You can understand why it took nine hundred years to build – and that was with German workers. In Britain they would still be digging the foundations.
Personally I can think of nothing more exciting – certainly nothing you could do in a public place with a cup of coffee – than to read newspapers from a part of the world you know almost nothing about.
Well, they seem to have that light in Australia nearly all the time. It took me a while to recognize that this was precisely the light of Iowa summers from my boyhood, and it was a shock to realize just how long it had been since I had seen it.
Webster was responsible also for the American aluminum in favor of the British aluminium. His choice has the fractional advantage of brevity, but defaults in terms of consistency.
Where body meets air, we are all cadavers.
You even quite often hear people speaking Welsh, whereas in Scotland the number of people who seriously speak Gaelic would barely fill a shower stall.
It has been calculated, and goodness knows how, it must be said, that during the course of a lifetime the heart does an amount of work sufficient a one ton object 150 miles into the air. It is a truly remarkable implement. It just doesn’t care about your love life.
Henry Gosse, produced a somewhat desperate alternative theory called “prochronism” in which he suggested that God had merely made the Earth look old, to give people of inquisitive minds more interesting things to wonder over.
People in Philadelphia don’t come from there; they come from “Fuhluffia.
Americans today consume about twenty five percent more calories than they did in 1970. And let’s face it, they weren’t exactly going without in 1970.
To an American shopper there are just three spans of time: now, tomorrow at the very latest, and we’ll look elsewhere.
By one estimate, about half the sugar we consume is lurking in foods where we are not even aware of it – in breads, salad dressings, spaghetti sauces, ketchup, and other processed foods that don’t normally strike us as sugary. Altogether about 80 percent of the processed foods we eat contain added sugars. Heinz ketchup is almost one-quarter sugar. It has more sugar per unit of volume than Coca-Cola.
Interestingly, in the United States no one has died of old age since 1951, at least not officially, for in that year old age was banished as a cause from death certificates. In Britain, it is still allowed, though not much used.
I have often been struck in Britain by this sort of thing – by how mysteriously well educated people from unprivileged backgrounds so often are, how the most unlikely people will tell you plant names in Latin or turn out to be experts on the politics of ancient Thrace or irrigation techniques at Glanum.
Some years ago, Pearce made a curious discovery – that people who had had a cat early in life seemed to derive lifelong protection from getting asthma.
Male ignorance of female anatomy is quite arresting, it appears, particularly when you consider how keen they are to get to know it in other respects.
I’ve never liked that man from the day Grace married him, and the fact he’s become President of the United States makes no difference.
The prostate, it must be said, produces seminal fluid throughout a man’s adulthood and anxiety in his later years.
In 1954, just one French residence in ten had a shower or bath.
Authorities seem to be universally agreed that the average quantity of semen released at orgasm is three to three and a half milliliters, about a teaspoonful, with an average spurt distance of eighteen to twenty centimeters, or seven to eight inches, though according to Desmond Morris, a launch of three feet has been scientifically recorded. It does not specify the circumstances.