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About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.

Chinese Moon landing success.

Posted on January 4, 2019 by bill

VIDEO. Ce que cherche la Chine en posant une sonde sur la face cachée de la Lune L’astrophysicien François Forget analyse pour franceinfo les enjeux de cet alunissage inédit. Benoît ZagdounFrance Télévisions Mis à jour le 03/01/2019 | 18:56 publié … Continue reading →

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Rugby: Young player dies in France.

Posted on December 31, 2018 by bill

Rugby : Nicolas Chauvin, joueur du Stade français, est mort à 18 ans après son arrêt cardiaque lors d’un match dimanche. The 18 year old Stade Francais player died of a cardiac arrest during a match on Sunday. Le troisième … Continue reading →

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Whale hunting: Japan to resume.

Posted on December 26, 2018 by bill

Le Japon va reprendre la pêche commerciale à la baleine En réalité, l’archipel n’a jamais complètement cessé cette pratique, au nom d’une chasse à but scientifique. Une baleine est transportée depuis un bateau en mai 2011 sur le port de … Continue reading →

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Mars photographs

Posted on December 24, 2018 by bill

EN IMAGES. Cratère et spirales de glace, canyon long de 4 000 km… Sept photos à couper le souffle de la planète rouge capturées par la sonde Mars Express. Craters and glacial spirals, a 4,000 km canyon…Seven breath-taking photos of … Continue reading →

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Nelly Sachs: Jewish poet, Nobel winner.

Posted on December 10, 2018 by bill

Nelly Sachs: Jewish Poet, Nobel Winner. Today we remember the 127th birthday of Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), the Jewish poet and refugee from Germany who shared the Nobel Prize in literature with the Israeli writer S.Y. Agnon in 1966 Nelly Sachs … Continue reading →

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Scottish boy writes to his Dad in heaven.

Posted on December 1, 2018 by bill

En Ecosse, un enfant envoie une lettre au paradis à son père mort… et reçoit une réponse. And gets an answer. Un postier de la Royal Mail a adressé un courrier à ce garçon de 7 ans qui avait envoyé … Continue reading →

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Mars; probe Insight lands safely.

Posted on November 27, 2018 by bill

Sonde InSight sur Mars : “C’est très émouvant, on obtient des photos d’un lieu jamais vu par l’homme”. “It’s very emotional, we’ll get photographs of the place never seen by mankind”. “Il va y avoir des vérifications pour savoir si … Continue reading →

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Luxor. Egypt unveils recently discovered sarcophagus tomb.

Posted on November 25, 2018 by bill

L’Egypte dévoile un tombeau et des sarcophages à Louxor Ces découvertes ont été réalisées par des missions archéologiques égyptienne et française.   Egyptian and French archeologists direct these discoveries. Le ministre des des Antiquités, Khaled al-Anani, examine un sarcophage récemment découvert à Louxor … Continue reading →

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Charles de Épée, father of sign language

Posted on November 24, 2018 by bill

Abbé Charles-Michel de l’Épée Founder of the first public school for the deaf Born 24 November 1712 Versailles, France Died 23 December 1789 (aged 77) Paris, France Alma mater Collège des Quatre Nations, University of Paris Charles-Michel de l’Épée was born to … Continue reading →

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Realt na Mara, Bull Wall, Dublin Bay.

Posted on November 22, 2018 by bill

Double Take: The 70ft statue in Dublin Bay that took 22 years to complete The soaring statue is famed in Dollymount. Wed 4:46 PM 1,807 Views Image: Tobias Abel/Flickr IF EVER YOU’VE enjoyed an ice cream on a sunny day … Continue reading →

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