The complete online text of Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce.

The American writer Ambrose Gwinett Bierce (1842-ca. 1914) expressed the cynicism of the post-Civil War era and shaped both the materials and the methods of writers who later voiced the disillusionment following World War I. Ambrose Bierce was born in Me...

The late Carey McWilliams, himself an astute observer of the national scene, has pointed out that every American should have some familiarity with Ambrose Bierce, that aloof and independent iconoclast who was in the thick of some of the most important de...

The late Carey McWilliams, an astute observer of the national scene, has pointed out that every American should have some familiarity with Ambrose Bierce , that aloof and independent iconoclast who was in the thick of some of the most important developme...

Lots of bands play their inaugural gigs at a buddy's wedding or at a cheesy bar - locations where people probably aren't taking much notice. Not so for Black Beetle. The foursome first performed together in the summer of 1997, at the memorial service...

Key words. Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae, Ripiphorinae, new genus, new species, amber fossil, Albian, Cenomanian, Archingeay, Salignac, France Abstract. Paleoripiphorus deploegi gen. n., sp. n. and Macrosiagon ebboi sp. n., described from two French Albo-Cenomanian ambers (mid Cretaceous), are the oldest definitely identified representatives of...