Monthly Archives: April 2013

Père Lachaise Cemetery/Cimetière du Père-Lachaise un grand cimetière de 110 acres dans la ville de Paris. (visitez mon blog UNE LISTE ARBITRAIRE DE CERTAINES DES PERSONNES ENTERRÉES DANS PERE-LACHAISE) beaugrand.wordpress.com Le cimetière prend son nom du confesseur à Louis XIV, … Continue reading →

AN ARBITRARY LIST OF SOME OF THE PEOPLE BURIED IN PERE—LACHAISE * The numbers are those of the wards in which each tomb is to be found ALAIN (EMILE CHARTIER): a philosopher and essayist whose pro pos, published in newspapers … Continue reading →

RAVENS IN WINTER The common raven, Corvus corax , can live up to 21 years in the wild. Everyone knows that the raven is a large black bird that ornithologically is the Common Raven. It has coexisted with humans for … Continue reading →

Oath of Hippocrates I swear by Apollo Physician, by Asclepius, by Health, by Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this … Continue reading →

ENCAPSULATED UNIVERSES of the human mind. LERA BORODITSKY is an assistant professor of psychology, neuroscience, and symbolic systems at Stanford University. I’m interested in how the languages we speak shape the way we think. The reason I got interested in … Continue reading →

Francesco Petrarca. 1304-1374 Né dans la ville toscane du fils d’Arezzo de Ser Petracco Latinized à Petrarch et à Dante Alighiieri Was l’ami de son père IL Canzoniere. La collection du fragmenta A de vulgarium de Rerum de poèmes par … Continue reading →

Francesco Petrarca. 1304–1374 Born in the Tuscan City of Arezzo son of Ser Petracco Latinized to Petrarch and Dante Alighiieri Was the friend of his father IL Canzoniere. Rerum vulgarium fragmenta A collection of poems by the Italian humanist, poet, … Continue reading →

TOLSTOY LEQ NIKOLAEVITCH TOLSTOY, or (Leo) Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828-1910 (aged 82) The greatest of Russian novelists and most influential of Russian thinkers was born on his ancestral estate of Yasnaya Polyana, near Toula, a hundred miles due south of … Continue reading →