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It's hard to believe that anything new in the way of World War II documentaries could come to light. One has the impression that everyth...

They refer to it as the carbon tax ... which is a ridiculous expression. After all, diamonds are pure carbon, but this new tax has nothing t...

My daughter found this French video on the web: If only the overrated Chaser's War on Everything on Australian TV had included imaginat...

My recent change of ISP [Internet service provider] from Free to Orange has been an amazingly smooth and rapid operation. In the context o...

Up until a month ago, I had never heard of a village in Normandy named Estouteville (known today as Estouteville-Écalles), nor of the Engli...

Just before my Internet went down, I made a fascinating discovery in the context of my paternal genealogy. The ancestral line of my grandmot...

I love agricultural fairs and farm animals. Is it my particular rural childhood in South Grafton that is resurfacing? Or is this some kind ...

I can safely predict that the chances of my name being given to a village square in France are slim, to say the least. And I might add that ...

The question I'm trying to answer is: Who taught my dog to swim? It wasn't me. I have no experience whatsoever in teaching animals t...

August is an unusual month in France, because one has the impression that half the nation is on vacation. Paris, in particular, closes down ...

In spite of phone calls, emails and even a registered letter, the Free company doesn't appear to be doing anything to repair my Internet...

I wander around with my iPhone hung around my neck, so that I won't miss a call from the French Telecom technician. Tomorrow, if there...

No, I'm not on vacation. My Internet connection went down a week ago, which has also meant that I've been without the telephone. In ...

After fiddling around in genealogy for over a quarter of a century, and getting held up joyously for many years by maternal rural bush-range...

I certainly didn't grow up with any particular interest in family history. In my childhood context in Grafton, genealogy was not an ever...

French journalists have had fun with the surname of the Schleck brothers, Fränk and Andy , from Luxembourg, who were the most prominent op...

Sophia was born on 25 July 1998. So, today is her 11th birthday. The "birthday cake" I cooked for her was rather special, but I k...

A few years ago, the price of hard-disk drives started to drop, while their capacities jumped exponentially. That's why I've got thr...

This evening, at the end of the time trial around the beautiful lake at Annecy, Lance Armstrong announced his new team. Almost everybody, t...

Something big and nasty can screw up when you're least expecting it. Incidentally, concerning the title of the present article, click he...