"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...
"Truthful and terrible new description/ from the sudden destruction/ of the well known village of Plurs in Bergel/ and situated in the provinces of Bünten/ ...
September 7, 1936 the last officially living thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) died at the Hobart Zoo, modern lore attributed him the name Benjamin and a...
"It was nearly noon when I arrived at the top of the ascent. For some time I sat upon the rock that overlooks the sea of ice. A mist covered both that and...
"The tiny fringe of shallow sunlit waters which has been so frequently treated in books and films is entirely excluded, for in this book we are concerned only...
October 23, has become famous by (non)geologists as earth's birthday <http://hudsonvalleygeologist.blogspot.com/2011/10/happy-birthday-earth.\ html> - largely...
"The people of Behura fled from my weapons into the mountains of Uschkiani and Banni. I surrounded part of them and killed all. The others that could flee...
November 1, 1755: The Earthquake of Lisbon: Wraith of God or Natural Disaster? <http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/2011/11/01/novem\ ...
ROPARS et al. (2011): A depolarizer as a possible precise sunstone for Viking navigation by polarized skylight. Proc. R. Soc. A Viking navigation from Norway...
The eruption started at 15:00 o'clock local time November 13, 1985 with smaller explosions in the crater. Ash was carried by the wind in north-eastern...
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According to the popcorn-movie "2012" (2009) the end of the world will come due increased solar activity that will overheat earth and cause catastrophic...
