The results of Foote’s simple experiments were confirmed through hundreds of tests by scientists in the US and Europe. It happened more than a century ago.
A man hangs a protest banner where the Egerton Ryerson statue used to sit at Ryerson University. The statue was toppled in June by those protesting the discovery of graves at Indian Residential Schools.
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More than a century after publishing major papers in theoretical mathematics, German-born Emmy Noether continues to challenge and inspire mathematicians with her story and mathematical legacy.
St Swithin is associated with a prediction of 40 days of summer rain.
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If it rains on St Swithin’s day it is believed that it will rain for the rest of summer.
The Fête de la Fédération at Champ de Mars on July 14, 1790. Woodcut by Helman, from a picture by C. Monet, Painter of the King.
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These giant predators are helping solve the mystery of Earth’s cooling shift some 50 million years ago.
Until the late 19th century, patenting medicines was considered by some as controversial and even unethical.
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The pharmaceutical industry overall has been deeply opposed to waiving COVID-19 vaccine patents, but a historian of the industry explains that drug companies once opposed patents altogether.
Activists are taking a creative approach to complex debates despite intransigence from Westminster.
Rock paintings from the main gallery at Djulirri in Namunidjbuk clan estate, showing traditional Aboriginal motifs as well as European boats, airplanes, and more.
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Pictures of boats and ships in rock art at the northwestern tip of Australia show the European incursions from the 1800s — but also the much earlier and lesser known sea trade with southeast Asia.
A group of drummers playing traditional Yoruba drums.
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African identity needs a revision to move beyond current understanding of its relationship with China
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985: modern-day counterparts Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin could learn a lot about trust-building from their experience .
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When Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin meet in Geneva, what will they learn from their predecessors more than 30 years ago?
An engineer demonstrates a car phone five months before the historic first call on a competing company’s commercial mobile telephone service in 1946.
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The ubiquity of mobile phones is a defining feature of the 21st century, but it’s been possible to place a phone call on the go since shortly after World War II.
Colorado’s East Troublesome Fire jumped the Continental Divide on Oct. 22, 2020, and eventually became Colorado’s second-largest fire on record.
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Scientists studied charcoal layers in the sediment of lake beds across the Rockies to track fires over time. They found increasing fire activity as the climate warmed.
Roman burial shackles found on the skeleton in Great Casterton.
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The Atlantic slave trade isn’t Britain’s first brush with forced labour.
With the evidence uncovered by paleontologists, an artist sketched El Bosque Petrificado Piedra Chamana as it might have looked long before humans.
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