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The Language of Flowers

The text explores the language of flowers, detailing their symbolic meanings, sentiments they represent, and poetic expressions, offering insights into how flowers convey emotions and thoughts throughout history.

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George Melville would serve as the Jeannette’s engineer. Said to be distantly related to the great author, Melville was an improvisational genius with machines—a greasy-fingered savant who seemed most at home among thumping boilers and sharp blasts of steam. The engineer, thirty-eight years old, had a booming voice, a stout physique, and an

Hampton Sides • In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

McNeish’s tomcat, which had mistakenly been named Mrs. Chippy before his sex was determined, also was to be destroyed. There was only food for those who could pull their weight.

Alfred Lansing • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Combating the Emergence of a Two-Tier Music Streaming Market: Analysis and recommendations to support a future industry of innovation, inclusivity, and sustainable growth

The report analyzes the music streaming industry's growing divide affecting independent artists due to market consolidation, pay-for-play models, royalty distribution changes, streaming fraud, and AI's impact, recommending reforms for fairness, transparency, and inclusivity.

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It was six years since I had seen him last, but he made it seem as though it were only yesterday. What I wanted to ask him was who owned the land that Margot and I liked nearby, but what I uttered was quite something else: 'Eddie', I said, 'I don't want to muck you around. Will you sell me some land?' Eddie was the largest landholding farmer in the... See more

Alistair Knox

Mr Smith, a sea-officer of the small, trim, brisk, round-headed, portwine kind, once shipmates with Stephen in the Lively and now second in the Goliath, rode by on a camel, with his legs folded negligently over the creature’s neck to the manner born:

Patrick O'Brian • HMS Surprise

To swim by the cliffs where sharpbills nest.

Henrik Karlsson • Swimming in July

it was on the return from the South Pole that Amundsen and his team ate their dogs.

Ross Edgley • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body

Then he shouldered the mast and started to climb. It was then he knew the depth of his tiredness. He stopped for a moment and looked back and saw in the reflection from the street light the great tail of the fish standing up well behind the skiff’s stern. He saw the white naked line of his backbone and the dark mass of the head with the projecting