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35035930. Website. Publisher's website. Fall on Your Knees is a 1996 novel by Canadian playwright, actor and novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald. The novel takes place in late 19th and early 20th centuries and chronicles four generations of the complex Piper Family. It is a story of "inescapable family bonds, terrible secrets, and of miracles." [ 1]
August 1949. " Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed " is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. It was originally published in the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories in August 1949, under the title " The Naming of Names ". It was subsequently included in the short-story collections A Medicine for Melancholy and S Is for Space .
Influence. "A Sound of Thunder" is often credited as the origin of the term "butterfly effect", a concept of chaos theory in which the flapping of a butterfly's wings in one part of the world could create a hurricane on the opposite side of the globe. The term was actually introduced by meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz in the 1960s.
A new study has found how a rose and other plants like a tomato and eggplant came to get their prickles. The discovery could help engineer new thorn-free variants.
But, the buffalo is far from wild and the girls want to keep him as a pet. Another problem arises when Joe spooks the buffalo by firing his rifle and the animal runs off. Faversham arrives and Joe tells him that there are buffalo all over. Joe somehow stalls Faversham for three days. The Lord is growing tired of Joe and threatens to sue for fraud.
The Smurfs is an animated television series that originally aired on NBC from September 12, 1981 to December 2, 1989. [1] Created by Pierre "Peyo" Culliford and based on his comic book of the same name, it was composed by 256 episodes with 417 stories, but also of three cliffhanger episodes and seven specials. [2]
T Coronae Borealis, also called the Blaze Star, is actually two stars — a hot, dense white dwarf, and a cooler red giant. The dwarf star, which ran out of fuel long ago and collapsed to roughly ...
We've all grown up thinking that sitting too close to the television is damaging to our eyes ... but that might not be the case. Technology spawns lots of confusion ... and a few affectionately ...