BY YOUR appearance you give people a certain impression as to the sort of person you are. That impression, of course, is based only on what they see. People also base their judgment on what they hear. In fact, far more revealing, far more indicative of your personality is your voice. It can proclaim ever so many things, which may or may not be true. Yes, the very sound of your voice can do good or harm to yourself and to others.

Have you not found it so, that how a person says a thing, the t...

Mountains that pierce the clouds and reach to dizzying heights may appear to us humans as coldly majestic, lonely, even forbidding. Yet to a great variety of wildlife they constitute home. One of such wildlife is the mountain Gorilla

The mountain Gorilla, the giant ape was  discovered in the higher levels of the West African forests in 1847. This creature’s warlike,  tremendous strength and the remoteness of its habitation have stirred man’s imagination and posed something of a mystery, ...

OTTERS are among earth’s most playful animals. They seem to take delight in sliding on their bellies, either down snow-covered slopes or wet riverbanks. They play tag and engage in mock combats. They are not averse to including other creatures—dogs, raccoons or foxes—in their endless games.

The common otter of Europe is much like the otter inhabiting North America, though the European variety is smaller. Both are superb swimmers. An otter is said to travel in water at a rate of some 10...

A crowd gathers at Stirling Castle in Scotland to witness a spectacular event. There on the roof is an Italian alchemist who had announced that he would fly to France using specially designed wings well endowed with bird feathers.

He is off! But where did he end up? At the foot of the castle, with a broken thigh bone. So ended a sixteenth-century attempt to imitate the miracle of bird flight.

Many persons long felt that if man simply possessed feathers like a bird and flapped wings up and d...