feathers for ladie’s hats
Considering the weight of a feather, this meant astonishing tallies: commercial hunters had to kill between eight hundred and one thousand Snowy Egrets to
Considering the weight of a feather, this meant astonishing tallies: commercial hunters had to kill between eight hundred and one thousand Snowy Egrets to
If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
Institutional investors have been horribly negligent in what I consider their fidcuciary duty to the people who invest with them and to the country
compare to The Naked Ape, 1967 More than four centuries ago, the French essayist Michel de Montaigne cautioned his readers not to take too
When the captain finally gave the order to abandon ship, the crew descended down the thick-braided ropes mooring the leaky lifeboats to the Helen.
In preparation, Wallace frequented the insect and bird rooms at the British Museum of Natural History in London, lugging along his copy of Prince
the resource-hungry human race, which numbered only one hundred million at the time Genesis was written, was hurtling exponentially toward 1.6 billion in 1900:
On June 18, 1858, Charles Darwin wrote in his journal: “interrupted by letter from AR Wallace.†As he read Wallace’s paper, he realized with