Tag: History

10. While today's costumes channel an inner fantasy, they started with a much more solemn purpose. One of the earliest examples we have of people donning costumes comes from Hallow ...

A New Fad or Steeped in Ancient History?You may be new to using alternative medicine or perhaps you have already seen the amazing benefits alternative medicine and alternative therapies can ...

We have mentioned the provisions made to provide back-up power systems involving generators and banks of batteries (see history of the computer - redundancy). You can probably tell from this ...

Throughout recorded history there has always been alcohol in of some variety,think of this, when you are sitting on a Friday night with your vodka and coke or Pernod and ...

When one thinks of online auctions today, the name eBay certainly comes to mind first. This website was the first in what is now a history of the online auction, ...

Many of us can remember our parents dressing us up in new clothes every Easter so we could parade around the neighborhood in our finest. It was a fun tradition ...

The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology defines industrial engineering as: the profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience and practice is ...

The history of sports photography is tightly related to the trends of sport gaining popularity throughout human history. The technology of photography from the early 1800s onward leaped forward in ...

Dynamometers have been a part of performance measurement since the days when the presence of horsepower was usually accompanied by four hooves and a tail. This versatile tool is applied ...

The Serenity Prayer is the common name for an untitled prayer originally written by theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the late1930s to early 1940s. It is believed that Niebuhr wrote the ...