Kilogram

The picture above is a computer-generated image of the International Prototype Kilogram (“IPK”). The IPK is the kilogram. It sits next to an inch-based ruler for scale. The IPK is made of a platinum-iridium alloy and is stored in a vault at the BIPM in Sèvres, France. Like the other prototypes, the edges of the IPK have a four-angle chamfer to minimize wear (although only three can be seen in this image—even at high magnification). The kilogram or kilogramme (symbol: kg) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (known also by its French-language initials “SI”). The kilogram is defined as being equal to the mass of the International Prototype Kilogram (IPK; known also by its French-language name Le Grand K), which is almost exactly equal to the mass of one liter of water. It is the only SI base unit with an SI prefix as part of its name. It is also the only SI unit that is still defined in relation to an artifact rather than to a fundamental physical property that can be reproduced in different laboratories. In everyday usage, the mass of an object in kilograms is often referred to as its weight, although strictly speaking the weight of an object is the gravitational force on it, measured in newtons (see also Kilogram-force). Similarly, the avoirdupois pound, used in both the Imperial system and U.S. customary units, is a unit of mass and its related unit of force is the pound-force. The avoirdupois pound is defined as exactly 0.45359237 kg, making one kilogram approximately equal to 2.2046 avoirdupois pounds. Many units in the SI system are defined relative to the kilogram so its stability is important. After the International Prototype Kilogram had been found to vary in mass over time, the International Committee for Weights and Measures (known also by its French-language initials CIPM) recommended in 2005 that the kilogram be redefined in terms of fundamental constants of nature.

Keyboard Skill

QWERTY refers to the standard data entry keyboard. Term comes from the first six letters at the upper left of the keyboard. The first 6 letters on English-language keyboards are QWERTY. The first 6 letters on French-language keyboards are AZERTY.

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles

Early life Knowles is the elder of two daughters born to Mathew Knowles and Tina Beyince in Houston, Texas. Her father is African-American and her mother is an African-American of Creole descent. Her maternal grandparents, Lumis Beyince and Agnéz Deréon (a seamstress), were French-language-speaking Louisiana Creoles.[4] Her parents decided on her first name as a tribute to her mother's surname. By age seven, she was attending dance school and was a soloist in her church choir. Her dance instructor took an interest in Knowles and took her star student to various competitions. Knowles went on to win over thirty local singing and dancing competitions. Knowles and her former best friend LaTavia Roberson met Kelly Rowland and LeToya Luckett. They formed a quartet that would perform in their backyards and in Tina Knowles' hair salon. After singing at local events, they got their break when they entered Star Search.[5] The group, then named "Girl's Tyme",[6] were disappointed after losing the competition. Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé's father and Rowland's legal guardian, decided to help the girls reach their dreams of becoming singers. He quit his six-figure salary job as a multi-million dollar equipment salesman at Xerox to manage the group.[7] This decision by Mathew eventually affected the whole family. Their income had been cut in half, causing the family to move into two different apartments. When the group was signed to Columbia Records in 1996, it gave the entire family a second chance at making things work. As a teenager, Knowles attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, where she showed her musical talents. She later went to Alief Elsik High School, also in Houston.

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles

Early life Knowles is the elder of two daughters born to Mathew Knowles and Tina Beyince in Houston, Texas. Her father is African-American and her mother is an African-American of Creole descent. Her maternal grandparents, Lumis Beyince and Agnéz Deréon (a seamstress), were French-language-speaking Louisiana Creoles.[4] Her parents decided on her first name as a tribute to her mother's surname. By age seven, she was attending dance school and was a soloist in her church choir. Her dance instructor took an interest in Knowles and took her star student to various competitions. Knowles went on to win over thirty local singing and dancing competitions. Knowles and her former best friend LaTavia Roberson met Kelly Rowland and LeToya Luckett. They formed a quartet that would perform in their backyards and in Tina Knowles' hair salon. After singing at local events, they got their break when they entered Star Search.[5] The group, then named "Girl's Tyme",[6] were disappointed after losing the competition. Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé's father and Rowland's legal guardian, decided to help the girls reach their dreams of becoming singers. He quit his six-figure salary job as a multi-million dollar equipment salesman at Xerox to manage the group.[7] This decision by Mathew eventually affected the whole family. Their income had been cut in half, causing the family to move into two different apartments. When the group was signed to Columbia Records in 1996, it gave the entire family a second chance at making things work. As a teenager, Knowles attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, where she showed her musical talents. She later went to Alief Elsik High School, also in Houston.

