being midway between an Overseas Territory and an Overseas Department…French Possessions
Bassas da India (0.1 sq mi, 0.2 sq km), a French possession since 1897, is an uninhabited volcanic atoll off the southeastern coast of Africa in the Mozambique channel. Map of Bassas da India…Trollope, Frances
(Encyclopedia) Trollope, Frances: see under Trollope, Anthony.Sheridan, Frances
(Encyclopedia) Sheridan, Frances: see Sheridan, Richard Brinsley.Rogers, Roy
(Encyclopedia) Rogers, Roy, 1911–98, American Western film star, b. Cincinnati, Ohio, as Leonard Franklin Slye. The guitar-strumming Rogers succeeded Gene Autry as America's favorite singing cowboy…Rose E. Bird Biography
Rose E. BirdAge: 63 liberal California judge who became the first woman chief justice of the state's supreme court. Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her chief justice in 1977, but California voters…Trending
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