Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most amazing stories of innate instinct that could never have come by any process of evolution concerns Fabre's experiments with the mason bee, experiments suggested to Fabre by Darwin and made after the latter's death. The mason bee (Chalicodoma pyrenaica) builds a house of cement about as big as a thimble, fills it with honey, lays its larva, covers it over and then dies. Fabre took such houses that were built an inch apart and interchanged them, coloring with different colors each house and its bee for identification purposes. He then took the bees...
...Peter's tomb (begun 323 A.D.), had Peter's remains embedded in 40 tons of molten bronze overlaid with 30 pounds of pure gold in the shape of a cross. But the tomb of St. Peter, presumably filled with earth to protect it from invading barbarians, has never been found. Some Protestant scholars have argued that Peter was never in Rome at all. In 1937, when he was Papal Secretary of State, Pius XII became interested in the ancient tombs uncovered by Vatican workers burrowing below ground to check on the foundations supporting St. Peter's dome...
Lieut. Colonel F. Spencer Chapman never got his diaries back, but what had happened to him in the Malay jungles was etched in his memory. His book, The Jungle Is Neutral, has been greeted in England with the kind of praise that British reviewers pass out once in a blue moon -"magnificent," "enthralling," "terrific." It is indeed one of the finest personal accounts to come out of World...
Burn the Papers. Like most Englishmen, Chapman had supposed that Singapore would never fall. He was sent behind the Jap lines in Malaya to organize and train native guerrilla fighters. When Singapore was taken, he and a few other Britons were trapped. Chapman was one of a handful that survived. He came through because he was tough and knew life in the wilderness (in 1937, he had become the first man to scale the 23,930-ft. peak of Chomolhari in the Himalayas, was already a famed Arctic explorer), because he had a sense of humor, and because he kept...
...band without permission. He quickly discovered that the real power in each group lay not with the military leader but with the political commissar. Once, when Chapman started a newspaper, the party members on the staff politely printed what he wrote, then burned the entire second issue and never printed another. That reduced Chapman's cultural contributions to yodeling and Eskimo songs, which always made a great...