To call it a 'Mall' may be deceiving compared to the shopping malls of today. In the late 1800s, this building, known as the Crystal Palace, was considered a work of art and wonder. Let's take a closer look at the rich history of this first indoor shopping mall and how the city ...
You might share these additional facts with students after they have read this weeks news story. The five old trees listed in this News for You story are among the oldest trees known. Scientists can core" a tree to estimate its age without harming the tree. This method can only be used ...
The oldest known maps for places here on Earth are more than 4,000 years old. But they have some characteristics that modern mapmakers recognize. A map of the Mesopotamians city of Nuzi draws a river with a curving triple line (三角曲线) 【1】 It even has markings for three of the ...
I first met Oparin in 1974 when he was President of ISSOL, The International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life (known also as the “The International Astrobiology Society—ISSOL”). We became good friends in 1975 when I was a US-USSR National Academies of Sciences Exchange ...
The Codex Sassoon is believed to be the very first codex, or manuscript in book form, of the Hebrew Bible. In the centuries prior to its writing there were only portions or sections of biblical texts in scroll form — which came to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. But these...