I’m not surprised. I hug him. “Be safe,” I say. I know Chris has been getting ready for weeks. He has two new pumps to which he has attached sprinklers, and which he uses to keep the ground wet. As a result, a low spot at the back of his property has turned into a small...
When Royal Dutch Shell, a British-Dutch oil and gas company, wanted to dump an oil rig in the ocean in 1995, many people in Europe had just started to separate glass bottles and newspapers. The company's plan was viewed as a sign of arrogance. The incident le...
The cars are armored, the tires are reinforced with Kevlar, the cabin can be sealed airtight in gas attacks, and it's even blast-resistant. There are opaque glass panels which can be installed for privacy, but they're removable in case the monarch wants to wave at crowds. Fabergé eggs ...
Just a few months earlier, the North Korean Workers Party introduced reform measures granting foreign investors tax cuts and allowing them to sell goods produced in North Korea without tariffs. For an economy that ostensibly issued halting economic reforms in 1984, these new measures constitute a ...
The accident had occurred in my own driveway.Holly had crashed my truck into our other vehicle,the family van (搬运车).In her inexperience,she had confused the brakes and the gas pedal.Holly was unhurt physically,but when I reached her,she was crying and saying,"Oh,Dad,I'm sorry.I kn...
The other issue with this route was the landowners. Gates were locked. Barbed wire installed. Guard dogs on the path. A giant earthen mound at the end of one overgrown tree tunnel. I even had a landowner 1) tell me there was never a footpath on his property, 2) when I referred him...
“Well, you can’t say we’ve anything answering to that in England,” Frida put in, looking across at him with her frank, open countenance. “No, not quite like that, in detail, perhaps, but pretty much the Page 1 Page 2
Many of these problems are avoidable with the necessary foresight, and these Guidelines have been prepared to provide those new to the field and others engaged in teaching and instruction with the information necessary to increase their awareness of the problems and to enable them to deal with ...
I didn’t realize this before we went, but Mardi Gras is not just one or two days of parades and parties before lent starts—it’s an entire season of parades and parties starting in the new year and slowly building up to the major parades just before Fat Tuesday (or Shrove Tuesday ...
We also might just say an apartment building. Of course a house is one single property which has one owner or tenant. A house in the UK can be detached (on its own) semi-detached (with another house attached to it) or terraced (part of a terrace of attached houses in one long row...