It’s certainly a phrase that we all said or heard, even if few of the readers of Papillon will know that it is also the title of a beautiful (and very old!) song..
It was March 26 over 200 years ago and the French, who had set themselves up to make the revolution by cutting others (you know, those with crowns..) also found time to agree a little bit on how things should be measured: The unit of measurement will be called meter from now on!
“Si vis pacem, para bellum”
I was in high school (it was a Technical Institute) and during the chemistry class one of the professors, one that I remember most affectionately, was trying to explain to a group of teenagers the properties of some materials, in particular the degree of hardness.
Remember when you were children what was the question that made you feel proud, moved, blush, despair, rejoice and yell (not necessarily in this order or all together!) parents, grandparents, uncles, family friends, teachers etc.?
We all know how the elections went in America.
With less than a month of results, while I try to imagine the consequences that Trump’s policy will bring, to distract me from certain thoughts comes to the rescue the outgoing President Joe Biden:
Thursday, October 10th, the world celebrated the day of mental health, which has organized events, spots and round tables on the delicate theme of mental health.
Besides being a movie, maybe to see, maybe not, the hornet’s story is really strange.
Science and physics have long wondered how such a heavy creature could fly with those tiny wings.
One of the misfortunes of our country is that we haven’t had any enemies in the last 60 years.
Water, lemon juice, and some magic, the kind that makes your eyes open.
Toothpicks used as nibs, goose feathers that do not stain anymore, inks full of transparent liquid, we bet you can read unwritten notebooks?
