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During my wonderful three-year stint with Pierre Schaeffer at the Service de la Recherche de l’ORTF, I had countless encounters with amazi...

I’m disappointed. This outrageous Monty Python sketch should have been censored in every self-respecting god-fearing Christian nation throug...

If I were still residing out in my native land, I would surely react strongly to this ugly case of a total sell-out to American capitalism. ...

The name of this pretty fellow is Nasser Ben Ali al-Anassi . He was proud to claim credit for ordering the Charlie massacres in Paris. ...

Having examined countless BMD records [births, marriages and deaths] in the context of my personal genealogical research, I was delighted t...

In France, the production and distribution of electricity have always been handled by a gigantic state-owned monopoly, EDF [ Electricité de...

At the start of 1962, when I sailed from Sydney for the Old World, my grandfather was surprised, indeed slightly shocked, that a young Austr...

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The French media are full of in-depth articles about a horrendous crime perpetrated by the precursors of present-day Turkey exactly a centur...

Within the forthcoming 48 hours, my native land will be moving massively into a lugubrious funereal mode of existence, incorrectly labeled a...

I’ve often seen this fellow drumming on a wooden pole alongside the tiled box in which I put sunflower seeds for the flock of great tits [...

Click to enlarge Its size suggests a didgeridoo. But the line of holes indicates that we’re faced with a wooden specimen of the flute ...

My paternal aunt Yvonne Elizabeth Skyvington was born at the Hillcrest Hospital in Rockhampton (Queensland, Australia) on May 1, 1919....

People who’ve dabbled ever so little in the domain of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics—to the extent, say, of reading the fantastic story of ...

Click YouTube for a bigger version of the video I couldn't help thinking that, when the girls got up out of the uncomfortable pos...

I’m old-fashioned… which isn’t surprising in the case of a fellow born in 1940. I belong to a generation of old-timers who were never tempte...

The Texan singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt [1944-1997] gave the world a fabulous song, If I needed you , which used to be sung by Joan Ba...

A few years ago, when I needed a special self-portrait for a blog post (a photo that would show me wearing a newly-purchased Russian black-f...

Like millions of my fellow-citizens, I was shocked to learn (through an early-morning tweet) that the collision of a pair of helicopters in ...

The blog post you’ve started to read is extraordinarily trivial. Besides, there’s no way in the world that you might be able to deduce anyt...