Arthur Hughes paintings

Arthur Hughes paintings
Albert Bierstadt paintings
All these years later, scientists still puzzle over forces buried in the Earth that shaped those diamonds, because those same forces also built a continent. As a result, teams of scientists are now wrapping up an ambitious, interdisciplinary study of the same region where Swartboy found that nifty rock. Reading Earth's SurfaceThe research isn't focused on diamonds, but diamonds play a role, and it's possible that the high tech equipment used to probe the region more than 150 miles below the Earth's surface may also help modern fortune hunters find new sources of diamonds. But that's not what the scientists set out to do. "The scientific goal was to try and understand how continents form on Earth," says Richard W. Carlson of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's

Arthur Hughes paintings

Arthur Hughes paintings
Albert Bierstadt paintings
Andreas Achenbach paintings
Alphonse Maria Mucha paintings
``I'm dreadfully late -- you weren't worried, were you?'' she asked, laying her hand on his shoulder with one of her rare caresses.
He looked up astonished. ``Is it late?''
``After seven. I believe you've been asleep!'' She laughed, and drawing out her hat pins tossed her velvet hat on the sofa. She looked paler than usual, but sparkling with an unwonted animation.
``I went to see Granny, and just as I was going away Ellen came in from a walk; so I stayed and had a long
-314-talk with her. It was ages since we'd had a real talk. . . .'' She had dropped into her usual armchair, facing his, and was running her fingers through her rumpled hair. He fancied she expected him to speak. ``A really good talk,'' she went on, smiling with what seemed to Archer an unnatural vividness. ``She was so dear -- just like the old Ellen. I'm afraid I haven't been fair to her lately. I've sometimes thought -- ''
Archer stood up and leaned against the mantelpiece, out of the radius of the lamp.
``Yes, you've thought -- ?'' he echoed as she paused.