History consists of studying the past. It is a branch of the humanities or social sciences.
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I wish I had more information. I received mine when I was around 7
years old and at 51 now it still is one of the best shooting 22
single shots I have.
I did over the years find this info. Winchester only made this
series of rifle for only a few years and then the design was sold
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Basketball history
"Everything" is an awful lot. A good start would be to enter "basketball history" in the Google search box on the right side of this page.
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Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The concept of basketball was born from Naismith's school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-ro…
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This is a subjective question so it cannot be answered definitively. However, many FAQ Farmers have contributed their opinions. Here are some of the suggestions for "greatest wrestler in history":
Hollywood Hulk Hogan
Bret Hart
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I recently heard about a book:It is called Wicker Park from 1673 thru 1929 and Walking Tour Guide by Elaine A. Coorens. Has a light blue cover with artists drawings of homes in that area. It has 200 some pages and then there are more pages consisting of the Walking Tour. Should be in li…
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I think you mean sealants to prevent cavities right? When I was about 13 my dentist put them on a few of my back teeth (the deeper ones which he thought were prone to cavities). I am 27 now and have a cavity in most back teeth except for the ones that have the sealants on - would highly re…
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This may not be relevant, but spirit mediums were popular. They would "contact spirits" but they were just fakes. The rich, however, didn't seem to know that. There are examples of this in A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray and in The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman
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Shakespeare wrote his first play
theEnglish beat the Spanish Armada
sir francis Drake sailed around the world
Henry VIIIcaused the English Reformation.
Elizabeth I came to the throne.
The English started immigrating to America.
Mary I became the first woman to officially rule England alone (a…
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Irish history timeline
For a timeline of the history of Ireland that begins in 10,000 BC, please go to the rootsweb.com link to the right. 'Irish History Links' also provides a detailed timeline for this period.
You can find a comprehensive Timeline of Irish history on Wikipedia. http://en.wikip…
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Carole, check out this website for information about these wonderful little houses.
"Papa" Ted has a wonderful site all about the history and care for these. He even offers replacement windows and ddors to help renovate any "fixer-uppers" you may have.
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Albert Butz of the Thermo-Electric Regulator Co., Minneapolis, is the original creator in 1885 of the "damper flap" which the company Honeywell based its roots from.
More information can be found at: http://www.honeywell.com/sites/honeywell/ourhistory.htm http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/Honey…
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You could start by searching the Coins section at Ebay and the other related links below, which are Exonumia, the Token and Medal Society, and the Coin Club.
Commemorative Coins can be found in the current US Coins Red Book by R. S. Yeoman. For Commemorative Medallions, you would need to look a…
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History of computersThe first computer ever was made in 1945. They were not like we have them today. They were a sort of typewriters.Follow the link for detailed information.The first computers were people! That is, electronic computers (and the earlier mechanical computers) were given this name bec…
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Noel and Fiona from Malta married at Palazzo Nobile.
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it was restored after the war but removed in the 1950s
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It stands for Common Era, and is one half of a system of measuring time - the opposite is BCE, which means Before Common Era. It is gradually replacing BC and AD as a way of classifying years. The present year is 2011 CE. It can also stand for "Christian Era;" perhaps more accurately. There was no s…
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In ancient times writings and inscriptions were generally made on tablets of bamboo or on pieces of silk called chih. But silk being costly and bamboo heavy, they were not convenient to use. Tshai Lun [Cai Lun, Tsai Lun] then initiated the idea of making paper from the bark of trees, remnants of hem…
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Industrialisation has over most of history been a gradual process
and may even be said to begin with the making of the first tool or
item of clothing (manufacture) or the first building of a home
(construction, another industrial activity). England was already
more industrial in 1750 than in 1500, t…
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because we can know about the things that happened a long time ago, and so history doesn't repeat itself, and the state requires it.Mostly the latter, but the better we understand our past, the better we understand the complexities of the human mind and the depth of human nature. Many people, …
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Nicolae Sfetcu (born July 19, 1957 in Poaiana Mare, Dolj, Romania) is a Romanian engineer, author of many IT articles, books and e-books, guides and translations.
Biography
Electrotechnical High school, Craiova, Dolj (awards at the National Olympiad for Romanian Language and National Olympiad …
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One argument used in favor of the repeal was that bringing back the liquor industry would create jobs. Jphelm. Other arguments were that prohibition was causing violence in many cities, specially in Chicago were different gangs fought each other to control the illegal liquor industry.
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Her name was Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham, but President Obama called her by her nickname-- Toot, which is a short form of the Hawaiian word for "grandma."
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Within a century of Plato's death his school had been completely transformed by Arcesilas, its head in the middle of the third century B.C.; he imported into it the denial of the possibility of knowledge that had been set up as a philosophical system by the Sceptic Pyrrho two generations before. Arc…
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Seleucus is one of the generals of Alexander the Great's army that took control of Asia when Alexander the Great died. He started the Seleucid Empire.
