was during medieval European times. The earliest form of the violin was referred to as a Fiddle and the person playing it was termed as a Fiddler. During the 15th century though‚ the violins began taking on a new shape and began to carve its own history in music. The evolution of the violin continued into the 16th century when it developed what was to become its final look and shape.It is this artistic representation of a violin that we still recognize and use in our present time. An Italian from
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In the year 1962‚ Psychological pioneers Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers published one of the first modern personality assessment questionnaires. This questionnaire would then be further developed and eventually become one of the most popular personality type indicators in the US. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (or MBTI) was based off of Jung’s theory of psychological types and was designed to help people pinpoint the specifics of their personalities so that they could
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The History of Ballet is made of many event. It has come across Europe and eventually into North America and other continents. Even though the beginnings of ballet are important‚ so are the types of ballet and ballet today. Ballet is an interesting art‚ beginning 500 years ago. Ballet is made up of formal positions and steps which have slightly developed throughout the generations and centuries. Positions One‚ Two‚ Three‚ Four‚ and Five are used as the most basic positions‚ created about 100 years
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With each sport there is a history‚ but no other sport’s history compares to that of soccer. Though the origin of the sport is mysterious‚ it has grown to be the most popular sport in the modern world. Many have tried to pin down the singular person that started soccer‚ but none have been successful. However‚ historians have been able to find the cultures that primarily played soccer‚ dating back to ancient times. From its conception‚ soccer has proven to be a complex sport that truly tests the
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The History of Softball By: Nicki Myers The history of softball all starts in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day 1887. A group of about twenty guys gathered in a gymnasium to hear the score of the Harvard vs. Yale football game. After the guys heard that Yale had won the game one of them picked up an old boxing glove and threw it at someone who hit it with a pole. One of the guys in the room was George Hancock‚ (later to be known as the
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Argument of Wal-Mart Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc. is an international discount department store chain operating in many towns and cities in multiple countries. Wal-Mart’s founder‚ Samuel Walton‚ “decided that small-town populations would welcome‚ and make profitable‚ large discount shopping stores” (Healy 493).Therefore‚ he started to build the largest discount department stores and opened the first Wal-Mart discount store in Rogers‚ Arkansas in 1962 (Healy 493). Wal-Mart sells many different kinds of
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Opinion Essay Options Karisa Horsch Professor R. Sorrell HIST 136; Opinion 2‚ 3‚ 6 March 7th 2013 Industrialists Vs. Workers Opinion Option #2 Today‚ the United States is known for being a big‚ beautiful powerhouse of complex industrial systems and with these industrial systems‚ bridges have been built‚ factories have been produced‚ inventions and workers have been put to work and thus‚ a new age industry arise. It’s hard to exactly pin-point exactly who to
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History of Welding William Barker Timeline Welding is a method of repairing or creating metal structures by joining the pieces of metals or plastic through various fusion processes. Generally‚ heat is used to weld the materials. The Welding process can utilize open flames‚ electric arc or laser light. Middle Ages The earliest evidence of welding can be traced back to the Bronze Age. The earliest examples of welding are gold
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Gatorade: History and Product Offerings History Gatorade is a flavored non-carbonated sports drink manufactured by the Quaker Oats Company‚ a division of PepsiCo. It was invented during the 1960s by University of Florida doctors in order to hydrate the university’s football team (The Gators). New brands include its vitamin-enhanced Propel Fitness Water; its Thirst Quencher series with names like Rain‚ Frost‚ and Fierce; and its Performance series‚ sold under the brand name Endurance. Current
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scientific revolution was a stepping stone to the destabilization of the church‚ it was the enlightenment that ultimately removed the church from the central control of cultural and intellectual life. The scientific revolution is a time period in history roughly from 1500 to 1700 that is known as one where advances in European mathematical‚ political and scientific thought occurred. A “founding father” of the scientific revolution was a polish scientist by the name of Nicholas Copernicus‚ whose conclusion
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