Julian Assange: the hacker who created WikiLeaks.(USA)Julian Assange has started WikiLeaks to promote what he calls'scientific journalism.' WikiLeaks...Bland, Scott
Who created the first seismograph in 132 AD? So it was that Chang Heng, astronomer royal to the Han Dynasty, invented an accurate seismograph in AD 132 -- 1600 years before anyone in the West did. It was a large bronze urn with eight dragon heads gazing outward in eight directions. When...
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2 is an upcoming live-action/2D/3D computer traditional animated fantasy-romantic-musical-black slapstick comedy film and a sequel to the first 1988 film of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It will be produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios. in asso...
Today the Alan Alda page is a pretty standard Wikipedia page: it has a couple photos, several pages of facts and background, and a handful of links. But when it was first created, it was just two sentences: “Alan Alda is a male actor most famous for his role of Hawkeye Pierce in ...
First, you need to examine the history of the 802.11 standards (radio frequency) used for broadcasting a Wi-Fi signal. Second, you need to look at the electronic equipment involved in sending and receiving a Wi-Fi signal. Not surprisingly, there are manypatentsconnected with Wi-Fi technology...
For example, if hungry and thirsty, most people deal with thirst first, a “stronger” need than hunger. What are the 5 levels of needs according to Maslow? From Survive to Thrive: Maslow's 5 Levels of Human Need Physiological Needs. Food, water, clothing, sleep, and shelter are the ...
NOTE 2: There is an official Firefox extension by the WMF created in collaboration with us that is much more refined than the userscript regarding the UI and some other things - although only offering provenance/authorship view, not conflict/age/history. Depending on what you need, this might...
As a philanthropist, he is known for his $1 billion gift to support the United Nations, which created the United Nations Foundation. TIM BERNERS-LEE - (1955-). Proposed the creation of the World Wide Web on March 13, 1989, and on 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau ...
Steve Reich: Bach to me is the greatest composer who ever lived, the genius who created the most beautiful counterpoint I have ever heard, plus the basic aria of the Goldberg Variations where I am reduced to tears. I first heard Bach’s Fifth Brandenburg Concerto as a teenager in 1950, ...
2. The birth of multilingualism in an online encyclopedia Wikipedia was created in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger as a twenty-first century attempt to materialize the modern dream of cataloguing the entirety of human knowledge (Reagle Jr 2010; Tkacz 2015). As Wikipedia's multilingual poli...