David Roe

Mar 20, 2024 | yahoo.com | David Roe

This week is the Semaine de la Franophonie. To mark it, RFI Language services have focused on bilingual French dictionaries in their given languages and how those dictionaries evolved. The English service took a look at Randle Cotgrave, an English lexicographer who lived during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. His dictionary, Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, was published in 1611 and was one of the first of its kind.

Mar 20, 2024 | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | David Roe

This week is the Semaine de la Franophonie. To mark it, RFI language services have focused on bilingual French dictionaries in their given languages and how those dictionaries evolved. The English service took a look at Randle Cotgrave, an English lexicographer who lived during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. His dictionary, Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, was published in 1611 and was one of the first of its kind.

Dec 19, 2023 | modernghana.com | David Roe

The Statue of Liberty, an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy, stands in New York Harbor stands on Liberty Island off the coast of Manhattan. Beyond its iconic exterior, the statue's infrastructure is a monument of engineering and innovation and was designed by Gustave Eiffel and his company on the outskirts of Paris in the 1880s.

Dec 18, 2023 | news.yahoo.com | David Roe

The Statue of Liberty, an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy, stands in New York Harbor stands on Liberty Island off the coast of Manhattan. Beyond its iconic exterior, the statue's infrastructure is a monument of engineering and innovation and was designed by Gustave Eiffel and his company on the outskirts of Paris in the 1880s.

Dec 18, 2023 | rfi.fr | David Roe

France gifted the statue to the United States to commemorate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence and to cement the deep relationship between the two countries. Eiffel’s roleEiffel (born on 15 December 1832 in Dijon, France) however, was the second designer of the internal structural elements of the Statue of Liberty.