Royal Society a compliment to Lord Brouncker, a peer and the first President of the Royal Society. The society's motto, "Nullius in verba", is Latin for "Take nobody's word for it". It was adopted to signify the fellows' determination to establish facts via experiments and comes from Horace's "Epistles", where he compares himself to a gladiator who, having retired, is free from control. The society's core members are the fellows: scientists and engineers from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth selected based on having made "a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science". Fellows
Stand on the Word The revamped electronic production of the soul and funk song remixed by MiMa made up of Michael Tordjman and Maxime Desprez did not enter the French charts in its initial release in 2008. But it proved to be very popular after Keedz' version of "Stand on the Word" was used as a short introduction to "Le Grand Journal" broadcast on Canal+ for the week 29 September to 3 October 2008. The French "Le Grand Journal" picks weekly one particular song (called "coming next") as a jingle to its introduction and changes it on a weekly basis. The choices prove usually