(HCH) was one of the most popular pesticides for the control of agricultural pests and vector borne diseases during the latter half of the 20th century, and has subsequently become a key global pollutant culminating in the creation of open sinks with extremely high concentrations of HCH in the...
The head-dress is a cap, a straw hat, a billy cock, or a tall silk “chimney pot,” the latter denoting a chief; he also sports in full dress a broad coat, ending in a loin cloth of satin stripe or some finer stuff, about six feet long by four and a half broad; it is ...
We left Yosemite today via Tioga Road, filling our eyes one last time with the glories of Tuolomne Meadow (a large, high open space where the Miwok, Yurok, Paiute and Shoshone tribes met for shared ceremonies, meals and trade for many centuries), the granite domes of the Eastern edge o...
This little time proved to be a matter of more than two hours and a half, but as this is considered nothing in China, we did not get impatient. From time to time eunuchs came and brought milk to drink and about twenty or more dishes of various kinds of food which Her Majesty sent....
Tsutomu Yamaguchi wasn’t the only person to endure two atomic blasts. His coworkers Akira Iwanaga and Kuniyoshi Sato were also in Nagasaki when the second bomb fell, as was Shigeyoshi Morimoto, a kite maker who had miraculously survived Hiroshima despite being only a half-mile from ground zero...
Howard is a doctor, marathon runner and author. He has written two non-fiction books, My Father’s Compass (2007) and Raft (2009). Carrots and Jaffas (2014) is his first novel. His latest novel is A Threefold Cord (Hybrid, 2107)
JESSIE'S first term of seven and a half years in Amoy was -in almost unbroken record of splendid health. She was very careful in early days to do nothing rash. She was helped in this by what sin: used laughingly to declare was her mother's parting text to her: "A living dog is ...
2x mashie niblicks and J H Taylor autograph niblick â€" all with good grips Estimate: £40.00 - £50.00 Lot: 657 Half set of 5x assorted clubs â€" Gibson deep face mashie, Maxwell mid iron, oversize niblick, and a Charlie Wingate no. 3 iron and interesting deep back...
August 1893, when he was included in a group exhibition at the Escuela de Bellas Artes1 in A Coruña featuring the works by selected students in the 1892–1893 class, among whom was Picasso, who had completed his first year of ‘Figure and Ornament Drawing’ at the school ([1], p. ...