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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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man. 
- Jacob Bronowski (1908 - 1974)
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