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December 8, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
La femme cambrée (The Arched Back Woman)
If you lived in the United States, and were a fan of acoustic guitar music, folk, celtic, contemporary or jazz, you would surely know who Pierre Bensusan is. In fact, he appears regularly of the covers of guitar magazines and is often voted ‘best fingerstyle guitarist in the world’. [...]
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November 14, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
It’s hard being a one-man website, so I decided get some help. Unfortunately, Muffin only sleeps in my in-tray and his typing skills are useless – just lines of wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww and jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj.
Plus the irrestible urge to squeeze him, that distracts me from my work – he’ll have to find another place for his siestas…
On a [...]
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November 10, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
Register is a very important word in language learning. What does it mean? Put simply, register is the level of language we choose to use according to the situation. There are things that we would say to our friends, that we probably wouldn’t say if we happened to meet the Prime Minister, or the President. [...]
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November 9, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
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Today (9th November 2009) is the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The wall was constructed in the early 1960s and was intended to stop mass emmigration to the west from East Germany, especially young, skilled workers and scientists (the ‘brain drain’).
Important events that led to the fall of the [...]
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November 5, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
On the fifth of November 1605, an attempt to kill the king of England and his government was uncovered. The conspirators were Catholics who were hugely disappointed with the new king, James I (James IV of Scotland). They had hoped that he would be more tolerant of the Catholic faith than his predecessor, Elizabeth, [...]
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October 19, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
It’s ironic to note that the British were defeated in a state called ‘Virginia’. This state was named in honour of
Queen Elizabeth the first – the ‘virgin queen’.
1781
The decisive victory in the revolutionary war. British troops under Lord
Cornwallis surrender to American and French forces at the battle of York town
in Virginia. In a peace treaty [...]
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October 15, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
Mata Hari was executed by the French on this day in 1917. I knew the name, but didn’t know anything about her. This is what I learned:
Her real name was Margaretha Zelle. She was born in Holland in 1876. Her father was a businessman, but his business went bust when Margaretha was thirteen. After this [...]
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October 15, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
October 15, 1946. In Neurenburg, Germany, former Nazi airforce chief Hermann Goering commits suicide behind bars. Goering takes poison just hours before his scheduled execution as a convicted war
criminal for his role during world war two.
1917: During world war one, a French firing squad outside Paris executes the Dutch dancer Mata Hari, convicted of spying [...]
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October 14, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
This photo shows my car loaded with about one stere (1m3) of firewood, which I went to get yesterday from a local farmer. I don’t heat my house or cook with wood, we just like to light a fire sometimes on cold evenings, so this much wood will probably last us all winter. After, we [...]
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October 9, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara was shot and killed in a battle with Bolivian soldiers on this day, October 9th, 1967.
Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928 and became an expert in guerilla warfare after studying to become a doctor. He helped Fidel Castro come to power in Cuba, and held several important jobs [...]
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October 9, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
In the ancient world, cocoa only existed in its purest form and was known only for its medicinal value. For many centuries this pure form of cocoa was revered by all and trusted for its beneficial use in cases like fever, heart pain, emaciation, fatigue, kidney and bowel complaints. There is historical evidence that points [...]
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October 9, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
Boomer measures in at three feet tall(90cm) at the shoulders and seven feet long from nose to wagging tail, and that might just make him the world’s tallest living dog. The three-year-old Landseer Newfoundland’s
owner says he’s so big he keeps all four paws on the floor when he drinks from the family’s kitchen faucet.
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