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Star Wars: La syntaxe du français avec Maître Yoda
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Star Wars: La syntaxe du français avec Maître Yoda

...Le maître et son apprenti. Always two there are, no more, no less: a master and an apprentice. - Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace / La guerre des étoiles : épisode I — La Menace fantôme (1999) toujours par deux ils vont Reveal Answer Ils vont toujours par deux 2) Beaucoup encore il te reste à apprendre. Much to learn, you still have. - Star Wars: Episode...
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Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
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Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...le grand Nord, the second tale in a trilogy by Cajun poet and singer-songwriter Zachary Richard, which also includes Conte cajun: L’histoire de Télesphore et de ‘Tit Edvard and Les aventures de Télesphore et ‘Tit Edvard au Vieux Pays. Likewise, Cajun culture and French in Louisiana seem very much alive, for the tales are written in French with Cajun idioms and...
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What was the impact of 'Spanish flu' on the armistice?
History & The Arts

What was the impact of 'Spanish flu' on the armistice?

...les-Bains, France, in 1918] Victims of the Spanish flu at a U.S. Army Camp Hospital in Aix-les-Bains, France, in 1918 The 1918 influenza pandemic (also called ‘Spanish flu’) infected 500 million people around the world and resulted in the deaths of three to five percent of the world’s population. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history....
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Soaring Achievements
Science, Maths & Technology

Soaring Achievements

...Le Blanc, France. A Lesson in Flying: Gliding Performance Ann Welch explains how to actually fly a glider. The Rhonsperber and Primary gliders are compared, with relation to glide ratio. Clouds and Thermals Ann Welch explains what a thermal is and why they are important in gliding. Performance Penalty: Speed A test flight demonstrates the performance penalty associated...
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Methods in Motion: Is Q still the answer?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Is Q still the answer?

...is not the preserve of critical researchers but the clarion call of corporate managers. It should not surprise us, perhaps, if at this juncture we see researchers articulating more explicitly processual forms of thought and types of method which take the notion of motion – and the possibility of stability within motion – ever more seriously. More on Methods in Motion...
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Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...articulation in either language or culture, and it is an argument with some pedigree in anthropology. If they are right, then there is no standpoint from which to assert that some actions are instrumental and some symbolic, because there is no singular reality to which the Western sciences have privileged access. Instead, the Cargo cults need to be understood within the...
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Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making
Society, Politics & Law

Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making

...articulate, and intelligent, Obama spoke from the heart to an assembled audience of school guidance counsellors. Her message was a simple one, but the speech had an uncommon depth too. Becoming visibly emotional as she finished her remarks, the outgoing first lady spoke of hope for the future. Allied to this, she invoked the importance of hard work and the need to fight...
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Park Hill Estate
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Park Hill Estate

...Le Corbusier, had, with his Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles, signalled a new approach to social housing: relatively low-rise blocks, packed with amenities. Park Hill is one of the most spectacular examples of new approaches to communal living in post-war Britain. Consisting of 995 dwellings, and housing over two thousand people, it occupies an entire hill overlooking...
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