Word: frenched
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...French proverb "a day without wine is like a day without sunshine" fits the Napa Valley to a T. Even on the rare cloudy days, there's plenty of sunshine aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train, a 10-year-old cruise ship on land that offers white-linen dining--and plenty of the local agricultural product--on a three-hour rail voyage through the heart of California's famed wine country...
...almost nothing went well. The Egyptians were not grateful to be liberated. Nelson happened by, and destroyed the entire French fleet in the Bay of Abukir off Alexandria, leaving Napoleon and his 36,000-man expedition stranded among scorpions and Mamelukes...
...managed to construct an entire parallel universe of lies, more real and more politically efficient than the truth. As the historian Alan Schom has written: "On returning to France... much to his utter astonishment, the thirty-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte found himself greeted by a madly exuberant French people who knew little of his phenomenal disasters and instead saw only the man who had captured Malta, the Pyramids, and Egypt, the latter-day republican crusader who had taken Cairo from the heathens...
Before coming to Harvard, Gore graduated from St. Albans in Washington, D.C. ranked 25th in a class of 51. There, he had three straight years of C's in French, although he did receive four years of straight...
...Reconciliation is absolutely impossible," said Bernard Kouchner, head of UNMIK, to the French Communist newspaper L'Humanite on Saturday...