Its heart alone is the size of a small car, and there's enough room on its tongue for 50 people. It is the largest known animal in Earth's history. But despite their monumental proportions, the most phenomenal
Prosecutor Dan Akemon[in court]: The methodical and systematic slaughter of women … that's what this case is about. It is not overstating it to say this is a sensationalmurder trial. On the witness list: actor Ashton Kutcher, who was scheduled to go on a da...
Traditional storage techniquesare a widely prevalent age-old practice among Indigenous communities as they stand highly vulnerable to climate variabilities because of their lack of resources (Rao and Patil2013; Son et al.2020; Vargas2019). Farmers in Haiti, for instance, resort to storing of the ...
So, the Old Empire lasted roughly 250 years. The Middle Hittite Kingdom began after Telepinu's rule around 1500 BC. Unfortunately, there is very little information regarding this period. Historians believe that it lasted from 1500 to 1430 BC. So, it lasted roughly 70 years. The New Hittite...
People like to piss and moan about how thealways evilthing is just there to give heroes permission to wantonly slaughter entire races of people without regard for the morality of it all, but I don’t remember Aragorn ever going on a rampage of orc genocide. I’m pretty sure the only orc...
6. The fact that Russia and China initiated their own secret accommodation with Iran was an interesting development, and one that is also indicative of the way things are going. But I had the impression that they took this initiative out of dismay at the single-minded pressure of the US te...
As a 138-year-old-man, Scott reminisces about a past escape from Jekyll Island and shares his One Rule to Vacation Them All. We find common ground in our Great Expectations and agree that in the end, fun is fun, but home is where it is at. As we slowly ramble into our main topic...
You actually speak Fronglish—a mix of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Old French. You eat in French: pork, beef, poultry are French words. However, you hunt (and slaughter) in English: boar, cow, goose. Surprisingly, while you are born in English, the end of life comes in Viking. Death ...
kindness and heroism, "You have been my friend . . . That in itself is a tremendous thing" [2]. 2.2. A Day No Pigs Would Die Robert Newton Peck's A Day No Pigs Would Die (1972) is the story of Rob, a 12-year-old boy from rural Vermont who grows up in the Shaker tradition...