The coast at Holderness is eroding faster than any other stretch of coastline in Europe. The rate of erosion is two meters per year and most of it occurs during storms. In 1953 four meters were removed in one day and in 100 years, over 76,000 cubic meters of cliff material has been eroded. Since Rom...
In the year 1914, almost all of Europe broke out in the First World War that the world had ever seen. This was a war between the major alliances of Europe that included Britain, Russia, Germany, France, and Austria-Hungry. But where did America fall into this big picture of destruction and despair...
"Stonehenge is surely Britain's greatest icon, symbolizing mystery, power, and endurance" (Stonehenge 1). Those are the words of historian Gregory Ashe. The monument, located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, now lies in ruins. It consists of a circular group of large upright stones surroun...
Many tanker captains deliberately flush out the holes of their vessels in foreign ports leaving the foul mess for other people to clean up, and the fines they pay if they are caught – which is not always the case – are literally peanuts. ... Some of the hydrocarbons that we release into the atmosphere, especially those from the aerosol cans together with the rockets that we launch into space, cause large holes to appear in the ozone layer above the Pole caps. ...
When the topic of the European Enlightenment comes up many people refer to England or France while the Iberian Peninsula is often left out or not seen as an area that had seen that much of the enlightenment. Granted, the Enlightenment did come quicker and may have had a more influential impact in ot...
