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1 day ago · Human history is the development of humankind from prehistory to the present, understood through the study of written records, archaeology, anthropology, genetics, linguistics, and other forms of evidence. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers.
4 days ago · The new perception of the size of the universe allowed Hubble, several years later, to go further and propose Hubble’s Law, a theory of the expansion of the universe, yet later shown to have ...
1 day ago · Broadway was New York’s first electrified street (1890), and soon the dark, off-putting urban nighttime was being transformed into a sparkling environment of incandescent lights. But it took the entrepreneurial actions of Oscar J. Gude to make Times Square the most dramatic gathering place of all. Gude invented the “spectacular,” an ...
1 day ago · This interview was first published in 2023. Claire G Coleman is a writer of essays and non-fiction and is the author of three genre bending novels — Terra Nullius, The Old Lie and Enclave.
4 days ago · This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. I had bought the tickets in advance, so it was a coincidence the weather was sweltering hot that July day in 1992 when we headed to the theatre for a performance of the musical 110 in the Shade. The show, based on Richard Nash’s 1954 play The Rainmaker, is set in July 1936 and opens with a rousing rendition of Another Hot Day as the ...
5 days ago · Late Monday, Beryl became the earliest storm in history to develop into a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic, peaking with winds of 165 m.p.h. Tuesday before weakening to a Category 4, now with ...
4 days ago · Key Facts. Musk’s net worth fell from $251.3 billion to $221.4 billion from Dec. 31, 2023 to June 28, the stock market’s last day of normal first-half trading, more than any other billionaire ...