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles

Early life Knowles is the elder of two daughters born to Mathew Knowles and Tina Beyince in Houston, Texas. Her father is African-American and her mother is an African-American of Creole descent. Her maternal grandparents, Lumis Beyince and Agnéz Deréon (a seamstress), were French-language-speaking Louisiana Creoles.[4] Her parents decided on her first name as a tribute to her mother's surname. By age seven, she was attending dance school and was a soloist in her church choir. Her dance instructor took an interest in Knowles and took her star student to various competitions. Knowles went on to win over thirty local singing and dancing competitions. Knowles and her former best friend LaTavia Roberson met Kelly Rowland and LeToya Luckett. They formed a quartet that would perform in their backyards and in Tina Knowles' hair salon. After singing at local events, they got their break when they entered Star Search.[5] The group, then named "Girl's Tyme",[6] were disappointed after losing the competition. Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé's father and Rowland's legal guardian, decided to help the girls reach their dreams of becoming singers. He quit his six-figure salary job as a multi-million dollar equipment salesman at Xerox to manage the group.[7] This decision by Mathew eventually affected the whole family. Their income had been cut in half, causing the family to move into two different apartments. When the group was signed to Columbia Records in 1996, it gave the entire family a second chance at making things work. As a teenager, Knowles attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, where she showed her musical talents. She later went to Alief Elsik High School, also in Houston.

Satellite Radio

In November, 2004, a partnership between Sirius, Standard Broadcasting and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation filed an application with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to introduce Sirius in Canada. The application was approved on June 16, 2005. The decision was appealed to the Canadian federal cabinet by a number of broadcasting, labour, and arts and culture organizations, including the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, CHUM Limited, and the National Campus and Community Radio Association. The groups objected to Sirius’ approach to and reduced levels of Canadian content and French language programming, along with the exclusion of Canadian non-commercial broadcasting. After a lengthy debate, cabinet rejected the appeals on September 9, 2005. Sirius Canada was officially launched December 1, 2005.

French

French is a Romance language spoken throughout the world by more than 260 million people, making it the 5th most-spoken language, and the 3rd most-spoken of the Romance languages – behind Portuguese and Spanish. It has at times been considered the “language of the world”, though in recent years English has in some ways superseded this role. French is an official language in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Luxemburg, Madagascar, Mali, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu. It is also widely spoken in many of France’s old territorial holdings, including Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. French is related to other Romance languages, such as the widely spoken Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese tongues. It is descended from Latin, and as such shares a great deal of vocabulary and grammar with other Latin-derived languages. While French is not usually comprehensible without study to speakers of other Romance languages, or vise versa, often enough words are cognates to allow some meaning to be deduced. French is one of the easier languages for native English speakers to learn, due to the large number of cognates and relatively simple grammar. French greatly influenced the English language during and after the Norman conquest of England, and as a result English finds the greatest number of cognates with French among the Romance languages. Outside of France, French is most widely spoken in Canada. More than 10% of the world’s French speakers live in Canada, the bulk of whom reside in the province of Quebec. Because of its wide-spread use, and fairly vocal political groups, French is an official language alongside English in Canada, and all products and signs must be printed in both French and English. In the province of Quebec, French is the sole official language, and has held this status since 1974. For a long period of time, French was viewed, alongside Latin, as the language of international learning, and many scientific papers and journals were published in French. It was also seen as the language of culture, and a great deal of writers – even those who spoke English natively – composed great works in French as their primary language. In fact, the term we use to denote a language that is used by a wide number of speakers who do not share a native tongue, lingua franca, means quite simply, “French language”. Since the emergence of the United States as a global business and scientific power in the wake of World War II, English has slowly been replacing French in many quarters as the lingua franca of the scientific and corporate worlds, with Chinese and Japanese also coming up quickly. For many in the arts, however, French is still considered the language of choice. French also enjoys a reputation as the “language of love,” because of the perceived smoothness and lilting nature of its sound. It is often said that poetry feels more natural in French, because of the meter the language tends to follow and the sentence structures that fit most naturally.

Harry potter

The name "Voldemort", may come from the common French language words "vol de mort". "Vol" is a masculine noun meaning "flight" or "theft". "De" is a preposition meaning "of" or "from". "Mort" is a feminine noun meaning "death", "end", or "ruin", or an adjective meaning "dead", or a masculine noun meaning "dead man".

question mark

Some people place a space between the end of their sentence and the question mark. This usage is thought to stem from the French language and is known as French spacing.

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles

Early life Knowles is the elder of two daughters born to Mathew Knowles and Tina Beyince in Houston, Texas. Her father is African-American and her mother is an African-American of Creole descent. Her maternal grandparents, Lumis Beyince and Agnéz Deréon (a seamstress), were French-language-speaking Louisiana Creoles.[4] Her parents decided on her first name as a tribute to her mother's surname. By age seven, she was attending dance school and was a soloist in her church choir. Her dance instructor took an interest in Knowles and took her star student to various competitions. Knowles went on to win over thirty local singing and dancing competitions. Knowles and her former best friend LaTavia Roberson met Kelly Rowland and LeToya Luckett. They formed a quartet that would perform in their backyards and in Tina Knowles' hair salon. After singing at local events, they got their break when they entered Star Search.[5] The group, then named "Girl's Tyme",[6] were disappointed after losing the competition. Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé's father and Rowland's legal guardian, decided to help the girls reach their dreams of becoming singers. He quit his six-figure salary job as a multi-million dollar equipment salesman at Xerox to manage the group.[7] This decision by Mathew eventually affected the whole family. Their income had been cut in half, causing the family to move into two different apartments. When the group was signed to Columbia Records in 1996, it gave the entire family a second chance at making things work. As a teenager, Knowles attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, where she showed her musical talents. She later went to Alief Elsik High School, also in Houston.