Most people have no idea. But 52 % of all English words come from latin or French. Why is this so ? About 2,000 years ago Roman troops invaded Britain, built forts and garnisons, and then built Adrian Wall to stop the Scot’s ancestors of invanding theirs Southern provinces. Few centuries later, the Vikings invaded […]
From June 1st to June 5th, 1944, Radio-London, with the special authorization given by Churchill to De Gaulle’s Radio Team, using the BBC antennas, did repeat several times the first 3 verses of Paul Verlaine’s poetry named ‘Fall Song’ or ‘Chanson d’Automne’, starting with « Les sanglots longs des violons de l’automne ». They were coded messages […]
