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10th
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10th
Mar
8th
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8th
Kiva connects people through lending to alleviate poverty.
This website is made for people who love languages…
If you are a foreign language enthusiast, a polyglot or just want to learn a new language on your own, you will find here:
* How to choose a new language to learn
* A detailed, hands-on guide to teaching yourself a foreign language.
* Reviews of books about language learning
* The questions about language learning people ask me most frequently.
Feb
23rd
Tue
23rd
23-F is the name given to an attempted coup d’état in Spain that began on 23 February 1981 and ended on the following day. It is also known as El Tejerazo from the name of its most visible figure, Antonio Tejero, who led the failed coup’s most notable event: the bursting into the Spanish Congress of Deputies of a group of 200 armed officers of the Guardia Civil during the process of electing Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo to be the country’s new Prime Minister. King Juan Carlos I gave a nationally televised address denouncing the coup and urging the maintenance of law and the continuance of the democratically elected government. The coup soon collapsed. After holding the Parliament and cabinet hostage for 18 hours the hostage-takers surrendered the next morning without having harmed anyone.
Feb
15th
Mon
15th
Early Saturday evening, my daughter and I were one of forty or fifty lucky people who gathered in an apartment at a secret location somewhere in Paris to watch Rivkah perform at the Oliver Peel Session #16.
Les fêtards de la nuit se plaignent. La vie nocturne serait en train de mourir à Paris. Technopol, une association de “clubbers” cherche à mobiliser le monde de la nuit autour d’une pétition en forme de cri d’alerte. Son slogan: “La nuit meurt en silence”, agrémenté d’une affichette tendant à montrer que la vie nocturne européenne est maintenant à rechercher à Londres, à Barcelone, à Prague ou à Berlin …. mais en aucun cas à Paris.
Feb
12th
Fri
12th
The broken Britain of legend is one where danger stalks the streets as never before. In the real Britain, the police have just recorded the lowest number of murders for 19 years… And more mundane crimes have fallen too: burglaries and car theft are about half as common now as they were 15 years ago. Even the onset of recession has not reversed that downward trend so far.
