One thing you won’t find much in Australian second-hand bookshops are 1950s or earlier editions of lots of books – The Catcher in the Rye, A Farewell to Arms, Animal Farm, Peyton Place, Another Countr...
For 2 billion years this is all the life there was on earth, but in that time the stromatolites raised the oxygen level in the atmosphere to 20 percent—enough to allow the development of other, more c...
But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud period I was slender and fit. I gained a profound respect for the wilderness...
It really doesn’t pay to go back and look again at the things that once delighted you, because it’s unlikely they will delight you now. I
Последните думи на генерал Седжуик били: Казвам ти, човече, не биха могли да уцелят и бизон от такова разс....
It was painted by someone who knew how to prime a canvas, so he’d had some training, but it is quite workaday and not well lighted. The main thing is that if it is Shakespeare, it is the only portrait...
It would be hard to believe that the continuous movement of tectonic plates has no effect on the development of life on earth.
It's hard for people now to remember just how enormous the world was back then for everybody, and how far away even fairly nearby places were. When we called my grandparents long distance on the telep...
It’s not even possible to say quite where the outback is. To Australians anything vaguely rural is the bush. At some indeterminate point the bush becomes the outback. Push on for another two thousand...
Jean Chappe spent months travelling to Siberia by coach, boat and sleigh, nursing his delicate instruments over every perilous bump, only to find the last vital stretch blocked by swollen rivers, the...
He was disorganized, forgetful, perpetually dissolute, and famous for his tremendous benders. One year he missed fifty straight weekly meetings at the Office of Works. His supervision of the office wa...
Kisumu has the distinction of being the poorest city in Kenya. Almost half the people live on fifty cents a day or less.
He had experiences as rich and memorable as any young man has ever enjoyed, and was moved by none of them.
Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.
While—for a couple of minutes—it’s actually
When authorities learned that Eugene O’Neill’s play All God’s Chillun proposed to show black and white children playing together as if that were normal, the district attorney for Manhattan sent the po...
For a time it was highly fashionable to build a hermitage and install in it a live-in hermit. At Painshill in Surrey, one man signed a contract to live seven years in picturesque seclusion, observing...
For a long time it was assumed that anything so miraculously energetic as radioactivity must be beneficial. For years, manufacturers of toothpaste and laxatives put radioactive thorium in their produc...
Well over a million years ago, some new, comparatively modern, upright beings left Africa and boldly spread out across much of the globe.
Nothing gives the English more pleasure, in a quiet but determined sort of way, than to do things oddly.
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