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...
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",...
(Where are the - ?) What is the origin of the "Home counties"? First, what are counties? -- This word refers to an administrative area comparable with the French département. And the group of counties that surround London are called " the Home Counties",...
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....
Colorado is a Western American state, the only American state entirely above 1,000 m (Mt Elbert culminates at 4,400 m, and Aspen is the most visited ski-ing resort [Fr.:station de ski]) in the U.S.; it is the eighth in surface (270,000 km2), the 22nd...
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...
From 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...
1. Natasha Jonas Lightweight (60 kg) English; Born 18 June 1984 (age 30), Liverpool, England Initially intending to be a footballer, 'Tasha' spent eighteen months in the United States on a football scholarship, before returning to the U.K.. She currently...
A list of "Non-Conclusive Verbs" in English : These are the most common of the verbs that are not found in the continuous forms (present, or past or perfect): -Non-voluntary perception : feel, hear, see, s mell, sound, taste, -Mental Process : believe,...
II. Other names are specific to programming } { are braces (or curly brackets) | is a bar (= pipe), while || is a double pipe ] [ are chevrons (= angle brackets) … is an ellipsis / is a slash (or stroke) \ is called antislash (= backlash) ¸ is an obelus...
A History and Timeline of Affirmative Action After an article by Borgna Brunner and Beth Rowen Source : http://www.infoplease.com/spot/affirmative1.html March 6, 1961 Executive Order 10925 makes the first mention of "affirmative action"… July 2, 1964...
Discover 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...
WHY "PROVEN" AND NOT "PROVED" ? "GOTTEN" instead of "GOT"? The use of an -en suffix often varies with the function of the word and the dialect. Thus, there is a difference between "proved" and "proven" : - proved is the preferred past participle with...
What do you call the terms that are used in coding to separate words and phrases ? I. Some names are not typically ASCII and are already found in everyday use: () are parentheses ‘ is an apostrophe : a colon ; a semicolon , a comma ! an exclamation mark...
Here's my translation into Fench: Ne t'avise pas d'investir en douceur une pareille nuit. Brûler, délirer, ainsi se doit le grand âge d’aller au bout du jour ; Enrage, ivre de rage, contre cette lumière à l’agonie. La raison est toujours du côté de l’obscur,...
André 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,...
Here is the full version of the poem read by Prof. BROWN in Interstellar, the film. These poignant lines were written by Dylan THOMAS (1914 - 1943). Cheers to Anaëlle (2nde 8) thanks to whom I first discovered these lines ! Do not go gentle into that...
« 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....
BBC-News page last updated at 22:11 GMT, Thursday, 25 December 2008 Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had cancer, died on Christmas Eve aged 78. He wrote more than 30 plays including The Caretaker and The Birthday Party. His film scripts...
NEED : VERBE ou AUXILIAIRE MODAL ? Cela pose parfois problème, mais need est à la fois verbe et auxiliaire. C’est donc en fonction de son sens que l’on choisira la façon dont on le construit. 1. Suivi d’un nom ou groupe nominal, need est un verbe ordinaire,...
(peace process in -. #1) 0. So many nations have had (still have) conflicting interests, sometimes driving them to awful wars and millions of useless deaths. However former enemies often become friends (Romans and Gauls, Britons and U.S. Americans, the...
Source : 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....
WHO SPEAKS SPANISH IN U.S. AMERICA ? (adapted from Wikipedia) - 38.3 million native speakers (2012: 38.3 million people aged five or older, a figure more than double that of 1990). - Official language in Puerto Rico; recognised minority language in Arizona,...
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
A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE !
