Finnegans Wake Concordex: “See what happens when your somatophage merman takes his fancy to our virgitarian swan? He even ran away with hunself and became a farsoonerite, saying he would far sooner muddle through the hash of lentils in Europe than meddle with Irrland’s split little pea.”
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Ptak Science Books: “In the history of mountains seldom have they raised themselves so magnificently as that seen in Jacopo da Valenza’s St. Jerome in the Wilderness. Painted in about 1509, da Valenza (who flourished from 1478-1509) depicts the 4th century Saint—a Doctor of the Catholic Church, proponent of asceticism, scholar, philosopher, historian and translator [...]
Johnson’s Life of Sir Thomas Browne: ” It is, however, to be lamented, that those who are most capable of improving mankind, very frequently neglect to communicate their knowledge; either because it is more pleasing to gather ideas than to impart them, or because to minds naturally great, few things appear of so much importance [...]
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Science: “Glaciers have a reputation as geological buzz saws. They grind down mountains and carve deep valleys. But a new study reveals that glaciers can sometimes protect mountains as well. Over the past 5 million years, recurring glaciers near what is today Tierra del Fuego, at the tip of South America, have wrapped themselves around [...]
Wikipedia: “The fable is also known by the name of other characters such as Chicken Licken or Chicken Little (USA), and by the phrase ‘The sky is falling’ that occurs there. It is an old cumulative tale about a chicken who believes the world is coming to an end. The phrase ‘The sky is falling’ [...]