The Temple of Heaven in Beijing was constructed during the reign of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty, and completed in 1420, which was about the same time of the completion of the Forbidden City. When Emperor Yongle moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, one of the important things he...
Chemists William Ramsay (pictured) and Frederick Soddy reported in the 13 August 1903 issue of Nature that helium gas is produced by the radioactive decay of radium. Working at University College London, they had unknowingly discovered the spontaneous transmutation of elements, but candidly offered ...
1206 Genghis Khan is denied importing of radio gear, so develops a "pony express" to keep tabs on his empire -- pony stations at about 25 miles apart. 1500 -1800's Early discoveries of Electricty and Magnetism can be found in the annals of history, names such as Gilbert, Von Guericke...
The diffusion of radio technology throughout Europe and North America in the 1920s allowed fans, absent from the game for whatever reason (distance, scheduling, venue capacity, cost), to listen in to play-by-play descriptions of events. A new market developed around those who tuned in to ...
An entire image is generally produced simultaneously, as by the lens in a camera, but images may also be generated sequentially by point-by-point scanning, as in a television system or in the radio transmission of pictures across long distances in space. Nevertheless, the final detector of ...
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athletes, artists and more. This year’s honorees include iconic radio personality Patty Jackson, actor-writer-television producer extraordinaire Quinta Brunson, entrepreneurs and owners of Two Locals Brewing Company Richard and Mengistu Koilor, and boundary-breaking baseball and softball player Mo’ne ...
But the granddaddy of all these dark but underappreciated classic films has to go to the 1961 seminal Judgment at Nuremberg, as its relevance only gains stature since I first saw it in high school. Although it’s over two hours long, I highly recommend everyone watch it and that it will ...
The app is installed with one non-recommended Annoyances filter instead of five recommended ones #4764 Scroll left/right doesn’t work in the Filtering log for preview via touchpad #4638 No element is selected when double-clicking the radio buttons in the Filtering log #4672 Minor dark theme...
This Futuristic-Looking Cassette Radio If you wanted to listen to music back in the '60s, your options were quite limited, as phones and iPods were non-existent back then. The only way to get access to songs was to manually purchase discs and cassettes at the store, aft...