As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

The book embraced America's natural bounty, specifically that of California, while containing recipes that reflected Bertoli and Waters ' appreciation of both northern Italian and French style foods.

The 541-kilometer border with Laos and the 1, 228-kilometer border with Vietnam result largely from French administrative decisions and do not follow major natural features.

Henri Gautier, a French Royal Engineer, recognized the " natural slope " of different soils in 1717, an idea later known as the soil's angle of repose.

The true forerunner of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights which appeared as part of the medieval Natural law tradition that became prominent during the Enlightenment with such philosophers as John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, and Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, and featured prominently in the political discourse of the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

The integers ( from the Latin integer, literally " untouched ," hence " whole ": the word entire comes from the same origin, but via French ) are formed by the natural numbers ( including 0 ) ( 0, 1, 2, 3, ...) together with the negatives of the non-zero natural numbers (− 1, − 2, − 3, ...).

In an irony of fate, Rousseau's later injunction to women to breastfeed their own babies ( as had previously been recommended by the French natural scientist Buffon ), probably saved the lives of thousands of infants.

He was the illegitimate ( or natural ) son of Lieutenant Jean Audubon, a French naval officer ( and privateer ) from the south of Brittany, and his mistress Jeanne Rabine, a 27

Lake Champlain ( French: lac Champlain ) is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States ( states of Vermont and New York ) but partially situated across the Canada-United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec.

To the east, the Canal des Pangalanes is a chain of man-made and natural lakes connected by canals built by the French just inland from the east coast and running parallel to it for some.

The French oil company Total S. A. is able to operate the Yadana natural gas pipeline from Burma to Thailand despite the European Union's sanctions on Burma.

The attribute tells search engines what natural language the website is written in ( e. g. English, Spanish or French ), as opposed to the coding language ( e. g. HTML ).

* Parti de la loi naturelle ( natural law party of France ; article in French Wikipedia )

The word " baroque " ( probably ) was used first in late 18th century French about the irregular natural pearl shape and later about an architectural style perceived to be " irregular " in comparison to the highly regular Neoclassical architecture of that time.

Clarke and Hamilton pleaded the French scholars ' case and Hutchinson finally agreed that items such as natural history specimens would be the scholars ' private property.

Bodin also held that the lois royales, the fundamental laws of the French monarchy which regulated matters such as succession, are natural laws and are binding on the French sovereign.

In 1972 French physicist Francis Perrin discovered fifteen ancient and no longer active natural nuclear fission reactors in three separate ore deposits at the Oklo mine in Gabon, West Africa, collectively known as the Oklo Fossil Reactors.

The French-fortified Maginot Line and the Allied forces in Belgium were circumvented by a flanking movement through the thickly wooded Ardennes region, mistakenly perceived by French planners as an impenetrable natural barrier against armoured vehicles.

In French furniture the style remained somewhat more reserved, since the ornaments were mostly of wood, or, after the fashion of wood-carving, less robust and naturalistic and less exuberant in the mixture of natural with artificial forms of all kinds ( e. g. plant motives, stalactitic representations, grotesques, masks, implements of various professions, badges, paintings, precious stones ).

While Durkheim actively worked to support his country in the war, his reluctance to give in to simplistic nationalist fervor ( combined with his Jewish background ) made him a natural target of the now-ascendant French Right.

The region's population fell by a fifth from 1851 to 1946, reflecting low French natural growth and migration to more urbanized parts of the country.

A fetish ( derived from the French fétiche ; which comes from the Portuguese feitiço ; and this in turn from Latin facticius, " artificial " and facere, " to make ") is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a man-made object that has power over others.

Others who consider the Bimini undersea formation to be man-made, as opposed to natural beachrock, are Joseph Manson Valentine, zoologist ; Charles Berlitz, linguist ; Greg Little, psychologist ; R. Cedric Leonard, anthropologist ; and Dimitri Rebikoff, French marine engineer.

Since most of the towns during that era were developed along waterways, both the French and the British desired control over the local rivers.

French voyageurs roamed the area in the early 18th Century, giving French names to many of the waterways and other local sites.

