http://www.ealmanac.com A whole new association Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:36:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.ealmanac.com/156/shapes/the-hexagon-of-saturn/ http://www.ealmanac.com/156/shapes/the-hexagon-of-saturn/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 16:19:05 +0000 Joel http://www.ealmanac.com/shape/the-hexagon-of-saturn/ http://www.ealmanac.com/156/shapes/the-hexagon-of-saturn/feed/ 0 http://www.ealmanac.com/148/shapes/lhexagone/ http://www.ealmanac.com/148/shapes/lhexagone/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 15:41:30 +0000 Joel http://www.ealmanac.com/shape/hexagone-l-france/ "L'Hexagone" is one of the nicknames that the French use to describe the European mainland part of France, i.e. France without Corsica or its oversea départements et territoires (DOM-TOM). A hexagon appears on the French versions of the €1 and €2 coins along with the national motto, "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité."

]]> “L’Hexagone” (“the hexagon” in English) is a nickname for the geographic part of France that is on the continent of Europe. The nickname comes from the basic shape of the country which has six fairly equal sides.

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