Sia actually wrote the track, too, though rumours it was originally called Manaccanite are thought to be just that. Sadly, this song does not appear on Spotify, but it does deserve a wider audience, ...

Martin Pitt recalls some of the less common metals he has known TITANIUM was discovered in 1791 by Cornish vicar and mineralogist William Gregor (1761–1817) who named it manaccanite after the parish ...

Gregor called it manaccanite for the parish in which he'd discovered the sand. Four years later, a German scientist named Martin Heinrich Klaproth was studying an ore from Hungary when he realized ...

Discovered in 1791 by English clergyman and amateur geologist Rev. William Gregor, it was originally named manaccanite for the nearby village of Manaccan in Cornwall, England. While exploring a stream ...