It's easier to devein shrimp before they are cooked. 1  Use a sharp paring knife to cut a slit along the outer curve of the shrimp's body. 2  The cut will reveal a dark brown or black vein, the shrimp's digestive tract. 3  Use your fingers, a fork or the paring knife to lift it out of the shrimp and discard it.
Last year marked the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin. But this essay is not about Charles Darwin. It is about a contemporary of his, Herbert Spencer, who was developing a theory of evolution before Darwin and is credited with coining the phrase the survival of the fittest.. His books sold in huge numbers during his lifetime and he was almost certainly the most famous philosopher of the Victorian age.
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression. A Republican, as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s he introduced Progressive Era themes of efficiency in the business community and provided government support for standardization, efficiency and international trade. As president from 1929 to 1933, his ambitious programs were overwhelmed by the Great Depression, which seem