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Luat Tran Van's Articles in Reference & Education

  • Life Is What We Think
    We think that life is, but it really is only what we think it is, even according to palaeontological interpretations.
  • Solnhofen
    In a country like Germany there are lots of things to see and to do because it offers an incredible variety of attractions for all sorts of traveller and tourists. However, a place that we would like to recommend you to visit is Solnhofen, where you will be able to take one of the best looks at the past of our planet that it is possible yet to have.
  • Survivors Of The K-T Event
    It is from nature that we can extract the deepest wisdom, the better lessons and the truest sense of what means to live and prosper, and nothing better than to resort to the science that teaches about the history of life on Earth: palaeontology.
  • Anatosauridae
    It is curious that science may sometimes indicate us with certainty a lot of things about ancient diets, and we are not talking now about what our grandparents used to have for dinner, but about diets that no one followed for the past seventy million years, since the late Cretaceous period.
  • Morganucodon, Our Oldest Mammal Ancestor
    If you ask a zoologist what would define or characterise most mammals, he or she would probably talk about their dentition, which has characteristically three different types of teeth combined: incisive, canines and molars.
  • The Baluchitherium Of Chapman Andrews
    The idea that monsters do exist comes probably from the finding of fossil remains long before their original was scientifically explained for the first time, around 1850 when the science of palaeontology was born, but aside from the fact that we know the origins of those bones turned into stone, they don't cease to fascinate us. Moreover: dinosaur fossils are extremely valuable, surpassing millions of dollars in net worth.
  • The Origins Of Naval And Marine Technology
    The construction of boats and vessels is tightly related to survival as well as to exploration and the progress of mankind. Without adequate ships, many civilisations of ancient times would not have expanded and the world of today would also certainly be different: both Vikings and Phoenicians are good examples, and especially the latter one, with specific regard as to their meaning within the evolutionary process of the Western culture; thanks to the Phoenicians and their commercial expansion we have our alphabet.
  • The Hortens, Their Flying Wing And The Law
    History is the ultimate judge, even if you break the law or design weapons and military aircraft, as the Horten brothers did.
  • Guerrilla Warfare As Survival Tactic For Feeble Nations
    The invasions of France and Germany against Russia, the Napoleonic occupation of Spain, the Vietnam war and the conflict in Iraq demonstrate the great vulnerability of military superpowers thorough history.
  • Ediacaran And Other Australian Organisms
    Australia got detached from the super continent Gondwana some tens of millions of years ago; this super continent preceded in every aspect the development of mankind and from it, the continents that we know today originated, for the most part.
  • The Permo - Triassic Extinction (P-T- Event)
    You may probably have already read or heard about the extinction of dinosaurs by the impact of a meteorite, 66,4 million years ago. That is know as the K-T event, which marked the end of the Cretaceous period and the beginning of the Tertiary. It was, indeed, an unfortunate and catastrophic event that caused the demise of a huge biomass on Earth.
  • Are Mammals Facing Extinction (Including Us)?
    Life is indeed an adventure; make the most of it! But to say that we have to breed and spread the species is no exaggeration: data that comes from the studies done within the realm of palaeontology seem to suggest that the biodiversity of placental mammals - to which we belong - is dwindling down.
  • The Central American Cork That Sealed The Fate Of Earth's Climate
    Small things can indeed become big problems, especially if they alter the climate.
  • The Purple Of Tyre
    If we ponder a little about those animals that have proved to be very valuable to humans we would probably think about cattle, horses, or pets, but few know that a couple of rather smallish gastropods from Mediterranean shores have been as valuable as gold since ancient times.
  • The Victory Of Heuchuknhayin
    Games and tournaments form part of every human culture; in all times and places, humans tend to play: the Yaghan Indians of Tierra del Fuego had an animistic cultural system with which they used to explain natural phenomena and their environment.
  • The Story Of Rype
    Life has some surprises in store for the most unlikely individuals, and as Borges would have it in his Lottery of Babylon, you get the prizes that come to you, and you can't refuse them, good or bad as they might be; one day you may be living a splendid childhood, and the next one, you may watch everyone around you pass away; you may survive as a savage, and then become a millionaire.
  • How Ingenuity Saved The Life Of A Pope And The Political Structure Of Europe
    The Black Death that affected almost the whole northern hemisphere between 1333 and 1352 was the result of environmental and climatic changes that took place because of natural causes; Greenland became much colder, central Asia suffered long drought periods, famine and migrations, both of people as well as animals, and it was near the lake Issyk-Koul where the first cases of this particularly virulent occurrence of bubonic plague took place.
  • Mentors for Affiliate Marketing
    Affiliate marketing can be a tough business and success takes knowledge. Success is attainable and experience is the best teacher so read on and gain some experience.

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