Jane Austen, one of England’s foremost novelists, was never publicly acknowledged as a writer during her lifetime.  She was born on December 16, 1775, at Steventon Rectory in Hampshire, the seventh child of a country clergyman and his wife, George and Cassandra Austen.  She was primarily educated at home, benefiting from her father’s extensive library and the schoolroom atmosphere created by Mr. Austen’s live-in pupils.  Her closest friend was her only sister, Cassandra, almost three years her senior. Though Austen lived a quiet life, she had unusual access to the greater world, primarily through her brothers.  Francis (Frank) and Charles,…

  While Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in Washington offered an upbeat assessment this week of the air campaign in Yemen led by his nation, calling it “very, very successful,” civilians living under bombardment for more than three weeks expressed terror and despair in messages posted online         I prefer invite our honorable reader's to visit straight this link about the situation in Yemen after air campaign of dictatorship of Persian Gulf.   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/world/middleeast/under-bombardment-in-yemen-civilians-voice-terror-and-despair-online.html?_r=0

Un membre d’Investig’Action a pu s’entretenir avec Ruty Ferrera, pacifiste et mère d'Uriel. "Uriel a décidé de ne pas s'engager dans l'armée ; il a préféré aider le peuple palestinien pour sa libération", dit Ruty. Chaque année, à la fin de l’école secondaire, de jeunes Israéliens rédigent ensemble une lettre adressée au Premier ministre et au Ministre de la défense pour signifier leur refus de servir dans l’armée. Ils disent…

I knew two of the men whose names are engraved on the Vietnam Veteran Memorial. The first, Artie Klippen, I saw a lot of that season in ‘63 when we both played Lacrosse at Georgetown. We had one of those anarchic undergraduate arrangements where we briefly shared a car, a beat-up old Chevy with the gear shift on the steering column. Compared to so many guys at that age who are callow and two-faced, Artie was a straight-up, warm and friendly guy, qualities that make him to continue to stand out in my memory, even though we never got to…

Que dire Ya Allah ? La belle adolescence que j'ai passée en compagnie de l'auteur Américaine, une dame athée qui m'a fait découvrir un empire magique, une culture de paix et de sérénité "Pearl Buck et la Chine", c'est tout dire. J'avais amassée au jour le jour toute la collection de livre de Mme Pearl Buck sur la Chine bien que j'avais déjà un aperçu Chinois de la Chine à…