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Do you want to learn how to take professional photos? Here are some professional photography tips that will show you how to make your pictures look more polished.
10 books that will take you on real-life adventures
TRAVELING DOESN’T ALWAYS have to be about changing your location. As French poet and author Anatole France wrote, “Traveling is changing your opinions and your prejudices.” Especially in this time of COVID-19 shutdowns, it might seem like travel has come to a halt. But books prove that the revelations that happen on journeys aren’t dependent on boarding passes. Read a book, learn about the world, keep traveling
In the first installment of our series “Around the World in 80 Books,” we feature 10 adventure tales that we can dive into—even from our armchairs.
Find the list on National Geographical magazine
Identify British bird songs
One of the joys of spring is the burst of bird song it brings, but telling birds apart by sound alone can be tricky for beginners. Start by learning the repertoire of some of the UK’s most familiar songsters and you’ll soon get your ear in.
See Bird song identification: common songs and calls from the Woodland Trust
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Read Samuel Pepys diary – one day at a time
In 1660 Samuel Pepys, an increasingly-important 26 year-old civil servant in London, began writing his diary. He stopped a decade later.
This site contains the full text of his diary, along with several letters sent or received by Pepys, plus thousands of pages of further information about the people, places and things in his world.
The diary entries were published on this site daily, in real time, from January 2003 until May 2012, with readers discussing events each day. From January 2013 the diary entries will again appear on the front page at the end of the day (London time), starting with 1 January 1660.
Go to: The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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Find out how to identify clouds
According to the World Meteorological Organization’s International Cloud Atlas, more than 100 types of clouds exist. The many variations, however, can be grouped into one of 10 basic types depending on their general shape and height in the sky.
Find out more by reading: The 10 Basic Types of Clouds on ThoughtCo.
Find out the origin of the word ‘quarantine’
In 1793, yellow fever hit Philadelphia, and sailors were quarantined in a hospital outside the city. When typhus landed in New York City in 1892, at least 70 people were quarantined on a nearby island. When an outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) moved through Canada in 2003, about 30,000 people in Toronto were quarantined. And during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, health workers returning to the United States from affected areas were quarantined. But to find the origin of the word, we have to look back to mid-14th century Europe
Read The Origin Of The Word ‘Quarantine’ on Science Friday, 4 September 2018
