Mysterious adventurers, epic long-distance voyagers,We landlubbers marvel at your Royal Highnesses.Marbled gray, sleek tapered head, streamlined robust body,A dozen knuckles supporting eighty
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The “Alfred Burt Carols” are a marvelous collection of fifteen Christmas songs. They were written by Alfred S. Burt from 1942 and
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O pinnacle of piscine evolution,Pointed snout, plump middle, crescent caudal,The ultimate predator, bluefin tuna.Counter-shaded, dark topside, light below,Blue, green, silver befitting only
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MEXICO CITY – Our comrades, the bees, are intriguing wee creatures and vital to a healthy natural world. Nobel laureate Karl von
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Like Tesla, Edison, Bell, Marconi and DaVinci, you have so soon after your too-early departure, become one of history’s great innovators. Unlike
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ALICE SPRINGS – Are you fed-up with the worst, least qualified and most unscrupulous citizens, the world’s leaders, lying about reducing emissions and failing
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In November of 1964, Jack Weinberg posed the phrase “don’t trust anyone over 30.” While this phrase has been attributed to the
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MELBOURNE – Native forests need wildlife to thrive. We “wise apes” need native forests to save us from the man-made climate crisis. If we
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Fathers and daughters not speaking to each other. Decades-long friendships broken and volatile. Siblings screaming at each other, saying terrible, hurtful things.
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Almost 400 million metric tons, or, the equivalent weight of the human population, of subsidised petroleum-based plastics are manufactured annually. Thirteen million metric tons of those
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