From the-tls.co.uk
Sea Level by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg | Book review
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A few miles along the coast from Aberystwyth, where I am writing, are the petrified remains of a forest. They are all that is left of Gwyddno Garanhir’s lost kingdom of Cantre’r Gwaelod, submerged beneath the sea in a single night’s cataclysm. That’s a myth, of course (though the petrified...
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From google.com
The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought
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Beyond the boundaries of the known Christian world during the Middle Ages, there were alien cultures that intrigued, puzzled, and sometimes frightened the people of Europe. The reports of travelers in Africa and Asia revealed that "monstrous" races of men lived there, whose appearance and...
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From friendsofdarwin.com
05-Sep-1831: Darwin meets his ‘beau ideal of a Captain’
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Darwin meets Fitzroy.
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