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One French engraver, born in Nantes, is almost better known in the British Isles than he is in France : his name is J.E. Laboureur (1877 - 1943). Although little interested in the army, he was recruited by the Translation and interpretation corps in the...
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DULCE PINZON is a Brooklyn-based Mexican artist’s work : In the post-9/11 context, this photographer aims to reconsider the notion of what a hero is. Of course the word itself was more and more frequent in conversation, as it was necessary to qualify...
Read moreDiscover with Paul Auster how close fiction can become to later reality ... Paul Auster’s LEVIATHAN (1992) opens with Benjamin Sachs being killed in a bomb blast. It was perhaps an accident, but his friend of fifteen years, Peter Aaron, thinks back over...
Read more« Hi ! everyone, can you guess who I am ? -- I was designed by Sir Alexander Binnie, and constructed by John Cochrane & C°. I once replaced a ferry and would daily enable workers to reach the London docks and shipyards. My lifts were installed in 1904....
Read moreFrom 24th to 29th October, 1929, five days marked the beginning of the Great Depression: from the famous "Black Thursday" (24), to the "Black Tuesday " (29)It was only in 1954 that the September 1929 peak, which preceded the crisis, was equalled.Since...
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The term "brownstone" is used to refer to a particular stone, but in the United States, also to refer to a terraced house ( / rowhouse) clad in this material (Fr.: maison de grès) Some Manhattan neighbourhoods retain many brownstones. New York City brownstones...
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About 700,000 Cajuns live in South Louisiana, originally from Acadia (a French Canadian province). The word originates in the attempted pronunciation of "Acadian" by U.S. speakers. In 1604 -- sixteen years before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock...
Read moreAndré BRINK (who died on Feb. 7th, 2015 ) was one of South Africa's most distinguished writers: poet, novelist, essayist and teacher, he began work as a University lecturer in Afrikaans* and Dutch Literature in the 1960s. He began writing in Afrikaans,...
Read moreSource : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf_break A surf break (= break / shore break / big wave break) is a permanent obstruction such as a coral reef, rock, etc., that causes a wave to break, forming a wave that can be surfed, before it eventually collapses....
Read moreForget wearable tech ! from NPR, Jan 10th 2015. http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/01/10/376166180/forget-wearable-tech-people-really-want-better-batteries
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