“place by a ford, overgrown with reeds”), the capital of the Republic of Ireland and the political, economic, and cultural center of the country. Dublin is located in the eastern part of the island of Ireland, on Dublin Bay of the Irish Sea, at the mouth of the Liffey River. On ...
fur trade,in American history. Trade in animal skins and pelts had gone on since antiquity, but reached its height in the wilderness of North America from the 17th to the early 19th cent. The demand for furs was an important factor in the commercial life of all the British and Dutch seab...
, which are occupied by Israel.) It is bordered by Lebanon in the north, Syria and Jordan in the east, the Mediterranean Sea on the west, Egypt on the southwest, and the Gulf of Aqaba (an arm of the Red Sea) on the south. The capital and largest city of Israel is JerusalemJerusale...
if the cruelty, blood-letting, devouring of weaker species, example of the animal world and the mindless dice-tossing of a seeming compassionless Universe in which things happen by mere chance or probability, then why feign empathy for one another?
of water and a blanket, sits on the bank of the river and waits to die. Then, when he dies, he'll roll over the bank and into the Imjin River and his body will be carried out to sea. And we don't want you to swim in the river because our elders are floatin...
73. Dingoes have been responsible for 50–86% of annual marine turtle nest failures on Fraser Island74, and also attack nesting adult female sea turtles (L. Behrendorff, unpublished data). Stranded whales and other marine mammals are infrequently reported in dingo diets13. The value of marine...
The high stern castle was a riot of carved gods, demons, knights, kings, warriors, mermaids, cherubs; and zoomorphic animal shapes ablaze with red and gold and blue, symbols of courage, power, and cruelty, were portrayed to stir the imaginations of the superstitious sailors of the day. 43...
Her play chart was revised. After two days of icepick-in-the-skank's-eye lyricism, she said, "Is that it?" and seemed to sulk. Walter knew what would happen next, and most people were excited about it: Emulating her implied tastes, the demand exploded for lyrical cruelty -- mumbled...
chimps, hairy creatures that once lived in trees on Earth. This looked like one. Long hair covered its face, and it wore a tunic that left its chest, arms, and legs exposed. Hair covered them, too -- not as thick as a goat's hair, but the creature was obviously more animal than ...
3. But when they tried to calm things down, the mob turned on them and clubbed them to death as well. Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, had some interesting things to say about the Greeks - "These most humane of men in ancient times," he wrote, "have a trait of cruelty, ...