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Jul 1, 2010
There is only one mode of learning in this world that gives you enough independence to study at your own pace and convenience. Right Answer: Distance Learning. It is distance learning that helps you sit at home comfortably and carry on with studies or even work and concurrently keep that association with the syllabus moving ahead. Distance learning encourages a lot of courses that can be dealt with at home with equal panache as by attending a regular college.
Jul 1, 2010
Until a comparatively few years ago, lightning continued to be a thing of wonder, awe and supernatural origin. As late as the close of the seventeenth century a leading English scholar described lightning as an explosion of "nitrous and sulphorous vapors" in the air, similar to the firing of gunpowder.
Jul 1, 2010
It is said that Jehovah spoke in thunder and sent forth lightning to show His wrath. When he was overthrown "Satan fell as lightning from heaven." The Greeks gave control of lightning to their chief god, Zeus, and their legends tell how he used the thunderbolt to punish erring or presumptuous mortals.
Jul 1, 2010
Do you suffer from Astraphobia? Are you subject to spine-chilling, diaphragm-paralyzing fits of Keraunophobia? It is no fun to be thus afflicted, but you have plenty of company, including the author of this article who has queried several psychologists just to find the name of the thing that makes her feel so uncomfortable when the lightning flashes and the thunder booms.
Jul 1, 2010
Out on the arid wash of the Arizona desert my appearance was assailed by shrill cries of cry-baby, cry-babybabybabeee. "Cry-baby yourself," I protested, noting the fast sprint of the noisy killdeer up riverward.
Jul 1, 2010
Even rare brownbacked, spot-breasted Arizona woodpeckers might be met with in small, sociable companies in these southern ranges. But now the jovial racketing of an acorn woodpecker aroused me.
Jul 1, 2010
Science says fish have no power of hearing. But those in attendance during a nighttime aquarium observation thought differentlyÂ…and had it demonstrated to them. The fish were fed at a regular hour in the afternoon. They knew this hour (therefore they must have a time sense) and grew as lively and restless as a lion at the Zoo.
Jul 1, 2010
How do fish eat when they cant see their food? After spending several sleepless nights worrying over this, I discovered that the big fish simply opens its mouth to suck in water. The little fish gets caught in the suction and in it goes. So the big fish need not see its prey at all, except for one split second. The octopus, during these reflections, had been busy
Jul 1, 2010
The octopus lured me back, and this time I caught him in the act of doing a skirt dance in and around his hole, and half out, with arms fully tended, he was rippling the skirts of skin that connect his tentacles, meanwhile changing from brown to mottled green to gray. He was, I gathered after a moment, practicing making like a rock.
Jul 1, 2010
"Interest the child in Nature and you widen that child's horizons, develop his powers of observation, a love of the beautiful, and appreciation of form, texture, and sound. It gives the child a sense of companionship with the out-of-doors, and is an asset to health in keeping him there
Jul 1, 2010
Interest the child in Nature and you will unconsciously teach him humaneness, for no child can know the life-history of a bird or animal, and not become more humane toward that bird or animal." This advice was given in a class in Nature-study, by that grand "Mother of the Nature-study Movement," Anna Botsford Comstock.
Jul 1, 2010
Throughout the years of World War Two, the USO outpost service sought to stimulate the interest of soldiers in the creation of attractive and rare articles from native products such as hard woods, nuts, seashells, sea beans, orchids, butterflies, insects, reptile sharkskins, and other local animals. With the advent of V-J Day this hobby program was vastly increased.
Jul 1, 2010
Emergency water purification knowledge could save you life in a disaster situation where you had no water supply. A disaster can strike anytime, anywhere, and everyone should be prepared. Part of being prepared is being informed on emergency water purification.
Jul 1, 2010
In the wild Darien jungle country between Panama and Colombia, where once the Spaniards had fought the Indians for gold, the USO workers received one of their unusual requests. The headman at an isolated trading post was a native, not an Indian. He came to see Mr. MacDonald (Director of the USO Pacific Seaboard Outpost Service) early one morning, to ask a big favor.
