Grandpa Yuan Longping was born in Beijing on September 7, 1930, and was born in De an County, Jiangxi Province. In order to prevent people in the world from suffering from hunger, Yuan Longping studied hybrid rice, and the grain increased by Yuan Longpings hybrid rice every year could feed...
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and is the result of soldiers coming home from war doing the best to replenish the population and a sign of a strong and stable economy. These children grew up in the economic robustness of the 1950s and saw the advent of television; they were also the generation to protest the Vietnam ...
Symbolic NLP:The norm from the early 1950s through the 1980s, symbolic NLP represented early NLP systems that were hand-coded with a limited number of words programmed into the dictionary. The computer was given a defined set of rules, and its responses were based on those rules. Statistical...
As I was born in Scotland at the start of the 1960s, that story, very much an American one, was just before my time so I learned a lot. I’ve said around here before that I like Bob’s songs best when they are sung by other people but after watching the film I think I’m a...
Of the pre-Renaissance days, I believe this is the ultimate princess movie. She wasn’t born a princess, but with a little help from her fairy godmother, she’s able to charm the prince. I think she was the iconic princess for at least one generation. ...
It was considered as a second step after the chamber pot, and both were kept in the bedroom or dressing chamber. Hauling water was unpleasant labor, and so cleaning yourself with a bidet was largely an indulgence for the upper classes, aristocracy, and royalty. By the 1700s some bidets...
The first recorded use of the π symbol alone to represent the value of pi was by Welsh mathematician William Jones in his 1706 work Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos; or, a New Introduction to the Mathematics.Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 and Stephen Hawking died on March 14, ...
A star high-school halfback before he was a dancer, Eugene Curran Kelly was born in Pittsburgh, of a first-generation Irish father and a mother who had been on stage as a girl. She made him go to dancing school, which he hated; now he blesses her for it. By the time he was a...
What was the most popular girl’s name in the decade that you were born? One biblical name reigned supreme for an astounding six straight decades. Find out the ...