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Israel's national anthem is called Hope : The nation's second anthem is Jerusalem of Gold by Naomi Shemer , sung here by O...

We can summarize what we know about why we're here in the Cosmos. For want of a better title, I would call such a résumé a cosmic catech...

Exactly fifty years ago, on 13 May 1958 , Algiers was agitated. Crowds had gathered to honor the memory of three French soldiers executed by...

When driving between Pont-en-Royans and St-Marcellin [some ten kilometers], you have to cross the train line between Grenoble and Valence...

Although her snout is a fragile high-tech smelling device, Sophia is perfectly capable of using it like a shovel to move stones and gravel ...

This can only be described as a beautiful Macintosh story, almost a fairy tale in crime detection. A burglary was committed in the New York ...

In France, at least a dozen towns or villages are called Beaufort . Literally, Beaufort means "beautiful fortress", and there was ...

Nicolas Sarkozy appears to be running France in much the same way that I write this blog. One tries constantly to imagine new themes, to te...

I've known for ages that there are spots, in front of my house, where it's an exaggeration to speak of soil, because the ground is c...

When I first heard this silly riddle, long ago, I thought it was funny in a subtle way: QUESTION : What's the difference between a canar...

Paris had been liberated from her Nazi oppressors during the second half of August 1944. Eight months later, Adolf Hitler committed suicide...

Often, on the Franco-German Arte TV channel, an entire evening is devoted to a particular theme. Last night, a pair of excellent documentar...

My favorite Leclerc shopping center is located on the municipal territory of a tiny town called Chatte (meaning a female cat in French), a...