[caption id="attachment_44023" align="alignleft" width="320"] Illustration: Anna Sanchis[/caption] When we were little, we knew the following by heart: A metre is the distance between two lines

Pyroclast, a euphonic word. It sounds good, or at least I think it does. I heard it for the first time in the 90s

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Esquisse d'un tableau historique des Progres de l'esprit humain was published in 1795, more than a year after the passing of its author. It