Do you the history behind gum? It was the fastest growing business that was struck in the 1900s. One of the first gum bases was Chicle. The milky juice or latex from the Sapodilla tree. For centuries‚ Mayans and people from Central America chewed Chicle. Chicle was a favorite type of gum. It had a resilient quality and had the ability to hold favors. Native Americans in England taught the colonists to chew tree resins. Colonists that chewing resins and Chicle was silly. But soon after‚ a colonists
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Saba Ammari History 240 -01 Paper 1 (Spring 2013) The Controversy of the Modernization of Japan (late 1800s-early 1900s) During the Meiji era‚ Japan underwent a major change from functioning and running under the system Tokugawa shogunate to the modern era. The Meiji era brought about changes that affected Japan’s social‚ economic‚ political‚
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THE HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL By this year‚ the game volleyball is 117 of age! The sport originated in the United States‚ and is now just achieving the type of popularity in the U.S. that it has received on a global basis‚ where it ranks behind only soccer among participation sports.Today there are more than 46 million Americans who play volleyball. There are 800 million players worldwide who play volleyball at least once a week. The offensive style of setting and spiking was first demonstrated in
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The History of Indian Economic History Prasannan Parthasarathi May 2012 Introduction While there is a long tradition of both historical and economic thinking in the Indian subcontinent‚ modern economic history may be dated from the late nineteenth century. From the early pioneers of economic history‚ including Mahadev Govind Ranade and Romesh Chander Dutt‚ the field reached a high level in India‚ giving rise to a stellar set of practitioners and an impressive body of scholarship‚ ranging from Irfan
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The Greek physician Hippocrates has been called the father of epidemiology.[4] He is the first person known to have examined the relationships between the occurrence of disease and environmental influences.[5] He coined the terms endemic (for diseases usually found in some places but not in others) and epidemic (for disease that are seen at some times but not others).[6] Epidemiology is defined as the study of distribution and determinants of health related states in populations and use of this
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Garrett Dell Informative Speech Outline COMS 1030 TITLE OF SPEECH: History of Baseball‚ America ’s past-time SPECIFIC PURPOSE: I will teach the class about the history of baseball. THESIS: Baseball can be divided into three sections‚ the beginning‚ middle and modern baseball. Introduction I. ATTENTION GETTER Ever wonder how the most popular sport to play the last 150 years was invented and how it grew into the giant it is today? Raise your hand if you have ever played baseball or been to
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 HISTORY OF TELEPHONE 3 Early Telephone Development 3 The Beginning (1876-1900) 4 The New Century (1901-1940) 6 Modern Time (1940-Today) 6 CONCLUSION 7 REFERECENCE 8 INTRODUCTION A few centuries ago‚ there were only a few kinds of communication that people can use. They could speak to each other‚ they can use smoke as a means of communication to send their message from one place to another or they could use mail. Later on‚ they also had telegram.
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from present-day Nigeria. During its history‚ the area has also been known as Congo Free State‚ Belgian Congo‚ and Zaire. The most important events in the history of the area (from the point of view of its current situation) occurred in the fifty years or so from about 1870‚ when European exploration and exploitation took place. Some believe that the rape of the Congo stands alone as the single most brutal and greedy episode of colonization in modern history. This all originated from the birth
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Professor Callandar History of the FAA The Federal Aviation Administration has had a long and ever changing history. With the passing of the Commerce Act pass in 1926‚ issues involving air traffic rules‚ pilots‚ certifications‚ airways‚ and navigation were all answered. This new aeronautics branch was established in the Department of Commerce and directed by William P. McCracken Jr. In 1934 this branch was renamed the Aeronautics Branch to the Bureau of Air Commerce to show growing importance
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The role of government has changed in the U.S. since 1900 as evidenced by transportation‚ education‚ and food safety. Transportation has changed in the US since the 1900’s‚ making it safer and more efficient to travel across the country. The Clean Air Act was enacted in 1963. It implements stricter emission standards for vehicles. This meant that car manufacturers had to develop and produce vehicles that emitted fewer pollutants into the air. Additionally‚ the development of cleaner fuels‚ such as
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