Outside it's cold, it's wet. But inside it's cosy and we have started a new jigsaw of the week (Charles Darwin's Beagle voyages, so it's educational to boot!).
Why not sit down, warm up, relax, & try & add a few more pieces?
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Great story, and it's fascinating to see Darwin's diary next to the captain's.
"The same sea filled our decks so deep, that if another had followed it is not difficult to guess the result." Charles Darwin, Beagle Diary, 13 Jan 1833.
Dry laconic understatement here, beautiful in its rhythm and its trusting collusion with the reader. We can picture such a passage in Daniel Defoe or Laurence Sterne.
#OnThisDay The International Monetary Fund was created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations (1945).
Charles Darwin embarked on his journey aboard #HMSBeagle (1831)
Birth Anniversary of #German #Astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571), French #Microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822).
From 1832-1835, Charles Darwin traveled across South America both on land and at sea aboard HMS Beagle, during which time he uncovered fossils which would later inform the theory of evolution. Though many are familiar with Darwin’s exploits, perhaps fewer are aware of shocking ethnic cleansing which formed the backdrop […]
Rock inscriptions purportedly related to Dutch shipwrecks and other early exotic visitors on the west coast of Western Australia are examined. The question of authenticity is investigated by microscopic analysis of weathering phenomena, such as the retreat rate of carbonate cement in calcareous sandstone. Dated rock inscriptions are of great value in developing quantitative and repeatable methods of estimating the age of petroglyphs. In this context, they can be of considerable importance in scientific studies of rock art. Moreover, the study of rock art should not be arbitrarily divorced from the analysis of rock inscriptions, a similar scientific methods study the two forms of rock markings and can provide mutually complementary information.
Charles Darwin, born on 12 February 1809, became one of the most important Snark hunters in history.
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The hunting of the Snark with Charles Darwin:
https://snrk.de/snark-hunting-with-charles-darwin/.
#OnThisDay The International Monetary Fund was created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations (1945).
Charles Darwin embarked on his journey aboard #HMSBeagle (1831).
Birth Anniversary of #German #Astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571) and French #Microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822) renowned for his discoveries of the principles of #Vaccination.
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