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Thought For the Day: Nature Is A Endless Song of One Beautiful Form Into Another

“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.” – John Muir, Naturalist … Continue reading

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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Sir Francis Drake’s Famous Voyage Around the World

Sir Francis Drake embarked for South Seas, December 13, 1577 Born in roughly 1540, the English sea captain and privateer, Sir Francis Drake, passed away on January 28, 1596.  Before he did, however, he carried out the second circumnavigation of … Continue reading

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