Lake Champlain is named for the French explorer Samuel de Champlain who first saw it in sixteen-oh-nine.

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For years later, whenever anyone had a de Lempicka to sell, the reaction was always the same: "Everyone said, 'Oh, offer it to Madonna, ' " says David Norman, Sotheby's co-chairman of Impressionist and modern art world-wide.

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