Ethiopia, where my wife and daughter and I travelled recently, is a very curious corner of the world indeed. Twice the size of France and with about the same population, it sits just above the equator in east Africa. Directly across the Red Sea lies Yemen and then, to the north, Saudi Arabia.
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She Fled Across The Fields
Some austere nuggets from Le Matin’s eminent faits divers editor Félix Fénéon, also a critic, publisher, art dealer, and an anarchist with a fondness for bombing.
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How to Name Your Baby
As most parents know instinctively, there is a curious magic in names. Call your little on Elmer, and he will be less likely to succeed than if you plunge in with Charlemagne or Napoleon…Excerpted from John Train’s Most Remarkable Names, 1985.
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