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...Tristan islanders were hustled off their tiny island in the South Atlantic last October when a long-dormant volcano poured a river of molten rock toward their thatch-roofed houses. In traveling 6,500 miles to safety in England, they moved nearly a hundred years forward in time. At home, they had lived on a fish-and-potato diet, carded and spun wool by the light of oil lamps, ridden in bullock carts. In their new cottages near the British port of Southampton, they encountered for the first time the 20th century wonders of electric light, store clothes, supermarkets, frozen...
...Ashurst could have held his audience spellbound by reciting the contents of a telephone book. The nation knew him as "Five-Syllable Henry," the ''Silver-Tongued Sunbeam of the Painted Desert." He described himself as a victim of "the inflatus of oratory" and a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano." The Senate has not seen his likes since he left, and it will not soon again. For there was only one Henry Fountain Ashurst, and he died last week...
...which one newspaper attributed to a death wish on the part of the trees caused by Italy's booming capitalism. The trees, complained the paper, no longer want to live, faced with all the exhaust fumes from motorcars and "the streams of reinforced concrete that Rome, like a volcano, spews forth...
Every ten hours, Morris and Berge recorded bursts of radio energy that seemed to come from a small area on Jupiter's surface. Other radio astronomers had detected these bursts and developed theories about them. Some thought a giant volcano might be disturbing Jupiter's atmosphere and generating radio waves. Others decided the waves came from the lightning strokes of enormous thunderstorms. But none of these theories is satisfactory to Morris and Berge. Their explanation: the Jovian radio outbursts are caused by Jovian auroras. If Jupiter has a magnetic field, they argue, it must have magnetic poles, just...
...come? Moments later, a weird figure comes gliding through the surf. It's a fish. It's a sub. It's-Captain Nemo! And just where has Captain Nemo been hiding all this time? In his submarine, the Nautilus. And where is the Nautilus? In a volcano. Any further questions...