Chapter XXIV During Which Mr. Fogg And Party Cross The Pacific Ocean What happened when the pilot-boat came in sight of Shanghai will be easily guessed. The signals made by the Tankadere had been seen...
Chapter XVIII In Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, And Fix Go Each About His Business The weather was bad during the latter days of the voyage. The wind, obstinately remaining in the north-west, blew...
June 23th 2010 a surprising animal showed up near Vlieland (The Netherlands)... A DUTCH ORCA The first documented stranding was at Domburg in 1783 This painting remembers this event The last orca...
Japan was not a major actor in World War 1, but it did play a role. Right as war broke in August of 1914, the Japanese were interested in taking control of German posessions and they were already...
CHAPTER XIII WRECK OF A SPANISH SHIP I was now in the twenty-third year of my residence in this island, and was so naturalised to the place and the manner of living, that, could I but have enjoyed the...
As we've already talked about as we exit the 1800s and we get to the early 1900s and we approach World War I the various powers of Europe are really on this race for empire; it was part of...