The fact that the famed US
Postal Service announced in early 2013 that it would cease Saturday mail
deliveries as it sought to bring down its costs brought about a welter of
discussion as to the role of the company in playing a part in history by
carrying out particularly vital deliveries.
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The Palais de la Decouverte is a science museum found within the Grand Palais in the heart of Paris which has a very different, yet unique, way of showing and allowing people to discover science to help everyone understand it.
The history of the Palais de la Decouverte is a somewhat unlikely begi...
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If you think about various places in the UK, you
may find yourself wondering where the name originated. For instance, why is
Cornwall called Cornwall? It’s unlikely to be due to any walls made of corn. If
you’re interested in history and etymology – the history of words, their
origins and ho...
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: History of mobile phones:An evolution of mobile phonesInventor Charles E. Alden claimed, in the 29 April 1906 issue of the New York World, to have invented a device called the “vest pocket telephone" although Alden never had the chance to produce this dev...
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The Musee Eugene Delacroix Museum in Paris
The Musee Eugene Delacroix is a museum in Paris which is dedicated to the renowned painter Eugene Delacroix, showcasing his work, ideas and more, which is to be found within the heart of the Saint Germain des Pres area of Paris and within the apartment a...
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Posted by
Lee K., Arts & Crafts
The
Mona Lisa painted by the great Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci has been
acclaimed as the best known and the most visited artwork in the Musee du
Louvre. Visitors generally have only 15 seconds to view the Mona Lisa.
The
Mona Lisa was believed to begin painting in 1503 or 1504 by Leonardo...
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The a line dress is a classic and elegant cut that is a great staple to have in your closet. Modify your A line to make it stylish for today. A MagicDress.co.uk a line dress remains a staple in any woman's wardrobe. Its simple cut is flattering on many body types and can be mixed and matched for dif...
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Sweater weaving’s
history is very long. Human in primitive life use leaves and hide to campaign,
netting to fishing in the fishery life has been able to apply weaving
techniques. With the evolution of civilization and technological innovations,
humans not only take full advantage of all kind...
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People’s outer beauty addition to the
inherent characteristics of the appearance, body, behavior, temperament,
clothing matching hat is also an indispensable note in a beautiful melody. In
ancient times, there is no hats and only has towel, people using silk, hemp
towel to wrap the head or t...
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I believe we have heard of the world's
top luxury brand Louis Vinton. Louis Vinton’s product design is novel, unique.
Each time it launched the product can always give the fans a surprise. The
products are also popular with fan the favorite and the pursuit. Here to look
at the past lives of ...
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Orlando
Figes was born to a literary critic and a writer Eva Figes on November 20,
1959. He was the last of the two sibling and both Orlando and his sister Kate
grew up to become famous writers like their mother.
Figes graduated from Cambridge University, where he was
awarded Double Star...
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Alex W., Shopping & Reviews
People certainly know and like to wear cargo shorts
and pants that are very widespread now. The advantages of the cargo shorts and
pants are multiple and that is why their popularity is constantly growing.
What Cargo Pants are
The times change
but the conditions of wearing clothes stay ...
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Incredibly, there are around thirteen million people from round the world that visit the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris each year, whether or not it is as a holidaymaker on holiday in Paris or people on a pilgrimage.
The Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral was one among the very first Gothic Cathedrals an...
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Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and th...
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The bus lumbered along the road. At every hour, or so, the driver smashed the pedal to the floor; screeching the brakes. The doors slammed open, and passengers swarmed the vehicle like fleas to a bloodhound in June. Before everyone was seated, the doors crashed together and the bus resumed its...
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On This Date In 1756 The Battle of Fort
Oswego was fought, a series of early French victories in the North American
theater of the Seven Years’ War won in spite of New France’s military
vulnerability. During the week of August 10, 1756, a force of ...
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NUMBER ONE Many years ago, Al
Capone virtually owned Chicago. Capone wasn't famous for
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On This Date In 1776 The Continental Congress took the first step toward American independence by announcing their decision to open all American ports to international trade with any part of the world that is not under British rule.
On This Date In 179...
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Painting
is the practice of applying paint, pigments, colors, or any on a
surface (support base). The application of a general average is applied
to the base with a brush, but other objects can be used. In art, the
term describes both the act and the result is called a table. Paintings
cou...
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Mercedes-Benz
is a German car, buses and trucks. And 'currently shares its parent
company, Daimler AG (formerly Daimler Chrysler AG), which is a pre-owned
Daimler-Benz. Mercedes Benz has been initiated by Karl Benz created the
first gasoline Benz Patent Motor Car, patented in January 1886 ...
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On This Date In 1821 Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 – May 31, 1910), the first female doctor in the United States and the first on the UK Medical Register, was born. She was the first openly identified woman to graduate from medical school, a pioneer in educating women in medicine in the Uni...
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On
This Date In 1777 The
Battle of Millstone, also known as the Battle of Van Nest's Mill, was
a skirmish that occurred near the mill of Abraham Van Nest (in
present-day Manville, New Jersey) during the American Revolutionary
War. A British foraging party was flanked and driven off by forces
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On
This Date In 1128 Pope
Honorius II granted a papal sanction to the military order known as
the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an army of God.
On
This Date In 1794 President
George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes
to the American flag, following the ad...
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On This Date In 0871 England's King Alfred (Alfred the Great) defeated the Danes at the Battle of Ashdown in Berkshire. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/alfred_the_great.shtml
On This Date In 1066 Following the death of Edward the Confessor, Harold Godwineson, head of the most powe...
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On This Date In 1370 Pope Gregory XI (c. 1336 – March 27, 1378), born Pierre Roger de Beaufort in Maumont, in the modern commune of Rosiers-d'Égletons, Limousin around 1336, was elected Pope, and served from 1370 until his death in 1378. He succeeded Pope Urban V (1362–70) in 1370 as the seventh a...
