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        <title><![CDATA[Everyman's English, from language to  culture]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Johnny, from rocker to singer]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:54:25 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Guardian published on Dec. 6 (2017) an outstanding article on Johnny Hallyday‘s death ; it opens like this : « France has lost its cultural nuclear deterrent, its favourite granddad, its permanent teenager, one of its greatest national treasures and... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A VAN GOGH FAN]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:47:15 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This slideshow of Vincent Van Gogh's work is set to the song "Vincent" by Don McLean, as part of an art and creative writing lesson plan for the patients at Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield. Compiled by artist Anthony DiFatta, who also suffers... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[WHO was the DAVIS CUP named after ?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2017 18:19:43 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[France has just won the 2017 Davis Cup. But who knows of the man the Cup was named after ? Dwight Filley Davis (St. Louis, 1879 –Washington D.C., 1945) an American tennis player and politician was also the founder of the Davis Cup international tennis... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[BASKET-BALL IDIOMS]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 18:58:17 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Download « http://www.nantes.maville.com/sport/detail_-basket-et-si-on-parlait-fadeaway-lay-up-et-alley-oop-_fil-3312028_actu.Htm » Source : nantes.maville.com ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[ON LIMERICKS]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2017 10:56:52 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A Limerick is a short poem (5 rhyming lines : aa bb a) Lines 3 and 4 always a maximum of 3 (sometimes 2) stressed syllables. The last line generally sounds like a big surprise. There was a young girl from St Paul Wore a newspaper dress to a ball; But... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The ups and downs of success]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2017 08:51:55 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Credit : BK Magazine March 1, 2007, (1000 x 609) Her name was Rojjana Phetkanha, but everyone called her 'YUI'. She started her life as a child working in the ricefields of Thailand, helping her poor family with their difficult work. She was so beautiful... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[THE AULD ALLIANCE]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:54:06 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Scotland and France’s Auld Alliance (1295) was a military and diplomatic alliance drawn up by John Balliol of Scotland and Philip IV of France, which benefited most ordinary Scots, who got jobs as mercenaries in France’s armies and a steady supply of... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[British Muslims]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:25:34 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The list of famous British Muslims is very long; Britain has a long history of close relationships with both Arab and non-Arab Muslim countries : Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Aden etc. So it's no surprise that today 1.8 million Muslims are living in U.K.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[WESTMINSTER VICTIMS]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2017 09:48:50 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[WHEN WILL IT ALL STOP ? Dear London friends, dear Londoners, You are a marvellous people, everyone is hard put to be more welcoming than you are, and yet, once again, blind terror has struck. We know it won't have the last word but still ... . Today we... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Words to &quot;speak millennial&quot;]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2017 09:34:08 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[You were born after 1980 and have your own "dialect". Same in the U.S. So if you hear one of the following words, you've got a chance to be talking to a "millennial": - adulting is the new word for growing up (less dramatic, I suppose !) - bigly is a... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Careful with these words !]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:05:27 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Beware ! The following words are used in French too, but with a different, sometimes very different, meaning: - A drawing-room is not "une salle de dessin". It is a room where gentlemen withdraw (se retirent) to smoke without disturbing the ladies. It's... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[McGovern]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[CROSSINGS]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:25:08 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Classified crossings (Fr. passages pour piétons): - zebra crossing : passage piétons traditionnel, la chaussée est zébrée de bandes de peinture blanche (ou jaune); parfois encore appelé "passage clouté" en français; - pelican crossing : passage décalé,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[LANGUAGE (3): PROVERBS &amp; SAYINGS]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 17:22:51 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[What equivalents do English speakers find for the French idioms ? °l'appétit vient en mangeant : (the) appetite comes with (the) eating. °C'est l'hôpital qui se moque de la charité : it's like the pot calling the kettle black . °On voit la paille dans... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Learn Buck/ham Pal/ce English !]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:15:42 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[There used to be a habit of getting as close as possible to the King's English, nowadays it seems the Queen's English is full of surprises, as illustrated by a recent article in The Sun. Alison Maloney sure has a knack for writing fun ! Her article is... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[SEASON's GREETINGS]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2017 09:58:19 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Autrement dit, bonne année à tous -- l'année du Coq, où nous passerons le cap des 3000 lecteurs. Merci à tous pour votre fidélité. Mac Govern ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[(ABFLM0PRSTU)4 = …]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2017 15:57:37 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[... = F + MP3 + TAB + URL + USB + 404 F is for function (F1 key, F 11 key etc. on your computer keyboard) MP3 is for Motion Picture [experts group 1 Audio-layer] 3, a system enabling (audio-)files to be compressed to 10% of their original size. TAB was... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[ROAD TO NANTES]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2017 08:20:27 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Do you happen to know of Ben Hatch ? If not, I strongly advise you to read Road to Rouen, a hilarious (not only that, of course) travel book telling of France and the French. I have selected the following passage about les Machines de l'Ile: "In Nantes... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[WHO ARE YOU, Mr BARNES ?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 09:58:33 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[ALBERT C. BARNES (1872 – 1951) ... was an art-collector, a philanthropist; Barnes is also famous for his long-enduring friendship with philosopher John DEWEY (1859-1952) Albert C. Barnes was born in a working-class family; the family lived in a hard,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[ELECTIONS and SURNAMES]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:04:20 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I hear very strange things over here about the meaning of presidential candidates' and the winner's surnames. Remember "trump", whether a name or a surname, has nothing to do with the French "trompe". So, let's make a clear list: - a trump is "un atout",... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A 3-D PRINTER]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2016 20:42:42 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[USE THE FOLLOWING HOTLINK TO ACCESS THE DOCUMENT NEEDED : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1u0lUL7-onm58dZ0O7qRwtd4arTO4V0ZuFSEl1SHZ8HI/edit?usp=sharing ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What's a snitch ?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2016 08:30:29 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[That's the name (some would call it an insult) the famous Hollywood film star Sean PENN has been called recently. Remember he was to have an interview with "El Chapo", but the police who made the most of this information managed to track down the Mexican... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A SIMPLE STORY]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2016 11:57:56 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Watch how simple stories can become great moments. For this, ou will need these words : code-share (partage de code) ; to log miles (parcourir des kilomètres) ; to take off (décoller)/ to glide (planer) / to land (atterrir); orphan (orphelin) / orphanage... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Happy New Year ! ]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://everyman.eklablog.com/happy-new-year-a119751980]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2016 20:49:43 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE ! ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A HISTORIC PHOTO : THE TRUE STORY  ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 23:12:01 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[An article in the Baltimore Sun dated Feb. 6th, 1998 is dedicated to [Fr.: consacré à] Freed’s photo of King's visit to Baltimore on Oct. 31, 1964. Dan Rodricks reports : “Among the Baltimoreans reaching for Martin Luther King Jr.'s hand in Leonard Freed's... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[San Francisco mourns the dead]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 12:23:48 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[San Francisco City Hall is lit up in blue-white-red in tribute to the victims of Nov. 14th's Paris terror attacks (15/11/14). >>>>> See other English-language cities' reactions using this URL-address : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nC7e-rAQ... ]]></description>
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