Word: weres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, the proliferation of houses around the lake was having another, equally unforeseen effect. Household wastes, laden with nutrients, seeped into the water and fertilized algae. By 1961, the lake and its beaches were covered with green slime.
The silversides have multiplied prodigiously. They not only eat the gnats but also compete for the nutrients that stimulate algae growth. As a result, the algae are disappearing, and the lake has regained 80% of its original clarity. No longer troubled by DDD, the grebes are making a comeback. This...
To give his project the broadest scope, Hartmann chose artists with differing styles. Some were pure abstractionists, others were from the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. Each was asked to bring a recent painting or drawing into the studio for the five-hour trip; after the 100-microgram dose began...
Frightfully Interesting. Poet John Betjeman, for example, paid tribute to his stuffed, 60-year-old ursine friend "Archibald Ormsby-Gore" in his work Summoned by Bells ("Safe were those evenings of the pre-war world/When I turned to Archibald, my safe old bear"). The late Donald Campbell set new speed...
To obtain such hitherto top-secret information, Bull ran a front-page ad in the London Times requesting "History of E. Bear Esquire. Reminiscences, Data, Photographs." He also issued public pleas for facts and figures on arctophilia during television appearances with "Theodore," oldest of his own Teddies (all of whom...