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No-one knows for certain where Boudicca was finally defeated although most historians believe that it was somewhere along Watling Street (which ran from Dover to Hadrian's wall). The details of her death are also uncertain, -Tacitus wrote that she took poison while Cassius Dio claimed that she fell …
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They used fire, oil lamps, candles before electricity came along,they had to light up street lights at night, with a big stick with fire on the end..... Fire in various forms was the almost sole source of light right up until the widespread use of electric lightbulbs. This category was very broad - …
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Witches were seen as active agents of the devil. Not only were they
blamed for agricultural failures, they were seen as the cause of
any ailment or disease that was affecting the pious. For example,
Charles II of Spain was so deformed from generations of inbreeding
(his grandmother was related to hi…
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First of all, culture is a very subjective term. For the most part, the average individual will view one's culture in direct relation to the country or nationality that an individual grew up in. However, culture can be a much more intricate and personal thing for most, where one's culture is more de…
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Europe------Not Europe. The first Settlers in this area were Scottish, likely from Canada. Kola has one of Western Canada's oldest Anglican Churches built 1884.
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The bishop has two diagonal cuts for two reasons. First it is to look like a bishop's Mitre, his ceremonial hat which has diagonal sides. The second is to show that the Bishop moves in diagonal directions.
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Pre-cambrien, paleozoic, mesozoic, and cenizoic. These, when spelt correctly, are some of the geological eras of our planet. Mammals and indeed humans have been around for a very small part of that time. We appeared, I think, in the Neolithic; which u forgot. It's said that history is what's happ…
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breeches,coats,codpieces,ruffs,doublet,swadling,hose,pettecoats
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right now, it's probably Augusta Hejnek (1799 - 1908)
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The progressives which were middle class men and women formed various groups to initate reform movements during the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt. Many religious organizations such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) influenced the creation of the 18th amendment. Temperance sentiment c…
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Diego Armando Maradona was born. He is an extremely famous soccer player. Google him.
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Mainly through trade and human migration, but recently it has been a largely self-sustaining entity that goes as a huge part of the information age where people can just google something in England and know all about the culture in Peru. The term westernization describes people purposefully adopting…
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Answer --> The system gradually takes shape through contributions by people like Gabriel Mouton. An early version uses gram, litre, and metre. The later version was adopted by France in 10 Dec 1799. Through colonial activity and Exposition Universelle (1867), half of the world population have ad…
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I could be wrong. But I believe it is fighting face to face, on the "firing lines" such as in the revolutionary war. As opposed to guerrilla and trench warfare which involves raids, ambushes, etc. Hope that helps, but like I said, could be wrong.
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It prohibited the reading of any antislavery petitions in the
House. It caused a lot of conflict before the Civil War.
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Yes, apparently he is in a Military Hospital in Cairo with ongoing
health issues.
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In February 1982, I purchased a new 1981 (leftover, mileage at 43) Chevy Malibu for $8000 with no trade-in. It was a basic model with no AC and no radio. I drove it for 13 years. I will never forget an evening, in a blizzard, I was driving my elderly mother home from the hospital. The roads were ho…
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to improve sanitary conditions for soldiers. They set up hospitals trains and ships to move wounded soldiers from the battlefield
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in the 1400's when two families wanted to name their child the same name. They thought having to kids with the same name would cause dispute, so they gave second namesThe romans (slightly earlier than the 1400's) had three names. Praenomen - a personal name which distinguishes an individual from oth…
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Honour rationing was introduced to help combat shortages . Canadians used less butter and sugar and the government introduced meatless fridays and heatless days . This was all to help the war . Hope this answer is what you where looking for :):)
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They had other methods which were unreliable but they still worked if conditions were just right. They could use the sun and the stars and even the moon when it is half moon. Nature also has some interesting phenomenas that can help you find your way but they change in different parts of the world…
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I would say not really. But the bad democracy can progress where as the military rule will most likely become a terrible dictatorship and the democracy would (obviously) be better. This is my opinion.
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The Nature and scope of History requires Truthful and Honest depiction of facts, events and happenings of the period. History is an important subject keeping and telling the past and heritage of any person, nation or country.India is the ancient most country having a great history of thousands of ye…
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This question is brilliant and i would like to know the correct answer.
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David Ricardo contributed the theory of comparative advantage, arguing free trade of countries and specialization from certain individuals and groups. Ricardo was a member of British Parliament and presented his theories among his peers as a way of helping the British economy. The Ricardian theory…
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Yes AND NO, The Original Crusader Era is Long Gone but few Organizations still represent the Order, Such as The Freemasons and a Church Charity in Jeruslaem currently. So If you ask if their treasure lives then yes Their Holy "relics" but it is unsure where. If the Scandals of the King of their exil…
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Experimentation, most likely by women, with plants that it was their task to gather eventually led to more of a development than a discovery of domesticated plants.The discovery of Maize.
