Fast forward 50 years and polar science is in the spotlight once more. This month sees the start of an ambitious new programme that encompasses both the Arctic and the Antarctic: the International Polar Year 2007=08 (IPY). Like all good sequels, this one is bigger and better than its pr...
“the big picture is that these important nonrenewable resources cost about the same today as they did 50 years ago, despite the addition of 4 billion people.”[121] Pollution * In 1970, the Sierra Club adopted a resolution from the organization “Zero Population Growth” calling for measu...
… What each has done has been to recognize and to follow the deeply entrenched and highly cherished spiritual traditions of our Nation—traditions which come down to us from those who almost two hundred years ago avowed their “firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence” when they ...
the great whites are just one of 350 kinds of sharks. There are some sharks that have never been seen alive. They live deep in the ocean. They are like the sharks that lived three hundred million years ago.
Candy Land was created 70 years ago to give kids stuck in polio wards a way to vicariously move freely in the pursuit of delights. The original board featured a boy in a leg brace about to walk through starting gate of the game.[29] ...
Twenty years ago, there was a group of people, they cheerfully write a program, want to let the computer learn to under go.Them numerous times to be told, under the go, the computer is not human, but they literally have to give it a try.And in this process, there is a Chinese ...
Ebooks are with us for 50 years. Time to celebrate! Most interesting facts about ebooks and audiobooks 1 The first ebook in the world was released on July 4, 1971. It is the US Declaration of Independence. In 1971, passionate technologist and futurist Michael Stern Hart, inspired by a fre...
This immense mountain range began to form between 40 million and 50 million years ago, when India and Eurasia, driven by plate movement, collided. The tectonic crash led to the jagged Himalayan peaks, according to USGS. 38. Kilauea is not the most active volcano (Image credit: Getty Images...
June 27 - Four people are dead and at least 50 injured after an Amtrak train derails in Missouri after colliding with a dump truck at a public crossing. June 29 - Musician R. Kelly is sentenced to 30 years in prison following his conviction last year on federal racketeering and sex tr...
November 14, 2016 -WikiLeaks tweets thatAssange is giving a statementin the presence of a Swedish prosecutor regarding allegations he sexually assaulted two women in the country six years ago. January 3, 2017 -During an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News,Assange says that the Russian gover...