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I spent the evening of January 1 watching, on TV, the full-length version (2 hours 40 minutes) of a splendid French movie produced in 2006: ...

One of the funniest aspect of this video is the way in which two males can split their sides laughing at the problems encountered by a femal...

In my article of 21 September 2009 entitled Apple hit me on the head [ display ] , I evoked the possibility that Isaac Newton might have b...

Roselyne Bachelot , the French minister of Health and Sport, is shown here receiving her shot of flu vaccine: I, too, behaved as a good citi...

Half a century ago, on 4 January 1960, much of France was covered in snow... like today. A celebrated French writer, Albert Camus , was retu...

Last night, Tineke and Serge invited me along to their place for New Year's champagne and dinner: a delicious Alsatian sauerkraut prep...

Yesterday, I indicated the existence of a chapter from A Little Bit of Irish concerning my links with the Braidwood bushrangers. From that ...

[Click the graphic to get a more readable view] Concerning the flags identifying the origins of readers, the arrival of a visitor from Ghana...

About a year and a half ago, I placed the following document in the Issuu system: It's a chapter of the monograph entitled A Little Bit...

Please excuse me for borrowing a couple of terms from elementary mathematics: — A relation is said to be reflexive if it works in both dire...

It's rare to receive spam that's frankly funny. Here's a delightful specimen that reached me a couple of days ago: Good Day, I...

On this first day of the new decade, Ireland's medieval law on blasphemy becomes operational. My article of 26 November 2009 entitled Da...

I'm told that the most spectacular image on this first night of the new decade is the so-called Blue Moon . It isn't really blue at ...

In about five minutes, the first decade of the 21st century will be drawing to a close in France. And festivities are under way. I've ju...

For many years, the marsupial known as the Tasmanian devil has been the victim of a terrible form of facial cancer that is so contagious tha...

I've noticed that hardly anybody uses an underscore character in their Twitter name. So, I've changed mine from William_Sky to Skyvi...

Throughout my younger years, the books of the English philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell [1872-1970] were no doubt my main non-...

Theoretically, in the USA, the national legislative body has no power to deal with religion. That's to say, church and state are separat...

The French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has received a letter from the cinéaste Roman Polanski , who authorized its publication. [Click t...

For the moment, I'm definitely not an addicted user of Twitter . In fact, I've only ever sent out three "tweets" (I hope m...