Fires in Magadan Region, Russia's Kolyma Mountains
Large forest fires that began in July in Russia’s Magadan region continued into August, leaving dark brown burn scars across the remote, sparsely populated landscape. Smoke from these fires and others in Alaska and...
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bowbell
- One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney.
The ‘Bow-bells’ refer to bells of the St Mary-le-Bow, a historic church in London.
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The great tragedy of science 
- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Huxley
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