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83Texas Hospitality: Huntsville Prison.
"No man's education is complete unless he has served time in a penal institution," Sir Stafford Cripps.. The main feeling I had when the steel-barred cage door slammed behind me with the clang that was...
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81Demise of the Lion King (Poetry)
Demise of the King When I composed this poem some time back, I was going through a particularly difficult time and was sort of studying various poetic disciplines. I found this form which is quite old, I...
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78Are Titanic Early Dinosaurs Larger Than Blue Whales?
JAPANESE ILLEGAL WHALING STILL IN SOUTHERN OCEAN. Evolution’s Majestic Triumph: The Blue Whale. It’s strange when one realizes that the largest mammal - actually the largest of any species - that ever...
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79LIOPLEURODON RULED THE OCEANS
The Scariest Marine Predator Ever! Great White Sharks, the Crocodilians and their kin notwithstanding, the oceans and seas occupying three-fifths of the world’s surface are a relatively benign place in...
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76Seaweed: Bounty from the Oceans
Strange how useful plants that grow in salt and fresh water are collectively known as weeds. A land plant receiving that disparaging sobriquet is, often mistakenly, seen as useless and to be destroyed....
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84Meet the Caracara: Mexico's National Bird
No, Our National Bird is Not the Fly!Someone once asked me if the national bird of Australia was the fly. It isn’t, of course, although people might be forgiven for suggesting it would make the ideal choice...
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74Spiders: Friends That We Fear
Spiders: Man’s Other Best Friend. The Perfectionist “Spinning moonbeams, dew and dawn light;gleaming silver in the morn light;tough as steel with magic kissed.Busy spinner; aerial fatalist;careful...
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77Archaic Arthropods: The Centipedes and Millipedes.
Millipedes are even popular pets! But not centipedes. As we enter the fossil record, that curious tale of artefacts “dug up” and showing how plant and animal species have evolved, we can see the...
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78Was Man the Aquatic Ape?
Was Man’s Immediate Ancestor an “Aquatic Ape?“ Mankind’s Watery Awakening. Why we prefer the “missionary position.” Babies can swim before they can crawl. When we look at the skeletons of...
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75When Juliet Hit Baja California.: Also Report on Jimena
Hurricane Juliet Hits South Baja California. We constantly complain about our weather in the UK. But the truth is we really don’t get any “weather” as the term is understood by seaman, for example....
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