Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | yesterday
malleable \MAL-ee-uh-buhl\, adjective: Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces; easily influenced. Capable of adjusting to changing circumstances; adaptable. Malleable comes from Medieval Latin malleabilis, from malleare, "to hammer," from Latin malleus, "hammer."...
Pete's 'Today In History' Quiz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Is this the world's smallest public library? There was a time that phone boxes were used for making calls and getting changed if you were Superman, but in the Somerset village of Westbury-sub-Mendip the local phone box has been bought from BT for £1 and converted into the village library! People's ingenuity never ceases to amaze me! Your Monday questions are: - Originally built in 1851 in Hyde...
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
More than 700 Colorado Territory militiamen attacked a village of Arapaho and Cheyenne, killing 133 people, including 105 women and children in 1864. The incident is known as the Sand Creek Massacre. The Meiji Constitution, establishing a constitutional monarchy in Japan, went into effect in 1890. King Tutankhamen's tomb was opened to the public in 1922. And in 1972, Atari unleashed Pong on an unsuspecting...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Police conducting a corruption inquiry have detained French Guiana mayor Leon Bertrand, who served as tourism minister under former president Jacques Chirac, Radio France Outre-Mer said today.
T O O G (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
"Cher Saddam" (Dear Saddam) is a song that I've written a few years ago, just after the death of Saddam Hussein (december 2006). The song is about the relationship (friendship) between the former prime minister / French president Jacques Chirac and Saddam (Chirac/Irak: interesting rime) during the 70's. The last images are from the African emperor Bokassa, an other good friend of France during...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Maybe France should join the group; only a few short centuries ago Calais was ruled from London It has all the makings of a love-in. Nicolas Sarkozy will today make a small piece of history when he becomes the first French president to attend a Commonwealth heads of government meeting. Sarkozy is to stop off in Trinidad and Tobago on his way home from the summit of Amazon countries he has attended...
this is sippey.typepad.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The American Prospect has a great appreciation of Jeanne-Claude. If Jeanne-Claude's portion of their work was in large part managing and bringing about the wrapping of the Pont Neuf in gold fabric despite then-Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac's grave hesitations, so...
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
French cycling is in an odd state. Parts of it are healthy, very healthy, while other parts seem to be beyond salvation, yet there’s no logic or reason as to which are the healthy bits. Just recently Pierre Boue, long-time organiser of the Grande Boucle announced that the 2009 edition was probably the last , but that he himself was writing a book entitled “When women’s cycling loses...
Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
This is from the " Council for Secular Humanism ": Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse. Honest. This isn ’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
PARIS — No tumbrels have appeared in Paris' Place de la Concorde, but a revolution may be under way in France nonetheless. Recent weeks have seen the trial of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and the conviction of former Defense Minister Charles Pasqua. Now even former President Jacques Chirac has learned that he is not immune from prosecution. Is France's "Republican Monarchy,"...
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Here we go again. First we had Jacques Tati, then Audrey Tautou, then Alain Delon, then Jacques Chirac, and now it's Serge Gainsbourg's turn. The agency that manages the advertising on Paris buses and metros has rejected a poster for the upcoming biopic about French icon Serge Gainsbourg. The makers of the poster were confident that [...]
Hagley Road To Ladywood (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Our second instalment celebrating 40 years of tabloid 'laffs' turning Britain into a nation of mob-lynching paranoid hysterics. November 1998: " Are we being run by a GAY MAFIA ?" is the Sun 's headline, the pinnacle of a vicious campaign aimed at ' outing ' Cabinet ministers one after the other. In February 2003, the red top decides to lash out at French President Jacques Chirac. "...
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Nicolas Sarkozy - Sarkozy Honours Eastwood With Top French Honour - Contactmusic News : "French President NICOLAS SARKOZY paid tribute to CLINT EASTWOOD on Friday (13Nov09) when he presented the movie icon with the nation's highest cultural honour. Eastwood was made a commander in the prestigious Legion of Honor in Paris two years after Sarkozy's predecessor Jacques Chirac honoured the Dirty Harry...
GirlsTalkinSmack.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Clint Eastwood did it again. He won his second Legion of Honor Award, the highest French cultural honor. The award has five degrees, the lowest of which is called Knight, which Eastwood won in 2007. He was presented this honor by Jacques Chirac, the French President at that time. On Friday, the current French President, Nicolas [...]
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
A former French minister, who is convicted of illegal arms trade, says former president Jacques Chirac and several other officials knew about the affair. Former interior minister Charles Pasqua said on Friday that he had secret documents that would prove his claim.' Read more...
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