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In France, used for an airline pilot (le commandant de bord), in the Army as appellative for a chef de bataillon or a chef d'escadron (roughly equivalent to a major) or in the Navy for any officer from capitaine de corvette to capitaine de vaisseau (equivalent to the Army's majors, lieutenant-colonels and colonels) or for any officer heading a ...
Death du Jour is the second novel by Kathy Reichs starring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Plot. On a bitterly cold March night in Montreal, ...
According to historian Jacques Delarue, a witness to the operation, 200 police inspectors from Paris and elsewhere, 15 compagnies of the Groupe mobile de réserve (GMR) and squads of French gendarmes and mobile guards (gardes mobiles) were brought to Marseille for the operation. In total, "approximatively 12,000 police men found themselves ...
The acronym "ZAD" meaning "zone to defend" (French: "zone à défendre") is a détournement of "deferred development area" (French: "zone d'aménagement différé"). [1]In 2015, the French term "zadiste" (English: Zadist) entered the 2016 edition of Le Petit Robert dictionary as "a militant occupying a ZAD to oppose a proposed development that would damage the environment."
Le téléphone rallumé de Monica ne cessait de vibrer au rythme des SMS restés bloqués et des mises à jour de statut. Elle a essayé à plusieurs reprises d’appeler l’ONG australienne, mais elle passait directement en messagerie. Puis elle s’est adressée à la secrétaire du directeur.
T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land (1922) references "Au Lecteur" with the line: "You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!" In Roger Zelazny 's book Roadmarks the protagonist Red Dorakeen travels with a sentient speaking computer disguised as a cybernetic extension of the book Les Fleurs du mal named "Flowers of Evil".
The "Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne" (English title: Poem on the Lisbon Disaster) is a poem in French composed by Voltaire as a response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. It is widely regarded as an introduction to Voltaire's 1759 acclaimed novel Candide and his view on the problem of evil. The 180-line poem was composed in December 1755 and ...
Bird flu has been on the rise in Washington state and one sanctuary was hit hard: 20 big cats – more than half of the facility’s population – died over the course of weeks.