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  2. List of military unit mottoes by country - Wikipedia

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    34 Canadian Brigade Group: Combattre, vaincre ou mourir (French for "fight, overcome or die") Royal 22nd Regiment: Je me souviens (French for "I remember") 38 Canadian Brigade Group: Progredere ne regredere (Latin for "ever forward, never back") 39 Canadian Brigade Group: Splendor sine occasu (Latin for "splendor without diminishment")

  3. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    The French term for head waiter (the manager of the service side of a restaurant) is maître d'hôtel (literally "master of the house" or "master of the establishment"); French never uses "d '" stand-alone. Most often used in American English and its usage in the UK is rare. negligée

  4. Oradour-sur-Glane massacre - Wikipedia

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    On 4 September 2013, German president Joachim Gauck and French president François Hollande visited the ghost village of Oradour-sur-Glane. A joint news conference broadcast by the two leaders followed their tour of the site. [26] This was the first time a German president had come to the site of one of the biggest World War II massacres on ...

  5. Double negative - Wikipedia

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    Jamais, rien, personne and nulle part (never, nothing, no one, nowhere) can be mixed with each other, and/or with ne...plus (not anymore/not again) in French, e.g. to form sentences like Je n'ai rien dit à personne (I didn't say anything to anyone) [24] or even Il ne dit jamais plus rien à personne (He never says anything to anyone anymore).

  6. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. [4] A song of the same name was written by Johnny Mathis in 1956. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed. [5] "When two Sundays come together" [6] "If the sky falls, we shall catch larks" means that it is pointless to worry about things that will never happen. [7]

  7. 5 Things a French Woman Would Never Have in Her Closet ... - AOL

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  8. Jamais vu - Wikipedia

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    A study by Chris Moulin of Leeds University asked 92 volunteers to write out "door" 30 times in 60 seconds. In July 2006, at the 4th International Conference on Memory in Sydney, he reported that 68 percent of volunteers showed symptoms of jamais vu, such as beginning to doubt that "door" was a real word.

  9. Former Surgeon Accused of Abusing 299 Young Patients ... - AOL

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    According to French outlet Le Monde, the suspect has been accused of assaulting 299 children between 1989 and 2014. The majority of the alleged victims are former patients of Le Scouarnec, many of ...