The musical was first produced on Broadway in 1953 and won the Tony Award for best musical in 1954. It was also successful in London’s West End and has been given several revivals. A 1955 film version was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Kismet is a musical adapted by Charles Lederer and…
The “Z1” was the first freely programmable computer in the world which used Boolean logic and binary floating-pointfloating-pointThe term floating point refers to the fact that a number’s radix point (decimal point, or, more commonly in computers, binary point) can “float”; that is, it can be placed anywhere relative to…
On November 30, 2011, the company completed the acquisition of 171 clubs, for $153M, from Bally Total Fitness. LA Fitness then began closing some former Bally Fitness clubs near existing LA Fitness facilities and remodeling others. On July 2, 2012, the company completed the acquisition of all 33 Lifestyle Family…
Lace code was a skinhead subculture that began in 1970s London, according to an essay by Mary McMican. During this time, those in the punk scene wore steel-toed Doc Martens for work, but they were also helpful in a fight. In order to prevent laces from crossing each other, ladder…
In the US, laptops first outsold desktops in the retail market for a full month in May 2005, according to the research firm Current Analysis. NPD Group, which looked at revenue rather than units, saw the crossover happen two years earlier, in May 2003. The history of laptops describes the…
Koudou Laurent Gbagbo (Gagnoa Bété: Gbagbo [ɡ͡baɡ͡bo]; French pronunciation: [loʁɑ̃ baɡbo]; born 31 May 1945) is an Ivorian politician who was the President of Côte d’Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. (Show more) Laurent Gbagbo, (born May 31, 1945, Gagnoa, Côte d’Ivoire), Ivoirian educator and politician who…
Though eligible for another term, Johnson announced in March 1968 that he would not seek renomination. His preferred successor, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, won the Democratic nomination but was defeated by Nixon in the general election. LBJ and his wife, Lady Bird, had talked about it as early as Inauguration…
Suddenly, jazz New Orleans style was a national craze. A New Orleans Jazz History, 1895-1927. Even before jazz, for most New Orleanians, music was not a luxury as it often is elsewhere–it was a necessity. Throughout the nineteenth century, diverse ethnic and racial groups — French, Spanish, and African, Italian,…
On April 19, 1946, the League of Nations dissolved, ending 26 years of the existence of an organization which had proven incapable of preventing World War II. The absence of the United States as a League member has often been attributed as a main cause of its failure. Having proposed…
She received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale in 1973, having stayed on an extra year to be with Clinton. He first proposed marriage to her following graduation, but she declined, uncertain if she wanted to tie her future to his. President Bill Clinton graduated in 1973 and gave the…