presented convey-r.org and asdfree.com first thing, at esra, in the land of the rock bottom tulip prices, since february 1637. in translated politeness, registration desk officer asked do you know your last name? waterworld (1995) alternate ending: the dutch nation polders on up to the starboard side of that burning sinking oil barge to kindly inquire why everyone's hangry. we can fight or we can all go eat stroopwafel, they'd say, are saying
rank water the best. isn't it the best? of course it's the best. so long as you don't have too much of it. of all the things in their respective appropriate amounts, i would say water il nummero unico e solo. electric vehicles ought make road runner meep meep noise same way they add the smell to gas
worry for the dawn of indisguishable-from-insects spy cameras & is it still nirvana if you can't stay cool while wearing wrathful beehive like a helmet?
whisper smooch-a-wooch every time i hear a kiss - no trouble yet but my serendipity may not always be. si l'europe est un continent, le quebec aussi
read ecological imperialism: the biological expansion of europe, 900-1900 by alfred w. crosby. beringian megafauna destruction left natives bereft of reciprocal cross-species poxes to repel. smilodon gone, wild pigs shepherded selves, easy colonies' calories. on veldt, the boer met neither such luck
europeans, to borrow a term from apiculture, have swarmed again and again and have selected their new homes as if each swarm were physically repulsed by the others
even the blackberries were red
the empire of the dandelion
biogeographers have properly designated north america and eurasia, including europe, as different biological provinces or subregions. after all, nero threw the christians to the lions, not to the cougars
homo sapiens needed, not for the only time in the history of the species, to become either celibate or clever
how many mongol horsemen, fierce and terrible, persevered through the hungriest times of the great khan's campaigns by drinking measured amounts of their horses' blood, enough to keep themselves alive yet not so much as to enfeeble their mounts?
northwest europeans..the world's champion milk digesters
a primitive ironworks, the very first in america, at the site of a norse settlement in newfoundland
the largest expedition to vinland of which we have any record consisted of three vessels and only 65 or 165 people..the fleet that columbus led to the west indies in 1493 consisted of seventeen ships carrying 1,200 to 1,500 men
erik's saga tells us that the dead were often buried without proper services in that land where priests were nearly as rare as trees
madeirans had plumped solidly for monoculture, had chosen to devote themselves utterly to pandering to europe's sweet tooth
we can discern in madeira the basic pattern for plantation colonies for generations to come
every eden has its snake
"if it had not been for the pestilence," espinosa said, "it would have taken much longer, the people being warlike, stubborn and wary"
at the beginning of the fifteenth century for cheng ho, chief admiral and eunuch of the ming emperor, to despatch to india and all the way to east africa fleets of scores of vessels armed with multitudes of small cannon and manned by thousands of crewmen and passengers. it is this admiral, rather than, say, bartholomeu dias, who should be credited as the first great figure of the age of exploration. if political changes and cultural endogeny had not stifled the ambitions of chinese sailors, then it is likely that history's greatest imperialists would have been far easterners, not europeans
the winds of the atlantic and pacific flow in gigantic wind wheels. in each ocean north of the equator, one airy carousel revolves clockwise, and south of the equator another spins counterclockwise
the low-pressure belt is the detested doldrums, source of so many horror stories of thirst and starvation for those becalmed in their sweaty clasp
in 1487, bartholomeu dias..a nautical moses..had seen the promised ocean but was never to enter it. he brought home with him two precious bits of knowledge: one, there was a passage to the indian ocean from the atlantic; two, the wind patterns of the south atlantic ocean were, according to his experience, very much like those of the north atlantic, only upside-down
da gama's course - an extravagant exaggeration of dias's course - was and is the most practical route for a sailing ship bound from europe to the indian ocean: south to the cape verdes or thereabouts, then a great curve southwest until nigh the coast of brazil, and then southeast round the cape of good hope. it was the course of choice, recommended by both the british admirality and the united states hydrographic office, for as long as sails ruled the oceans
dead christians, consigned to the deep, sank face upward. infidels, of which a few had joined in the east indies, sank face downward
on monday, 8 september 1522, the victoria dropped anchor near the quay at seville and fired all her cannon. the first circumnavigation of the world was completed. the next day, "we all went in shirts and barefoot, each holding a candle, to visit the shrine of santa maria de la victoria, and that of santa maria de l'antigua
we have an apparent double anomaly, that australia is better suited to some english plants than england is, and that some english plants are better suited to australia than those australian plants were which have given way before english intruders -jospeph dalton hooker, 1853
a twentieth-century reconnaissance of the san joaquin valley revealed that introduced plants "constituted 63 per cent of the herbaceous vegetation in the grassland types, sixty-six per cent in the woodland, and fifty-four per cent in chaparral"
the epidemiological history of the european colonies beyond the seams of pangaea is like a jigsaw puzzle of 10,000 pieces, of which we have only half - enough to give us an idea of how large the original was and of its major features, but not enough for a neat reassembly
dragooned into the world community
it did not occur to any pakeha for decades and decades that spilling and strewing alien organisms into an ecosystem can be like lighting a candle in order to lessen the gloom in a powder magazine
about fifty chiefs signed or placed their moko (drawings of their distinctive facial tattoos, almost as distinctive as fingerprints) on the treaty by which they surrendered their sovereignty
after 1853, the numbers are relatively dependable, i.e., satisfactory for most historians, if not for demographers
they are strong of heart, for they have begun to build their houses without talking
desperate as a baited stag with the hounds slashing from all sides
a maori newspaper appeared, called te hokioi after a mythical bird never seen but known by its scream
new zealand, a land that had had only one kind of mammal when charlemagne was crowned emperor, and that had only four when cook arrived
the pakeha did not go ashore alone
mammoths, giant ground sloths, saber-toothed tigers, and other nightmarishly huge creatures dominated in the new world..no such mammalian monsters greeted the maori on the beach, but the largest moas were twice as tall as a man and outweighed him by more than double..the fields and forersts of these impoverished lands and islands, when the marinheiros came, were more open to invading fauna than any other in the world. had they been thickly populated with herds of grazers and browsers and packs of carnivores as they had been when the very first humans arrived, or as, for instance, south africa was when the dutch settled there in the middle of the seventeenth century, the spread and triumph of european livestock, tame and feral, would have been slow and would have required considerably more human intervention than it did
fifty years after the first horses were introduced into south africa, their total was about 900. a half century after horses were put ashore in the pampa, the total of their numbers swirling across those grasslands was beyond counting
vacated econiches
malaria plasmodia did not become naturalized in north america until the 1680s
the amerindians probably lagged as far behind the europeans in the cultivations of pathogens as they did in metallurgy
nearly every animal and plant food source that crevecoeur mentioned in a positive way in his classic letters from an american farmer (1782) was of european origin, with the passenger pigeon as the outstanding exception
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