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No Life Lost. Eventually, the ice began to break up in 30-ft. swells. Shackleton ordered his crazed, frostbitten men into the boats, and after a week somehow managed to make a landfall-the first in 497 days-on tiny, tide-swept Elephant Island. Then with five men, he set...
It took Shackleton three more months to get back to his men on Elephant Island. But on Aug. 30, 1916, two years after leaving England, he finally brought his party to safety as he had sworn to.
After an atomic holocaust, insects may be the only creatures left alive for miles around. Some species can survive a radiation dose 200-300 times greater than that which would kill an elephant or a man. One explanation: cells are most susceptible to radiation damage when they are in the...
Ruark's Regrets. For the old-line purist who wants to do his shooting .450 cal. instead of 16 mm., the tab goes high. Average cost for a single client is $105 a day, plus air fare to and from Nairobi. Licenses in Kenya for a full bag of...
Maybeck populated the Bay Area with houses, but his best-loved work is the largest pink elephant ever built, San Francisco's towering Palace of Fine Arts. Erected for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 and conceived as a mighty Roman ruin, the palace's lofty dome...