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1 day ago · The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century. The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. There were earlier cinematographic screenings by others, however, the commercial, public screening of ten Lumière brothers ' short films in ...
- Precursors of Film
The Kaiserpanorama, 1880, provided a group stereoscope card...
- History of Film Technology
Cinématographe Lumière at the Institut Lumière, France. The...
- Precursors of Film
1 day ago · Incandescent light bulb. A 230-volt incandescent light bulb with a medium-sized E27 (Edison 27 mm) male screw base. The filament is visible as the mostly horizontal line between the vertical supply wires. A scanning electron microscope image of the tungsten filament of an incandescent light bulb. Elaborate light in Denver, Colorado.
4 hours ago · French colonization. The first French settlement in what is now the Southern United States was Fort Caroline, located in what is now Jacksonville, Florida, in 1562. It was established as a haven for the Huguenots and was destroyed by the Spanish in 1565. Later French arrived from the north.
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1 day ago · There are 201 [note 1] scheduled monuments in West Somerset. Some of the oldest, particularly on Exmoor and the Quantock Hills are Neolithic, Bronze Age or Iron Age including hillforts, cairns, bowl barrows and other tumulis. More recent sites include several motte-and-bailey castles and church or village crosses which date from the Middle Ages.
1 day ago · Elections in Wisconsin. The 2024 Wisconsin State Assembly election is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. All 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly are up for election. Currently, 64 Assembly seats are held by Republicans and 35 seats are held by Democrats. The primary election is scheduled for August 13, 2024.
1 day ago · Kate Stoneman (1886): [1] First female lawyer in New York. Rosalie Loew Whitney (1895): [2] [3] [4] First Jewish American female lawyer in New York. Helen Z.M. Rodgers (1899): [5] [6] First female lawyer to try a case before the New York State Court of Appeals. Georgia Hare (c. 1910): [7] First female lawyer registered with the New York State ...
4 hours ago · Tennis. Tennis was part of the Summer Olympic Games program from the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics, but was dropped after the 1924 Summer Olympics due to disputes between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the International Olympic Committee over how to define amateur players. [1] [2] After two appearances as a demonstration sport in ...
