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The first nonhuman artist to be given her own art exhibition was a female pig rescued from a South African slaughterhouse in 2016. When her keeper, Joanne Lefson, noticed that the pig ate everything in her stall except some paintbrushes, she taught her to hold a brush in her mouth and apply paint to an easel, and Lefson could sell the resulting works to...

“Pleasant is the glittering of the sun today upon these margins because it flickers so.” — An anonymous medieval monk writing in a manuscript of Cassiodorus, quoted in Nora Chadwick’s The Celts, 1971

One of the most beautiful and moving of the bird-songs heard throughout the country which [French merchant Nicolas] Denys governed [in 17th-century Acadia], is that of the Veery, or Wilson’s Thrush. The Maliseet Indians of the Saint John River, as Mr. Tappan Adney has recently told us, say this bird is calling Ta-né-li-ain′, Ni-kó-la Dĕn′-i Dĕn′-i?, that is, ‘Where are you going, Nicolas Denys?’...

From the Peterborough Standard, 1979: CROWLAND’S Silver Jubilee committee was finally wound up on Thursday evening with a presentation ceremony at the library. The jubilee fund, described by chairman Frank Parnell as ‘one of the finest efforts in Lincolnshire’, fremony at the library. The jubilee fund, described by chairman Frank Parnell as ‘one remony atremony aremony at the library. The jubremony at the library....