Anyway, we did it, Katz said at last, looking up. He noted my quizzical expression.Hiked Maine, I mean.I looked at him. Stephen, we didn't even see Mount Katahdin.He dismissed this as a petty quibble....
Archbishop James Ussher of the Church of Ireland made a careful study of the Bible and other historical sources and concluded, in a hefty tome called Annals of the Old Testament, that the Earth had be...
As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by...
At all events, rather less is known about Lucy than is generally supposed. It isn’t even actually known that she was a female.
At all events, thanks to the work of Clair Patterson, by 1953 the Earth at last had an age everyone could agree on.
At one time he personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States.
At the time of our hike, theAppalachian Trail was fifty-nine years old. That is, by American standards, incredibly venerable. The Oregon and Santa Fe trails didn't last as long. Route 66 didn't last a...
At the turn of the century, New York had more speakers of German than anywhere in the world except Vienna and Berlin, more Irish than anywhere but Dublin, more Russians than in Kiev, more Italians tha...
Australia is mostly empty and a long way away. Its population is small and its role in the world consequently peripheral. It doesn't have coups, recklessly overfish, arm disagreeable despots, grow coc...
BEFORE HE CAME INTO a lot of money in 1839, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, led a largely uneventful life.
Bacon’s dichotomy is still germane today: a former President of the Royal Society, George Porter, encapsulated it by the maxim ‘there are two kinds of science, applied and not yet applied’.
Balchen happened to be at the wheel. This was breathtakingly disingenuous. In fact, Balchen had been flying for hours and very probably saved all their lives with his skillful landing. The
Baron Rothschild, whose obsessive quest for rare species led to the annihilation of several.
Bashfully I dropped my shirt onto the sand and stood naked but for my sagging trunks. Glenn, never having seen anything quite this grotesque and singular on an Australian beach, certainly nothing stil...
Bell treated his friend and colleague Watson generously. Though he had no legal obligations to do so, he awarded Watson 10 percent of the company, allowing Watson to retire rich at the age of just twe...
Between December 1606 and February 1625, Virginia received 7,289 immigrants and buried 6,040 of them. Most barely had time to settle in. All but 500 of the 3,500 immigrants who arrived in the three ye...
Bill Tilden was the greatest—and most improbably great—tennis player of the age.
Brain cells last as long as you do. You are issued with a hundred billion or so at birth and that is all you are ever going to get. It has been estimated that you lose five hundred of them an hour, so...
Brian Aldiss,
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