The idea of Pangaea comes from Alfred Wegener's hypothesis that the seven continents were once joined as a supercontinent.

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[1] On 13 December 1771, 77 of these men subscribed £100 each for the ‘Building of A New Lloyd’s Coffee House’. The original list of founders forms the first entry of the Minute Books, and is part of ...

Legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone was among the first white explorers in Kentucky in the late 1760s. With his knowledge of ...

He apparently overdid his studies and nearly had a nervous breakdown, but he still managed to graduate in 1771. He was 25 ... the following year. As Encyclopedia Britannica outlines, Pitt's ...