The new research suggests that Earth’s water came from both rocky material, such as asteroids, and from the vast cloud of dust and gas remaining after the sun’s formation, called the solar nebula. Can water be destroyed? The Hydrological Cycle: Water Is Neither Created Nor Destroyed, It Is Merely Transformed.Read More →
A volcano occurs where there is magma rising from the mantle and burning its way through the crust. Volcanoes do run out of magma. That usually means that they become quiet and inactive for ten to 100 years until a new batch of magma comes up from deep inside theRead More →
Luftwaffe, (German: “air weapon”) component of the German armed forces tasked with the air defense of Germany and fulfillment of the country’s airpower commitments abroad. The Luftwaffe was formally created in 1935, but military aviation had existed in the shadows in Germany since the end of World War I. WhoRead More →
The story of dactyloscopy, the science of fingerprint identification, dates back several centuries to ancient China, around 300 AD, when fingerprints were used as evidence in theft trials. Who first discovered fingerprints? The pioneer in fingerprint identification was Sir Francis Galton, an anthropologist by training, who was the first toRead More →
Culture is based on shared attitudes, beliefs, customs, and written and unwritten rules that have been developed over time and are considered valid (The Business Dictionary). Culture also includes the organization’s vision, values, norms, systems, symbols, language, assumptions, beliefs, and habits (Needle, 2004). What is the initial source of anRead More →
The textile industry in the United States entered a new era in 1814 when Francis Cabot Lowell created the first successful American power loom in Waltham, Massachusetts. Who really invented the power loom? Edmund Cartwright Invents the Power Loom. This schematic from Cartwright’s first patent was the first visual conceptionRead More →
Responsibility for enforcement and shaping of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) falls to two organizations: The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC has the authority to both set and enforce accounting standards. Is GAAP issued by FASB? The FASB Accounting Standards CodificationTM isRead More →
Worry dolls feared a safety hazard by trading standard chiefs. … However, when Leicestershire Trading Standards performed a routine test on four dolls, they found they failed basic safety tests. Due to their small size a child could potentially put them in their mouth and choke. They also have sharpRead More →
A hologram represents a recording of information regarding the light that came from the original scene as scattered in a range of directions rather than from only one direction, as in a photograph. This allows the scene to be viewed from a range of different angles, as if it wereRead More →
The Proto-Human language (also Proto-Sapiens, Proto-World) is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all the world’s spoken languages. It would not be ancestral to sign languages. What was the first language spoken by Adam and Eve? The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and someRead More →