Worldwide, hydropower plants produce about 24 percent of the world's electricity and supply more than 1 billion people with power. The world's hydropower plants output a combined total of 675,000 megawatts, the energy equivalent of 3.6 billion barrels of oil, according to the National Renewable...
In 1729, English scientist Stephen Gray observed that certain materials, such as silk, didn't conduct electricity. His explanation was that the mysterious fluid described by Gilbert could travel through objects or be hampered from traveling. Scientists even built jars to hold this fluid and study...
In 1729, English scientist Stephen Gray observed that certain materials, such as silk, didn't conduct electricity. His explanation was that the mysterious fluid described by Gilbert could travel through objects or be hampered from traveling. Scientists even built jars to hold this fluid and study...
At the time, there was a widespread belief that genre writers produced precisely one book per year. So he birthed “Richard Bachman” to mop up his manuscripts and, after the nom de plume was exposed by a certain Stephen Brown (no relation), he was killed off owing to “cancer of the...
85If one sent one’s child to royalty and it was killed by abuse, one was expected to send another to replace them. It was widely accepted that “it is good to remove children from the sight of their father and mother so they do not become quarrelsome….E...
If you will turn to Acts vii, 55, you will find that when Stephen was being stoned he lifted up his eyes, and it seemed as if God rolled back the curtain of time and allowed him to look into the eternal city, and see Christ standing at the right hand of God. When Jesus Christ ...
Imagine what it must have been like to be Saint Ambrose with the Emperor sitting in your church pew. Yet that is exactly what is the case in America. At the time of America's founding, about 98 percent of the population was...
For the first time ever, I saw under the hood of that machinery and I thought it was interesting. It was a whole culture with a different set of rules.I saw this idea of the child actor, when the parents are milking the children and not the other way around. The title, “Los ...
They cried out “His blood be on us and on our children!” (Luke 27:25) Annas called for this crime, and surely the blood of Christ was on his son, Hanan ben Hanan. God sent Israel prophets, and the Jews killed them; God sent Israel His Son, and He, too, they...
I just thought that was appalling, but I was also curious about going to a country where they would do that.” So, when visiting her sister who lives in Sweden, the pair took a train to Saint Petersburg. The trip was nearly a failure as, on arrival, no one seemed to know anything...