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2 days ago · Long Term Economic Growth – 1860–1965: A Statistical Compendium. Business Booms and Depressions since 1775, a chart of the past trend of price inflation, federal debt, business, national income, stocks and bond yields for the United States from 1775 to 1943. Budget of the United States Government.
2 days ago · 1952: The first thermonuclear weapon is developed. 1953: The first video tape recorder, a helical scan recorder, is invented by Norikazu Sawazaki. 1954: Invention of the solar battery by Bell Telephone scientists, Calvin Souther Fuller, Daryl Chapin and Gerald Pearson capturing the Sun's power.
4 days ago · The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile.
5 days ago · Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d’Urville (born May 23, 1790, Condé-sur-Noireau, Fr.—died May 8, 1842, near Meudon) was a French navigator who commanded voyages of exploration to the South Pacific (1826–29) and the Antarctic (1837–40), resulting in extensive revisions of existing charts and discovery or redesignation of island groups.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In 1770 it was 5 s. a week. (fn. 201) In 1794 the rate had risen to 6 s. (the summer rate rose earlier) or even 7 s. (fn. 202) By 1804 the rate was 8 s. and by 1814 12 s. (fn. 203) This marks the end of the first phase. War had doubled the normal day rates. Then came a sharp decline.
5 days ago · Oxford, city (district), administrative and historic county of Oxfordshire, England. It is best known as the home of the University of Oxford. Situated between the upper River Thames (known in Oxford as the Isis) and the Cherwell, just north of their confluence, the town was first occupied in Saxon.
3 days ago · Mangpa. A priest (mangpa) of the Rai. Rai, a people indigenous to eastern Nepal, living west of the Arun River in the area drained by the Sun Kosi River, at elevations of 5,500–7,700 feet (1,700–2,300 m), and also in southwestern Bhutan. The most populous group of the Kiranti people, the Rai numbered about 635,000 at the turn of the 21st ...
