Pansophism

Today marks one year since I started this blog, and thus the end of this project. I am pleased to have successfully learned one new thing ...

France has seen many interesting presidents. The greatest would have to be Charles de Gaulle , who is consistently ranked at the top of mo...

French actor  Jean Rochefort passed away last week at the age of 87. He was a cultural icon in France, having acted in his first film in ...

Japan's fertility rate is among the lowest in the world, at around 1.4 children per woman . The statistic has remained relatively unch...

Moving from Lyon to Iceland, the most famous (as well as notorious) food is k æstur  hákarl , or fermented shark. The fish is buried for a...

At an evening out with a group of Lyonnais  (that is, people from Lyon), should you ask for an example of something defining the city, you...

Today I met someone with a tattoo on the right of his neck which read ' 家族母姉父' . In general, if one doesn't see any hirigana ...