Author: Garfield Woolery

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Why do we say “checkmate”?

Chess is said to have been invented in India in the 6th century. – Credits: Billion Photos / Shutterstock INo other way out is possible. A knight threatens you, while pieces watch your movements. The other exits are even occupied

Marguerite Yourcenar or “way direction”

On December 17, 1987, it disappeared Marguerite Yourcenar, pseudonym Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour, at the age of 84. An important figure in 20th-century French literature, Marguerite Yourcenar was the first woman to be admitted to the Académie Française in 1980.