Few visitors to London’s Royal Academy, as they walk under the great arch into the courtyard of Burlington House, W1, realise that somewhere beneath their feet, in a bombproof bunker built at the ...
My list of medically related anniversaries for 2026 includes William Withering’s Botany, The Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain, which was published 250 ...
Graham and Parks Elementary School Principal Kathleen Smith allegedly barred a longtime volunteer from working at the school ...
Charles Darwin close Charles DarwinAn English naturalist (1809-1882). In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which outlined his theory of evolution. was an English naturalist who studied ...
Biodiversity close biodiversityThe range of animals and plants in a given area. means having as wide a range of different species in an ecosystem as possible. It is important to conserve the variety ...
In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...