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The World’s Richest Man in the First Half of the 19th Century Was a Chinese Merchant Who Lent Money to American Millionaires
If we asked who the wealthiest person in the world was in the first half of the 19th century, many would likely think of ...
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First Map of Known World Created by Ancient Greek Anaximander
The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.
Borderless Europe fights brain drain as talent heads north
Talent flight to wealthier countries of the north is a problem for southern and central Europe, as workers take advantage of ...
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Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere
Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that ...
The Daily Telegraph3d
Climate change
Hannah Jones, now the CEO of The Earthshot Prize, is gearing up for the award ceremony on Nov 6 as the team enter new phase of their mission ...
Scientists warn that a key Atlantic current could collapse, among other climate tipping points
A new report describes the dire state of Earth’s snow and ice, suggesting several major tipping points are likelier than ...
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Orbiter takes rare picture of Earth 180,000,000 miles away on Mars
An image released from the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a rare perspective of Earth 180 million miles away on Mars.
Ukraine-Russia war – live: 50,000 of Putin’s forces in Kursk, Kyiv says, as Russia ‘suffers record casualties’
The drone blitz came as Mr Trump advised his Russian counterpart not to escalate the Ukraine war, Reuters and The Washington Post reported. The British Army chief claimed Russia was losing the highest ...
New housebuilding held back by rapid rise of factory farms that pollute rivers, study finds
Muck map’ of UK reveals for first time where intensive agriculture creates the most manure, slurry and chemical run-off ...
European climate agency says this will likely be the hottest year on record — again
For the second year in a row, Earth will almost certainly be the hottest it’s ever been. And for the first time, the globe this year reached more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 ...
IRIS²: the new satellite constellation aimed at ensuring communications autonomy for the EU
Europe’s first multi-orbital satellite network aims to provide secure EU governmental communications. It will consist of some ...
Map Accurately Compares Size of Texas to Europe?
A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online moderately exaggerated the size of Texas; however it was more or less an ...