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On This Date In 1597 Through January 4, 1598 the Siege of Ulsan was an unsuccessful Korean and Chinese attempt to capture Ulsan Castle from the Japanese late in the Imjin War. The Japanese suffered heavy losses during the siege.
On This Date In 1620 One week after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth ...
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On
This Date In 1653 Oliver
Cromwell (April 25, 1599 – September 3, 1658), an English military
and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and
temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, became
Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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This Date In 177...
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On This Date In 1779 The Battle of Great Bridge was fought in the area of Chesapeake, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War. The victory by the Continental Army was responsible for removing Lord Dunmore and any other vestige of British Government for the Colony of Virginia during the early...
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Ok, so you want to make your own chocolate.First, cover your pile of seeds with more leaves or another sheet of canvas and whatever leaves come to hand in order to contain the heat and moisture. Wait about 3-7 days with high humidity. You want the beans to ferment completely, so use your own best ju...
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Afghan Girl [1984]
And
of course, photo taken by the Afghan girl National Geographic
photographer Steve McCurry. Sharbat Gula was one of the students in an
informal school in the refugee camp; McCurry, rarely given the
opportunity to photograph Afghan women, seized the opportunity...
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On This Date In 1763 Members of the Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island witnessed the dedication of the Touro Synagogue, the first synagogue in what became the United States. Designed in the Georgian style by English architect Peter Harrison, the synagogue was named for Isaac Touro, its firs...
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On This Date In 1421 Through Novembeer 19 the St. Elizabeth's flood of 1421 was a flooding of an area in what is now the Netherlands. A number of villages were swallowed by the flood and were lost, causing between 2,000 and 10,000 casualties.
On This Date In 1477 William Caxton produced "Dict...
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On This Date In 1066 King Harold II of England was defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings, fought on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, England. At the end of the bloody, all-day battle, Harold was killed-shot in the eye with an arrow, according to lege...
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On This Date In 1571 The Battle of Lepanto took place when a galley fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Spain (including their territories of Naples, Sicily and Sardinia), the Republic of Venice, the Papacy (under St. Pope Pius V), the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the Knights Hospital...
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On This Date In 1399 Henry Bolingbroke was proclaimed King Henry IV of England upon the abdication of King Richard II the day previous.
On This Date In 1776 In a letter to his nephew, Lund Washington, plantation manager of Mount Vernon, General George Washington wrote of his displeasure with the un...
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On This Date In 1620 The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, bound for the New World with 102 passengers. The ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists-half religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs-had been authorized to settle by the British crown. However, stormy weather and naviga...
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On This
Date In 1739 The Stono Rebellion, in the colony of South Carolina,
was a slave rebellion begun on Sunday, September 9, 1739. It was the largest
slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American
Revolution. One of the earliest known organized rebellions in the presen...
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On This Date In 31 B.C. At the Battle of Actium, off the western coast of Greece, Roman leader Octavian won a decisive victory against the forces of Roman Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. Before their forces suffered final defeat, Antony and Cleopatra broke though the enemy lines and fled ...
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Egyptian Museum The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display, the remainder in storerooms. Overview:The following informati...
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On This Date In 1071 The Battle of Manzikert was fought between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq forces led by Alp Arslan near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turkey). It resulted in one of the most decisive defeats of the Byzantine Empire and the capture of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos...
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On This Date In 1458 Pope Pius II, born Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Latin Aeneas Sylvius; October 18, 1405 - August 14, 1464) was elected Pope, and served until his death in 1464.
On This Date In 1779 The Battle of Paulus Hook was fought between Continental Army and British forces in the American Revo...
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On This Date In 1099 The Battle of Ascalon took place, and is often considered the last action of the First Crusade, with Godfrey of Bouillon defeating an invading Fatimid army lead by al-Afdal Shahanshah.
On This Date In 1676 King Philip, chief of the Wampanoag Indians, was shot dead by Native Ame...
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On This Date In 1775 The Spanish ship San Carlos, commanded by Juan Manuel de Ayala, entered what would soon be called San Francisco Bay. Unnoticed by such early naval explorers as Sir Francis Drake and Sebastián Vizcaíno, the bay had been sighted by land during a Spanish scouting expedition six yea...
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On This Date In 1099 Godfrey
of Bouillon was named Defender of the Holy Sepulchre following the
capture of Jerusalem from the Fatimids on July 15, 1099. Thus began the
Kingdom of Jerusalem, a Christian kingdom established in the Levant in
1099 after the First Crusade. It lasted nearly two hu...
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On This Date In 1606 The great Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn was born in Leiden, the son of a miller. His humble origins may help account for the uncommon depth of compassion given to the human subjects of his art. His more than 600 paintings, many of them portraits or self-portraits, are charac...
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On This Date In 1675 Native Americans attacked at Middleborough and Dartmouth (July 8), Mendon (July 14), Brookfield (August 2), and Lancaster (August 9). In early September they attacked Deerfield, Hadley, and Northfield. King Philip's War, sometimes called Metacom's War, and named after the main l...
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On This Date In 1097 The Battle of Dorylaeum took place during the First Crusade between the crusaders and the Seljuk Turks, near Dorylaeum in Anatolia. The crusaders left Nicaea on June 26, with a deep distrust of the Byzantines, who had taken the city without their knowledge after a long siege…
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On This Date In 1148 The Council of Acre met at Palmarea, near Acre, a major city of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Haute Cour of Jerusalem met with recently-arrived crusaders from Europe, to decide on the best target for the crusade. In the end, the decision was made to attack the city of...
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