we must cultivate our garden

  • 1Candide — This article is about Voltaire s satire. For other uses, see Candide (disambiguation). Candide …

    Wikipedia

  • 2il faut cultiver notre jardin — foreign term Etymology: French we must cultivate our garden ; we must tend to our own affairs …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 3Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury — (22 May, 1938 ndash;2004) was a British aristocrat. In November 2004 he went missing in France having been murdered by his brother in law during an argument regarding a divorce from his wife Jamila. On 6 April 2005, Lord Shaftesbury s body was… …

    Wikipedia

  • 4Voltaire — For other uses, see Voltaire (disambiguation). François Marie Arouet Voltaire Voltaire at 24, by Catherine Lusurier after Nicolas de Largillière s painting Born 21 November 1694 Paris, France Died …

    Wikipedia

  • 5Economy of North Korea — Economic centre of North Korea Currency North Korean won Fiscal year …

    Wikipedia

  • 6Yiddish literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the Yiddish language of Ashkenazic (Ashkenazi) Jewry (central and eastern European Jews and their descendants).       Yiddish literature culminated in the period from 1864 to 1939, inspired …

    Universalium

  • 7United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

    Universalium

  • 8japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …

    Universalium

  • 9Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …

    Universalium

  • 10performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …

    Universalium