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Eyewitness Books (called Eyewitness Guides in the UK) is a series of educational nonfiction books. They were first published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley in 1988. The series now has over 160 titles on a variety of subjects, such as dinosaurs, Ancient Egypt, flags, chemistry, music, the solar system, film, and William Shakespeare .
Local on the 8s (or the Local Forecast) is a program segment that airs on the American network The Weather Channel.It provides viewers with information on current and forecasted weather conditions for their respective area; a version of this segment is also available on the channel's national satellite feed that features forecasts for each region of the United States.
In about 350 BC, Aristotle described weather patterns in Meteorologica. [3] Later, Theophrastus compiled a book on weather forecasting, called the Book of Signs. [4] Chinese weather prediction lore extends at least as far back as 300 BC, [5] which was also around the same time ancient Indian astronomers developed weather-prediction methods. [6]
Bookternet: the network of book and reading related internet enclaves, including book bloggers, [15] book podcasts, [16] BookTube, Bookstagram, [17] BookTok, Goodreads, and Reblog Bookclub. [18] Content creators in this space are sometimes referred to as Bookfluencers. [19] TBR: to be read. These books can be: the next book a BookTuber will ...
"Seymour Simon", Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site (carolhurst.com) – excerpt from Open Books: Literature in the Curriculum Kindergarten through Grade Two by Carol Hurst, Linworth, 1999, ISBN 0-938865-77-3 "Writing Science for Children in an Age of Discovery", Eric Nagourney, The New York Times, December 16, 2003
The Weather Channel was founded on July 18, 1980, [9] by television meteorologist John Coleman (who had served as a chief meteorologist at ABC owned-and-operated station WLS-TV in Chicago and as a forecaster for Good Morning America) and Frank Batten, then-president of the channel's original owner Landmark Communications (now Landmark Media Enterprises).
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps , brought into practice in 1949 after World War II .
Weather is a 2020 novel by American writer Jenny Offill.The novel is narrated by a college librarian, Lizzie. The book takes place before and after Donald Trump becomes president of the United States and depicts Lizzie's family life and her concerns about climate change.