2020-03-04: Charles Darwin's wife and penguins in Australia Hello! Don't be surprised, two subjects of my today topic aren't connected to each other except by I met both topics during my English lesson yesterday. Let's start with Charles Darwin. Actually not with him but with his wife Emma Darwin who was born as Emma Wedgwood. There was a small message about her in my listening task. It was told there Emma was the youngest of eight children in the family. One sentence of the speech was very hard to hear for me and I decided to use Wikipedia to find the information about Emma I expected to be mentioned in the text. Then I hoped to hear the words I missed. I opened the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Darwin and found there Emma was the youngest of seven(!) children. 'Hey, what? Seven?' I thought and followed to the page for the Emma father's, Josiah Wedgwood II, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Wedgwood_II. The article there stated he had four sons and five daughters. Great! Now there were nine! I wished I clarify why the number of children is so different. But for that time I couldn't dive deeper into the story and just gave up. Sorry. The second part of the story is about penguins. I never thought penguins may be found in Australia. I knew that there are some in New Zealand. And I was sure New Zealand is far more south than Australia. So it was a real discovery for me that you may find penguins on Philip Island near Melbourne. And New Zealand is closer to the South Pole for only 500 kilometres than Australia. Not such a great distance I thought it to be before. I hope, it was interesting for you to know about facts I recently researched due to my English lessons. Thanks for the reading!