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Tag: Poems

The Crazy Calendar of a Revolutionary Republic

16 January 2016 Margo Lestz

The French Revolutionaries weren’t content with just changing their government. They wanted to change everything – even how they kept track of time.

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George W Bush and turkey pardon

Turkeys and Presidential Pardons

24 November 2013 Margo Lestz

Turkeys have long been given as gifts to US presidents. But in recent years, presidents have begun to pardon a live turkey the day before Thanksgiving.

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Collage bourgeois buildings

Farewell to a French Apartment

23 June 2013 Margo Lestz

The above collage is a selection of lovely bourgeois buildings in the Musicians quarter of Nice, where we used to live.  It is called the

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French Class: A Poem

22 August 2012 Margo Lestz

I’ll soon be off to Italy to start studying the Italian language. I know what I have to look forward to because I remember my

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