Great Britain was not alone in this line of thinking. The French, Spanish, and Portuguese competed with the British for colonies under the belief that no great nation could exist and be self ...

He made his first small-scale attempts to prepare a national geological map in 1801, sketching the outcrop pattern of seven strata onto an existing map of England and Wales. 9. It took Smith another ...

Ancient DNA from Cheddar Man, a Mesolithic skeleton discovered in 1903 at Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, has helped Museum scientists paint a portrait of one of the oldest modern humans in ...