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Salvinia auriculata is a native of tropical America, and no one knows for sure how it got to Africa. One theory is that a 19th century missionary imported it to ornament a pond. The fern's hairy, half-inch-long leaves grow in pairs on a slender stem. Each...
Olmstead and McKone plopped into the "extremely cold and rough" Barents Sea, were kept afloat by their automatically inflated individual life rafts until they were picked up about six hours later by a Soviet fishing trawler. They never saw any of the other crew members.-Olmstead and McKone spent the...
Non-fishing newcomers weren't hard to find. Miss Amy Dalrymple was the first to discover the Wharf's potential for residential purposes, but she was soon followed by dozens of Bostonians eager for a window on the sea. The 75-foot-long rooms were divided into 25 by 50...
Today, almost the only thing common to all apartments is the low, beamed ceiling and a splendid view onto a few fishing boats owned by Italians who still cling to their traditional slips. Otherwise, variations in the original shapes of the rooms and later additions of partitions have made each...
What kind of charm T Wharf diffuses remains a mystery. Neither the residents, nor the owners, claim to find any historic value in the Wharf beyond its importance as the former center of the cod-fishing industry--one of the industries significantly responsible for raising Massachusetts Bay to its major...