Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

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Apocolocyntosis, is a satire against the emperor Claudius. The word is a play on the term Apotheosis or deification, and is equivalent in meaning to Pumpkinification, or the reception of Claudius among the pumpkins.

May 6, 1987 China The Daxing'anling Wildfire in China was not the first wildfire in the Daxing'anling Mountains, but it was the worst. It burned for almost a month, destroying more than 2 million acres (971,245 ha), killing more than 200 people, and leaving more than 50,000 homeless.