Posts Tagged ‘Great Dismal Swamp’

Peat Beginning to Burn in the Great Dismal Swamp

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 08/22/2011 @ 2:54:53 PM
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The famed Great Dismal Swamp of southern Virginia, dried to extremis by drought, was hit by lightning a few weeks ago and has been burning ever since, the smoke drifting … [Keep reading >>]

Words for Acts

It is impudent in the extreme for this man to go around Europe haranguing people on their duties to civilization when his own country presents one of the most lawless aspects of modern life the whole world affords.

Roger Casement
Irish Human Rights Champion

commenting on Teddy Roosevelt's 1910 Guildhall
speech telling Great Britain to either rule Egypt or get out.

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