Same or Different Reasons, Many Demonstrate On May Day 2009
Region: FranceToday is the start of May of 2009. May 1 is also dubbed as “May Day.” One can ask: What is the significance of this one special day? This is a day that occurs on the first of every May. This tends to be referred to many different public holidays. This is also known as either “International Workers’ Day” or “Labour Day" (different day from when the holiday is celebrated in the U... more
Views: 3678Sri Lankans stage hunger strike against genocide
Region: France
This hunger strike has been going on for over two weeks now atop Trocadero in Paris. more
Views: 772UNESCO Reveals Plague of Language Extinction
Region: FranceUNESCO has warned that many invaluable human cultural heritages may disappear from the earth as hundreds of human languages are getting extinct. A UNESCO atlas has indicated the latest information about the general status of languages. It states that more that 200 languages have recently become extinct. Some of the languages that have recently become extinct include Manx from the Isle of Man, Aasax from Tanzania ... more
Views: 2983Mumbai Massacre Could Possibly Be Repeated In Paris, France
Region: FranceBack on December 4, the Harry Winston boutique was robbed by several cross-dressing gunmen. Luckily, nobody was hurt in the process. They had made off with over $100 worth of jewels. It is one of the biggest jewel heists in the world. Still, the verdict on who is responsible is still in the air. Suspicion is aimed at a group called the “Pink Panthers.” Today, something else would happen. There woul... more
Views: 1296Martine Aubry wins the election for PS head against Ségolène Royal
Region: France
Martine Aubry, mayor of Lille, has won the election for First Secretary of the PS (Major French left-wing party). The results were published very early this morining, with respectively 49,98% for Ségolène Royal and 50,02% for Martine Aubry. This very tight outcome has led to protests from Ségolène Royal, who claims that there were many irregularities during the vote. She has therefore calle... more
Views: 1886Tension During Wait for French PS Election Results
Region: France
The French left wing party PS (parti socialiste), is the leading opposition party in France. They have been facing unity problems, with many of its leading figures disagreeing on major questions. This has made the elaboration of a political programme difficult. Bringing unity to the PS will be the future leader's mission. The vote for a new leader, called First Secretary, took place yesterday. The major candidates wer... more
Views: 1224Medvedev Retracts Missile Threat, Has Stipulation For Obama
Region: FranceWithin the recent months, relations between the United States and Russia have been tense at best due to the missile defense shield. Back in 2007, then-Russian President Vladimir Putin had given warning about the United States missile shield program. He had addressed leaders of the European Union about that regard. Putin had compared it to what started the Cuban Missile Crisis back in the 1960s. Russia has long opp... more
Views: 1528Coco Chanel: This Perfume is Not Only Beautiful, it Contains My Blood and a Million of Wasted Dreams
Region: FranceSimplicity is the key to the true elegance. .As a creative visionary, Mademoiselle CHANEL has changed her time by giving to women what they were missing the most: a new side of the beauty,designed in a functional way but reaching the highest levels of haut-couture in the same time.Coco Chanel became famous as an icon of style and elegance. Using a classic line in her creations, when fashion wasn t having the today's... more
Views: 1727Unknown Mozart fragment found in French library
Region: France
It's a forgotten melody, sketched in black ink in a swift but sure hand. The single manuscript page, long hidden in a provincial French library, has been verified as the work of Mozart, the apparent underpinnings for a Mass he never composed. The previously undocumented music fragment gives insight into Mozart's evolving composition style and provides a clue about the role religion may have played for the composer as ... more
Views: 1627Secret Dimensions at CERN and Large Hadron Collider
Region: France
We are used to thinking that the world has only 3 dimensions. But scientists tell us that is not true. We have known about the height, width and depth for centuries but less obviously we can consider time as an additional, fourth dimension - as Einstein famously revealed. But now, when we are just widely start to consider time as the 4th dimension, theorists are making predictions wider then even Einstein had imagined.... more
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