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The French island of Corsica

The French island of Corsica

This Envisat composite image shows the French island of Corsica, one of the largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea. Corsica is located just 90 km west of Italy, and 170 km south of France. Sardinia is just to the south...
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persifleur
  • One who indulges in light, playful chatter; a banterer; a quiz.
This comes from the French word for 'to banter lightly.'
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An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalisation would be just as well founded as the generalisation which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), British philosopher, mathematician.
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