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One of Marcel Leyat’s extraordinary Helica propeller cars came out for the 2020 concours of Elegance. Tim Scott/Concours of Elegance – By Loz Blain 2020 Sep 07 – The Concours of Elegance at Hampton Court Palace in the UK is an extraordinary event that …
A Kentucky driver’s DIY license plate didn’t quite fool the police. – By Kelsie Smith, CNN Updated 2020 Sep 07 – Millersburg Police Department officers conducted a traffic stop on September 2 after spotting a license plate that seemed a bit out of …
The education innovator, in London, in the late 1940s. AP Photo – By Catherine McTamaney, Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University 2020 Aug 28 – One hundred and fifty years after Maria Montessori’s birth, tens of thousands of teachers around the …
Winner – Animal Portraits. The Last Stand, Nayachar, West Bengal. Ganesh Chowdhury – By Rich Haridy 2020 Sep 06 – The winning images from this year’s Nature inFocus Photography Awards illustrate the remarkable variety of ways wildlife inhabit the natural environment, from a …
In August 2020, the RAS Institute of Oil and Gas Problems, supported by the local Yamal authorities, conducted a major expedition to the new crater. Skoltech researchers were part of the final stages of that expedition. Credit: Evgeny Chuvilin – By Katie Hunt, …
The hotter it gets, the more urban emissions you get from hot asphalt, according to a new Yale study. Krivosheevv/Depositphotos – By Loz Blain 2020 Sep 04 – The more we work to get emissions down from motor vehicles and power generation, the more …
A ground-based search for human remains in a thick forest like this would be quite challenging. khlongwangchao/Depositphotos – By Ben Coxworth 2020 Sep 04 – It can be hard enough for search parties to find human remains on open ground, but in dense forests, …
From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia George Latimer Lithograph by Thayer & Co. (Boston, Mass.) Born July 4, 1819 Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. Died May 29, 1897 (aged 77) Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S. Spouse(s) Rebecca Latimer, Charlotte (Williams) Saunders, Mary (Turner) Williams Children George W. Latimer, William …
Fifty years ago, few scientists believed a drug could fight viruses with low side effects. Then Gertrude Elion showed the doubters “what I could do on my own.” Born in 1918 in Manhattan, Gertrude Elion developed the drug acyclovir, a potent inhibitor of …
Enheduanna means ‘Ornament of Heaven.’ She studied the stars, wrote hymns and myths 4000 years ago, and yet is almost entirely unknown today. Standard of Ur mosaic, 26th century BC. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. – By Louise Pryke, The Conversation – The world’s …
