LeBron James climbs to fourth on all-time playoff assists list. Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James took over fourth place among the NBA's all-time playoff assists leaders during Friday's Game 3 against the Chicago Bulls. James entered Friday tied with Spurs point guard Tony Parker for sixth on the list with 1,059 career playoff assists.
Continental drift was a theory that explained how continents shift position on Earth's surface. Set forth in 1912 by Alfred Wegener, a geophysicist and meteorologist, continental drift also explained why look-alike animal and plant fossils, and similar rock formations, are found on different continents.
German climatologist and geophysicist who, in 1915, published as expanded version of his 1912 book The Origin of Continents and Oceans. This work was one of the first to suggest continental drift and plate tectonics. He suggested that a supercontinent he called Pangaea had existed in the past, broke up starting 200 million years ago, and that the pieces drifted to their present positions.