Undoubted anthropoids have been traced back to the Eocene period and are as old as 45 Ma (ref. The oldest well-known anthropoids (Parapithecidae and Oligopithecidae) come from the late Eocene of Egypt [about 37 million years ago (Ma)] (4, 5). The first true primates evolved by 55 million years ago…
On September 13, 1788, the Confederation Congress passed an election ordinance, which set the date for choosing electors (January 7, 1789), electing the president (February 4, 1789), and beginning the new government under the Constitution (March 4, 1789). On Friday 29 March and Saturday 30 (in Queensland and South Australia)…
Though called a trout since its discovery by early European settlers, it is actually a char. Biologists believe the brook trout first arrived in the southern Appalachians during the Pleistocene Epoch, which began about 1.8 million years ago and ended about 11,000 years ago. On this day: Trout arrive in…
The first gyms with a commercial nature are credited to French, especially to French gymnast and performing strongman Hippolyte Triat. This bodybuilder opened his workout club in Brussels, and soon after, started a serious business in Paris in the late 1840s. Fitness, as we know it today, seems to be…
In Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve: Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future. As promised by Marley’s ghost, Scrooge is visited as the bell tolls one o’clock by the first of three spirits: the Ghost of…
Simply put, the Great Lakes were created by glaciers. About 18,000 years ago, the Laurentide glacier covered most of Canada and the Northern U.S. As the glacier moved, it flattened mountains and carved valleys. History Of The Formation Of The Great Lakes. The present day lakes are the result of…
This Act included the Constitution Act, 1982, which contains the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Canada’s Constitution was now truly its own. After 1982, the federal and provincial governments could use the amending formula to make their own changes. Canada’s Constitutional History and the Constitution Act, 18674. In its…
China invented firearms since the Song Dynasty (960–1279) during its fight against Manchus (in North Song) and Mongols (in South Song). The barrels of the earliest firearms were made with bamboo and paper, packed with black powder, iron filings and bullets inside. The First Gun The first gun and gunpowder…
The term digital divide was coined in the mid-1990s as a way to describe the gap in equity between those who have access to computers and the Internet and those who do not. What is Digital Divide? “Digital divide” refers to the gap between those who have access to ICTs…
Dutch governor Peter StuyvesantPeter StuyvesantStuyvesant’s accomplishments as director-general included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam beyond the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the projects built by Stuyvesant’s administration were the protective wall on Wall Street, the canal that became Broad Street, and Broadway.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Peter_StuyvesantPeter…