When.com Web Search

Search results

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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory

    Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, [1] is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems.

  3. Prequel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prequel

    A prequel is a literary, dramatic or cinematic work whose story precedes that of a previous work, by focusing on events that occur before the original narrative. [1] A prequel is a work that forms part of a backstory to the preceding work. The term "prequel" is a 20th-century neologism from the prefix "pre-" (from Latin prae, "before") and ...

  4. Precognition - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precognition

    Precognition (from the Latin prae-'before', and cognitio 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future. There is no accepted scientific evidence that precognition is a real effect, and it is widely considered to be pseudoscience . [ 1 ]

  5. Pregaming - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregaming

    Pregaming (also known as pre-booze, pre-drinking [1] or pre-loading [2]) is the process of getting drunk prior to going out socializing, typically done by college students and young adults in a manner as cost-efficient as possible, with hard liquor and cheap beer consumed while in group.

  6. Pre-Columbian era - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_era

    Before the development of archaeology in the 19th century, historians of the pre-Columbian period mainly interpreted the records of the European conquerors and the accounts of early European travelers and antiquaries.

  7. Before Present - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Present

    Before Present (BP) or "years before present (YBP)" is a time scale used mainly in archaeology, geology, and other scientific disciplines to specify when events ...

  8. Preprint - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preprint

    Typical publishing workflow for an academic journal article (preprint, postprint, and published) with open access sharing rights per SHERPA/RoMEO.In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal.

  9. Pre-nominal letters - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-nominal_letters

    Pre-nominal letters are a title which is placed before the name of a person as distinct from a post-nominal title which is placed after the name. Examples of pre-nominal titles, for instance professional titles include: Doctor , Captain , EUR ING (European Engineer), Ir. ( ingenieur ), Ts.