English words derive from many languages :

Loads of words of French origins have entered the English language : as a result, so have a great number of Latin words. Most of French-originating words date from the centuries after the 1066 Norman Conquest  -since England got ruled by Norman-speaking administrations then.

Various surveys and studies have showed almost 30% of all English words have a French origin.

Click on the book below to access a list of French words/phrases used in English :

You might get interested in Wikipedia's article on Anglicisation too :

Anglicisation consists of "converting verbal or written elements of any other language into a form that is more comprehensible to an English speaker". More generally, anglicising is "altering words or phrases" so that they "become English (in form or character)".

According to  Cisco's(1) data, the global Internet traffic is to quadruple between 2010 and 2015. Mashable details the forecast in the infographic below  ⇓

(1) : Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American-based multinational corporation. It designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services.

Watch the CBS report issued on June 9, 2011 :

  Now, listen to how it all started :

"Abandoned rail line gets new life as NYC Park"

by Robert Smith (on npr -June 2009) 

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 "New York's floating freight line"

an article on the BBC Planet website

(June 9, 2011)

Student bullying in schools is a serious issue

The statistics show a student is bullied every seven minutes in the U.S.A., and that most of the time, bullying occurs on playgrounds. 77% of students are bullied and cyber-bullying is rapidly approaching this percentage as well.

A Michigan personal injury law firm, Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C., created the infographic above to display the facts and statistics about student bullying in the U.S.A. 

  How to fight bullying

a few suggestions on the government website :

what to do when you are being bullied  <<<

>>> what to do when someone is being bullied  -take a stand !

The infographic by Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C. is licensed under a Creative Commons        Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

 Visualizing 38 million deaths from 25 conflicts

The artists Clara Kayser-Bril, Nicolas Kayser-Bril & Marion Kotlarski "[...] wanted to put a picture on these digits. A shocking, gory picture, like the reality of war. [...] Our understanding of conflicts is often nothing more than a handful of digits, the more precise, the less meaningful. The anchor’s tone remains the same when talking about major wars or isolated outbursts of violence. [...]

Figures give us knowledge, not meaning."