Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One of the 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...
Surely, it is at least as much to the credit of Writer Ardrey as Producer Berman and Director Minelli that the picture "stoutly refused to spice up the sin or gloss over the grimness of Emma's life . . ." If writers were not such forgotten men in Hollywood [you might...
Peter at last been found? Delicate Digging. Throughout the centuries, the appearance and location of St. Peter's tomb has been a rich source of controversy and legend. The Liber Pontificalis, a chronicle of papal history from the ist to the 15th Century, maintained that after St. Peter was...
Between Welles and the camera hardly a trick has been left untried. At one point the screen blacks out entirely except for Welles's bulbous eyes, which go right on revolving in the dark like a couple of off-center marbles. Basking more or less uncomfortably in Welles'...
Eat Rat Meat. Chapman was captured twice but escaped each time. His weight dropped from 170 Ibs. to 90. He learned to eat rat meat and think it tasty; once, he, even took in stride the information that he had just eaten roast Jap. He was frequently near death from...