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In case you haven't noticed, THERE'S NO INTERNET HERE
So I am spending my "Planning Period" (a time when the teachers can come and consult me... cleverly scheduled during a time when all of the English teachers are in class) surfing the Encarta encyclopedia instead. Here are the fascinating things I've found:
I already knew about Iggy Pop, but apparently 1976 Nobel Prize (Physics) winner Samuel Chao Chung Ting was also born in Ann Arbor.
There is a place in Provence (Vaucluse, to be specific) called Le plateau d'Albion, where the French had underground missile silos, but apparently don't anymore. I'm a little disappointed.
The 1990 population of Vichy was 27,714 but the population of the agglomération (including Vichy, Cusset, Bellerive-sur-Allier, etc) was 61,566.
Valéry Larbaud was a writer born in Vichy in 1881. He was also well-known for translating James Joyce, William Faulkner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Walt Whitman into French. He became aphasian in 1935.
The things you learn when THERE'S NO INTERNET!
srah - Tuesday, 26 November 2002 - 3:36 AM
Tags: ann arbor, assistantship, valéry larbaud, vichy
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