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03/17
Hummingbirds Live
I’ve joined the legions of watchers who keep an eye on Phoebe the hummingbird’s California nest each day via webcam, waiting for her hatchlings to emerge. http://phoebeallens.com/
03/15
Fortune’s Blooms
I‘m planning out a garden and thinking about blooms—and botanical hunters—today. It used to be in centuries past that sailing captains, missionaries and professional botanists made it their business to hunt all over China for new flower to export to Europe…
03/10
A lofty beginning, thanks to Mme de Pompadour
Diderot worked for twenty-six years as the editor of the monumental French Encyclopédie, producing 17 volumes of text and 11 of illustrations published between 1751 and 1772. It summed up the world’s knowledge, but its writers also challenged the beliefs of…
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