Science FAQ

Who Was Orpheus?
Orpheus is one of the ancient Greek Legends. He is said to be a master poet and musician. He is also considered as the perfector of lyre that was invented by Hermes. He is said to lure birds, fish, wild beasts, rocks, trees, and even divert the course of rivers. He be...

Who Was Rebecca?
In the Bible Rebecca was the wife of Abraham's son Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. The name may mean 'bound, but this isn't sure; I did an answer to this interview some time ago, which you can find here q979011.html

Who Was Saturn Named After And More Information On It?
The planet Saturn is named after the Roman God Saturnus. Have a look at this: en.wikipedia.org)

Who Was Saturn Named After?
I need to know. It's the Roman god, Saturn. It's also the origin of the Sabbath, or Saturday. Thank you very mush but i call for more information Saturn named saturn The roman god saturn or the greek titan cronus.

Who Was Saturn Named After?
The planet Saturn is named after the Roman God Saturnus who was the God of agriculture and harvest. He carried a bundle of wheat contained by his right hand and a sickle in his left. In the medieval times he is specified as the God of agriculture, strength and justice...

Who Was The Famous For Discovery Of The Elements Polorium & Radium...
Marie Cury and Pierre Cury discovered Radium and Polinium. They later died from radiation exposure.

Who Was The First African American Remote Control Inventor?
I am new to Blurtit and would like to ask a question. One can't be sure but i guess James Mathew be the first African-American remote control inventor.

Who Was The First Man To In Spacewalk?
Neil Armstrong though there were rumors of Nasa faking that man have ever been on the moon The first spacewalk (as opposed to 'moon' walk) or EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) was on March 18th 1965 by USSR Cosmonaut ALEXEI LEONOV

Who Was The First Man To Orbit The Earth?
The first human being in space and to orbit the Earth was Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin,he be a cosmonaut for the Soviet Union.on the 12 April 1961 he became the first human being in space,and he completed a orbit around the Earth surrounded by 1hour and 48...

Who Was The First Model?
There have been many models through the ages, but the greatest inspiration by the greeks be the thought of Jesus, not having seen him but imagining him contained by their minds. I guess you could also say the Mona Lisa but apparently it was done on a self portrait. Who knows. The...

Who Was The First On The Planet?
The first organisms on our planet were not complex multi cellular plants and animals like the ones we are accustomed to seeing today but were in truth proto cells, the ancestors of the single celled organisms that we know of today like bacteria. The proto cell merely were...

Who Was The First Person To Build A Boat?
I'm asking because i don't know who did. Boats have been the ideal mode of transportation for ancestors since ages. The last known evidence of their existence is in Sumer between the years 4000BCE-3000BCE. However, it is not agreed who first build a boat. I...

Who Was The First Person To Go To The Moon And Where Is He From?
Since we aren't allowed to copy from other sites or sources on here, I will tell you that you can go to www.wikipedia.org and type in Apollo 11, this will describe you all about the first landing on the moon....

Who Was The First Person To Invent A Train?
It was James Watt in England. James Watt didn't invent the train, it was George Stephenson who used the combination of a steam locomotive (invented by Samuel Homfray) next to the rail road carriage (originating from Germany.) Joshua L Cowen then furthered this technology to run...

Who Was The First Person To Travel To The Sun?
Although the names have been lost to the sand of time, the ancient atlantean astronauts were believed to have ridden turtles to the sun. Whether this is intentional or not is not known, however, what is set is that the largest of these turtles, upon reaching...

Who Was The First Scientist To Investigate Atoms?
The first scientist to investigate the atoms is DEMOCRITUS,he use the pieces of gold which he tear down to pieces and he notice that the smallest particle can be broke down still into smaller one so he called the smallest particles as ATOMOS which means INVINCIBLE.

Who Was The First To Perform A Heart Transplant?
Who was first to do. Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant on December 3rd, 1967. Jim Hardy for a monkey in 1964 and for humans Christian Benard surrounded by 1967

Who Was The Fist Man On The Earth?
Since contemporary man evolved over billions of years in a process called evolution it makes no sense to ask who be the first man. The concept of attributing one man, such as Adam, with this distinction is theological and has been displaced by the irrefutable concept of...

Who Was The Fist Man Who Invented The Car?
inventors.about.com Please refer to this. :) Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France built the first automobile in 1769 - conventional by the British Royal Automobile Club and the Automobile Club de France as being the first.

Who Was The Greek God Aeolus?
Aeolus according to the Greek methodology was the son of Hippotes, who is a god and the father of winds. He had six sons and six daughters and ruled the island of Aeolia(a floating island). The Greek consider him to be the god or custodian of the four wind....