When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. The Disappearing Spoon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disappearing_Spoon

    The book was first published in hardback on July 12, 2010, through Little, Brown and Company and was released in paperback on June 6, 2011, through Little, Brown and Company's imprint Back Bay Books. The book focuses on the history of the periodic table by way of short stories showing how a number of chemical elements affected their discoverers ...

  3. List of oldest documents - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_documents

    The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.

  4. List of first human settlements - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_human...

    This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens). The list is divided into four categories, Middle Paleolithic (before 50,000 years ago), Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,500 years ago), Holocene (12,500 to 500 years ago) and Modern ( Age of Sail and modern exploration).

  5. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive:_The_Story_of_the...

    The first edition was released in 1974. A paperback that referenced the film Alive: The Miracle of the Andes was released in 1993. A new softcover edition, with a revised introduction and additional interviews with Piers Paul Read, Coche Inciarte, and Alvaro Mangino, was released by HarperCollins in 2005.

  6. Alive (novel) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive_(novel)

    Alive is a 2015 dystopian young adult novel by American author Scott Sigler and the first book in the Generations Trilogy. The book was first published in hardback, e-book, and audiobook format on July 14, 2015, through Del Rey. [1] The second book in the series, Alight, released on April 6, 2016.

  7. By bringing classic storybooks to life, a new exhibit aims to ...

    www.aol.com/news/bringing-classic-storybooks...

    A couple of books corresponding to the exhibits are stacked in nearby shelves and are accessible to those who pass by. There are also plenty of lesser-known storybooks sprinkled around the space.

  8. Michael Faraday - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday

    In 1820 Faraday reported the first synthesis of compounds made from carbon and chlorine, C 2 Cl 6 and CCl 4, and published his results the following year. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Faraday also determined the composition of the chlorine clathrate hydrate , which had been discovered by Humphry Davy in 1810.

  9. Silurian hypothesis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis

    The eponymous Silurians on Doctor Who are a race of reptilian humanoids from Earth's past, making their first appearance in the show in 1970. Frank and Schmidt cite Inherit the Stars, a 1977 novel by J. P. Hogan as containing a similar hypothesis, but also say they were surprised by how rarely the concept was explored in science fiction. [2]