The size of the leaves on the trees is intended to indicate – roughly – how many people speak each language. It shows the relative size of English as well as its Germanic roots.
Relive with some of the crew that rebuilt Doc, a pilot that flew Doc on missions over Japan and a beautiful lady 90 some odd years young that helped build Doc during the war.
RESTORED B-29 rescued from the China Lake bone yard of aircraft TAKES TO THE AIR
Yes, yes. Sagan and De Grasse Tyson have all expounded on the wonderful mandate of "going to the stars". What loser psychopath would lock himself into a space smaller than an Airstream trailer for four or five hundred years or so with no chance of ever coming back to our wonderful Earth? "Thy rocks, thy rills, thy wooded hills..."
So where do grizzly bears walk? Anywhere they want to!
An army of trees from the crested hills,
March down the waves to the hungry mills.
Battalioned in cunning array they stride
To the cadence called by the wind and tide
And, sensitive as a gay ballet,
To the maestro's wand, they curve and sway
To the will of the helmsman, who leads the way...
Gill Robb Wilson
Flying Magazine April 1957
I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.
Vladimir Putin
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
William Cowper