The BBC and Yellowstone National Park have both recently released extensive archives of sound effects into the public domain; you never know when you might have occasion to know the exact sound of a grizzly crunching bison bones, the klaxon of a Romanian trolleybus, a shot from an 1870 17-bore twin-barrel shotgun, or the moaning of a frozen lake as ( Read more... )

What would this area have been known as during the early 1800s?
By 1839, on the eve of the Great Landslip, it had its present name. Would the earlier formation, formed by the 1775 landslip, also be known as the Undercliff?

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Hi, I thought this might be useful for people:

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