The country accepted it not only willingly, but almost absent-mindedly.
The best ones go in for a kind of gloriously silly redundancy toward the end, as with Sir Humphrey Dodington Benedict Sherston Sherston-Baker and the truly unbeatable Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraduat...
The best indicator of personal risk is whether you have fallen much before. Accident proneness is a slightly controversial area among stair-injury epidemiologists, but it does seem to be a reality. Ab...
The basic working arrangement of atoms is the molecule (from the Latin for little mass).
The animals we raise for food today are eaten not because they are notably delectable or nutritious or a pleasure to be around, but because they were the ones first domesticated in the Stone Age.
That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.
Thanks to years of travel at other people’s expense, I have a lifetime supply of soaps, small bottles of shampoo, aromatic lotions, sewing kits, and shoe mitts. I have over eleven hundred shower caps...
Thankfully for us, water seems unaware of the rules of chemistry or laws of physics. Everyone
Take it from me, if you are in an open space with no weapons and a grizzly comes for you, run. You may as well. If nothing else, it will give you something to do with the last seven seconds of your li...
Space, let me repeat, is enormous. The average distance between stars out there is 20 million million miles. Even at speeds approaching those of light, these are fantastically challenging distances fo...
Somewhere in all this, it was thought, there also resided a mysterious élan vital, the force that brought inanimate objects to life. No-one knew where this ethereal essence lay, but two things seemed...
Someone needs to explain to me how it is that the richer Britain gets, the poorer it thinks itself. All
So you've nearly done it, huh? I said, a trifle inanely but just trying to make conversation. Yes said the girl. She said it slowly, as two syllables, as if it hadn't previously occurred to her. There...
So you must be the guys she was talking about. Really? Katz said. What’d she say? Oh, nothing, he said, but he was suppressing a small smile in that way that makes you say: What? Nothing. It was nothi...
So what is your star sign?' Said Mary Ellen 'Cunnilingus' Katz answered looking profoundly unhappy.
So we are stuck with a theory, and we do not know whether it is right or wrong, but we do know that it is a little wrong, or at least incomplete. In
Skull of an early modern human, dating from 90,000 years ago, found at Qafzeh in Israel. Found at the same site were remains of Neandertals, suggesting that here at least the two species coexisted, po...
Sir Thomas More came up with absurdity, acceptance, exact, explain, and exaggerate.
She had, I realized, Retail Tourette’s Syndrome, a compulsion to blurt advice. There was nothing she could do about it.
Shakespeare, it appears, was caught up in the affair because he had been a lodger in Mountjoy’s house in Cripplegate in 1604 when the dispute arose.