French ship Brillant (1690)
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Brillant was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was first classified as a Second-rank ship, and later reclassified as a Third-rank. She was built between 1689 and 1690 at Le Havre, unde
A model of Brillant
Red Rackham's Treasure
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Red Rackham's Treasure is the twelfth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised daily in Le Soir, Belgium's leading francophone newspa
Cover of the English edition
Nazi German soldiers in eastern Belgium in 1940. Red Rackham's Treasure and The Secret of the Unicorn were both written while Belgium was under German occupation.
Calculus was visually based upon the scientist Auguste Piccard.
Hergé deemed this frame from the story to be one of his two favourites from the entire Adventures of Tintin.