I do perfectly remember the quarter-finals between Yannick Noah and Ivan Lendl back on that 31st May, 1983, which led to his final victory in the finals vs Wilander. I was singing on that May day «Allez Yannick !» And more than singing, I was throwing piles of encouraging words to Yannick from the upper […]
Even if the only historical date known by most French people is 1515 and the victory of Marignan, won by French king Francis 1st in Italy, opposed to Swiss mercenaries, another major event occurred some 83 years later, in 1598, when French king Henry IV signed the ‘Édit de Nantes’. This famous ‘Édit’ could be […]
From the early christian centuries till 1561 and a certain Simeoni, an Italian scholar working with the Auvergne bishop, Clermont-Ferrand has always be known for having hosted the famous battle of Caesar vs Vercingetorix and the alliance of 31 Gaul people, ancestors to the French, hosting millions of artisans, farmers and citizens in 52 BC. […]
Futura-sciences.com, @futurasciences Mankind has slowly evolved in the past centuries from home-made telescopes by Galileo and his likes to bigger telescopes, made of hexagonal segments (French scientists believe France is an hexagon). A number of scientists have been working on breakthrough technologies to revolutionize telescopes, including Fizeau in the 1840s and Michelson (1852-1931, Nobel […]
