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Normandy

Remembering Normandy: Let Us Never Forget

Duane Wells | Posted 05.24.2013 | Travel
Read More: France, Normandy, Travel, Wwii, Memorial Day, War, Normandy-Beaches, Memorial Day Weekend, World War II, D-Day, Travel News
Duane Wells

When I arrived in Normandy after an hour long train ride from Paris, visits to the D-Day beaches and war memorials had been on my list of "to dos" but, if I'm honest, they weren't at the top of that list or even close to it.

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Preschoolers Shown Porn As Teacher Leaves Room

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 01.16.2013 | World
Read More: Normandy, Adult Films, France, Pre-School, French Education, Nursery Schoolers, Porn, Sex Education, World News, Nursery School, Child Abuse, Pre-Schoolers, World News

Sex education was never supposed to be like this. Preschool children in Normandy were left unsupervised to watch a porn film after the teacher thou...

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PHOTOS: The Eerie Beauty Of WW2 Bunkers

Posted 01.08.2013 | Travel
Read More: Dday, Dday Normandy, World War II, Normandy, International Destinations, World War Ii Bunkers, Travel News

For anyone who has visited the beaches of Normandy and the American cemetery there, the eerie beauty of the area is tempered by its haunting past. ...

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U.S. Military History In Belgium

Andy Kutler | Posted 02.02.2013 | Travel
Read More: 101st Airborne, History, Soldiers, Army, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, Gettysburg, World War II, Bastogne, Travel News
Andy Kutler

if asked about the bloodiest fighting in American history, few would likely point to a tiny Belgian hamlet called Bastogne, just across the border from Luxembourg.

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'Mr. Clean'

Jerry Zezima | Posted 01.26.2013 | Comedy
Read More: Daughter, Jimmy Hoffa, Stamford Advocate, Humor, Newspaper, Journalist, Normandy, Kids, First Lady, Press Secretary, Office, Reporters, Stamford, Clean Workspace, Comedy News
Jerry Zezima

Over the years, I have cleaned up my act. Now my desk is so neat that it looks like I don't do any real work, which I don't.

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PHOTOS: 25 European Travel Ideas For Summer 2012

Viator | Posted 09.16.2012 | Travel
Read More: Pompeii, Normandy, France, England, Netherlands, Rome, Versailles, Champagne, Travel, Spain, Italy, Cinque Terre, London, Paris, Milan, Switzerland, Germany, Barcelona, Venice, Munich, Stonehenge, Vatican, Europe, Florence, Slideexpand, Travel News
Viator

It is the perfect summer to head to Europe.

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The Man Behind 'A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self'

Shira Lazar | Posted 09.08.2012 | Home
Read More: 32-Year-Old, Weeping Prophet, France, Theater, A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self, Viral Success, Calentures, Shira Lazar, Parking Garage, Youtube Is My Life, Viral Attention, Youtube Videos, Drawing, Church of Blow, Improvisation, La Mort D?Adam, Preston Blair, Normandy, 12-Year-Old, 20th Anniversary, Jeremiah Mcdonald Interview, Portland, Overnight Success, Advice, Interview, Jeremiah Mcdonald, Animation, Tumblr, Maine, Festival D?Avignon, Weeping Prophet Productions, Jazz Dispute, Artist, Comédie De Caen, What's Trending, Viral Video, 20th Anniversary Edition, Video, Home News
Shira Lazar

This video is an interesting case of taking the personal and having it blow up on a universally relatable scale. For this reason, Jeremiah has trouble pinpointing the reason he's received attention, stating, "In a way it's the most personal thing that I've done."

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Band Of Brothers Major Honored On D-Day Anniversary

AP | GREG KELLER | Posted 08.06.2012 | World
Read More: D-Day Anniversary, Normandy, France, Band of Brothers, Dday-Normandy, D-Day-Anniversary-2012, D-Day, World War II, World News

SAINTE-MARIE-DU-MONT, France — With World War II-era military planes darting overhead and Normandy's Utah Beach visible in the distance, a bronz...

