Continents are not the unchanging, universally recognized land masses of our elementary school studies. They were discovered by ocean-going explorers, sometimes with multiple people claiming the initial discovery. They were demarcated and named by men for political, often self-serving reasons. And they...
The continents are always moving, and scientists have a lot of ideas about what our next supercontinent is going to look like. Now That's Interesting Gondwana is named for a densely forested region of central India where first fossil evidence of the supercontinent were found in the 19th ...
Over 300 million years ago, the continents of the world were situated in very different places. In fact, there were not even seven continents; there was only one. This one massive supercontinent, known as Pangea, existed during the late Paleozoic Era and early Mesozoic Era. As the mantle de...
Dinosaurs lived for about 170 million years, and during that time, the continents gradually spread to form the shapes we recognize today. (Thanks, plate tectonics!) Dinosaurs continued to live on every continent; there are even fossils buried under the ice in Antarctica. Dinosaur Appearance: Skin...
Inspired by the true phenomenon of generations of girls who were abandoned in China as a result of the country’s one-child policy, A Girl Unknown depicts a young Chinese woman from the age of six through to her thirties, living in three different families.It is billed as an intimate ...
The continents are drifting at a rate of about an inch (2.5 centimeters) per year. Now That's Interesting America is named after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who sailed around the tip of South America in 1501. In doing so, he realized that North and South America were separate land...
Where North America and Western Europe were once the only viable locations for shared services centers (SSCs), companies today can find suitable talent and infrastructure for shared services in virtually every corner of the world. Formerly, an SSO only needed to outperform relatively high-cost ...
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require denim(牛仔布) with which to build tents. He was wrong. Pleasant California weather persuaded miners to sleep directly under the stars. Levi would have to find another use for his yards and yards of brown denim. The first generation of jeans was bom. They were named “waist overalls...
There have been times when FIFA was charged with mismanagement and malpractice over the bidding process for the World Cup. The president and other executives who were named in the 2015 controversy were arrested on charges of corruption.15