Segrave was also the first to hold world speed records on land and by boat, simultaneously. In 1930, he crashed while trying to set a new record on water. Rescuers reached the scene in time for a shattered Segrave to speak his last words: “Have I broken the record?” He had. The...
The earth is 4.6 billion years old. We humans have lived on the earth for only 35,000 years, but during this period, we have changed our planet a lot in many ways. Some things we have done are very good for the earth while others are bad. The Amazon rainforest in South America, ...
When did humans first appear on Earth? The first human ancestors appearedbetween five million and seven million years ago, probably when some apelike creatures in Africa began to walk habitually on two legs. They were flaking crude stone tools by 2.5 million years ago. Then some of them sprea...
1926–58) of Fish Hook, Illinois, was the first living man to be listed in the originalGuinness Book of Recordsfor his weight. In our first edition in 1955, we noted that: "He was an 11 lb baby and weighed 27 stone at the age of 10." We went on to sa...
Since that time, geologists have learned to study the strata, or the thousands of layers of sedimentary rock that make up the Earth's crust. Over the course of history, the natural weathering of Earth's surface created sediments (rock debris) that settled in layers on the surface. As the...
Their language initially dwindled as the first generation learned English and the second generation never bothered to learn their mother tongue. Just before The Bump in the Night, Arabic was primarily a ritual language used in religious services but not modern life. The Earth Heritage Revival ...
Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.
Earth's sixth mass extinction is already underway - and humans are the driving force behind it,according to a new study.“Recent extinction rates are enormous in human history and highly unusual in Earth's history, "according to a study published in the journal Science Advances. “Our global...
Earth’s beginnings can be traced back 4.5 billion years, but human evolution only counts for a tiny speck of its history. The Prehistoric Period—or when there was human life before records documented human activity—roughly dates from 2.5 million years ago to 1,200 B.C. It is generally ...
The First Immortal: A Novel Of The Future In 1988, Benjamin Smith suffers a massive heart attack. But he will not die. A pioneering advocate of the infant science of cryonics, he has arranged to have his body frozen until the day when humanity will possess the knowledge, the tec... JL...