Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté (en italien : Il gatto maestro o il gatto con gli stivali ; en allemand : Der Meisterkater oder der Kater in Stiefeln, ou Der gestiefelte Kater ; en anglais : The Master Cat, or the Booted Cat ou Puss in Boots ; en espagnol : Maese Gato o el gato con botas) est un conte franco-italien en prose racontant l'histoire d'un chat qui utilise la ruse et la tricherie pour offrir le pouvoir, la fortune et la main d'une princesse à son maître mal-né et sans-le-sou. L'auteur italien Giovanni Francesco Straparola semble avoir transcrit la plus ancienne version connue de cette...

Kyrgyz is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia. Kyrgyz is the official language of Kyrgyzstan and a significant minority language in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China and in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan. There is a very high level of mutual intelligibility between Kyrgyz, Kazakh, and Altay. A dialect of Kyrgyz known as Pamiri Kyrgyz is spoken in north-eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. Kyrgyz is also spoken by many ethnic Kyrgyz through the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Turkey, parts of northern Pakistan, and...

Adjective: six pieds sous terre (invariable)

1. six feet under

A no true Scotsman fallacy, or appeal to purity, is a fallacy which occurs when a universal (“all”, “every”, "any" etc.) claim is refuted or is given counter-evidence to and the claim is altered by going from universal to specific, and failing to give any objective criteria for the specificity rather than conceding the point or meaningfully revising the claim; it is a form of moving the goalposts. The name comes from an example made up by Anthony Flew. "No true Scotsman puts brown sugar on his porridge. The fact that Angus MacGregor puts brown sugar on his porridge just proves that he's no true...

Lady Godiva (; died between 1066 and 1086), in Old English Godgifu, was a late Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who is relatively well documented as the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and a patron of various churches and monasteries. Today, she is mainly remembered for a legend dating back to at least the 13th century, in which she rode naked – covered only by her long hair – through the streets of Coventry to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation that her husband, Leofric, imposed on his tenants. The name "Peeping Tom" for a voyeur originates from later versions of this legend, in which a man named...