Articles on poker history mention a wide variety of these, but the earliest relevant ones include Pochen (German, 16th – 18th centuries), Post and Pair (English and French, 17th – 18th centuries), and Brelan and its derivative Bouillotte (French, late 18th – early 19th centuries). In ...
Sandra, a German novelist played by Sandra Hüller, is accused of killing her husband, Samuel (Samuel Theis), at their isolated French cabin. A year later in the courtroom, their relationship is placed under a microscope, carefully scrutinized and picked apart for all the world to see. This...
but no real agenda or itinerary. It was so refreshing to just have time to relax and explore. We ate beignets, poboys, gumbo, oysters, cafe au laits, crawfish, and shrimp. We walked along the river, through the French Quarter, around an old cemetery, and down Magazine street. I got...
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I know ‘enate’ only because it’s an example of crosswordese, that is, a word that shows up in crosswords and nowhere else because it has a useful sequence of vowels and consonants. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen ‘agnate’ in a crossword. The sequence VCCVCV is not so unusual...
Cross buns, salted caramel or cranberry. I just want the traditional spicy fruity ones perhaps with a bit of orange zest. This year I waited until I’d made the first batch on Good Friday. I have to admit that I find it a bit perplexing that people now want everything available ALL ...
french-style doors, opened to an extended seating area. The small cafe tables were surrounded by wildflowers, herbs, potted and hanging plants – color in all shapes and sizes. If I were to design a cafe, this would be is exactly. Through a closed, glass-paned door, I saw a man chop...
and the comical cuties who always dominated the Disney cartoon features. That’s what happens here. Wright’s Sebastian has every scene in his pincers, Buddy Hackett gives the goofy gull Scuttle his usual slobbery panache and Rene Auberjonois voices a wonderful Looney Tunes-style maniac French ...
To keep the challenge from becoming completely impossible, we gave them a bit of a break: to learn Romanian in one hour. Why Romanian? Because it’s a Romance language and shares many similarities with the languages that the polyglots already know: French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese. And ...
Five days later, the lawyer sent three messages in under an hour. It was Sunday morning, shortly after ten. A few blocks away, the bells of the French-speaking Baptist church, filled with well-heeled Haitians, had only just ceased clanging. I was copying my antiquated music collection, on...