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Why was Nicolaus Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun so shocking to the people living in the 1500s?
Answer this question…His views went against traditional beliefs, including those of the Roman Catholic Church
How does Giovanni Schiaparelli discoveries affect us today?
From the Brera Observatory in Milan in the late 1800s, Schiaparelli mapped and named many of the major features of the Planet Mars -- and we still use those naming conventions today. He also mapped a network of what he called "canali" (or channels) on the surface of Red Planet. While later studies proved that these observations were the product of optical illusions, the mistranslation of his word as 'canals' into English lead to widespread speculation about the possibilty of extraterrestrial intelligent life. (So most late 19th and early 20th century tales of Martian invasions -- e.g., Wells' War of the Worlds -- owe a debt to Schiaparelli!) In addition, Schiaparelli contributed to the modern scientific understanding of the relationship between meteor showers and asteroids, and he made early observations regarding the orbits of binary stars and the orbital patterns of Mercury and Venus.
What is history if you do not study history?
"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'
Did the immigrants have anything to do with the World War I?
in those times immigrants were relative with world war 1...because they had to leave like an immigrant those....
Where were English colonies located?
there were alot but south africa, sri lanka, australia and india there are more but those are the big ones
