Meaning: "earth" Description: An intriguing but challenging choice, because of possible confusion with all the Terry-type names. Terre Continued Thérèse Origin: French variation of Theresa Description: Last popular in this country from the 1920s to the 1950s, it now seems more modern tha...
confinement during childbirth; the process of having a baby; only this last meaning remains in Frenchadieu farewell; as it literally means "to God," it carries more weight than "au revoir" ("goodbye", literally "see you later"): it is definitive, implying you will never see the other...
the accent is always on the last syllable, it’s really more a prolongation of the vowel than a true accent, and it doesn’t change the meaning of the word. Thank you, French, for finally making something less complicated!
For many Christmas’s, my five siblings, and I, rotated through our names and each made a hand crafted gift for another. I almost always make a quilt. I had previously made three (sadly no photo of the first…) for this brother and while always trying to outdo the last one. I was...
The world’s finest cartoonists appeared in Punch: such great names as Tenniel, E H Shepard, Fougasse, and Pont. under all their pageant of chivalry men are not only beasts, but even hunted beasts. under the disguise of good manners, men actually have a nautre as dark, horrible and ...
Well-meaning and less-than-well-meaning religious people have used refrains like that since Eve ate the apple (or whatever it was). As I write this, I feel an overwhelming sadness at the realization that unless America experiences a revival of epic proportion and a deep renewing of biblical...
Be awed as you stroll past and explore dazzling custom superyachts, each one more lavish than the last. With over 125 to see and only four days to do it, planning ahead of time is a necessity if you want to make the most of the show – don’t forget that the 2019 event will ...
Excel fr, Windows 10 fr (1511)When used as a string, you could write :=INDIRECT("L1C1";FAUX) (returns A1 value).Now, since a few days, it returns...
is today. Louis Vuitton had worked as an apprentice for a famous Parisian trunk maker before he founded his namesake brand, creating trunks beloved by wealthy people all over Europe. Louis Vuitton trunks proved very popular because of their flat tops, meaning they could be stacked during transit...
If the State was still supposed to have political meaning and raison d’être, it could only have them on the condition of finding its foundation in “the human race.” Since political reality is deserting Nations and is moving on to Humanity itself, the only (provisionally national) State ...