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...Church before being sent to Chinon in 1876. The town played an important role in the saint's life as it was at the royal court of Charles VII in Chinon where she convinced the king to send an army to defend the city of Orl?ans from the invading English. Leading these troops into battle, St. Joan later emerged victorious from the siege. The tests on the relics took around a year to complete and were led by Philippe Charlier, a forensic scientist at the Raymond Poincar? Hospital in Garches, near Paris. A leading figure in matters medieval and macabre...
...first, professors will have to contend with no fewer than 10 proposed changes to the legislation in the course of the three remaining regular Faculty meetings on the schedule for this spring. Another amendment calls for the new general education program to encourage study in languages other than English. “[Gen ed] aims to teach students to be citizens to the world,” said Virginie Greene, professor of Romance languages and literatures, who co-authored the amendment with Werner Sollors, the Cabot professor of English Literature and of African and African American Studies...
...says. PURE PLEASURE? Swagger, a bad-ass with a soulful side, might not be an Oscar-worthy role, but according to Wahlberg, “Shooter” is a movie people will like. “I certainly can’t just start looking for, like, English period dramas and stuff that’s going to get me nominated [for an Academy Award] again,” he says. “Basically, now we choose by which films we want to go and see in the theater, which roles we think people would want...
Allegedly during the 1930s, The Times cover properly synthesized Britons’ idea of themselves in relation to Europe: “Dense fog over English Channel. Continent isolated.” Britannia did not love the Continent much. With the European Union (EU) turning 50 years old last week, times seem to have changed. But how much...
...just about seducing a specific, key constituency for the EU future, but also about proving the organization’s ideological relevance for the future. That is a crucial step toward realizing the last line of the EU 50th birthday declaration: Britons included, and despite the English Channel, “Europe is our common future...