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the Schoolhouse Blizzard of January 1888. On January 12 that year, initially a relatively warm day in the Great Plains, the temperature dropped almost

Hedgehogs are type A personalities who believe in Big Ideas— in governing principles about the world that behave as though they were physical laws

It’s not as if life is easy for human beings, after all, even now—and it’s only a few decades ago that the majority of

In 1937, he wrote The Road to Wigan Pier, which was in part a scathing attack on upper-class British socialists (this, despite being inclined

chance of an earthquake – SF, 1/35 years, DC/1 55,000 years, Maimi 1/140,000 years

In 1940, the chance of an American being killed by lightning in a given year was about 1 in 400,000.33 Today, it’s just 1

At the age of seven it was time for the Lichfield Grammar School, which happened to be first-rate, and he stayed there until he

There’s a famous Russian proverb about this type of behavior. One day, a poor villager happens upon a magic talking fish that is ready

He and his people then launched into a rambling discourse that showed that they knew next to nothing about the asset management business. All

Sir, it is not the worth of the thing, but of the skill in forming it which is so highly estimated. Everything that enlarges