activity as well as a major competitive Olympic Sport‚ but what is some of the history behind this legendary sport? Swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings. Written references date from 2000 BCE. Some of the earliest references of swimming include the stories of Gilgamesh‚ the Iliad‚ the Odyssey‚ the Bible‚ Beowulf and many more (“History of Swimming”). Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800‚ mostly using
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Alexander Lee GD 150 9/2/2010 History of Animation Animation began to develop in 1824 when a British physician‚ named Peter Mark Roget‚ described the concept of “persistence of vision‚” which means that the pictures appear to create the illusion of motion as we quickly look and retain them one by one.1 In the 1870s‚ Eadweard Muybridge started his photographic gathering of animals and humans in motion.2 While he was in the West Coast‚ he experimented and recorded the movements of a galloping
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Magnitogorsk Technical State University Foreign Languages Department № 2 Report: «The History of Accounting» Done: Izhevsky V. Checked: Gamper E.E. Magnitogorsk 2011 Contents - Introduction -- 1. What Is Accounting -- 2. History --- 2.1. Ancient Accounting --- 2.2. Accounting In Mesopotamia --- 2.3. Accounting In Ancient Egypt‚ China‚ Greece and Rome --- 2.4. Medieval Accounting --- 2.5. Italian Renaissance: Birth of Double Entry Bookkeeping ---- 2.5.1. Luca Pacioli Biography
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CONTENTS IKEA HISTORY……………………………………………………………………2 TIME TABLE……………………………………………………………………..2-4 COMPANY INFORMATION………………………………………………………4 SUSTAINABLE GROWTH…………………………………………………………5 Product of IKEA………………………………………………………7-9 Key figures……………………………………………………………...10 REFERENCE……………………………………………………………………….10 IKEA HISTORY -------------How it all began! The following history shows how over six decades IKEA went from the woods of southern Sweden to being a major retail
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Main article: History of Bihar See also: Timeline for Bihar‚ Magadha‚ History of Buddhism in India‚ and Decline of Buddhism in India Gautama Buddha undertaking extreme ascetic practices before he realised it was not necessary and his enlightenment on the bank of river Falgu in Bodh Gaya‚ Bihar. The greatest Indian empire‚ the Mauryan empire‚ originated from Magadha in 325 BC‚ it was started by Chandragupta Maurya who was born in Magadha‚ and had its capital at Patliputra (modern Patna). The
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Contents History of the Internet …………..….……….2 History of the World Wide Web……………………….…...5 Prepared by : BOO KIANG MING (A136032) INTERNET T he Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph‚ telephone‚ radio‚ and computer set the stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities. The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability‚ a mechanism for information dissemination‚ and a medium for
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understand the history and major modifications of eyeglasses. Consequently‚ this paper introduces the history of eyeglasses from inception to the modern day. Then‚ it attempts to address the impact the invention has had on the perception of time‚ the economy‚ modern society and analyze the related unintended consequences. In conclusion‚ this paper analyzes the sustainability of this invention in the wake of recent changes in the external environment. Throughout their long history‚ eyeglasses have
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Sikhism Before independence‚ India is a subcontinent part of British India. India was divided into 2 parts: + first is peoples who follow Hindu is India and the second part is peoples who follow Islam ( Hồi giáo) is Bangladesh. Page 3: The history of India divided into 4 part : • Ancient India : The earliest anatomically modern human remains found in South Asia date from approximately 30‚000 years ago • Medieval India: The Indian early medieval age‚ 600 CE to 1200 CE‚ is defined by
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Assignment 1 Miss. Dzigbodi Ama Agbodra. A brief history of Mathematics. Ecs/13/01/0396 The area of study known as the history of mathematics is primarily an investigation into the origin of discoveries in mathematics and‚ to a lesser extent‚ an investigation into the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge‚ written examples of new mathematical developments have come to light
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The history of Nepal The history of Nepal is characterized by its isolated position in the Himalayas and its two neighbors‚ India and China. Due to the arrival of disparate settler groups from outside through the ages‚ it is now a multi-ethnic‚ multi-cultural‚ multi-lingual country. Its population is predominantly Hindu with significant presence of Buddhists‚ who were in majority at one time in the past. Central Nepal was split in three kingdoms from the 15th to 18th century‚ when it was unified
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