Virginity has been a hot topic since it was first conceptualized around 5,000 to 10,000 years ago (3). When we talk about virginity, we usually refer to it as the state of not having had sex. The popularity of virginity is often attributed to Mariology, the Roman Catholic worship of…
Founded by the first non-European Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Thākur(popularly known as Tagore) in 1921, Visva-Bharati was declared to be a central university and an institution of national importance by an Act of Parliament in 1951. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva-Bharati, which means the communion of…
Wakeboarding was invented around the 1980s. Initially, it used to be known as Skurfing. The sport was originated in Australia and New Zealand. Herb O’Brien, a successful businessman in water skiing and owner of H.O. Sports, started tinkering with the boards at this time. He introduced the first compression-molded neutral-buoyancy…
“Happy Birthday to You” dates from the late 19th century, when sisters Patty and Mildred J. Hill introduced the song “Good Morning to All” to Patty’s kindergarten class in Kentucky. They published the tune in their 1893 songbook Song Stories for the Kindergarten with Chicago publisher Clayton F. More in…
We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921. It was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York, with the original Russian text first published in 1952. We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My)…
Of all those words, “inbox” is the most recent entry into English in any form, first recorded in 1958 in the United States, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. variants: or inbox. 1 : a box or tray (as on a desk) for holding incoming interoffice mail. 2 : a…
privy (adj.) early 13c., “secret, concealed, not made known in public;” c. 1300, of places, “secluded,” from Old French privé “friendly, intimate; a private place,” from Latin privatus “private, personal” (see private (adj.)). adjective, priv·i·er, priv·i·est. participating in the knowledge of something private or secret (usually followed by to): Many…
U.S. victory in the war produced a peace treaty that compelled the Spanish to relinquish claims on Cuba, and to cede sovereignty over Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the United States. Spanish-American War. The Spanish-American War was an 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain that ended…
The steel pan (also known as steel drums, or ’pan’) was created in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1930s. It was established in contexts of Carnival resistance, its history being traced back to the enslaved Africans who were brought to the Caribbean in the 1700s. When the U.S. Navy arrived…
Stihl chain saws have been around for decades. Stihl’s model 028 Wood Boss chain saw, called 028 WB for short, was manufactured in Germany and the United States primarily in the late 1970s through the 1980s. For example, Stihl started the production of the 028 AV Super in 1983. These…