July 11‚ 2000 A brief history of the four rings Compliled by Matt Daniels from Audi AG press releases The Audi emblem of the four rings denotes one of Germany’s oldest automobile manufacturers. It symbolizes the merger in 1932 of four previously independent motor vehicle manufacturers: Audi‚ DKW‚ Horch and Wanderer. These companies are the foundation stones on which the present-day AUDI AG is built. Horch At the end of the 19th century‚ there were already a number of car manufacturers
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Brief history of prostitution Note by the author This document owes a lot to Max Chaleil’s work. His book‚ ‘Le corps prostitué : le sexe dévorant’ is the main reference of this file. This historical summary will mainly concern France‚ even though there are a few comparisons with the situation of prostitution in other countries. 1. The Beginnings : Sexual hospitality and sacred prostitution It is not so sure that prostitution is the oldest trade in the world; the Europeans admitted to it during the
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Brief History of Nepal The history of Nepal (नेपालको इतिहास) is characterized by its isolated position in the Himalayas and its two dominant 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. Nepal was split in three kingdoms from the 15th to 18th century
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A Brief History of Computing - Mechanical Computing Devices © Copyright 1996-2005‚ Credit to: Stephen White Source: http://trillian.randomstuff.org.uk/~stephen//history/timeline-MECH.html#17 For reading purposes only by: Lornilo S. Alimpuangon Pictures: credit to Google Hardware History Overview • • • • • Modern computing can probably be traced back to the ’Harvard Mk I’ and Colossus (both of 1943). Colossus was an electronic computer built in Britain at the end 1943 and
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A Brief History of Computer Nikita Rechal1 and Sooriyan Aliyoglu2 1Department of Computer Engineering‚ Castle University‚ New City‚ Cyprus a.orther@xx.yy.zz 2MediDeniz Software‚ Old Street‚ New York‚ USA a.etherwen@zzz.com Abstract Computers have wedged themselves into every facet of our lives—they are what we would use as the symbolic representation of the modern world. But did you know that the history of computers dates back to the 1800s?Indeed‚ the history and evolution of computers is
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Brief: The Wine Industry The wine industry includes red wine and white wine. Vines were first planted in the Middle East before 4‚000 BC. Through vine plantation and wine production‚ wine trade emerged in Greece‚ Crete‚ Phoenicia and Egypt and spread widely in Mediterranean. Wine industry rapidly developed with the help of the Catholic churches in The Middle Ages. In seventeenth century‚ new techniques and innovations were turned up to improve the wine to satisfy the globalization and colonization
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The current Tajik Republic harkens to the Samanid Empire (AD 875–999). The Tajik people came under Russian rule in the 1860. Tajikistan became an autonomous Soviet socialist republic within Uzbekistan in 1924; Basmachi resistance in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 was quelled in 1925‚ and Tajikistan became one of the component Soviet socialist republics in 1929 called Tadzhik SSR from 1936 to 1991. Tajikistan gained independence in 1991‚ and has experienced three changes in government
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF PHARMACOGNOSY In 780 AD ‚ a Greek pharmaco-botanist Pedanios Dioscorides wrote and described about 600 plants with medicinal properties in his book “De materia medica libre cinque(concerning medical matter in five volumes). Galen was a Greek pharmacist-physician who lived in Rome and who describe the method of preparing formulas containing plant and animal drugs and the term ”galenical pharmacy” was originated. In 19th century material medica (medical
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A Brief History of Telescopes 1608 AD – Hans Lippershey‚ German-born Dutch lens maker‚ applied for a patent for his refracting telescope (using 2 lenses)‚ he intended them for use in the military. 1609-1610 – Galileo Galilei built his own refractor telescopes to observe the sky‚ and discovered Saturn’s rings‚ Jupiter’s moons‚ and along with many other significant discoveries. 1655 – Christian Huygens‚ a Dutch physicist and astronomer developed powerful lenses for refractor telescopes with his
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A Brief History of Whitechapel and the Whitechapel Murders Whitechapel is a town in East London that was named for a small chapel that was dedicated to St. Mary. It was the parish church starting in 1338 and was destroyed in World War II. Now it is a public garden. There are two main roads‚ Whitechapel High Street and Whitechapel Road. These two roads were originally part of the Roman road that separated London. It was considered the other half of London‚ the half outside the city walls. All
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