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Calvin and Hobbes

Annie Lesca — 2015-08-14T09:28:00Z

Drawing by Greg Williams, 2007 : WikiWorld comic based on articles about John Calvin, Thomas Hobbes and the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Both heroes are replaced by the actual Calvin and Hobbes.
Exhibition for the International Comics Festival in Angoulême, 2015.

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The elephant's child

Annie Lesca — 2015-01-27T00:02:56Z

Just so stories, R. Kipling, 1912
Audio-recording by Kara Shallenberg
Raconte-moi, in English
Raconte-moi, in French
Here is the text we shall be listening to :
and here are the illustrations from the 1912 edition :

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The Mountain in Labour

Annie Lesca — 2015-01-16T08:36:35Z

Political cartoon showing 1872 Liberal Republicans gathered around a mountain witnessing the birth of its candidate, a mouse labeled "H. G." (Horace Greeley, the candidate for president) with a tail labeled "Gratz Brown" (the vice-presidential candidate). The scene is apparently based on a quotation from Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus). Appeared in Harper's Weekly, May 18, 1872, p. 392
by Thomas Nast (1840–1902), the father of the American cartoon, creator of the modern version of Santa (...)

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Weihnachtspyramide

Annie Lesca — 2014-12-28T09:22:17Z

Source des croquis

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Christmas time abroad

Annie Lesca — 2014-12-15T22:25:57Z

Last year, an American student in Bordeaux recorded for Christmas time one of Chloe's stories, which reminded him of (his) home...
Let's listen to him and try to understand, at first without reading the text nor watching the images. enregistrer la cible du lien vers : audio file in .mp3
Now let's read aloud, each in turn !
You can enjoy listening to him and watching Arnaud Pérat's images here
Feedback : Great, but slower and shorter please !
So, next year, (...)

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Thanksgiving

Annie Lesca, HeleneN — 2014-12-04T15:50:02Z

Thanks to H. who sent us from Ann Arbor an insight into a traditional meal on the fourth thursday of november, for Thanksgiving.
Even though nobody celebrates any longer the good crops of summer time (especially since summer has become a period of holidays instead of harvesting in western culture), the pleasure of meeting, cooking and eating good food together instead of fast food prevails.
Here are some pictures and recipes H. sent to us.
Below, you will see photos that I took of the (...)

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Olimpick games and rural games in 1636

Annie Lesca — 2014-11-24T18:37:14Z

Robert Dover, founder of the games, is on horseback, carrying a wand, at the times of King James. I cannot tell what planet ruled, when I First undertook this mirth, this jollity, Nor can I give account to you at all, How this conceit into my brain did fall. Or how I durst assemble, call together Such multitudes of people as come hither.
For more details, Cotswold Olimpick Games
List of rural (...)

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An American block house in wood

Annie Lesca — 2014-11-17T12:38:47Z

A wooden fortification with a projecting upper story a drawing by PSF

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Lost keys by MP

Annie Lesca — 2014-11-04T20:44:27Z

The other day, we felt so excited with the gorgeous mushrooms which grew out of the sand that we took pictures of all our discoveries. Which eventually led us to both an unlucky mishap and a lucky blessing. The misfortune I'm speaking about is the fact that I lost my car-keys ; I tried to find them and searched all along, in vain. Finally we had to walk back home, with our heavy baskets full of mushrooms... and to take a train to Bordeaux in order to pick up a second set of keys and (...)

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Tuesday, October 7

Annie Lesca — 2014-10-08T19:24:47Z

A. had brought us three fruits of christophine ; she told us about their adventures before they finally started feeling at home in her garden.
A guide to growing mirlitons in Louisiana
Here are a couple of free pictures about this tropical plant, and the way it can be cooked, chosen from this page.
C. went on a successful search for his ancestors in the Vosges region and found informations about his great-grandfather who was born in 1791 and died in 1886 ; but he wouldn't find his grave (...)

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