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St. Patrick's Day is observed each year on March 17. St. Patrick's Day is not an official national holiday in Canada. It is, however, a provincial holiday in Newfoundland. St. Patrick's Day invokes the spirit of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland who is credited with bringing Christianity to the island. Observed as a religious occasion in Ireland, in Canada, it is often marked with festive parades and the wearing of green. It is believed that Patrick was born in Kilpatrick Scotland. When Patrick was in his early teens, he was captured during a raid and taken to Ireland as a slave. There he learned to tend and herd sheep. At this time, Druids and pagans occupied Ireland. Patrick learned the practices and language of his captors. Because of the hardships he faced, Patrick turned to God. When Patrick was twenty, God came to him in a dream and advised him to go to the coast. Patrick escaped and sailers took him back to Britain where he was reunited with his parents. But Ireland beckoned to the young man through is dreams, so Patrick entered the priesthood, was ordained as a bishop and returned to the Emerald Isle in March 433. He traveled across the country converting the people to Christianity.  1, fiche 1, Anglais, - St%2E%20Patrick%26rsquo%3Bs%20Day

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Fête des Irlandais : le 17 mars.  2, fiche 1, Français, - Saint%2DPatrick

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Éviter l'expression abrégé St-Patrick.  2, fiche 1, Français, - Saint%2DPatrick

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The consumer, so it is said, is the king. Or rather, with every man a king, each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done. His votes must compete with other men's votes; and the people with the most votes end up with the most influence on what gets produced and on where those goods go. Now our task is to see just how this spending of money votes-this system of "consumer sovereignty"-takes place.  2, fiche 2, Anglais, - consumer%20sovereignty

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Eurodollar issue where interest rates have been set too low to attract investors. Called Star Trek because they were priced where no man dared to go(a reference to the Star Trek TV show).  1, fiche 3, Anglais, - Star%20Trek%20issue

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The pool-sweep theory of intelligence. People who have large swimming pools often purchase a device called a pool-sweep, essentially a motorized float with long tentacles that sweep the bottom of a swimming pool. It has to be programmed to the shape of the pool, and then simply is left to do its work. When someone sees a pool-sweep in action for the first time, it looks very smart. It appears to go after the dirt and make its way around the pool as if it were being steered by a little man. It is indeed programmed in the sense that it has been given a set of instructions and it follows them. When we think of something as being programmed we imply that it is in some way intelligent, certainly more intelligent than something that hasn’t been programmed, or that cannot be programmed. People are fooled initially by the pool-sweep, and only see it for what it is after being told that it's just programmed for one pool, and if it were placed in a different pool it wouldn’t work. In a similar way, people can be fooled initially into thinking that computers are really smart of intelligent.  1, fiche 4, Anglais, - pool%2Dsweep%20theory

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a detachment detailed to carry out a sentence of death by shooting.  2, fiche 5, Anglais, - firing%20squad

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By the middle of the nineteenth century, when a firing squad assembled, it was often the case that one man would randomly be given a blank bullet. Whether each member of the firing squad could tell if he had the blank or not... was irrelevant. Each man could go home that night with the certainty that he could never be accused, for sure, of having played a role in the killing.  3, fiche 5, Anglais, - firing%20squad

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groupe de soldats chargé de fusiller un condamné à mort.  1, fiche 5, Français, - peloton%20d%27ex%C3%A9cution

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