ROLLS-ROYCE LIFTS MARINE BUSINESS IN FRANCE.
PR Newswire, London, June 20. This press release is transmitted on behalf of Rolls-Royce One of the world's largest shiplifts, provided by Syncrolift Inc. - a Rolls-Royce company - entered service in Cherbourg today, marking another milestone in the growing relationship between Rolls-Royce and the French marine...

CMN Composites obtains military contract for containers. (Industry News).
CMN Composites, a division of the French naval shipbuilding group Constructions Mecaniques de Normandie (CMN), has secured a contract to construct and supply composite containers for surface-to-air missiles. The contract--from the French Government's weapons procurement agency, Delegation Generale pour l'Armement (DGA)--is to design, construct and supply a...

QUIZZICAL.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS GLOBAL BROGUES Q HOW have places like Australia and the USA developed accents unique to their country? Surely they should have a mixture of European accents. A The accents of English spoken in the USA and Australia derive from the...

The Most Beautiful Villages of Normandy. (Reviews).
The Most Beautiful Villages of Normandy. Hugh Palmer. Thames & Hudson. [pounds sterling]24.95. 208 pages. ISBN 0-500-51072-5. For Englishmen, Normandy is that part of France most closely connected to their own country through almost 1000 years of history. But for those who know no history there is also a...

Twice-magic metal makes its debut.
A team of nuclear physicists believes that a certain isotope of nickel is so special that it spent a dozen years developing the ability to make the isotope. On Sept. 24, researchers at the Grand Accelerateur National d'Ions Lourds in Caen, France, announced that they have made...

Scotland.
Edinburgh in the 17th and 18th centuries was among the most respected centers of learning in Europe. Chemistry, geology and medicine flourished there in about equal proportions, producing many important mineral collectors. Among the earliest Scottish collectors was Sir Andrew Balfour (1630-1694), born at Balfour Castle in Fifeshire. He...

New doctor of the church? St. Therese of Lisieux.
The following article is an introduction to Saint Therese of Lisieux (France, 1873-1897). If she is declared a Doctor of the Church in 1997, a further article next year will attempt to clarify why. The spread of Therese's fame began when her prioress decided to circulate to...

Canadian warcos: a legacy of excellence and valour.
During the Second World War, approximately 25 Canadian journalists became accredited as war correspondents. Neither soldiers nor true civilians, was correspondents were required to withstand the same appalling or hazardous conditions as both. The term warco was coined to describe these courageous and exceptional members of the press. The...

Bill et Bela.
Alexis Salatko. Presses de la Renaissance, 1993. 168 pp. 85 Fr. Perhaps one must live in the French port of Cherbourg, as does the writer Alexis Salatko, to imagine bringing together William Faulkner and Bela Bartok into an unusual diptych-novel entitled Bill et Bela. Salatko begins with...

MONSIEUR FERRAND AND THE DECLINE OF THE FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE.
MONSIEUR Ferrand will celebrate his eightieth birthday at the start of the new millennium. He lives with his wife in two rooms of a very small cottage, heated by an old-fashioned wood burning stove. The furnishing is spartan but includes an immense grandfather clock which strikes the hour with...