The noise of church bells, ducks, geese, cockerels and even frogs has been the source of many a complaint – and even legal action – from visitors and newly arrived city dwellers in the French countryside. Few will forget Maurice the crowing cockerel, who landed his owner in court in a case that ruffled feathers […]
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Billions of cicadas to invade US east coast after 17 years underground
Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the US east coast. They will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600 to one. Maybe more. But ominous as that sounds — along […]