Watch full episodes of your favorite HISTORY series, and dive into thousands of historical articles and videos. To know History is to know life.
40.3 x 30.4 | 40.3 x 60.8 cm (outline of series title Sun Artists printed in gold ink) Featuring a design by English illustrator Laurence Houseman, (1865-1959) this rare example of a brown-paper wrapper for the first Number of Sun Artists originally contained four hand-pulled photogravures ...
So there you have it: Ultrasuede is actually just a swanky name for a polyester blend that according to Wikipedia, was invented in 1970 by scientist Dr. Toyohiko Hikota ofToray. It was the first “microfiber” blend of its time and like other synthetic materials in the ’70s, it became ...
According to guitar legend Scotty Moore on his website,the Gibson LG-1was used in more of Elvis Presley’s films than any other guitar, featured prominently in his MGM films from 1963-1968. Moore’s page on the LG-1 gives a lot of good information about the LG-1 in general in addit...
wikipedia:Edmonson sisters abolitionism,American slavery,Cazenovia,Edmonson Sisters,Frederick Douglass,Fugitive Slave Act of 1850,Gerrit Smith,The Pearl Incident,Underground Railroad,William Chaplin Share this: Posted inPEOPLE, taggedanti-British protest,british royal family,Duke and Duchess of Windsor,Governo...
Wikipedia The distinctive street signs the work of my old palTim Rushton. There are those who will remember Tib Street, as a street of pet shops. Whilst on Sundays the area was transformed into an al fresco menagerie – a land of caged birds and cuddly coneys. ...
This is one of the most relevant features of Wikipedia that renders it so successful [1]. However, in reality, Wikipedia grows very rapidly, with new pages added and modified regularly by a massive global network of engaged participants. This provides incentive for an effective method to ...
Wikipedia Even Japanese poets found inspiration from kaya. An old poem attributed to the famous poetess Chiyo from the Edo Period. Having been challenged to make a poem of seventeen syllables referring to a square, a triangle, and a circle, she is said to have immediately responded, "...
(Wikipedia image) And that gave an opening for another transportation revolution. Less than a decade after the Erie Canal was finished and shortly after the I&M opened, rail lines began extending all over the country. While canals were huge transportation successes, they were still limited in ...
of stars and flowers. This innovative design had the effect of stopping all imitations until the 1960s, when counterfeiting became a serious problem once again. The firm launched an offensive, employing a team of lawyers and special investigation agencies to actively pursue offenders through law ...