Nuclear power is a major source of energy in France, with a 40% share of energy consumption in 2015.
Nuclear power is the largest source of electricity in the country, with a generation of 379.1 TWh, or 71.6% of the country's total production of 519.4 TWh…

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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and leader of the E Street Band. Nicknamed "The Boss," he is recognized for his poetic lyrics, his Jersey Shore roots, his distinctive voice, and lengthy, energetic…

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He broke into a dump, ate a couple of black bears, strolled through Banff’s Central Park in midday and fathered at least five of the park’s younger bears

The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from Sturzkampfflugzeug, "dive bomber") was a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during…

Many of our readers have probably seen bamboo growing and perhaps even visited famous Japanese bamboo forests such as the one in Arashiyama, Kyoto. However,…

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibetan Buddhism. He was declared the 11th Panchen Lama by the Dalai Lama on 14 May 1995. He was rejected by the search team appointed by the State Council of the People's Republic of China. He was born in…

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People who oppose wind farms often claim wind turbine blades kill large numbers of birds, often referring to them as "bird choppers". And claims of dangers to iconic or rare birds, especially raptors, ...

Biography of Specialist McKinley

To save his own life, Joseph Dombey had an idea. As two pirate ships surrounded the ship he was on in the Caribbean Sea in 1794, Dombey scrambled below deck, disrobing as he went. He appropriated the...

The Lord of the Rings film series is a series of epic fantasy-drama films directed by Peter Jackson. The three films, ennoscriptd The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, were released serially worldwide between December 2001 and…

Despite four decades of performing and hearing the song, guitarist Brian May still enjoys what is undoubtedly his biggest hit. “I’m not sick of it,” he tells the BBC.

This droll, dry wit is precisely what I would have expected: > > Although the noscript of “best business card ever” may be held by this card: click for larger image Found by Matt Cutts in an old book purchased at a book sale.

Hint: It's not worth it.

 



When President John F. Kennedy traveled to West Berlin on June 26, 1963, he wanted to assure the people there—who were literally walled off from the eastern portion of their city by Communist Russia—that Americans stood with them. Ever the classicist…

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Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (French pronunciation: ​[ɑ̃twan.ʒozɛf adɔlf saks]; 6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894) was a Belgian inventor and musician who created the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846. He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn…