Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, who in 1524, aged not quite sixteen, arrived in Vicenza
And there you have the difference between the Midwest and the West, ladies and gentlemen. People in the Midwest are nice.
And so one more to the wandering road. Beyond Blackheath the highway began a steep and curvaceous descent towards Lithgow, where it skirted along hem of the mountains...
And now the state was about to bring the law back, proving conclusively that the danger for Tennesseans isn’t so much that they may be descended from apes as overtaken by them.
And as you are about to see, it not only produces the best science, but also some of the very best science writing.
Among the other enthusiastic dumpers were Russia, China, Japan and nearly all the nations of Europe.
Altogether at least sixty thousand people were sterilized because of Laughlin’s efforts. At the peak of the movement in the 1930s, some thirty states had sterilization laws, though only Virginia and C...
Alexander von Humboldt, yet another friend, may have had Agassiz at least partly in mind when he observed that there are three stages in scientific discovery7: first, people deny that it is true; then...
Albert Snyder’s mortal fall was outlined. The story had begun ten years earlier when Snyder, the lonely, balding art editor of Motor Boating magazine, had developed an infatuation with an office secre...
A similar unhappy fate awaited the delightful Bachman’s warbler. Always rare, it was said to have one of the loveliest songs of all birds. For years it escaped detection, but in 1939, two birders, ope...
A quick Google search reveals there to be seven, ten, five, four or eight ‘years to save the planet’, depending on your headline writer and expert of choice (‘Eleven years to save the planet’ seems at...
A full moon rose in the pale evening sky and glowed with a rich white inner light that brought to mind, but perfectly, the creamy inside of an Oreo cookie. (Eventually on the trail everything reminds...
A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he couldn’t get the temperature of his Boston home above 38 de...
A critic named John Carter was so exercised by Wyatt’s predilection for ripping out ancient interiors that he dubbed him the Destroyer and devoted 212 essays in the Gentleman’s Magazine—essentially hi...
It occurred to me, not for the first time, what a remarkably small world Britain is. That is its glory, you see--that it manages at once to be intimate and small scale, and at the same time packed to...
It occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.
When the company was finally broken up in the 1980s to satisfy antitrust regulators, it was worth more than the combined worth of General Electric, General Motors, Ford, IBM, Xerox, and Coca-Cola, and...
Мода часто кажется чем-то совершенно непонятным. Если рассмотреть большинство исторических периодов, может показаться, что целью моды было сделать внешность как можно более смешной; чем неудобней, тем...
Zippy new tax called VAT, which was to be introduced a week or so later. The gist of the advertisement was that while some things would go up in price with VAT, some things would also go down. (Ha!) I
When a person says to you, How do you do? he will be taken aback if you reply, with impeccable logic, How do I do what? The complexities of the English language are