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Click the banner to hear Hillary Clinton 's campaign song: You and I by Celine Dion . It's funny, Celine's voice in this song r...

France's newly-appointed 34-year-old State Secretary in charge of Ecology has the same name as Australia's highest peak (2,228 meter...

My son and I recently started to build a website to display his photos. For the moment, only one of François' four basic categories con...

At the outset, in 16th-century Venice, the term ghetto had nothing to do with Jews. The Italian verb gettare designates metal casting, and...

Don't ask me why the French railway system, known as the SNCF , is using the Internet to peddle low-budget flight tickets to Sydney. Adm...

Ivan Basso , winner of last year's Giro, admitted recently that he was involved in the so-called Puerto doping scandal. Consequently, he...

From a political viewpoint, French TV was not at all dull this evening. — The second round of the French legislative elections was certainly...

Areva is a large French state-owned company in the field of nuclear energy. They handle the three fundamental aspects of this domain: the p...

In my blog, I've already mentioned a couple of daring Aussie money-making inventions: — first, half-naked female automobile washers [cli...

In 20th-century geopolitical history, the phenomenon of a single people split artificially into two nations is familiar. The oldest case of ...

Today, throughout the world, admirers of James Joyce are celebrating the 104th occurrence of Bloomsday . The initial day, 16 June 1904, was...

In the course of my genealogical research, when I first heard of the plantations of Ireland , I had visions of vast cotton farms, or maybe b...

We Australians can be imaginative in the business domain. On the central coast of New South Wales, oyster farmers have been putting a mixtur...

A few years ago, when I slipped on the wet slopes of Gamone and broke my leg (while carrying my midget billy-goat Gavroche to the sheep shed...

With enormous losses of life on both sides, the Islamist Hamas fighters are taking control of Fatah strongholds in the Gaza Strip, and the c...

I've just received a visit from my old Australian friend Barry de Ferranti , who worked with me at IBM in Sydney back around 1960. Barry...

Here in France, when I started to write this post, it was 9 o'clock in the morning. In Israel, the time was one hour later. In the Gaza ...

Since last Sunday's results of the first round of the French legislative elections, which were unfavorable for everybody except the supp...

Coinciding with their annual developers' conference, Apple's website has been redesigned with a sophisticated black cosmic look. Abo...

In 1973, an audiovisual firm in Paris hired me to make a publicity product for a manufacturer of industrial safety shoes, Jallatte . The fou...