Jul 1, 2010
While in the Galapagos following WW2, it was the custom of the USO workers to take men on expeditions to collect and study strange and marvelous tortoises and other reptiles and creatures found on these remote islands. "We were very fortunate in capturing two of the giant land iguanas," wrote Mr. MacDonald Director of the USO Pacific Seaboard Outpost Service.
Jul 1, 2010
Tales as tall as the Andes and as colorful as the stories of W. H. Hudson are coming out of USO reports today on its work in the jungles of Central and South America. With wartime restrictions lifted, the story can be told of the vast network of USO outpost services for men stationed at isolated spots from Guatemala to Peru.
Jul 1, 2010
It was Dr. Gorrie of Florida in 1851 who patented the first American ice-making machine as part of a vision to relieve the sufferings of patients ill with malaria, and yellow fever, but it wasnt until after the 1860s that other ice-making machines were developed.
Jul 1, 2010
The seasons marched on, and the use of ice became a more widely functioning item in daily life of Man. In some localities ice was cut in blocks, packed in straw or sawdust and stored in insulated houses during the winter and sold in the summer. Dealers in ice and snow were fairly common in France by the end of the seventeenth century.
Jul 1, 2010
Man changed from a hunter to a herdsman and a farmer. Families developed into clans, clans into tribes, tribes into cities and sometimes into nations. But man continued to use the coolest parts of cave and underground chambers as storage places for preserving his food.
Jul 1, 2010
As the ice sheets advanced, the plant life changed. The most tender died out first, or were driven southward, and then the more and more hardy, until finally their remains were ground to dust beneath the ice. Then, centuries later, the ice receded and the plants moved northward again in a slow but steady advance to reclaim the land.
Jul 1, 2010
Ten thousand years ago, geologists say, the site of Stockholm, Sweden, was still covered with ice. Today, remains of the glaciers form the Greenland ice cap and cover countless islands in the far North. All told, there are about eight hundred thousand square miles of ice-covered land in the Arctic, plus an un-melting stretch of polar cap-ice over some two million square miles of the Arctic Sea
Jul 1, 2010
The 20th century has been called many thingsthe age of steam, of steel, of electricity, of aviation, and most recently of atomic energy. It also might be called the age of refrigerationan entirely different kind of ice age than the world has ever before experienced.
Jul 1, 2010
The development of the now famous Berkshire Garden Center continued at great pace, year on year. Endowments and reserve fund amounted to $6,000 in addition to the real estate. Not a princely endowment, but a substantial backlog. Vegetable gardening came into the program in 1941 as war clouds began to darken the horizon.
Jul 1, 2010
Autumn found the new Berkshire Garden Center well on its way, but income from memberships and gifts had not kept pace with expenditures. A Harvest Festival was staged on October 15. It brought young and old together in a rollicking old-time fair.
Jul 1, 2010
The initial plan in founding a the now historic Berkshire Garden Centers specified that the Center was to be, "For a year's trialÂ…A plot of land with a suitable building has been offeredÂ…If the experiment is a success it is hoped the Center may become a permanent institution.
Jul 1, 2010
Garden centers seem to be as inevitable as gardening itself. There are active and useful centers in most sections of the United States. Rather famous ones are located in such cities as Cleveland, Chicago, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Detroit and Fort Worth. Other busy industrial centers are becoming so garden-minded that garden centers are bound to develop.
Jul 1, 2010
A great deal has yet to be learned about aviation in relation to thunderstorms. To this end, the Army Air Forces this summer are conducting intensive tests in the area around Orlando, Florida, using ten especially equipped P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter planes.
Jul 1, 2010
The old saying that "lightning never strikes twice in the same place" may be somewhat of a comfort to people suffering from keraunophobia the fear of lightning. But there is no truth to the adagein fact, the exact opposite is actually the case.
Jul 1, 2010
Man's ideas have changed markedly since the days when he thought the gods hurled lightning like spears and caused thunder by driving their metal chariots across the sky.
Jun 30, 2010
Atouronton is an Indian word that means, "Oh how much there is of it!" and was their descriptive term for oil. Indians skimmed it off rivers and used it for greasing aching muscles, for war paint, and sometimes to burn.
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