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5 days ago · Founded as FINA ( Fédération internationale de natation; International Swimming Federation) in 1908, the federation was officially renamed World Aquatics in January 2023. [2] World Aquatics currently oversees competition in six aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving , artistic swimming, [4] [5] water polo, and open water swimming. [6]
5 days ago · Impact event. Damage to trees caused by the Tunguska event. The object, just 50–80 metres (150–240 feet) across, exploded 6–10 km (4–6 miles) above the surface, shattering windows hundreds of km away. An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects. [1]
1 day ago · Signature. Pablo Ruiz Picasso [a] [b] (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, [8 ...
3 days ago · Animated movies are part of ancient traditions in storytelling, visual arts and theatre. Popular techniques with moving images before film include shadow play, mechanical slides, and mobile projectors in magic lantern shows (especially phantasmagoria ). Techniques with fanciful three-dimensional moving figures include masks and costumes ...
1 day ago · RMS Lusitania (named after the Roman province corresponding to modern Portugal) was a British ocean liner launched by the Cunard Line in 1906. She was the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of the Mauretania three months later and was awarded the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908.
4 days ago · 1908: 8 January: Pavao Rauch was appointed Ban. 27 February: Croatian parliamentary election, 1908: The first day of balloting was held. 28 February: Croatian parliamentary election, 1908: The second day of balloting was held. The Croat-Serb Coalition won a majority of seats in the Sabor. 12 March: Rauch dissolved the Sabor
2 days ago · Bloomsbury, London. Yates, believed to be 23, was a prostitute who was murdered by a customer at 12 Burton Crescent (now Cartwright Gardens), Bloomsbury, in the early hours of 9 March 1884. She was strangled and beaten, and her purse and a ring were taken. Yates's age and real name are unconfirmed.
