INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH HISTORY Instructor: Nguyen Duy Mong Ha‚ M.A. & M.Sc. USSH-VNU-HCMC Email: ndmongha@yahoo.de‚ ndmongha@gmail.com Mobile phone: 0919694811 Office hours: Monday afternoon‚ Block C‚ DTH Campus Content • Review of physical setting of British Civilization • The historical setting of British Civilization - Earliest times - The early middle ages - The middle middle ages - The late middle ages - The modern times 5 things you know & want to know about British history KNOW • • • • • Queen
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History of Animation History of Animation Zoetrope (180 AD) The zoetrope is a device which creates the image of a moving picture. The earliest elementary zoetrope was created in China around 180 AD by the prolific inventor Ting Huan Made from translucent paper or mica panels‚ Huan hung the device over a lamp. The rising air turned vanes at the top from which hung the pictures painted on the panels would appear to move if the device is spun at the right speed. Magic Lantern (1600) The magic
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Cedric Craig US History 8/11/14 4th Pd What is history? That has been a question philosophers and historians have been asking for centuries. But really what is history? Webster dictionary defines history as "acts‚ ideas‚ or events that will or can shape the course of the future." Is that all history is a series of events leading up the present moment and then on to the future. English historian and philosopher‚ R.G. Collingwood said "History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself
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“Rah rah rah! Tiger‚ Tiger‚ Sis‚ Sis‚ Sis! Boom‚ Boom Boom! Aaaah! Princeton‚ Princeton‚ Princeton!” Just like anything else‚ cheerleading has quite a history behind it. From the first chants at Princeton University to one of today’s most popular National pastimes‚ cheerleading has come a long way the past ten decades. In ancient times spectators cheered for runners in races held during the first ever Olympic Games in ancient Greece. In the 1860’s students in Great Britain began cheering at competitive
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Ned Kelly Kelly was twelve when his father died‚ and he was subsequently required to leave school to take on the new position as head of the family. Shortly after this‚ the Kellys moved to Glenrowan. As a teenager‚ Ned became involved in petty crimes‚ regularly targeting the wealthy landowners. The story goes that Ned Kelly was influenced to become a bushranger. His family was not particularly liked by the law‚ and so when he was persecuted by a few of the policemen‚ he reacted and decided to
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their fiercely patriotic country in 1905‚ spent forty years trying to destroy its language and culture‚ and withdrew without having made any signicant headway. This version of history is just as uncritically accepted by most foreigners who write about Korea. Yet the truth is more complex. For much of the country’s long history its northern border was fluid‚ and the national identities of literate Koreans and Chinese mutually indistinguishable. Believing their civilization to have been founded by a
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1. History of Javascript Birth at Netscape JavaScript was originally developed in Netscape‚ by Brendan Eich. Battling with Microsoft over the Internet‚ Netscape considered their client-server solution as a distributed OS‚ running a portable version of Sun Microsystems’ Java. Because Java was a competitor of C++ and aimed at professional programmers‚ Netscape also wanted a lightweight interpreted language that would complement Java by appealing to nonprofessional programmers‚ like Microsoft’s Visual
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Cited: Bacon‚ Elizabeth. “Halloween.” Encyclopedia Americana. 13 vols. Danbury‚ Print. “Halloween.” 2013. The History Channel. website. Nov 5 2013 “History of the Jack O ’ Lantern.” 2013. The History Channel. website. Nov 5 2013 Hiskey‚ Daven. “How the Tradition of Trick-or-Treating got Started.” Today I Found out. Print. “Where Did We Get Halloween?” 2013. Website. Nov 5 2013
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Family History By: Andre Cauilan Social Science 1 Project Introduction Our family name is the most important treasure that we have. It is the sum of our ancestor’s lives‚ which includes their experiences‚ memories and life-long lessons. It is who they are‚ but more importantly‚ who we are. Before I came into this world‚ my image or reputation was already‚ a little bit‚ predefined. It has been predefined by my ancestors. People were already predicting what my personality would be‚ how intelligent
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The Importance of History It is both necessary and helpful to study the context of prior history because it is relevant to who we are. Studying events in history provide a clear picture of past participants experiences and behaviors‚ so that we take what others have done and build upon it. Past cultures took time and efforts to document historical events to help future participants understand where they come from. In this day and age‚ modern societies don’t quite look to the past‚ but to the
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