In 1752, Benjamin Franklin tied a key to a kite and flew it in a storm to find out that lightning was a form of electricity. In the 1890s, Lawrence Hargrave invented the box kite to test ideas about flight. From 1898 until 1933, the United States Weather Bureau(气象局)used box kites...
Charles Louis Decrucq, 1822-1884; landlord of the artist in Cuesmes Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), 1832-1898; English writer Charles Paul Gruppe, 1860-1940; American artist, born in Canada Charles Paul Renouard, 1845-1924; French artist Charles Paul de Kock, 1793-1871; French writ...
In 1752, Benjamin Franklin tied a key to a kite and flew it in a storm to find out that light-ning was a form of electricity. In the 1890s, Lawrence Hargrave invented the box kite to test ideas about flight.The Wright brothers also experimented with kites. What they learned helped ...
P(hilip) A(rthur) D(ominic) Hollom (1912-2014), ornithologist Robert Home (1752-1834), painter of portraits and Indian landscapes Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), botanist, director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew William Hooker (1779-1832), botanical artist to the Royal Horticultural S...
Born in 1918 in Scornicești, Olt County, Ceaușescu was a member of the Romanian Communist youth movement. Ceaușescu rose up through the ranks of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej's Socialist government and, upon Gheorghiu-Dej's death in 1965, he succeeded to the leadership of the Roma...
Fabian Cancellara (born 18 March 1981), nicknamed "Spartacus", is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI ProTeam Trek–Segafredo. He was born in Wohlen bei Bern, Switzerland. Cancellara began road cycling after falling in love with an old bike at the age of...
Washington is born in a Virginia's big plantation slave-owner family, he receives the good culture and education since childhood, graduates in William one of Mary institute US most ancient aristocrat institutes.In 1752, Washington became the Uygur agriculture mountain manor master.In 1758 he was ...
Washington is born in a Virginia's big plantation slave-owner family, receives the good culture and education since childhood, graduates of a William in US most ancient aristocrat institutes Mary institute.In 1752, became the Uygur agriculture mountain manor master.In 1758 was elected as Virginia ...
Washington is born in a Virginia's big plantation slave-owner family, he receives the good culture and education since childhood, graduates in William one of Mary institute US most ancient aristocrat institutes.In 1752, Washington became the Uygur agriculture mountain manor master.In 1758 he was ...
In 1752, the first colonial governor was appointed. Slavery existed in the area before the Portuguese came, but they introduced the concept of exporting slaves, and by 1790 nine thousand people were being shipped out each year. The slave trade took the healthiest young people, sapping many ...