Quatre consonnes et trois voyelles, c'est le prenom de Raphael

[mi_guida]

Fact for the day:

According to Mlle. Gannages of Paris II, the notion of "genocide" appeared at the end of WWII in the work of a Polish jurist, Raphael Lemkin, who referred to it from 1944 onward


Well, I'm excited. It's a fact, and not a useful one - hence I will know it for ever. Don't ever let me set a pub quiz....


Oh, and the title is lyrics from a song by Carla Bruni, which my computer put on as I started the section on genocide. Clever little goblin in the computer!

Comments

[poodlerat.livejournal.com]

LOL. I totally do that too, and I'm always surprised when I suddenly remember some obscure fact.

I was playing Trivial Pursuit with my aunt, and one of the questions was "What is the last Grand Duchy in Europe?" I said "Luxembourg!" before she'd even finished asking the question. I have no idea how I knew that - I can't remember ever having leaned anything about Luxembourg, in school or outside of it, but the answer just jumped out of my mouth without me having to think about it.

[mi-guida.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that... but now I do *grin*