When Steve Edsel was a boy, his adoptive parents kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in their bedroom closet. He would ask for it sometimes, poring over the headlines about his birth. Headlines like this: “Mother Deserts Son, Flees From Hospital,” Winston-Salem Journal, December 30, 1973.
The mother in question was 14 years old, “5 feet 6 with reddish brown hair,” and she had come to the hospital early one morning with her own parents. They gave names that all
Out of all the questions that science seeks to answer, one of the biggest may be how life on Earth began.
Did the basic components of life arise on Earth or among the stars?
While there are multiple theories, they all share some basic assumptions that there are four essential components to life, and they probably weren’t around when Earth first formed from a ball of hot dust, gas, and magma 4.6 billion years ago.
The three leading theories are:
Famously, the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944/45 was one of the largest and bloodiest armed conflict of the Second World War.
Taking place in densely forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg, it was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
Months after it ended in January 1945, the war came to a close, and for almost 80 years since the region has held its secrets under the trees