The trading post system used by the French and then the English encouraged native people to live in central villages along major waterways.

While French influence waned, it can still be seen in local place names, particularly waterways.

The name is derived from the French word portage, which means to carry a canoe overland between waterways.

" Later French explorers, who also followed the waterways, called it the Rivière L ' Anguille ( Eel River ).

Despite concerns by the French Government during the Phoney War over possible German reprisals against French waterways it was intended that the operation would take place simultaneously with Operation Wilfred, a scheme to mine the waters around Norway to force German convoys using them for transporting Swedish iron ore into international waters where they could be attacked by the Royal Navy.

* Aa guide Navigation on the canal, including Gravelines as an entry port into the French waterways network.

The trek met with minimal opposition from French and Indian raiding parties, but the route to Oswego, which had been virtually unused since 1756, was overgrown, and some of the waterways had silted up, causing heavily-laden bateaux to ground in the shallow waters.

French arpent land divisions are long narrow parcels of land usually found along the navigable streams of southern Louisiana, and also found along major waterways in other areas.

" Ernest Lester Jones, Director, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, the oldest scientific agency of our Government, writer on our coastal waterways bordering the Pacific Ocean, a resourceful administrator, increasing largely our supply of reliable maps and supervising the use of new devices for making our waters safer, notably by detecting the perilous submerged pinnacle rocks ; a Colonel in the Army during the war, on active service in France and Italy, decorated by the King of Italy, awarded the Diploma of Merit by the Aerial League of America, recommended for the French Croix de Guerre ; most recently instrumental in helping to form the American Legion to perpetuate American Liberty.

Autoroutes of France | French autoroute network

The French motorway network or autoroute system consists largely of toll roads, except around large cities and in parts of the north.

Genêt was welcomed with great enthusiasm and propagandized the case for France in the French war against Great Britain, and for this purpose promoted a network of new Democratic Societies in major cities.

The state broadcaster, Radiodiffusion Télévision Gabonaise ( RTG ), operates two main networks-a national network in French and a provincial network in French and vernacular languages.

A graduate of the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit viaduct.

Its network of small colonies in Africa and the Pacific paled in comparison to the British and French empires.

Although the Coalition was joined by other allies, the French Empire was also not alone since it now had a complex network of allies and submitted states.

However, a rudimentary network begun under French colonial rule and continued from the 1950s has provided an important means of increased intervillage communication, movement of market goods, and a focus for new settlements.

The Communist Party of China was founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao in the French concession of Shanghai in 1921 as a study society and an informal network.

But when French minister Citizen Genêt set up a network of pro-Jacobin " Democratic-Republican Societies " that entered American politics and attacked President Washington, Webster condemned them.

The French rail network, with its main lines radiating from Paris to all corners of France, is often seen as a reflection of the centralised French nation state, which directed its construction.

– In 2001, this French cable TV network ran a series promos featuring males and females casually undressing as they read jokes.

Under the code name " Louise ", she and SOE colleague Philippe Liewer reorganised a French Resistance network that had been broken up by the Germans.

Only four national over-the-air television networks are currently licensed by the CRTC: the government-owned CBC ( English ) and Radio-Canada ( French ), French-language private network TVA, and a network focused on Canada's indigenous peoples, APTN.

After the publication of the Méry video-tape by Le Monde on 22 September 2000, in which Jean-Claude Méry, in charge of the RPR's financing, directly accused Chirac of organizing the network, and of having been physically present on 5 October 1986, when Méry gave in cash 5 millions Francs, which came from companies who had benefited from state deals, to Michel Roussin, personal secretary ( directeur de cabinet ) of Chirac, Chirac refused to follow up his summons by judge Eric Halphen, and the highest echelons of the French justice declared that he could not been inculpated while in functions.

Founded in 1919 by French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën ( 1878 – 1935 ), Citroën was the first mass-production car company outside the USA and pioneered the modern concept of creating a sales and services network that complements the motor car.

CDLP has been also rolled out at the French cable operator Numericable before upgrading its IP broadband network using DOCSIS.

In 1792, under the French Revolution, the first communication network was developed to enable the quick transporting of information in a warring and unsafe country.