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- It suffers from an insufficiency of Severus Snape. That is all. |
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- It suffers from an insufficiency of Severus Snape. That is all. |
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- This episode served one purpose. It explained the back story to a few of the groups in the SEED storyline. It mentioned Blue Cosmos and... |
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- This episode served one purpose. It explained the back story to a few of the groups in the SEED storyline. It mentioned Blue Cosmos and... |
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- Love isn't what' sung in songsIt's not happy sunset romanceOr walks on a moonlit beachItÂ’s passed up chancesAnd bungled kissesTripping on her doorstepAnd painful missesThatÂ’s what romance isBut despite its downsIts holes in the groundLife would just seem bleakWithout her rosy cheeks |
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- Mullin can hit pull-up J's as executive, too Oakland Tribune June 5 2004... |
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- The 40th president made arrangements with terrorists to be accepted into Heaven, aides revealed today. A report circulating late this afternoon described a "secret deal to trade banned weapons systems for assured ascendancy to God's kingdom." Some of the... |
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- New I/O scheduling subsystem dramatically increases rich media editing throughput rate performance. |
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- The most recent additions to the complete review are our reviews of four novels by Jean Echenoz. |
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- This website is dedicated to the life and works of the 19th century French poet, Arthur Rimbaud, and offers the student and researcher useful primary material and and information that will assist with the contextualization and interpretation of his work. A detailed biography, illustrated with paintings and sketches of and by the poet, is provided, together with a good online anthology of his work. For many of these poems, the user may view a facsimile of an original hand-written manuscript as well as a transcription of the text. Of interest also is the online collection of correspondance between Rimbaud and his fellow poet and erstwhile lover, Paul Verlaine, and between Rimbaud and his family. A biography of Verlaine and a selection of his poetry is also available on this site. |
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- This website (available in French only), from the Association pour l'Application des Recommandations Orthographiques (APARO), offers students and teachers of the French language clear guidelines for correct French spelling. The APARO promotes the rules for writing in French as published in the 'Journal officiel de la Republique française' in 1990. The site provides an overview of developments in French orthography, and the various rectifications approved by the Académie Française in 1990. The site summarizes these rectifications in a set of general rules concerning accentuation and spelling, which acts as a reference guide to the site's list of 800 words which exemplify the most difficult areas. Browsing through this list, users may click on an accompanying number for each word which leads to the relevant rule from the guidelines. |
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Victor Hugo (Jun 06 2004 02:57 GMT) - This is an excellent, interactive and informative website devoted to the great French writer, Victor Hugo (1802-1885). With an appealing design, the site offers an array of material related to Hugo's life, works and thought. An extensive biography, which is illustrated with original images and facsimiles of manuscripts by Hugo, traces both Hugo's life and the times in which he lived, emphasizing the Romantic revolution, and Hugo's involvement in the political sphere and exile. Users may browse a timeline, where brief biographical facts appear. In order to enrich knowledge of Hugo, the site offers a useful section on the various places where Hugo lived. |
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- This website represents a crucial resource for any researcher with an interest in the area of nineteenth-century French language and linguistics. Published by the University of Toronto, Langue du XIXe Siècle contains extracts from, amongst others: nineteenth-century dictionaries; grammar manuals; histories; |
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- An excellent resource for those reading or writing in the French language, the Dictionnaire des Synonymes is an online reference dictionary of French synonyms. The database contains approximately 50,000 basic word entries and 400,000 synonyms for those entries. The Dictionnaire is based on seven classic French dictionaries, including Larousse and Robert. This resource is easy to use and its authors have provided information on searching techniques and frequently asked questions in order to make searching easier. For each search, the dictionary not only gives a list of suitable synonyms but also classes those synonyms in graph form in terms of how common they are. |
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- This site aims to introduce the work of the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies and to provide access to its unique database containing approximately 10,000 bibliographic citations relating to 19th century poet and critic Charles Baudelaire. The bibliography of Baudelaire, whom T.S. |
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- This website makes available online a small but representative selection of French clandestine manuscripts from the 18th century. Electronic versions of some of the most famous manuscripts are available here, including: the 'Traité des trois imposteurs'; César Chesneau de Marsais's 'Examen de la religion'; and Nicolas Fréret's 'Lettre de Thrasybule à Leucippe', considered by some to be the best example of the philosophical clandestine work. |
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- The French language website, Lettres.net, is a vast gateway to resources useful for French study at both further and higher education level. Aimed primarily at students and teachers of the French baccalaureat, there is nonetheless much material here to interest UK students and teachers. It offers guided readings, commentaries, criticisms, and other complementary resources for the study of canonical French writers including: Racine; |
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- This website, by Erik T Mueller, is an accessible, informative and entertaining guide to speaking French fluently. From an English speaker's perspective, Mueller explores the differences between written and spoken French, offering examples of the authentic spoken French used in a variety of situations. Divided into three main sections, the first examines French words and expressions. Here the author presents common features of spoken language, such as synonyms for good, clipped words, conversational tics, politeness and interjections. The second section focuses on comparisons with English, and elucidates on such areas as false friends, phrasal verbs, punctuation, and noun-noun combinations. |
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- The website, 'Le XIXe siècle électronique' is a gateway to electronic resources useful for the study of 19th century French literature. The site's author, Andrew Oliver, has compiled and offered brief evaluations for a selection of sites related to: Balzac; Stendhal; Hugo; |
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- Focus on the Family President Don Hodel, who served as Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of Energy under President Reagan, had the following comments today when learning of the President's death: |
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- Today, well, today pretty much sucked. Xander and I escaped—we had to get out of the house before we killed one another—to a cemetary, where we walked around and did gravestone rubbings using crayons. Perhaps not as effective as charcoal,... |
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- A new message was posted: Address: http://radio. userland. |
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- No, but any "customizations" that you might have made anywhere in your Radio.root will be lost. |
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- The world is our inheritanceWe havenÂ’t earned itOur MichelangeloÂ’s were killed before birthBut everything that has been done to usWe have done ourselvesThere is no where to turn the fingerWe mutilated our own innocenceWe warped ourselves into one entityInterchangeable parts on the factory lineFamily was cleaned out with free love And children with choiceThe problems didnÂ’t start yesterdayTheyÂ’ve been eating at us since the GardenNothing weighs us down anymoreWe have cut away the bonds of responsibilityAnd now we drift further away from the dockWe have enough to feed the hungryBut goes to feed our greedOur cars are our coffinsThat ferry us from death to deathAnd if there is a shoreWouldnÂ’t you rather stand there?WouldnÂ’t you rather be happy?You have a choiceSink or Swim? |
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- The playground was shout-lessAnd the classroomÂ’s chalk was silentMy cubbyhole was in a rowAnd mine was the only occupiedNo lunchboxes and or lessons left undoneNo doodles or crayons Filled the silent row of holesMy pace was quickAs I plodded along through the empty halls And in the rooms the desks were emptyI asked the teacher if it was SaturdayShe stared back from behind her empty eyesOh silly dear, there are no children anymoreI hurried home forgetting pack and lunchI asked my fatherWhere are all the children? Who should have filled the empty desks?He told meThey are sleeping nowTaken before their first breathsIn the yard beyond the swing sets |
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