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Apple devices must be beautiful to look at… otherwise there's little point in designing and marketing them. Everybody is aware of that b...

Soon after starting to work as an English teacher at the Lycée Henri IV in the Latin Quarter of Paris, I discovered this wonderful book by ...

This so-called peasant pie is a delicacy from the wooded Jura region of eastern France. The basic ingredient is the celebrated sausage from...

Not only is the bicycle a pleasant, healthy and non-polluting way of moving around. It also enables you to travel quite rapidly from one pla...

My daughter and son have never forgotten their first day out in Sydney, when they were small kids. I bought three hot meat pies, and we sat ...

At the end of my recent article entitled Hose running [ display ] , I said that Fitzroy had been trying to figure out how to run around on...

Everybody agrees, I'm sure, that this gentleman looks great in stripes… particularly when we notice that the stripes are in fact compose...

In the special case of a great American city such as Detroit, which played a central role in the history of the automobile, it's fitting...

We learn today in a book by the French journalist Bruno Fay that, according to information from former French PM Michel Rocard , it was in ...

The prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo of the ICC [ International Criminal Court ] has just announced the opening of an investigation in Libya...

It was amusing to see the number of nations whose citizens apparently visited my blog. At the end, the count had reached 171 countries. But ...

No, I'm not talking of running hoses, such as when you forget to turn a tap off in the garden. Hose running is a totally different affai...

I've just been watching an interesting video of a debate on a Jewish TV network on the subject of an alleged afterlife. The celebrated a...

People who make their own bread at home often find that it's not easy to create a standard product, whose quality never varies. Some peo...

I've just started to reread a book by the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker , published in 2002. It's an exceptional book, like all...

An unexpected advantage of owning an old automobile is that it often needs to be repaired, or at least undergo its obligatory annual checkup...

I don't intend to display any photos, and I ask you to keep this sad story to yourselves. Initially, I hadn't even intended to menti...

All too often, rural road signs make no attempt to be friendly. They order you to slow down, or turn in a certain direction, or stop… and th...

Click the following remarkable image (copy of a photo by Chris Crerar ) to access a fine article in The Australian entitled Destroyed in Al...

This week, the excellent online Gallica department of the national French library asks us to try to identify the designer of the aeronautic...