was peculiar in the gloom. It crouched and whispered behind my back. When I looked toward the curtains, drawn tightly across the bay window, I had the vertiginous sensation that what was behind them was not normal, and that if I opened them and looked out into the night I might see so...
Reading George Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” can be like looking at a tapestry of the middle ages that features central figures in action, a few witnesses in the background, but also meticulous details of flora and fauna. Once you look beyond the main image, and concentrate on a...
Hail is a form of solidprecipitation. It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone.[1]Unlikegraupel, which is made ofrime, andice pellets, which are smaller and translucent, hailstones consist mostly ofwater iceand measure between 5 millimetres (0.2 i...