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"Because" is a song written by John Lennon [2] (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and recorded by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on their 1969 album Abbey Road , immediately preceding the extended medley on side two of the record.
The spherical shape of the Earth was known and measured by astronomers, mathematicians, and navigators from a variety of literate ancient cultures, including the Hellenic World, and Ancient India. Greek ethnographer Megasthenes , c. 300 BC , has been interpreted as stating that the contemporary Brahmans of India believed in a spherical Earth as ...
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969, by Apple Records.It is the last album the group recorded, [2] although Let It Be (1970) was the last album completed before the band's break-up in April 1970. [3]
On a round Earth, the atmosphere above the ground is lit for a while before sunrise and after sunset are observed at ground level, because the Sun is still visible from higher altitudes. The "spotlight Sun" conjecture is also not consistent with this observation, since the air cannot be lit without the ground below it also being lit (except for ...
The World Is Round may refer to: Spherical Earth, the idea of the world as round shaped; The World Is Round, an 1896 novel by Louise Mack; The World Is Round, a play performed in NYC, see Grace McLean; The World Is Round, a 1978 science fiction novel by Tony Rothman "The World Is Round", a 1965 song by American rhythm and blues singer Rufus Thomas
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In 1492 Christopher Columbus is arguing with the king of Spain whether the world is round or flat. Columbus suggests that the Earth is round like an apple or a human head. King Ferdinand insists the Earth is flat like a pancake (and Columbus' head, after flattening it with his scepter). Eventually the king kicks Columbus out of his palace.
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