Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
(noun) English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey
(noun) English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey
(noun) English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
