Few musical instruments are more deeply connected to the American experience than the banjo. The banjo was created by enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Caribbean and colonial North America. Musical Category – Folk Lute. The banjo falls into the category of ‘folk lute’ – that is,it is an…
Other sources give other genealogies. In the lost epic poem the Titanomachy, Uranus was apparently the son of Aether, while according to others Uranus was the son of one “Acmon”. According to Orphic texts, Uranus (along with Gaia) was the offspring of Nyx (Night) and Phanes. The story of Uranus…
Installing film and permanently capturing an image was a logical progression. The first photo picture—as we know it—was taken in 1825 by a French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. It records a view from the window at Le Gras. The first photograph, taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. Image: public domain via…
Dr Lava’s notes: Before it was a video game company, Game Freak was a gaming magazine Tajiri hand-wrote and stapled together from home in the early 1980’s. ^ Satoshi Tajiri (January 6, 1989). Tajiri wrote and edited the text and Sugimori illustrated. Tajiri also used “Game Freak” as his pen…
[7] The Code of Hammurabi is a well-known code that is the first full set of written codes found. Hammurabi, a ruler of Babylon in Mesopotamia, had the most extensive set of laws up to date which covered family, criminal punishment, civil law, business, prices, trade, and other aspects of…
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2009 Dutch body horror film written, directed and co-produced by Tom Six. The film tells the story of a deranged German surgeon who kidnaps three tourists and joins them surgically, mouth to anus,…
The first automated drying process was created in 1795 by French inventors Masson and Chollet. The machine fed sliced fruit and vegetables into a hot-air dehydration chamber, with a controlled temperature of 40°C dehydrating produce ready to be pressed and sealed in tin foil. The next big development was mechanized…
In 1850, the British successfully attacked the kingdom in the Bombardment of Lagos before installing an ally as Oba and signing a treaty that established Lagos as being under British protection. Ten years later, the forced Lagos Treaty of Cession led to the formal establishment of the Lagos Colony. This…
In 1916, Caroline Hunt, a nutritionist, wrote the first USDA food guide, Food for Young Children. Milk and meat, cereals, vegetables and fruits, fats and fatty foods, and sugars and sugary foods made up five food groups. Let’s take a look at the Five Food Groups and discover the incredible…
The text is attributed to sage Bharata Muni, and its first complete compilation is dated to between 200 BCE and 200 CE, but estimates vary between 500 BCE and 500 CE. The text consists of 36 chapters with a cumulative total of 6000 poetic verses describing performance arts. Thus Brahma…