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From time to time, in the context of my family-history research, I've come upon the case of a child receiving the name of a baby sibling...

The FAI [ Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ], whose head office is in Switzerland, governs world records in all kinds of air sports a...

Chapter 8 of Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins starts with a charming personal anecdote: I was driving through the English co...

I must be careful with blog titles like that, containing slang. I shouldn't take it for granted that Russian and American readers of Ant...

François Hollande has just released his official electoral video for the presidential campaign. A constantly reoccurring concep...

This is the first group photo I've ever succeeded in taking of all the five donkeys of Gamone. From left to right: Fanette , Moshé...

I've just been reading a news article that mentions a street in Paris, the rue des Francs-Bourgeois , that has apparently become so crow...

At yesterday's annual spring "plowmen's festival" at St-Jean-en-Royans, the atmosphere was so gloomy (in spite of the sunn...

The product known in French as fleur de sel is a prestigious gastronomical salt composed of white crystals formed by the evaporating effect...

Normally, if all goes as planned, I'll be able to place an order tomorrow morning for a Raspberry Pi computer , for 40 euros. Click here...

For the last two days, my memories have been dominated by images of Christine's dear dog Gamone . In the stark clarity of the death of a...

Some of my readers might not get very far into this blog post, because calculating is not exactly an exciting subject, particularly when it...

Christine 's dog, Gamone , has left us. She was a daughter of my Labrador Sophia , and she was born here at Gamone. From the start...

Fabulous image. From the Guardian 's Week in Wildlife , photo by Mircea Costina in Dobrogea, Romania [click to enlarge]: Perched ...

Like millions of spectators throughout France (and the world at large, no doubt), I've been fascinated by the still-unfolding case of 24...