All posts tagged History
The Historyof the InternetThe Internet has update the computer andcommunications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph,telephone, radio, and computer set the stage for this unprecedented integrationof capabilities. The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability,a mechanism for information distribution, and a medium for collaborationand interaction between . . . Read more
By:Daniel HabayIn order to see why we invented computers we must look at how they WERE used and how they ARE used today. One of the first major uses of computers was to aid mathematical pursuits. As computers went along they added to the fields of science and literature. Computers . . . Read more
American HistoryAlthough Britian’s North American colonies had enjoyed considerable prosperity during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, beginning with the Stamp Act in 1765 the British government began to put pressures on them, largely in the form of taxes and new trade restrictions, that drew increasingly resistance. (Out of . . . Read more
The Female Breast and the History of Western CivilizationThroughout the ages, the female body has been revered as a work of art and beauty and as a source of life, from which all people are born. The breast is one of the most predominate features of a woman and stands . . . Read more
Emperor K’ang-hsi ruled China from 1661 to 1722 and his reign is captured by Jonathan D. Spence’s book Emperor of China. The different chapters of the book deal with certain aspects of the Emperors life. Aspects that the history books to normally deal with. The information in Spence’s book is . . . Read more
Korea was one of the poorest countries in world after experiencing two wars. World War II and Korean war (1950 ~ 1953). The country even experienced a foodshortage so that it had to heavily rely on the foreign aid. Yearly per capitaconsumption was a mere $88 as late as 1965. . . . Read more
ators of North Carolina: Outraged Opressors The history of colonial North Carolina is bombarded with frequent strife and turmoil. The people of North Carolina, because of a lack in supervision from the British monarchy, learned to possess an independent spirit. The colony remained isolated from the rest of the country . . . Read more
annonThe center of the Aztec civilization was the Valley of Mexico, a huge,oval basin about 7,500 feet above sea level. The Aztecs were formed afterthe Toltec civilization occurred when hundreds of civilians came towardsLake Texcoco. In the swamplands there was only one piece of land to farmon and it was . . . Read more
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. So wrote Thomas Jefferson to a friend in January 1787. The concept of the newspaper that the founding father of . . . Read more
History of SerbiaDuring the A.D. 500’s and 600’s, variousgroups of Slavs, including the ancestors of the Serbs, settled in the BalkanPeninsula in the area of present-day Serbia. Each group had its ownleader until the late 1100’s, when Stefan Nemanja, a warrior and chief,formed the first united Serbian state. During the . . . Read more