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Showing posts with label warfare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label warfare. Show all posts
Saturday, July 18, 2009

Doors are either open or closed

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This little book—written by a local priest, Joseph Parsus (aged 84 today)—provides a detailed history of the Résistance in the vicinity of...
Monday, June 1, 2009

Digging up the past

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In Australian military history, the battle at Fromelles, in northern France, on 19 July 1916 was particularly murderous. Before the end of t...
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Monday, April 20, 2009

For donkeys like us

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This afternoon, I found this poster pinned onto a billboard advertising donkey excursions in the village of Beauvoir-en-Royans: When I was a...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

French navy versus pirates

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It's reassuring to learn that the French frigate Nivôse has succeeded in capturing eleven pirates off the coast of Kenya. This French f...
Monday, November 10, 2008

Commemorating horror without pride

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There are two ways of looking at commemorations of warfare and related events. • First approach. You sanctify proudly all those on your own ...
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After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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