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The Atlantic Ocean started to form about 200 million years ago,
shortly after the beginning of extensive volcanic activity,
associated with tensions in the continental crust between nowaday's
Afrika and North America. The oldest oceanic crust in the Atlantic
Ocean is therefore found off the continen…
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Platonism was born exactly in 399 B.C. in a prison cell in Athens in an evening, when the 28 year old Plato wept over the drinking of poison by his master in that prison. Then after travelling for twelve years through Egypt, Sicily, Italy, Judea and India he returned to Athens in 387 B.C. Forty year…
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"Back to the Vedas" is the slogan by Swami Dayanand Saraswati. Swarajya, Swadeshi and Go-raksha for better and sound economy were other slogans given by the Swami
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'Trojan Horses' , 'Achilles' Heels' , 'Tricks and Traps' .
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No. Hitler comitted suicide in his bunker. Stories of his escape in a Fiesler Storch are nothing more than conspiracy theory.
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Some were performed in English, but not very many. I know that some were performed in spanish, however I think that the litergical ones were acted out in Latin.
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Evidence that existed or occured within the selected time frame you're looking at.
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Accounts written by scholars about the kingdoms in which they lived were called court chronicles.
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In 1945 Anna Kreisling, The White Wolf of the Luftwaffe, was testing a Horten V-9 flying wing which showed promise of becoming an attack bomber for the Luftwaffe! She was operating from the Autobahn highway high up in the mountains to avoid American P-51 Mustang fighters. American tank crews drivin…
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This question can never be answered do to personal intuition there may be people that would die helping the world but never can because of money, time, or courage if we as people band together as one we can change this question to who isn't the kindest person in history lol thanks yall just sharing …
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Well to make something that seems boring into something that is fun, turn history into something you like doing instead. For example, my cousin loves football but is horrible at English so he does things like use football players names (how?) and turns football into English. I like to research my f…
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Anna Kreisling, first named as a purported female German pilot of World War II, is almost certainly fictional. Her exploits appear to be figments of an overactive imagination. Many of the questions about her were asked and answered by the same site guest.
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good person and his respact for others people and a good name
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According to this guy, it was on the left. The reason they know seems logical... See related link..
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Southern farmers opposed the Agricultural Adjustment Act because it reduced crop surplus so it could effectively raise the value of crops, because of that, a portion of their fields were left uncultivated. The money for these subsidies was made through an exclusive tax on companies which processed f…
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It goes on the index finger because the index finger is the only finger that has a tendon connected to the heart
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to store water where the there is a need for it ie a site of low water pressure so when there is high demand the pressure can be kept
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Israeli Intelligence has learned that Hannah Kreisling, Anna's mother was a Baltic German from Estonia. They lived on the coast right across from Finland. In 1916 she went to Germany and cared for the wounded as a Nurse. In October of 1918 she cared for a German soldier who had been blinded by gas. …
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Primary gold typically occurs in quartz veins. The extraction of gold ore from these hard quartz veins was historically referred to as quartz reef mining. A Prussian engineer, Jacob Brache was the first to think that quartz reefs might have even more gold than alluvial fields. The new mining compa…
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FORENSIC SCIENCE* is science that follows evidence that leads to a conclusion. ex. in tv show "CSI" forensics gather evidence to solve a crime.
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The culture of Sinhalese is similar to Indian in certain respects. Buddhists monks went to Sri Lanka from N India. They follow Budhistic philosophy.During Ravan's ( Ramayan period) period they were worshippers of Shiva.
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Biographical Details On the 15th June 1913 Trevor Huddleston was born in Bedford, England. He went to the schools Lancing College, Christ Church, Oxford and Wells Theological College. He joined an Anglican religious order, the Community of the Resurrection (CR), in 1939, having already served for tw…
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Friday is originated from an old english term meaning "day of frige". I belive frigg,the wife of odin and goddess of married love and of the hearth was given to the fifth day of the week in an act honouring the goddess and evoking her rulling characteristics into the earthly realm similar to most po…
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More than 3000 years ago Chinese feng-shui practitioners used lodestone - a naturally occurring magnet to orient in the environment and find iron rich ores; probably not for navigation at this time. Scale maps (of geographic areas) were attempted even earlier but were fraught with limited accuracy. …
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Apparently none, all 282 written laws make no reference to any particular religion. The would-be Jews that lived during this period may have had some influence, though this was prior to scriptural Judaism.
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Wood. And various other materials.
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it is so hard to study early humans for many reasons. One is that not everything is turned to fossil so there are gaps in how things looked like. Also there are no written records like later humans which is our main source for historical data
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1979: Panda opens its first branch in Riyadh. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azizia_Panda
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