Word: erosion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the British wanted to honor the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, famed Victorian philanthropist, they did it with a pun. His memorial fountain in London's bustling Piccadilly Circus is topped by an aluminum winged archer shooting an arrow downward ("burying a shaft"). Popularly, the statue is known as...
The removal was properly signalized by that proper British institution, the fourth editorial (known as the Light Leader) of the London Times. In its characteristic tone, half-bulldog, half-maiden aunt, the Light Leader thus saluted Eros' departure: "From this moment onwards nobody can doubt that there is a...
To get into Spain, Bessie and his fellow volunteers had to climb over the Pyrenees one windy, cold night with small paper parcels as their only baggage. At dawn they stood exhausted on a peak, their city overcoats whipping their legs, and looked south for 50 miles over peaceful country...
Watson, whose findings are reported in the astronomy magazine "Telescope" further believes that Eros whirls about end over end, sometimes showing the earth a large side and then turning its other cheek and displaying a small end. This accounts for its erratic changes of light which have long baffled astronomers...
Since 1898 when it was first discovered, Eros has attracted unusual attention both because of its fickle brightness and because it is one of the earth's nearest neighbors. A cold splinter of rock, estimated to be about 22 miles long and 7 miles thick, Eros sometimes comes within 14...