Zoos have been around for centuries — and they’ve changed a lot over the years. In the Middle Ages, wealthy people kept animals in their gardens. Public animal parks appeared in European cities in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The Philadelphia Zoo, the first in the United States, ...
Zoos have been around for centuries — and they’ve changed a lot over the years. In the Middle Ages, wealthy people kept animals in their gardens. Public animal parks appeared in European cities in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The Philadelphia Zoo, the first in the United States, op...
The oldest are Sassanian drachmas of Khusru II (591-628) or their Arab imitations (8 pieces in all). The youngest, is a dirham from AD 850/1-854/5. Most coins were struck in the first two decades of the 9th century, next in the years 760-800. Also Omayyad coins have been ...
For her own good: 150 years of the experts' advice to women. In this article I show how the effects of harsh and humiliating treatment, experienced by a number of Swedish women in antenatal care and childbirth in the mid-20th Century, endured for the rest of their lives. This treatment ...
A compilation of paleoclimate records from lake sediments, trees, glaciers, and marine sediments provides a view of circum-Arctic environmental variability over the last 400 years. From 1840 to the mid-20th century, the Arctic warmed to the highest temperatures in four centuries. This warming ended...
This paper exploits regional variation in suitability for culti- vating potatoes together with time variation arising from their introduc- tion to the Old World during the 17th century to estimate the impact of potatoes on population and urbanization. The results show that access to potatoes made ...
"Whether my students choose to pursue careers as professional performers or not, I firmly believe that this traditional art will enrich their lives as a lifelong passion." BLENDING OLD AND NEW Legend traces the origin of Tibetan opera over 600 years ago to Thangtong Gyalpo, a revered monk ...
【题目】The search for beauty spans centuries and continents. Paintings of Egyptians dating back over 4,000 years show both men and women painting their nails and wearing makeup. In 18th-century France , wealthy noblemen wore large wigs(假发) of long, white hair to make themselves attractive....
Collecting the Past: British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries; The Invention of Rare Books: Private Interest and Public Memory, 1600–1840edited by Toby Burrows and Cynthia Johnston, London and New York, Routledge, 2019, ix, 143 pp., ill., £45.00, ...
When they first settled down in Nebraska, they needed large quantities of wood for building house, making fires and doing many other things. Therefore they started many tree-planting plans that went on for years and years. Finally in 1872, a newspaperman named J. Sterling Morton had an idea...