Offers an overview of the history and forms of divination.

Housewives hung wet sheets and blankets over windows, struggling to seal every crack with gummed ...

In 1776, a Spanish exploration party led by Don Gaspar de Portolá established a Franciscan missio...

The Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam was founded by the director-general of the colony of New Ne...

Chemistry, Revised Edition takes a deep dive with scientists and explorers into the unknown front...

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Marine Sciences, Revised Edition details the explorers and scientists who are expanding the front...

A to Z of Physicists, Updated Edition focuses not only on the lives and personalities of those pr...

Scientists categorize the chemical elements as metals, nonmetals, and metalloids largely based on...

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They were poor exiles, having lived in a foreign land for a dozen years. Through those years, the...

In late January 1918, Dr. Loren Miner, a country physician in rural Kansas, saw the first cases o...