Tag: History
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Une Minute Ramble: Étienne et Étienne
Just a quick post, this one.Yesterday, I wrote about my name in French class at school being Étienne. I wrote this as I had discovered that Étienne de Flacourt, Governor of Madagascar from 1648, may have been the only western person to have witnessed the huge Elephant Bird. I wrote it due to the coincidental…
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The New World
Now, I’m not one to make up imaginary tales about undiscovered places. Not very often, anyway. OK, more often than not, but that isn’t the point of this post! The point is, I thought that all of the countries of this magnificent planet of ours have now been discovered. Yes, I’m aware that there are…