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• December 19 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 560
  On December 19: 1154   Henry II of England was crowned at Westminster Abbey . 1606  The Susan Constant , the Godspeed , and the Discovery  left England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia , the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States. 1683   Philip V ...
  10 hours ago

• The Little Sparrow

  
  Eleventh Stack — Authority: 420
    Although much of her early life remains a mystery, many biographies cite Edith Piaf’s birth under a streetlight in Ménilmontant, an impoverished district of Paris, on December 19, 1915. Piaf began singing at the age of 14, accompanying her acrobat street-performing father all over France. The nickname La ...
  3 days ago

• Je triche, tu triches, elle triche …

  
  Papa et Piaf — Authority: 109
  In the Spy vs Spy world of bilingualism in our house, maman has just upped the stakes by buying a Peppa Pig Christmas DVD. Until now, DVDs (apart from Baby Einstein , which were nothing to do with me and which I wanted to hide whenever we had visitors) have been in French and, while hopefully fun for Piaf, they ...
  1 week ago

• Late Night Shopping & Carols in Dulwich Village

  
  Dulwich OnView — Authority: 126
  Dulwich Village will be alive with carol singers on Thursday December the 10th with many shops open until 9pm and stalls plus a hog roast outside the pub.Alan will be selling his “healthy, bushy and drop free” premier league Nordman Christmas trees there too – he’s offering free local delivery, so you can ...
  1 week ago

• Je donne, tu donnes, elle donne …

  
  Papa et Piaf — Authority: 109
  Okay, it’s not quite Christmas, but Advent is here.  At least, that’s my excuse for breaking out these two Christmas crackers.  “ Claude François, c’est notre cadeau de Noël .” Tout juste, Auguste … A whole year later, in 1978, and he’s at it again . Surely that’s the same jumper?
  2 weeks ago

• Je coconne, tu coconnes, elle coconne …

  
  Papa et Piaf — Authority: 109
  It is time to start Christmas shopping. Piaf’s main present, from both of us jointly, is to be a wooden play kitchen. (And before you cry, “gender stereotyping,” two of her favourite toys currently are a football and a set of magnetic cars – she just likes playing at cooking too. So yah boo sucks.) Her ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mae West: Portugal

  
  Mae West — Authority: 128
  A benefit in Lagoa last weekend, that raised funds for a local Donkey Sanctuary, staged a splashy tribute to three iconic artists — — MAE WEST , Edith Piaf, and Amy Winehouse — — and we will let The Portugal News tell the tale. • • According to The Portugal News staff: Last year she swore she would ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mon Voyage (For Elvis & Edith) – a poem

  
  Marking Time — Authority: 109
  Mon Voyage (For Elvis, Edith Piaf, and All Whom Paris and New York Have Swallowed Whole)     11-23-09                         by Mark Nielsen Some days I feel about as important as a single telephone pole– That one! There. See it? Covered in kudzu vines, Just one in a string of a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Je remercie, tu remercies, elle remercie …

  
  Papa et Piaf — Authority: 109
  A post I’ve wanted to make for some time is how I came to be doing this at all. I mean, I know I wrote this , right back at the beginning, which explains the why of it – but the how of it is down to the people who put me in a position even to think that someone like me could sustain a non-native bilingual ...
  3 weeks ago

• Paris Breaks in the 20th Arrondissement

  
  Paris Breaks — Authority: 99
  Paris Breaks to the 20th Arrondissement Ok, the idea of going on Paris breaks in order to hang out entirely in the 20th is only semi-serious, it would be a bit like visiting London in order to spend all your time in Leytonstone or Newham, but that’s not quite as mad as it sounds. You’d be surprised at the number ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rolling Your Own Asterisk ISOs with Joe’s WonderScript

  
  Nerd Vittles — Authority: 99
  Today well show you how to roll your own Asterisk ISO with the latest, greatest version of CentOS in under an hour with Joe Ropers new WonderScript.
  4 weeks ago

• Martha Wainwright does Edith Piaf

  
  MixTape — Authority: 106
  Martha Wainwright channelled Edith Piaf’s charm and then some as she performed her interpretations of Piaf’s lesser-known songs at the Pigalle Club last Sunday. ‘I approached these songs as a singer, but Piaf comes out of the songs as they were written especially for her,’ said Wainwright. Admitting to having ...
  4 weeks ago

• Martha Wainwright Prepares Third Album

  
  Spinner — Authority: 732
  Filed under: News Singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright has begun making tentative steps to writing and recording her third album andsays she wants to base it around music she wrote for a New York ballet company. Speaking to BBC 6 Music , Wainwright said: "It mostly was inspired by work that I did for an ...
  4 weeks ago

• Je rattrape, tu rattrapes, elle rattrape …

  
  Papa et Piaf — Authority: 109
  It strikes me suddenly that I have not given you any news of your favourite Ligue 2 side and mine, the Norman conquerors themselves, Stade Malherbe de Caen, for over a month! So let’s put that right, right now. 14ème journée (Friday 6 November 2009) SM Caen                     ...
  4 weeks ago

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