Local Column: Why we must protect Botany Bay with its unique place in V.I. historyOLASEE DAVIS
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Livingstone had recently crossed Africa, and it was exactly 100 years since Cook had popped into Botany Bay and claimed Australia. It was only 40 years since Wilberforce and others had persuaded Parliament to abolish slavery and, while the inhumanity was acknowledged, there was no teaching of ...
Fast forward a few decades and those rocky beaches are starting to have their moment. The Riviera Nayarit, 200 miles of Pacific coastline stretching from the historic port of San Blas to where the Rio Ameca meets Banderas Bay at Puerto Vallarta, is coming into its own with a blossoming luxu...
The mechanism that causes the sunflower to follow the sun is triggered by a cascade of events that act on a small piece of vascular tissue called thepulvinus, which is located at the base of leaves and flower buds. Here, a collection ofmotor cells get bigger or smaller in response to pr...
The clip is from the NBC showNurses, which I haven’t seen, and it involves an Orthodox boy whose leg has been hurt and who needs a bone graft to fully heal. If you’re a Hasid, as Allison Josephs is in her article below (from an Orthodox site called “Jew in the City”), you...
Sawgrass is a foundation species because it provides a critical source of organic matter that structures the characteristic ridge and slough landscape [25]. Moreover, this sedge supports abundant benthic algae that grow on its stems as epiphytic accumulations locally called sweaters as they appear ...
Oh, and there’s also a really important spend on a $50 million redevelopment of Botany Bay, which will include $3 million for a statue of Captain Cook, in what Morrison has called a “very inclusive project”. “Inclusive” here being a very natural and non-defensive word that in no ...