The 48 mile-long (77 km) international waterway known as the Panama Canal allows ships to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean, saving about 8000 miles (12,875 km) from a journey around the southern tip of South America, Cape Horn.
It is a story that is as much fun to think about as it is to read. Learn how the author uses foreshadowing, irony and deep themes. slide 1 of 7. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson first appeared in the New Yorker in 1948. A modern parable, this story is often classified as a horror story. It tells the story of a small town that holds a lottery each year. The person picked by this lottery is then stoned to death by the town.
SORTED: The lottery is no longer a lottery thanks to a Brazilian maths whizz who claims to be able to predict which numbers will be drawn [GETTY]. Brazilian mathematician Renato Gianella argues there is a way of predicting which numbers are more likely to appear by following the patterns of the Law of Large Numbers. MATHS whizz has claimed it is perfectly possible to predict the results of the lottery.