settlement of the dispute. "And you," they said, "how many sonshave you at a birth?' The Lioness laughed at them, and said:"Why! I have only one; but that one is altogether a thoroughbredLion." The value is in the worth, not in the number. The Boasting Traveler A MAN who had...
… The decline in the cat population is about more than the passage of time, however. Aoshima is the victim of a demographic crisis that is afflicting thousands of rural and island communities across Japan. Almost 900 people lived here just after the second world war, but the number had dr...
Pilgrims typically lived in primitive homes like log cabins that they made themselves. The journey was a perilous one, but 65 days later the group reached Plymouth, so named by Captain John Smith of the Jamestown settlement in 1614. An agreement known as theMayflower Compactwas reached to sett...
In one settlement that was only partially excavated, archaeologists have already found four of these structures. Student: So it's the earlier part, that the Natufians were sedentary 15,000 years ago, that's changed? Professor:Well, there's evidence, but some archaeologists have questioned the ...
Whoever invented the house invented more than a building — it was an expression of culture that was shaped by the way people lived, and it shaped our lives in turn. Houses are, as Moore put it, “part of the consultable record of what it means to be human.” ...
Margaret Madeline Chase Smith (December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was a United States politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S Representative (1940–49) and a U.S. Senator (1949–73) from Maine. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the Unit...
an enormous portrait of Smith hangs above the mantle. After meeting in 1890 at the pioneering settlement house that Addams co-founded, the women spent the next 40 years entwined, trudging through moments they spent apart. During one separation, Addams wrote to Smith, “You must know, dear, ...
In 2024, the percentage of homebuyers who pay cash is likely even higher. Some 46.8% of luxury homes were bought entirely with cash in the three months ended February 29, 2024, according to Redfin. That's the highest share of all-cash luxury home purchases in at least a decade and it'...
Important structures such as houses and paddocks were built on the adjacent higher ground. The frequency of the destructive debris flows is estimated as once every several hundred years, which makes the settlement of the floodplain seem reasonable.MORI, Hirotsugu...
She had grown up in New York City but had lived in Puerto Rico for 35 years, having been guided to this remote community, she said, by a vision. Green-eyed and rosy-cheeked, she said her forebears were Spanish, African, Mexican and Maya as well as Taíno....