earliest record of wheelchairs dates back to the 6th century‚ as an inscription found on a stone slate in China around 6th century. Around 16th century‚ king Philip II of Spain used an elaborate rolling chair with movable arm and leg rests. After that King Louise XIV changed from the movable arm and leg rests to roulette for moving while he was recovering from an operation in 1700. And the very first wheelchair that resembles today was design in 18th century. It had two large front wooden wheels and
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Introduction to World Literature 195:01‚ 02‚ 03‚ H1 Fall 2010 Professor Janet A. Walker‚ with the assistance of teaching assistants Lauren Fanelli‚ Matthew Mangold‚ and Mavis Tseng All students enrolled meet Tuesday 2nd period in Milledoler 100. Sections meet at the following times and locations: Section 01 Matthew Mangold Thursday 1st period Campbell A1 Section 02 Lauren Fanelli Thursday 3rd period Campbell A1 Section 03 Mavis Tseng Friday 3rd period Murray 115 Section H1
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flute‚ and one for a modern flute. From these‚ I should be able to obtain some conclusions about the differences in composition for both flutes. The earliest record of a flute is in a ninth century BCE Chinese poem Shih Ching‚ but the first pictorial evidence of a transverse flute comes from the second century BCE‚ found on an urn in Italy. The transverse flute developed from the recorder‚ and during the baroque period‚ there were four main flutes in use - treble‚ alto‚ tenor and bass. Each of them
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another for the foodstuffs. You can also visit the Borj el Kebir which is a strong fortress built in the 13th century which was later re-strengthened in the 15th century. The Folk Museum which is also known as the Musée des Arts et Traditions Popularies where you can see the display of traditional colourful costumes‚ old jewelry‚ a potter’s workshop‚ old marriage chests. The museum is the 18th century old beautiful building Zaouia of Sidi Zitouni with charming stalactitic ceilings. One of the rooms of the
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a parabolic. No progress or advancements were made in calculus until the 17th century. One great mathematician that was born in Barsa‚ Persia is Abu Ali-Hasan ibn al-Haytham. He integrated a fourth-degree polynomial. In the 3rd century AD Liu Hui of China used the method of exhaustion in order to fin the area of a circle. In the 5th century AD Zu Chongzhi also used it to find the volume of a sphere. In the 12th century Bhaskara II of India developed an early derivative representing infinitesimal
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throughout the 11th-14th century. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader of the impacts of vernacular language. After reading this paper you will understand what vernacular language is. Vernacular Language The spread for vernacular language was an epidemic because it was on the rise for so many cultures. There were some that used the vernacular language for literary work and the French were the first to do that. During the 14th century the language had spread
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The Mandolin The mandolin has been around since the end of the 16th Century‚ although it didn ’t look much like the instrument we know today. It evolved in the 18th century and was built in several varieties in different Italian towns‚ the Neapolitan mandolin becoming the representative type. It was played widely throughout Western Europe from around 1700 to 1810. In the late 1800s a stronger bowl back instrument was developed in Naples‚ Italy by the Vinaccia family. Known today as the Neapolitan
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conversion to Christianity at the end of the sixth century. Though still an old pagan story‚ Beowulf came to be told by Christian poets. This poem has hidden historical values of the fifth‚ eighth‚ and twelfth centuries. Beowulf is a significant part of English literature‚ molded over centuries‚ incorporating Christian beliefs‚ and famous for its use of gnomes in storytelling. Beowulf was created over many centuries. The setting took place in the 5th century‚ about the Scandinavians. The regions from
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2nd century BCE in caves and on pottery. These inscriptions are written in a variant of the Brahmi script called Tamil Brahmi. The earliest long text in Old Tamil is the Tolkāppiyam‚ an early work on Tamil grammar and poetics‚ whose oldest layers could be as old as the 1st century BC. A large number of literary works in Old Tamil have also survived. These include a corpus of 2‚381 poems collectively known as Sangam literature. These poems are usually dated to between the 1st and 5th centuries AD‚
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was capable of binding and holding in place materials used in the first bridges. This Bridge is one of four‚ corbel arch bridges part of a former network of roads‚ designed to accommodate chariot‚ in Greece. Dating to the Greek Bronze Age (13th century BC)‚ it is one of the oldest arch bridges still in existence and used. The greatest bridge builders of the old age were the ancient Romans. The Romans built arch bridges and aqueducts that could stand in conditions that would damage or destroy earlier
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