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PROVERBES MILLÉNARIENS (4)

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  PROVERBES MILL én ARIENS Campagne: milieu naturel et familier, peuplé de gens qui y vivent depuis toujours. Ville: milieu artificiel et superficiel, dont les habitants s'ignorent et se détestent... Faites votre choix! - 30 - CM

PROVERBES AFRIKAINS (4)

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  PROVERBES AFRI ka INS Quand un moustique se pose sur ton testicule, tu comprends que la violence ne peut régler tous les problèmes. - 30 - (Dicton d'un peuple du Togo - traduction libre) CM / AK

UPPER-GATINEAU: LAND OF FLYING CANOES AND DANCING TREES...

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Flying canoes of the Upper-Gatineau area, in Canada, are probably distant relatives to the more famous flying carpets of Arabia, known to anyone familiar with Middle Eastern lore. A rare picture of trees caught dancing in the early morning, when they thought they were alone, all by themselves, with no witness, among the snow, the ice, and the cold of a typical Canadian winter. Hydrographic map of the Ottawa River ( la grande rivière des Outaouais) , an early water-road connecting the Montréal archipelago with the Great Lakes region (long before there were land-roads and freeways in Canada or the United States), including the main sub-river, that is the Gatineau River (the one going straight south in the direction of the present city of the same name, where it meet with the Ottawa River, right in front of the city Ottawa). It is important to remember that travel upriver from Montréal through the Upper Saint-Laurent was dangerous (and often simply impossible) because of the existence of

ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF THE UNDEAD...

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  Blue: current realms that are presently part of the British Commonwealth of Nations (in plain words: the British State). Red: former realms that used to be part of said British State, but are still members of the Commonwealth as republics. Only the former colonies of the Caribbean and Oceania -plus Canada- have stayed inside the British State as realms, alongside the core of that political entity, that is to say the United Kingdom, a country that includes two territories (Scotland and Northern Ireland) that may conceivably choose to dissociate themselves from it, eventually, in order to join the European Union, as a consequence of Brexit.  (Source: Wikipedia, June 2022, English Edition) * * * (All the following three definitions are taken directly from: Wikipedia, June 2022, English Edition) ELIZABETH II Elizabeth II  (Eliz abeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926)  is Queen of the United Kingdom  and 14 other Commonwealth realms  (...) COMMONWEALTH REALM A  Commonwealth real m  is a

DE LA VOIE DIVINE À LA PAIX TERRANE

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 Un bel exemple de Gaïa-la-Vieille... La sagesse à atteindre en quatre étapes LA VOIE DIVINE QU'IL FAUT SUIVRE LA VOIX GAÏANE QU'IL FAUT ENTENDRE LA RÉDEMPTION HUMAINE QU'IL FAUT ESPÉRER LA PAIX TERRANE QU'IL FAUT ADMIRER LA VOIE DIVINE L'Humain est imparfait par nature, le Divin est parfait par nature. La voie divine est donc la recherche de la perfection, plus précisément l'ensemble des efforts mis pour s'améliorer soi-même, améliorer sa famille, améliorer les siens, en direction d'une plus grande perfection, étant bien entendu que la perfection complète et ultime n'est pas de notre ressort, ne peut être atteinte et ne peut être considérée ou présentée comme atteignable. La Voie divine est simplement le chemin que nous parcourons au cours de notre vie, le parcours qui ests le nôtre, celui où se sont inscrits tous nos triomphes, tous nos errements, nos victoires et nos défaites, nos joies et nos pleurs, le bien et le mal. Idéalement, ce chemin est c

MULTINATIONAL COUNTRIES: THE BELGIAN WAY

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Map of the belgian communities . The belgian political system is based on the concept of national communities, as defined by  the languages spoken by its inhabitants. It is important to understand the link between language and nations/tribes/peoples. In Belgium, those languages are: French (to be more precise the Walloon dialect of French that is spoken in the south -Wallonie-, shown in pink), Dutch (to be more precise, the Flemish dialect of Dutch that is spoken in the north, i.e. the part that is usually -if somewhat improperly- called Flanders, shown in orange) and German (two small areas that are adjacent to Germany, shown in green). The shaded area is simply Brussels, the seat of government. (Wikipedia, English edition, May 2022) Map of the belgian regions.  The belgian political system is also based on the concept of regions. There are three regions, usually named Wallonia (pink), Flanders (orange) and Brussels (blue). The last one corresponds to the capital city of the count

WHO IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD WANT TO BE THE SUBJECT OF A QUEEN?

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  You think you're a Canadian citizen? Think again. The truth is you're wrong and you're deluding yourself. The truth is, you can't be a citizen, simply because you're already (and merely) the subject of the British Royal Family. The truth shall set you free , said some people. They're quite rignt. Canada is not a confederation, and it does not really belong to the population living in the vast territory that form a triangle between the island of Vancouver, to the west, the island of Newfoudnland, to the east, and  and Umingmak Nuna (Ellesmere Island), to the north. The fact that it is a country is even debatable, since the head of the kingdom of Canada is also the head of the Kingdom of Australia, and also the head of state of the Kingdom of New-Zealand, while also serving as the head of the United Kngdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Leaving aside the doubtful territorial integrity of the last entity, the fact remain that the said head of state of the

UNE ISSUE POSSIBLE À LA CRISE UKRAINIENNE

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  ''Le terme « tsar » a désigné le souverain russe  à partir du 16 janvier 1547,  jour où Ivan IV Le Terrible, auparavant grand-prince de  Moscou, a été sacré « tsar de toutes les Russies » en la cathédrale de la Dormition à Moscou.  Ce nouveau titre lui confère un statut similaire à celui d'un empereur. '' (Wikipédia, édition en langue française, mai 2022) L'expression ''Tsar de toutes les Russies'' ezt intéressante et très ancienne. Elle se rapporte à une réalité concrète, indéniable et incontournable: il n'y a pas 'une' Russie, mais plusieurs. L'entité politique nommée actuellement Russie occupe un espace géographique énorme, allant de Kalinigrad, l'ancienne ville allemande de Koenigsberg, au détroit de Béring, séparant l'Asie de l'Amérique du Nord. Auparavant, l'ancien empire russe était encore plus vaste et comprenait l'actuel Alaska, ainsi que des antennes jusqu'au nord de la Californie et l'arch

LES PLUS BEAUX MOTS D'AMOUR SONT TCHABÉS

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  Chez les Tchabés, au Bénin, si un homme aime une femme,il s'approche d'elle et lui dit, tout doucement: Mon fin-hin guéné, ayami (C'est-à-dire: Je t'aime beaucoup, ma chérie ) Et si la femme l'aime elle aussi (ou si elle l'aime encore, malgré toutes les vicissitudes d'une vie en couple ou en famille), elle lui répond de même, tout aussi doucement: Mon fin-hin guéné, oukoumi... (C'est-à-dire: Je t'aime beaucoup, ma chérie... ) Vive l'Afrique CM