#French

A THREAD on: media coverage on Muslims, France and the questions we aren’t asking enough.Today’s episode of NYT’s The Daily about Islam/France/ Laïcite was incredibly unsettling. 1/ This is a
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Also while the NeurIPS name thing is totally tangential to this entire fiasco, as someone whose life work is on a system named by some French dude in the 1980s
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It was inevitable someone would take the most uncharitable interpretation of my thread to get riled up against. Im sorry you took offense as someone who loves 70s anime, I
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On this day 106 years ago the 7th (Household) Cavalry Brigade were called in to support 4th Guards Brigade near Zillebeke. They dismounted and took back the contested ground with
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When the "conspiracies" become facts......Just reporting a few facts: The Chinese biological laboratory in Wuhan is owned by Glaxo. Who, by chance, owns Pfizer. (the one who produces the vaccine.)Which,
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What George Orwell got right (and wrong) about language. A thread.If I weren't a Latter-day Saint I'd be drunk right now, maybe.1/24 2/24 It's late and I'm reminiscing about the
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thread: 1. We had the sudden closure of the Anglo/French border at Xmas for 48hrs, which was later lifted.We've now had Article 16 of the Protocol invoked without warning, then
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[thread] This thread is important to me. I engaged Neumann today with the most basic of questions, requesting how he can justify his assertion that “France’s implosion is caused by
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Algeria’s history has always been rich with revolutionary figures, & many of those leading in that legacy have been women Today, on Algeria’s 58th independence anniversary, here are the women
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It was a good run, English language The writing was on the wall when the verbing of nouns started I guess I do, a little. Thee and thou were just
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This cave is not in #Spain, actually, but in #France at the #border between #Baxenabarre (Lower Navarre, in Basque language) and #Nafarroa #Navarra, in the French-Spanish #border but the cave
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No one needs to quit any job, but I do have to think that a "France expert" who speaks no French would be laughed out of the room. And since
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The only two version of the Kingdom of France's flag which include the Sacré-Cœur, which according to those devoted to the Sacred Heart in the pre revolutionary period, the inclusion
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In the 5th Century BC in the Battle of Salamis, a Greek fleet won a decisive battle against Xerxes, King of Persia, destroying Persia's superior naval capabilities. In 479 BC,
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Customs 101. A short thread. The application of customs controls is always a balance between facilitating trade and controlling it. The idea being that if you need the trade it
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It's Thierry Henry's birthday, one of the most fabulous footballers we've ever had the honour of witnessing. As a child, young Henry's love for football wavered. His father pressured him
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