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It's time for an American Foreign Legion: Sean McFate

Edit Penn Live 21 May 2016
As a former paratrooper in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and a former military contractor, I have seen that there is no substitute for boots on the ground ... When people think of foreign legions, they think of French mercenaries. But the French Foreign ... It's like a French army unit, except that its enlisted members come from all over the world....

Cary Fukunaga Is in Talks to Direct a Mini-series Based on Kubrick’s Unfinished Napoleon for HBO

Edit New York Magazine 20 May 2016
Much like the French army nearing Moscow in the fall of 1812, HBO's long-gestating Napoleon mini-series is maybe, almost, finally done with its journey. According to The Hollywood Reporter, True Detective's Cary Fukunaga is in talks to direct a six-hour series on the French emperor, which will be based on Stanley Kubrick's ... More » ... ....

Time for an American Foreign Legion

Edit Stars and Stripes 20 May 2016
As a former paratrooper in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and a former military contractor, I have seen that there is no substitute for boots on the ground ... When people think of foreign legions, they think of French mercenaries. But the French Foreign ... It's like a French army unit, except that its enlisted members come from all over the world....

Four killed as helicopter crashes in southwest France

Edit The Local 20 May 2016
The helicopter crashed in the Hautes-Pyrénées, the French army said on Friday ... ....

Armed tour guides: A day with Paris' Sentinel terror patrol

Edit The Oklahoman 19 May 2016
"The pizza's not bad," the French army officer advised Associated Press journalists accompanying his heavily armed platoon down the pyramid's spiral staircase ... Many French are reassured by the show of force ... He said the French army and the police aren't used to coordinating, their rules of engagement are vastly different and added that it was hard to see an armed patrol preventing an attack except by stumbling across it....

A day with Paris' Sentinel terror patrol

Edit Topix 19 May 2016
On a recent afternoon, Julien had a more enviable mission. leading his men to lunch at the staff canteen beneath the glass pyramid at Paris' world-famous Louvre museum. "The pizza's not bad," the French army officer advised Associated Press journalists accompanying his heavily armed platoon down the pyramid's spiral staircase ... ....

By Jonathan Cook

Edit Information Clearing House 15 May 2016
May 15, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "The National " -It was an assessment no one expected from the deputy head of the Israeli military ... His idea for a Jewish state was inspired in part by the infamous Dreyfus affair, in which a Jewish French army officer was framed by his commanders for treason ... Click for Spanish, German, Dutch, Danish, French, translation- Note- Translation may take a moment to load ...  ....

Obituary: Jeannette Guyot, French Resistance fighter

Edit Scotsman 12 May 2016
Jeannette Guyot, French Resistance fighter ... Whilst engaged in this work she met Gilbert Renault alias Colonel Rémy, who was now part of Charles de Gaulle's Free French Army ... There she met Jacques Robert, another Free French officer trained in special operations in England and parachuted back into France in June 1942 to establish the Phratrie réseau....

Zionism’s Roots Help Us Interpret Israel Today

Edit Information Clearing House 12 May 2016
His idea for a Jewish state was inspired in part by the infamous Dreyfus affair, in which a Jewish French army officer was framed by his commanders for treason ... His idea for a Jewish state was inspired in part by the infamous Dreyfus affair, in which a Jewish French army officer was framed by his commanders for treason ... Click for Spanish, German, Dutch, Danish, French, translation- Note- Translation may take a moment to load ...  ....

Hanks, Brokaw and World War II Museum director to receive France's highest honor

Edit The Times Picayune 10 May 2016
Mueller, Brokaw and Hanks will be named chevaliers of the Legion of Honor in an afternoon ceremony. French Army Gen ... After that event in the Grand Chancery of the Legion of Honor, U.S ... The awards, which French President François Hollande had to approve, recognize work that the museum has done to bring programs and tours to Normandy, where Allies stormed ashore on June 6, 1944 (D-Day), Mueller said ... ....

The Anti-Semite’s Best Friend

Edit CounterPunch 10 May 2016
Nazareth. It was an assessment no one expected from the deputy head of the Israeli military. In his Holocaust Day speech last week, Yair Golan compared current trends in Israel with Germany in the early 1930s, as Nazism took hold ... Only one minister, Edwin Montagu, dissented ... His idea for a Jewish state was inspired in part by the infamous Dreyfus affair, in which a Jewish French army officer was framed by his commanders for treason ... ....

May 7th 2016

Edit The Economist 09 May 2016
We looked at the charms of Fazioli pianos (Chopin nocturne 19 in E Minor), the challenges facing the French army (Guerre de 14-18) and the new desperation of the hotel industry (Stay with me)....

CRMS 7th graders complete cross-curricular project for Cinco de Mayo

Edit NJ dot com 09 May 2016
7th graders get lesson on the true meaning behind Cinco de Mayo ...  . As Nilson explained, Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico's Independence Day, as is the common misconception, but a celebration of a battle fought and won against a much larger and better-equipped French army in the town of Puebla, Mexico, in 1861 ... ....
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