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Wherever the winding gear of a pit stands high, there were once tropical forests. The coal-seam is there to prove it. For a million years Britain has been alternately mountain, seabed, jungle, desert or

The word photography comes from the Greek, and means ‘writing with light’. Men have known since the Renaissance that if a dark room has a tiny hole in one wall, light coming through the hole casts an

An E-mail can be frantic or leisurely. You may get a response in a week or an hour. Within a day you can get a dozen responses and more than three dozen by the end of the week. Communicating on the internet

The numeral system that is almost universal today was probably invented by the Hindus. it simplified calculations by making the value of a number depend on its position as well as the number itself. ln

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Orion was poisoned son a great Hunter and a very handsome man He offended several of the Immortals. The goddess Eos was in love with him but he abandoned her to hunt with Artemis. Apollo was on guard in

There‘s nothing more energizing to a company than for people to start telling the truth... Truth-telling works best when it involves revealing your own feelings and not used to insult others and get your

Without money, people have to give away some goods in exchange for any they receive. This system, known as barter, was the earliest form of trade. it still has its uses today. A certain amount of barter

By the time the Second World War began in 1939, most of the leading nuclear scientists of the world were well aware that an atomic bomb was a possibility, but that to manufacture such a device would require

The early Greek philosophers were in much the same position as our space visitor when they attempted to think about the nature of matter. They were unable to observe matter close up and could only guess

In the closing weeks of the Second World War the Allied drive to Berlin was interrupted by a piece of startling news, put out by Joseph Goebbels, the German propaganda minister: that the Nazis had builta

All vegetables are spoiled if they are cooked too quickly and for too long, especially the young, new season’s vegetable. It ls worth remembering that there are very few vegetables that actually take longer

Why don't we utilize our anger enough? Everyone experiences anger. But we suppress the emotion so effectively that we forfeit the vigour that goes with it. There are times when it’s appropriate to get

The eye, the most delicate part of our sensory equipment, is surprisingly vulnerable. To be sure, much pof it is protected by the skull aswell as the socket, composed of a bony cavity padded with fat,

Most of us know that prodigies of energy are exciting, inspiring and sometimes maddening people who get far more than their share of the world’s work and play accomplished. When we stop to think about

This epic war dragged on for ten years. The Greeks could not break into Troy and the Trojans could not drive them off. Aeneas Many heroes were killed on both sides. One great Trojan hero was Aeneas,

What is a myth? It is difficult to define exactly what a myth is. It is generally described as a story which is the product of the imagination. However myths were obviously more than just folk tales for

Many of the great personal fortunes of the past 100 years have flowed from holes in the ground: oil wells. Once the steam engine had been adapted to drive a drill and a method of cleaning. or ‘retining’,

The proud warrior class of the samurai (meaning 'those who serve‘) grew from bands of mercenaries hired by feudal landowners in the 11th century to win them control ol Honshu, Japan’s main island. These