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Offbeat News tagged with France

French Hotel Lets Guests Live Like Hamsters for a Night
Offbeat  (tags: hotels, France, hamsters, environment, humans )

Cher
- 25 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
France has all the ingredients for a romantic getaway. The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the smell of fresh baguettes and wine ... Hamsters.
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Better Canine Citizens in Paris? Oui Oui!
Offbeat  (tags: animals, dogs, France, pets, protection, environment )

Cher
- 58 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
The French love their dogs, and take them everywhere. And with over 500,000 dogs living in Paris, it's no wonder that the parade of pampered pooches is a constant of Parisian life. They sit on subway cars, on their own chairs at brasseries. Most places
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700 Naked People in France for Climate Change Action
Offbeat  (tags: environment, climate-change, nature, protection, humans, naked, France, habitat )

Cher
- 74 days ago - ecoworldly.com
700 people stripped naked in French vineyards this week. Why? To try to influence world leaders to do more regarding climate change.
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France Worried By Hornet Invasion
Offbeat  (tags: animals, Chinese hornets, invasion, France, environment )

Cher
- 121 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
France faces an invasion of Chinese hornets that could hasten the decline of the honeybee population.
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Gas From Rotting Seaweed Kills Horse
Offbeat  (tags: france, horse, rider, seaweed gases, death, investigation )

Simone
- 131 days ago - horsetalk.co.nz
Dangerous gases released by rotting sea lettuce in France has killed a horse and nearly killed its rider. Both inhaled fumes from the decaying weed on a beach in Saint-Michel-en-Greve in Brittany. A necropsy revealed the horse suffered a pulmonary
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France Goes All Sweet on Britain's Exceedingly Good Cakes
Offbeat  (tags: food, culture, France, Britain, cakes, interesting )

Michelle
- 171 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
France, the home of patisserie from the chocolate éclair to the profiterole, has acquired something of an appetite for British cakes and puddings.
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French Village on Alert After Crocodile Sightings
Offbeat  (tags: animals, bizarre, crocodile, France, monster hunt, unusual )

Michelle
- 178 days ago - uk.reuters.com
A French village is on the alert after several sightings of a crocodile were reported in a local pond and police and local anglers have joined the hunt for the elusive creature dubbed the "Loch Ness monster of the Vosges.
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Stand By Me - Beautiful International Version   video
Offbeat  (tags: Mark Johnson, Bill Moyers, Music, Song, Stand By Me, River Phoenix, International, PBS, Journal, Playing For Change, Mexico, Netherlands, France, Russia, South Africa, Holland, USA, Louisiana, New Orleans, California )

Blue
- 411 days ago - youtube.com
The song Stand By Me performed by many artists in different countries. From Bill Moyers Journal on PBS. Official web site: http://www.playingforchange.com/
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Sarkozy Wants to Get Taller
Offbeat  (tags: Sarkozy, Carla Bruni, president, model, France )


- 443 days ago - superpastime.com
Sarkozy is having a pioneering stretch surgery in a bid to make him taller. He has contacted a leading Swiss laboratory because he has become so paranoid about his frame.
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The Prophecies of Nostradamus for 2008. 50 Minute Video.   video
Offbeat  (tags: Nostradamus, prophet, France, French, prophecies, Astrology, King James Bible, Code, Book, Revelation, Biblical, Mabus, 666, Titan, Greek, The Destroyer, society, technology, humans )

Gregory
- 450 days ago - youtube.com
The French prophet Nostradamus, his prophecies interpreted using astrology, Bible Prophecy including the Book of Revelation, and the King James version English Bible Code.Codefinder software, is used, in a new approach to interpreting Nostradamus quatrain
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BBC NEWS | Au Revoir Mister Franglais
Offbeat  (tags: franglais, miles kington, odd, language, foreign, tongue, english, britain, uk, U.S., France, hybrid )

Cissy
- 684 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The British are notoriously bad at learning foreign tongues. But with Franglais, the late Miles Kington showed anyone could get by on holiday with just a petit peu of effort. If there is one foreign language that English speakers always seem to crack
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