somme

If you've ever wondered why europe has been so secular/atheistic for the last 100 years, in comparison to the rest of the word, the Somme is basically your answer.

Only regions like Beauce or Baie de somme rival with this land in its hideousness.

And the Battle of the Somme that was being fought at the same time had even more dead in the same timeframe.

The generations that were lost on the Somme and Flanders crippled the empire.

World War I and horrors like the Somme were a product of decades of training, indoctrination and religious connection to national policy.

The UK lost nineteen thousand men dead on the first day of the Somme in 1916, do you really imagine a Western nation losing that many for any conflict today?

And contrary to popular belief, almost nobody speaks natively arabic, you will find popular arabic courses (because speaking arabic looks cool in somme communities, and for reading the koran), but very few native speakers.

Agreed would any sane president look at the generals projected 98% wastage rate for the first 5 waves ashore for operation Olympic and think well this new weapon could force a surrender but no I will give America her own Verdun or Somme what's 1/2 a million dead GI's and Squaddie's.

The only way to expect 100% pass rates on exams is to write stupidly easy exams with pointless multiple choice like "What year was the battle of the Somme".

Not sure if that will help, but here's my understanding: "Le Client s'engage à régler directement à l'auteur de la réclamation toute somme que celui ci exigerait d’OVH." If an author ask compensation to OVH, you (OVH Client) pay the author directly the wanted amount.

C’est dans cet acte de "passer outre", d’être soi-même en somme et non pas simplement l’expression des consensus qui font loi, de ne pas rester enfermé à l’intérieur du cercle impératif qu’ils nous fixent - c’est avant tout dans cet acte solitaire que se trouve "la création".

Given Tolkien's experience at the Somme, I imagine that he was writing from experience.

I suspect European listeners will be surprised by less, but for any American who doesn't know what I'm talking about if I mention Verdun or the Somme, I _highly_ recommend the podcasts.