Where Is Davy Jones’ Locker?
Where Is Davy Jones’ Locker? For several centuries men and ships lost at sea have been said to go to Davy Jones’ Locker. Davy Jones is the spirit of the sea—the...
Read MoreWhere Is Davy Jones’ Locker? For several centuries men and ships lost at sea have been said to go to Davy Jones’ Locker. Davy Jones is the spirit of the sea—the...
Read MoreWhere Was Robinson Crusoe’s Island? Daniel Defoe’s famous story of Robinson Crusoe (first published in 1719) is based on a real island— Juan Fernández. This island lies...
Read MoreWho Designed the First Steamboat? The first boat ever to be moved by steam power was designed by a Frenchman Jacques Perrier and tested on the Seine in Paris in 1775....
Read MoreWhat Is Radar? Radar, or radiolocation, as it was called in the early days, is the use of radio waves to find the whereabouts of aircraft or ships. Electromagnetic...
Read MoreWho Discovered the Cure for Scurvy? Scurvy was documented as a disease by Hippocrates, and Egyptians have recorded its symptoms as early as 1550 BCE. The knowledge that...
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