The Mauna Loa Observatory on the island of Hawaii is known for the continious monitoring of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The graphs show monthly mean carbon dioxide measured at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii. The carbon dioxide data (red curve), measured as …
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The Unicorn in the Garden” written by James Thurber. is one of the most famous of his humorous modern fables. It first appeared in The New Yorker 1939; and was first collected in his book Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated (Harper …
Ich möchte sprachinteressierte Zeitgenossen mitnehmen auf eine ganz besondere Zeitreise durch den deutschen Sprachraum. Der Begriff Zeit in all seinen überaus vielfältigen Formen und Wendungen soll uns dabei Weg und Ziel sein. Da wir in fast allen Bereichen unseres Lebens …
Was ist eigentlich Zeit? Wie definiert man Zeit so, dass jedermann eine klare Vorstellung dieses Phänomens hat? „Zeit“ war schon immer ein Phänomen, das zwar allgegenwärtig in wohl jedermanns Bewusstsein eine feste Größe hat, für jeden selbstverständlich nicht nur …
Lady Chatterley’s Lover is undoubtedly the most generally known of Lawrence’s books, however first of all it owes its fame to its history of legal repression: For thirty-two years after its first publication in 1928 the book was banned in …
Tanz Lea tanz tanz dich aus dieser Zeit zum Rhythmus deiner Seele in alle Ewigkeit Sing Lea sing die Lieder dieser Welt erhebe deine Stimme bis dass der Vorhang fällt Spiel Lea spiel spiel deine Melodie so spüren wir deine …
The Argentine research base, Esperanza, on the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula, set a new record temperature of 18.3°C on 6 February, beating the former record of 17.5°C on 24 March 2015, according to Argentina’s national meteorological service (SMN). …
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The Guardian – international edition – presents this timeline showing that fossil fuel companies have been aware of the impact on global climate at least since the 1950s. 1959 The physicist Edward Teller tells the American Petroleum Institute (API) a …
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