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Heroic Age Of Antarctic Exploration

Nathan Goldwag | Goldwag’s Journal On Civilisation | 1st August 2024 | U

Series of turn-of-the-century expeditions, when the continent was still terra incognita. On one such venture, Englishman Cherry-Garrard travelled sixty miles through an Antarctic winter, his teeth shattered by the cold. He recovered the first Emperor penguin eggs ever found, and donated them to the London Museum of Natural History. “There is something inescapably Victorian about this Heroic Age” (2,700 words)

Video: Building Venice | YouTube | Primal Space | 9m 28s

Venice, before being built, was a collection of small, marshy islands composed of a soft clay — one of the worst possible surfaces for construction. To create stable foundations, the Venetians collected large timber piles from the Croatian forests and hammered them six feet into the ground.

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