PART II: AT HOME CIVILIZATION EVOLUTION Human development is evolutionary. The skulls of Homo sapiens (left) and of his unsuccessful relative, Homo neanderthalensis Customers at the first MacDonald's, opened in 1955 in Illinois,
NO TOUCHDOWNS In March , 1949 , a Boeing B - 50 Superfortress captained by James Gallagher , with a crew of 18 , flew 22,500 miles around the globe nonstop at an average speed of 235 m.p.h. The Lucky Lady II was refueled four times in ...
Sam Jam sat in a school library and challenged the school community to ask him about the origin of anything at all — and pledged to use library resources to answer within 60 minutes.
The First of Everything: A Compendium of Important, Eventful, and Just-plain-fun Facts about All Kinds of Firsts
This fascinating book takes in the full sweep of human development and ingenuity over twelve millennia; Africa, for example, gave us the first monarch, algebra and great religions emerged from the Middle East, democracy was born in Europe, ...