Already in early times naturalists gathered in associations and societies to encounter fellows, share discoveries, publish research and why not - have a...
"I remembered the effect that the view of the tremendous and ever-moving glacier had produced upon my mind when I first saw it. It had then filled me with a...
"I see the destructive side of humankind, the blind spider; she fiddles in the poisonous gloominess, dreaming dreams full of mushroom clouds. All is...
Japan is situated in the collision area of at least four great plates <http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2011/03/11/japan-m8-9-quake-tsunam\ i/> : the...
"When the earth shakes, flee in the bamboo-forest." Japanese proverb Japan possesses the most severe guidelines for anti-seismic buildings in the world;...
- Part one of the History of Skeletal Drawings covers the pre-20th century era <http://skeletaldrawing.blogspot.com/2011/03/history-of-skeletal-drawing\ ...
In the late afternoon of March 27. 1964 Alaska was shattered for three to five minutes by one of the (second) strongest and destructive earthquakes ever to...
"Within a few millennia our ice may be gone, but if we shall have paid a fearful price for its going. Ice at its maximum extent is disastrous, but no ice is...
At 3:32 in the morning a 20 seconds lasting earthquake with magnitude 6,9 (followed quite until midday by weaker aftershocks) occurred 7km near the city of...
"I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and...
In the night between 14. to the 15. April 1912 the passenger liner "R.M.S. Titanic" collided with an iceberg, two hours later at 2:20 the ship sank, 1490 to...
An explosion on the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20. 2010 and the subsequent oil spill for nine months has become one...
It was May 1, 1851 when the first World's fair under the title "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" was inaugurated in Crystal Palace in...
"My Dear Sister: This morning the whole population of the city is on the alert and every eye is directed toward Mont Pelee, an extinct volcano. Everybody is...
In the year 1915 the Great War reached the, at the time, Austrian Dolomites as the neutral Italy declared war to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. The military...
In the years 1792 to 1794 the crew of the "H.M.S. Discovery" under the command of captain George Vancouver was surveying the western coast of the North...
Five years ago <http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Indonesian-Mud-Volcano-Marks-5\ -Years-122801959.html> , at 5 o'clock in the morning of May 29, the ...
"The sun begins to fade away, the continent sinks into the sea: The bright stars, they disappear from the sky: Smoke hurls up from the burning fire and...
Modern pop-culture legends tells that one of the most well-known adventurers and archaeologists in movie history, Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Jr. - or Indiana...
"The known specimens of Mesozoic mammals are among the most precious and important remains of extinct life which have yet been discovered. They are the sole...
"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws." "The Colour Out...
The term periglacial was introduced by the Polish geologist Walery von Lozinsk in 1910 and 1911 to describe the particular mechanical weathering he had...
On February 20, 1949 Mrs. Henrietta Helen Olivia Roberts Durand-Deacon, a sixty-nine-year-old wealthy widow, disappeared from the Onslow Court Hotel located...
During the transition of the 18th to the 19th century earth sciences experienced a major revolution - the principles of the modern identification of rocks was...
"The morning of this sorrowful day begun with strong rain, which became less and lesser until at midday it stopped. Already in the early morning there were...
