Word: heiberg
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...woman should be quiet, calm, mild, and understanding, and you should always have the time to listen to men and children," Heiberg said...
...Astrid Heiberg, a member of the Norwegian Parliament, described a dichotomy in Norwegian politics along the lines of gender, saying that men and women are expected to have different characteristics...
...Heiberg, who is also a psychiatrist, said men like to take the floor of Parliament without having anything to say, just to establish their own territory...
First to spot the fossil forest was Paul Tudge, a helicopter pilot who has been ferrying Geological Survey scientists to and from remote sites on Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere for years. He had once seen McMillan's fossil forest, and on a flight to Axel Heiberg in July 1985, Tudge recalls, "I saw the same sort of stumps, but many, many of them." He later returned to the site, landed nearby, collected samples and brought them to Basinger, who immediately began planning this summer's expedition. Aided by a grant from the Geological Survey and accompanied by another fossil-forest...
While continental drift has been relocating other land masses over the past 45 million years, Axel Heiberg Island has remained relatively stationary in its Arctic home. The fact that lush forests could have grown so far north indicates that the climate there was once far more hospitable. In fact, scientists have long known that during the early part of the Tertiary period, which began about 65 million years ago, the entire planet was warmer, probably due to carbon dioxide that spewed into the atmosphere during movements of the earth's crust. The result was a greenhouse effect, in which...