Time continued to march on. At the end of the 4th century AD, the Roman Empire fell, and Anglo-Saxon tribes began their conquest of Britain and Wales. One way they made a mark on the world was by renaming the days of the week yet again, after—guess who?—their gods. Sunday, dies...
In 2019, China's national innovation index rose to 14th from the 29th back in 2015, with national research and development spending stand at 2 billion yuan or $321 billion). That's a 36-percent increase from five years ago. In 2018, China's R&D spending accounted for ...
Unfortunately, the first response of someone getting one of these “true facts” emails is to forward it to their friends. I can’t see this changing but I will continue to annoy people by not being part of the problem. Who was it who said that lost causes are the only ones worth fig...
By the 19th century, cashmere wool production was a major industry throughout Europe, and the trade of this wool product provided economic benefits throughout multiple geographical regions. To this day, traditional goat herders in Central Asia benefit from the cashmere trade, and interest in this ...
John Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley) was CEO of BP from 1995-2007, transforming it into one of the world's largest companies. He was knighted in 1998, and made a life peer in 2001. He is Chairman of L1 Energy, Huawei UK, the Tate Galleries and Donmar Warehouse and has authored th...
Michael Hubner from Germany thought he had.Let us learn more about this fascinating city.The Greek philosopher Plato, who lived in the 4th century BC, mentioned Atlantisin detail in his wrtings. He said that Atlantis was a city built on an island around 9 ,000years befor...
HOW FAR DID THE NOMADS GO TO THE WEST AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE 6TH CENTURY BC?doi:10.23734/ssa.2021.63.15.24Denys, Grechkolskie Sprawozdania Archeologiczne (SSA)
How many Chinese cuisines (菜肴) do you know? The most 1. ___ (influence) and typical known by the public are the “8 Chinese Cuisines”. China is large and the climate, ingredients, history and dining 2. ___ (custom) vary from place to place, 3. ___ ...
The earliest evidence of garments made from sheep wool is from around 4000 BC, but it’s possible that human beings started making woolen garments as long as 8,000 years ago. While there’s evidence that wooly sheep were introduced into Europe around 4,000 BC, the first piece of hard evi...
Resource Revolution shows how to take what is being seen as a worldwide crisis and turn it into the biggest business opportunity of the past one hundred years.