The Four Great Inventions, which originated in China, also helped set the stage for the Renaissance to occur, and usher in the Age of Sail after they were relayed to Europe. As Francis Bacon, a British philosopher, has observed, "Printing, gunpowder and the compass ... whence have followed...
The Ebola scare a couple of years ago prompted my friends to worry that heading to South Africa might put me in danger. The reality was thatEurope, where I was living at the time, was actually closer geographically to the epidemic than South Africa. (Again, people are geographically challeng...
while grown adults adopt green, yellow, and brown to camouflage themselves. It alsohears via the belly: its tympanal organ, which is in the abdomen, completes this task. The antennae, on the other hand, house its sense of smell.