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D-Day Vets Reunite By Chance On Beach They Stormed 67 Years Ago

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.21.2011 | Impact
Read More: World-War-Ii-Memorial, War Veterans, Normandy, Battle of Normandy, World War II Veterans, Good News, World War II, D-Day, Normandy Invasion, Video, Impact News

Almost 70 years ago while fighting in Normandy on D-Day, Bill Betts believed himself wounded beyond survival. He told his friend Clifford Baker to con...

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Amazing Photos Of D-Day On The Anniversary Of the Invasion

Posted 08.06.2011 | World
Read More: D-Day Anniversary, Adolf Hitler, Europe, Normandy, World War II, D-Day, France, Nazi Party, World News

The 67th anniversary of D-Day -- the day the Allied powers began the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II -- brings wit...

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The Other Side of Normandy

Andy Kutler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: France, History, Normandy, War, Dday, Poland, Germany, Pointe De Hoc, USS Enterprise, Gettysburg, Europe, World War II, Pearl Harbor, Omaha Beach, Travel News
Andy Kutler

For thirty nine years, I thought I knew about World War II, considering myself a veritable scholar. Yet only now, in my fortieth year, do I realize the full breadth of my ignorance.

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I Like Ike

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Empire, Germany, 1952 Election, Normandy, Churchill, Suetonius, Journalism, Dwight Eisenhower, Ike, Richard Nixon, 1776 Exhibition, Field Marshal Montgomery, Denis Hamilton, World War II, Holland, Dunkirk, American Caesars, D Day, Politics News
Nigel Hamilton

How those two figures -- Eisenhower and Nixon -- have resurfaced in the news over these past few days!

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Along for the Ride: Paris & Deauville

Andrea R. Vaucher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Slidepollajax, Museums Paris, Normandy, Brasseries, Villa Josephine, Bistros, Paris, Le Comptoir, Deauville, Boutiques Paris, Restaurants Paris, Rental Apartments Paris, Shopping Paris, Monet, Kertesz, Trouville, Hockney, Travel News
Andrea R. Vaucher

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Franglais: Moules Marinière over Spaghetti

Kerry Saretsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: French Cooking, Recipes, French Food, French, Mussels, Normandy, Moules Marinière, Home News
Kerry Saretsky

To me, when travelling, there are two kinds of places: those places you plan and plan to go to, and the places in which you suddenly end up. Thoug...

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Normandy Impressionist Festival: Andre Malraux Museum at Le Havre

Denise Dennis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Malraux Museum, Renoir, Musee D'Orsay, Le Havre, Normandy Impressionist Festival, Etretat, Normandy, SIsley, Pissarro, France, Matisse, Deauville, Edgar Degas, Andre Malraux, Impressionists, Olivier Senn, Art, Raoul Dufy, Claude Monet, Impressionism, Arts News
Denise Dennis

It is impossible to write about the impressionist art inside the museums of Normandy without describing the natural beauty and scenes from everyday l...

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Normandy: Rare Prints Exhibited at Caen

Denise Dennis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Caen, France, Fine Art, Edgar Degas, Sculpture, Impressionism, Musee De Fine Arts at Caen, Camille Pissarro, Art, Normandy, Paul Cezanne, Engraving, Mary Cassatt, Printmaking, Arts News
Denise Dennis

If you read my earlier post, "Normandy: Birthplace of Impressionism Celebrated this Summer" you know that the entire Normandy region of France is pay...

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Normandy: Birthplace of Impressionism Celebrated this Summer

Denise Dennis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: France, Art, Fine Art, Normandy, Painting, Claude Monet, Honfleur, Impressionism, Printmaking, Arts News
Denise Dennis

This summer, in a festival entitled Normandie Impressionniste, the entire Normandy region is paying homage to the artists who lived and worked here, and to the artists and places that inspired them.

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Letter From Paris: An Appalachian Artist

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Hazard-Kentucky, Appalacian Mountains, Normandy, Juliette Binoche, Abstract-Expressionism, Kentucky, Chocolat, Theo Edmonds, Paris, Deauville, World News
Beth Arnold

My prediction: Theo Edmonds is going to stir up the Paris art world. Better get a painting while you can.

