The year is 1957 and the USSR has just launched the first artificial earth satellite. In response America launches the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DOD) to create America’s lead in science and technology. The Internet had its humble beginnings here‚ within ARPA’s many projects. The Internet has become one of the key symbols of today’s pop culture: everything has a "dot com" address; people do not say "call me‚" but instead its "I’ll
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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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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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History of Naxalism It is said that Naxalism is one of the organization of aggressive communists. In other words it is also called CPI (MAOIST ) . After Indian independence in 1947 the communist extremist started armed violence activities first time in 1948 but because of lack of public support the movement couldn’t get velocity. This Naxalites communists always keep deep belief on violence. From the beginning they had started committing violence by using Arms. Naxalites adopted the way of armed
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1950s 1957 USSR launches Sputnik‚ first artificial earth satellite. In response‚ US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)‚ the following year‚ within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military (:amk:) 1961 Leonard Kleinrock‚ MIT: "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" (May 31) First paper on packet-switching (PS) theory 1962 J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark‚ MIT: "On-Line Man Computer Communication" (August)
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The History of Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was known as a president‚ general‚ and a politician. However people have not heard of some of the things he had to go through with his past life. His family was from Ireland and then moved to America on a farm in south Carolina where Andrew was born. Andrew got his name from his father when he died [go.galegroup.com.] As he started to grow up the revolutionary war broke out. So Andrew his two brothers Hugh and Robert joined the battle. Sadly they both
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History of Wayang Wayang is a Javanese word for theatre. When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre‚ sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang. There is no evidence that wayang existed before Hinduism came to southeast Asia sometime in the first century CE. However‚ there very well may have been indigenous storytelling traditions that had a profound impact on the development of the traditional puppet theatre. The first record of a wayang performance is from an inscription
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spas‚ spanning 52 destinations in 12 countries across 5 continents and employ over 13000 people [1] [2]. Besides India‚ Taj Hotels Resort and Palaces are located in the United States of America‚England‚ Africa‚ the UAE‚ Maldives‚ Malaysia‚ Bhutan‚ Sri Lanka and Australia[2]. Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata‚ founder of the Tata Group‚ opened the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower‚ the first Taj property‚ on December 16‚ 1903. He was inspired to open the grand luxury hotel after an incident involving racial discrimination at
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New Delhi‚ with the opening of the first flagship store. India‚ where Lavazza has been present since 2007‚ is an extremely important market for the company‚ which has confirmed its commitment in the country with the development of its production site Sri City in the Andhra Pradesh area. 2011 is also the year of Wimbledon and Harrods: Lavazza begins a partnership with the prestigious tennis tournament‚ that will continue until 2013. At the same time an Espression coffee shop also opens at London’s
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powerful empire so he then traveled from the Punjab to the Bengal then from the Himalayan foothills to Mysore. He sent missionaries to carry Buddhas teachings to distant people. With the help of all of this‚ the religion had spread as far sourth as Sri Lank and then went west into the Mediterranean‚ north into Tibet‚ and eat into China‚ Korea‚ Japand‚ Vietnam‚ and Indonesia. When Muhammed had passed‚ he had already converted kings on the Arabian Peninsula to their religion. The kings were able to
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