About The Chimpanzee: A Creature That We Continually Underestimate
Two big searching eyes confront an interested viewer from the other side of a half-reflective glass. A black hand slowly raises itself to greet the onlooker. In this union resides a strange meeting of not too dissimilar minds. It is a scene that is repeated across the world in zoos and wildlife parks. An eerie feeling of the familiar, of kindred souls connecting with one another. Human and our closest kin, the chimpanzee.
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About The Dolphin: Our Love Affair With Our Favourite Cetacean
A tremour ripples through the dark blue water. An onlooker fixes her gaze in wild wonderment as child-like emotions transfix her eyes to a tiny point on the water. A dorsal fin protrudes, breaching the blue skin. The onlooker’s feelings change from fascination to dread. These feelings once more morph becoming joyous upon the realisation that the animal is not a shark but a most welcome dolphin confirmed by a familiar dolphin grin.
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About 1980s Toys: Revolutionising The Entertainment Industry
Toys define a generation. They are part and parcel of our youth. When we reminisce about our childhood we are remembering a time of innocence and fun when we played for hours with our favourite toy.
Invariably, every child thinks his or her toy is better than toys of his parents’.
However, when we look back upon our childhood, we conclude that some toys were marvellously inventive and creative ideas while others less so. This is especially true of 1980s toys.
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Quotes On Knowledge
‘I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.’
Thomas Jefferson
Bees: Collectors Of Honey And Providers Of And For Life
It is a beautiful warm sunny day and you are sitting on a park bench. The sky is blue, there are multi-coloured flowers gently swaying in the balmy breeze. The birds are singing sweetly in the trees, and all around, people are relaxing in the sun.
Suddenly, you hear a scream, you look over where a group of young people had been sitting quietly chatting and laughing earlier, but now the scene has completely changed. Hands and arms are flaying all over the place, swiping at something, someone has a book and they are now frantically swatting the air. What has caused this frenzy of activity and fear? Then you hear the unmistakably low drone of a bee.
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The Ant: Incredible Intelligence In Such A Tiny Creature
Unnoticed and unwatched, a small tiny creature slowly and steadily makes it way through an invisible road. However, it is not alone, it is joined by hundreds of similar creatures all busily making their way on some impenetrable and unknowable journey to an unimaginable world. The world of the ant.
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Box Jellyfish: The All-Seeing Creature With 24 Eyes
They may not be as terrifying as the sight of jagged rows of shark’s teeth protruding from the water. They may not carry the same sense of dread as being in a one-on-one situation with a large lion. They may also not be as horrifying as being confronted with a large venomous snake but they are far more lethal. The Box Jellyfish is one of the most deadly creatures to exist in our seas and oceans.
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About Mercury: The Strange Planet That Supported Relativity
A strange planet in many ways. Eerily like our Moon in both appearance and scale, Mercury is a dull, grey planet that bares a remarkable past.
Mercury is the smallest of all the inner terrestrial planets. Yet, despite its size, it has earned its place in Greek and Roman mythology. Deified as the Messenger God, Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun has an inhospitable environment. Too cruel for life, it’s Sun-scorched surface bares the full brunt of the fierce heat and Solar Winds of our life-giving star.
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Michael Jackson: Personae’s Of A Talented But Controversial Superstar
Slick, determined, and in search of perfection, Michael Jackson was the ultimate performer. Dogged and resolute on achieving his dreams, Jackson changed the face of music forever. Redefining and reinventing a new landscape, he managed to merge the best of television, dance and music into a sumptuous blend resulting in a brilliant art-form. He did so while creating two completely different people in the process.
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Quotes On The Power Of Belief
‘The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.’
Frank Lloyd Wright
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About 1970′s Toys: Still Popular To This Day
The 1970s was a revolutionary decade when it came to children’s toys. Much of the toys that were released during that period are still popular to this day. In fact, many of the originals are highly prized collectibles.
The 70s saw the craze that was the Rubik’s Cube, when almost everyone played with a multi-coloured square-shaped box trying to beat the game. Other great toys included the computer game Pong, and what was to become an even bigger hit with youngsters and is still going strong today, the Skateboard!
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Quotes On Dreams
‘When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.’
Dom Helder Camara
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