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French Delights Overshadow Economic Slump, Uncertainty

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Mont St. Michel, Musée Des Impressionismes, Val D?Europe, French, Sophia Loren, Dom Perignon, Princess Grace, Crayfish, Oysters, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Normandy, Paris, Belgian, Coke, Afp, Hervé Novelli, Euro Disney, Champagne Region, French Fries, Christian Dior, Moët Et Chandon, Louvre Museum, Granville, Japanese, Wwii, Economist Intelligence Unit, Mona Lisa, Napoleon Bonaparte, France, Lobsters, Eiffel Tower, Medieval, Ile De France, Youtube, Place Du Tertre, Montmartre, Musée Eugène Delacroix, Mussels, Claude Monet, James Bond, Notre-Dame De Reims, Gothic, Scriptorial, Provins, Avranches, Epernay, Reims, Marne-La-Valée-Chessy, Giverny, World News
Magda Abu-Fadil

France may be in a slump, with a hyper-kinetic president intent on structural reforms to counter mounting deficits, but it remains the number one international destination for visitors offering more delights than can be fathomed on a 20-day visit.

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Health Care: France & the U.S., Social Security and the Single-Payer Model

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Securite Sociale, Sarkozy, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Social Security, Brigitte Marti, Obama, Health Care, Veterans, Barack Obama Mother, Normandy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fdr, French President Sarkozy, Barack Obama Normandy, Politics News
Vivian Norris

France enjoys the benefit of a National Health Program or 'assurance maladie.' Typically, social protection and health care work in combination and that is a concept widely accepted in Europe.

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Remembering America: Obama's D-Day Speech and Two Days in June

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Buchenwald, Nazi, Normandy, Tom Hanks, France, Ronald Reagan, D-Day, John Ford, Omaha Beach, Barack Obama, Cairo, Germany, Egypt, Al Qaeda, Steven Spielberg, Jihadism, Japan, Israel, Muslim, Navy, Europe, Soviet Union, Britain, Gordon Brown, Russia, World War II, World News
William Bradley

On Thursday in Cairo, Obama gave his rhetorical best to reposition a mostly peaceful America in the future of the Muslim world. On Saturday in Normandy, he reminded of America's glittering past.

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Obama In Paris, Will Meet Michelle And Kids

AP | MARK S. SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Sarkozy Obama, Obama Paris, France, Normandy, Obama Sarkozy, D-Day, Paris, Obama in Paris, Dresden, Berlin, Germany, Cairo, Paris-France, Poland, Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, World News

WEIMAR, Germany — President Barack Obama absorbed the stark horrors memorialized at the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday and said the lesson...

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D-Day Memories and Heroism

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Slideshow, D-Day Obama Ceremony, D-Day Ceremony, Normandy, D-Day Stories, D-Day Commemoration, D-Day Obama Speech, D-Day, Ee, World News

Leading up to the 65th anniversary of D-Day, The Huffington Post asked readers to send in their memories of that historic day when Allied forces storm...

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Sarkozy, Obama To Be United On D-Day -- With Or Without Her Majesty

AP | ELAINE GANLEY | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Sarkozy Obama, France, Sarkozy, Normandy, D-Day 2009, Queen D-Day, Obama France, Sarkozy D-Day, Obama D-Day, Obama, Obama Sarkozy, Sarkozy Dday, World News

PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy is a big fan of the United States and makes no secret of his craving for the limelight. Enter Barack Obama, th...

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Obama Lobbies For D-Day Invitation To Queen, Says White House

The Guardian | Daniel Nasaw in Washington and Haroon Siddique | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Sarkozy Obama, Queen, France, Normandy, D-Day 2009, Queen D-Day, Obama Queen, Obama Sarkozy, D-Day, Sarkozy Queen Snub, Queen Sarkozy D-Day, World News

Unlike some of his compatriots on the right, Barack Obama is probably far too diplomatic to bring up the debt owed to the US by France from world war ...

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