There are some glittering stats out there regarding Brassey: namely that he'd built around one-third of Britain's railways by the time he was in his early 40s, and that by the time of his death (aged 65) he was responsible for around one-twentieth of the world's railways.

In any case, the Serbian kmets who remained within the old estate system on the eve of the First World War were not especially badly off by the standards of early twentieth-century peasant Europe […]

M. Pasteur has also carefully examined the crystalline forms of several salts of racemic acid,—particularly the neutral and acid racemates of soda and the racemate of antimony and potash—and finds them all perfectly homohedral.

See how lor. Who’s going ar?