Montgomery Ward & Co., American e-commerce company that offers such general merchandise as furniture, tools, home appliances, and clothing. It was founded in Chicago in August 1872 by Aaron Montgomery Ward as a mail-ordermail-ordermail-order business, also called direct-mail marketing, method of merchandising in which the seller’s offer is made through…
Historians are uncertain about her exact date of birth but she was baptized on August 1, 1837. In her early 20s, she moved to Chicago, where she worked as a dressmaker, and then to Memphis, Tenn., where she met and married George Jones, a skilled iron molder and staunch unionist.…
The oldest surviving “motion picture” was screened in France in 1888, featuring 2.11 seconds of ladies and gentlemen walking in a park. While initially considered a curiosity, this “film” and other similar works would kickstart new forms of motion graphics that would change the world forever. Title sequences created for…
Hasbro launched the first advertising campaign for Mr. Potato Head on April 30th, 1952. Within its first few months on the market, the toy earned the company more than $4 million. But then the history of Mr. Potato Head is wonderfully confusing. To begin with, Mr. Potato Head was the…
Neso was discovered in 2002 by Matthew J. Holman, John J. Kavelaars, Tommy Grav, Wesley C. Fraser, and Dan Milisavljevic using the 4-m Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile. Neso was discovered in 2002 by Matthew J. Holman, John J. Kavelaars, Tommy Grav, Wesley C. Fraser, and Dan…
They followed it up with “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” from the soundtrack to 1987’s Mannequin. (For those not around back then, this was a movie where Andrew McCarthy fell in love with a living mannequin played by Kim Cattrall.) ” Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now ” is a song…
ARPANET, a project of the Department of Defense, was the network where the Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP, was developed and first used. NSFNET followed behind ARPANET and was designed as a network of research centers and supercomputers communicating over a TCP/IP network much as ARPANET before it. NSFNET history. The…
The original shape of the guitar in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A plucked string instrument that was first called a guitar appeared in Spain around the turn of the fifteenth century. The instrument was actually called a vihuela, and consisted of four double-strings (paired courses). From its origin in…
Kariba Dam, concrete arch dam across the Zambezi River at Kariba Gorge, on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Construction of the dam began on Nov. 6, 1956, and was completed in 1959. In August 1955 , the then Federal Government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi) called…
Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (Arabic: حي بن يقظان, lit. ’Alive, son of Awake’) is an Arabic philosophical novelphilosophical novelPhilosophical fiction works would include the so-called novel of ideas, including some science fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, and the Bildungsroman. Philosophical fiction. Features. Significant proportion devoted to discussion of questions normally addressed…