Feb 2, 2021 · These five skulls, which range from an approximately 2.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus on the left to an approximately 4,800-year-old Homo sapiens on the right, show changes in the ...

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First light in London. At the top of Westminster Abbey’s northwest tower, Lee Robinson welcomes a new morning in a 1,000-year-old history by performing one of the building’s quieter rituals.

In 1866, Christopher Latham Sholes, a Wisconsin newspaper publisher and former state senator, co-invented an automated machine to number coupons and tickets—a task previously done by hand.

Dec 6, 2022 · According to a group of film critics, the greatest movie ever made is Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.The 1975 film tops the 2022 results of British magazine Sight and Sound ...

Many harmonica histories begin around 1100 B.C. with the sheng, a Chinese instrument featuring a bundle of bamboo tubes attached to a curving pipe.The instrument contains a free reed, a strip of ...

The thorny origins of the yuletide canoodling ritual. How Mistletoe Became a Christmas Kissing Tradition. The thorny origins of the yuletide canoodling ritual

Complaining about the young is a longstanding prerogative of the old; just as baby boomers and Gen X’ers today lament the shortcomings of millennials and Gen Z, parents in the 1920s looked ...

Apr 9, 2024 · A new analysis released last week by the international nonprofit InfluenceMap reveals an overwhelmingly unequal share of fossil fuel pollution worldwide. From 2016 to 2022, 80 percent of global ...

May 14, 2024 · Scientists Are Investigating a Puzzling Underground ‘Anomaly’ Near the Giza Pyramids. Using remote-sensing technologies, researchers have discovered two connected structures in a previously ...