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2 days ago · World History Subcategories. Nature isn’t always peaceful and idyllic. Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and other powerful natural phenomena can have devastating consequences on communities and regions throughout the world. But nature is far from the only instigator of large-scale misfortune; human-made disasters and tragedies, both ...
- Prehistoric Age
The prehistoric age covers the millions of years that took...
- United States History
As with most nations, the history of the United States...
- Wars, Battles & Armed Conflicts
Wars, battles, and other domestic or international...
- Historians
Livy was, with Sallust and Tacitus, one of the three great...
- Global Exploration
Leif Erikson was a Norse explorer widely held to have been...
- Prehistoric Age
2 days ago · 6th century BC: University in Taxila, of the Indus Valley, then part of the kingdom of Gandhara, of the Achaemenid Empire (modern-day Pakistan). 6th century - 2nd century BC: Systematization of medicine and surgery in the Sushruta Samhita in Vedic Northern India. Documented procedures to: Perform cataract surgery . Babylonian and Egyptian texts ...
2 days ago · The Tower Infinity in South Korea was included in Time magazine’s 25 best inventions of 2013 and is supposed to be the world’s first skyscraper that, for a few hours a day, modestly provides an unobstructed view of the sky behind it. It is expected to be completed in 2016 and most architects around the world are hailing it as an ...
3 days ago · Zigler refers to Morisseau as one of the leading figures in American playwriting at the moment. A winner of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2018, Morisseau wrote “The Detroit Plays,” which is a trilogy of plays that includes “Detroit ‘67,” “Paradise Blue” and “Skeleton Crew.”. Morisseau also wrote the book for the jukebox musical ...
4 days ago · Industrial Revolution, in modern history, the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. These technological changes introduced novel ways of working and living and fundamentally transformed society. This process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · The Archives of Sexuality & Gender provides primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. Includes LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 and Sex and Sexuality: 16th to 20th Century. Education Research Complete from EBSCOhost. Education Research Complete indexes citations, abstracts ...
1 day ago · The most important technological innovation in mid-19th-century pig iron production was the adoption of hot blast, which was developed and patented in Scotland in 1828. Hot blast is a method of using heat from the blast furnace exhaust gas to preheat combustion air, saving a considerable amount of fuel.
