HISTORY TIME LINE OF BASKETBALL 1891 Basketball is invented by Dr. James Naismith‚ an instructor at a YMCA in Springfield‚ Massachusetts. 1895 The backboard is introduced to prevent fans from interfering with play (baskets were often hung on balconies). 1898 The first professional league‚ the National Basketball League‚ is formed in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 1908 The dribbler is permited to shoot the ball‚ and the NCAA eliminates the double dribble. 1914 NCAA‚ Amateur Athletic Union and YMCA
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* Science - (from Latin scientia‚ meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. * Political science- Political science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state‚ government‚ and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics‚ and the analysis of political systems and political behavior
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Ptolemy introduces Geography. He assigned coordinates to all the places and geographic features he knew‚ in a grid that spanned the globe. Latitude was measured from the equator. (1406) John Wycliffe was an English Scholastic philosopher‚ and translator. His English version of the bible was published in 1408. The Bible he created‚ the first literal translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible into English‚ was more a work of his followers than him but tradition still tends to attribute it to Wycliffe
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1876 – 1910: Porfirio Diaz is president (causes of fall: economic recession/US depression‚ food crisis/crop failures‚ workers’ strikes‚ agitation of middle class reformers‚ dissatisfaction of large landholders/capitalists) 1910: Francisco Madero (reformer‚ not revolutionary) attempts presidency‚ Diaz arrests him and he flees to Texas 1910: Written in jail and published in Texas‚ Madero created the Plan of San Luis Potosi‚ assuming provisional presidency‚ calling for free elections‚ and vaguely
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Brief Biography of Abraham Lincoln Date of Birth: Born on February 12 1809 Place of Birth : Kentucky. Parents: Father: Thomas Lincoln Mother: Nancy Hanks Background : Grandfather was Samuel Lincoln who originated from from Hingham‚ England to Massachusetts in 1637. 1809 February 12: Abraham Lincoln is born in Nolin Creek in Kentucky. 1819 December 2: Thomas Lincoln marries a widow‚ Sarah Bush Johnston who becomes stepmother to Abraham Lincoln 1831 Abe settles
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300 Cast • King Leonidas‚ King of Sparta. • Queen Gorgo‚ Queen of Sparta • Pleistarchus‚ son of Leonidas and Gorgo • Theron‚ a fictional corrupt Spartan politician • Dilios‚ narrator and Spartan soldier. • Captain Artemis‚ Leonidas’ loyal captain and friend. • Astinos‚ Captain Artemis’ eldest son. • Daxos‚ an Arcadian leader who joins forces with Leonidas. • Ephialtes‚ a deformed Spartan outcast and traitor. • King Xerxes‚ God-King of Persia • The Loyalist‚ a loyal Spartan politician
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“Antigone” Timeline: - Select 6 key events in the play “Antigone”. - Include these events in a chronological timeline. - Your timeline must include the following: ▪ - Name of the event. ▪ - Page number of the event. ▪ - A paragraph reaction that you have towards the event. 6 CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS: 1. Antigone decides to bury Polyneices’ body despite what King Creon’s orders are against that action. PG. 773 - For this
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fiscal year. The costs incurred by different departments within the organization are fixed and variable. The variable costs are based on workers’ salaries and the increase or decrease in productivity. Staff pools or float pools work more variable schedules consistent with work demands so contract labor is looked at as more cost productive. Employees are more expensive to employ because of regulations as a requirement of additional expenditures. Employers also have the option of hiring
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developmental issues‚ urbanization‚ their problems and their remedies. · Effects of globalization on Indian society. · Social empowerment‚ communalism‚ regionalism & secularism. · Salient features of world’s physical geography. · Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including South Asia and the Indian sub-continent); factors responsible for the location of primary‚ secondary‚ and tertiary sector industries in various parts of the world (including India) · Important
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TEXT TIMELINE 300-1200 CE- Empire of Ghana 610 CE- Muhammad receives first revelations of what would become the Quaran 622 CE- Founding of Islam -Muhammad flees to Medina 730 CE- Printing invented in China 868 CE- First book printed in China 900 CE- Decline of Classical Maya 1066 CE- Norman conquest of England 1206 CE- Changgis Khan begins Mongol Conquest 1230-1600 CE- Mali emerged after the collapse of the Ghana Empire 1266 CE- Marco Polo goes to China 1279 CE- Mongol conquest of China
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