was bounced or passed by hand from one end of the room to the other and launched into a peach basket hung at either end—which gave the new game its name‚ basketball. James Naismith holding a ball and a peach basket‚ the first basketball equipment. Credit: UPI/Bettmann Archive James Naismith holding a ball and a peach basket‚ the first basketball equipment. Credit: UPI/Bettmann Archive First played with nine members on each team‚ Naismith’s game quickly spread throughout New England‚ and then elsewhere
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been in his entire life. After this huge victory in exploiding oil ‚these fields of Naphtha were 210 kilometers from the mouth of the Persian gulf. By 1914 the Anglo-Persian project was nearly out of money for not the first time in its small history. The company had plenty of oil but no one to sell it to. Cars were still too expensive to count as a mass market for fuel‚ and more established companies in Europe and the New World had the market in
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I decided it was silly to write my own version of soccer history. Why rewrite something that has already been done well before? Here are excerpts from various websites describing the history of soccer in ancient and medieval times. From Tetrabrazil.com "The earliest evidence of soccer dates from about 200 in China‚ where a form of the game was played that emphasized the ability of players to dribble a leather ball. The Greeks and Romans also participated in a variation of soccer that permitted
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Music history has been evolving for several years. Some things that have evolved are the way people listen to music. For example‚ first there was the Cd’s and then the MP3 players and then were the youtube streamings. Just like how people listen to music has changed‚ the type of music people listens to has changed as well. For instance‚ Rock was popular during the 1950’s‚ but today it’s not as popular. However‚ different types of genres mixed into rock such as pop rock‚ alternative rock are used
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A trumpet is a musical instrument. It has the highest register in the brass family. As a signaling device in battle or hunting‚ trumpets have a very long history‚ dating back to at least 1500 BC; they have been used as musical instruments since the 15th century.In fact‚ the trumpet is a part of world history. For thousands of years‚ the trumpet has played an essential role in almost every civilization on the planet. The first known metal trumpets can be traced back to around 1500 BC. Silver and bronze
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The history of Judaism is a religion that was created of mankind. History is of great importance to Judaism. The Jewish historical origins began with Abraham and the Hebrews. Under God’s command‚ Abraham migrated to the region of Canaan‚ which is equal to the modern Israel and Lebanon. The period of Jewish history was designated by some historians as “Biblical Judaism” which is the centuries covered by the narratives of the Tanakh. After Abram got the call‚ he was then promised from God to make a
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Iftekhar 1 Evan Iftekhar Ms. Winokur World History CP1 16 May 2014 Changes in The Ocean There was one fictional story written by Morgan Robertson called The Wreck of The Titan . Robertson ’s book was about an unsinkable passenger liner that sank while carrying the two thousand people. What is so fascinating and unbelievable about this book is that it was created in 1898 while the actual event of the RMS Titanic happened in 1912. Even though the book is said
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Ancient history is the study of the written past[1] from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5‚000 years‚ with Cuneiform script‚ the oldest discovered form of coherent writing‚ from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC.[2] This is the beginning of history‚ as opposed to prehistory‚ according to the definition used by most historians.[3] The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to ancient history in the
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In 1887 the relaxer was invented by a woman named Garret A. Morgan‚ who was a child of former slaves (Ramsey‚ “The History of Relaxers). African Americans back then thought that by putting relaxers in their hair it would make their hair straight and more manageable. As time went by white people had already been brainwashed that black people’s hair being different textures of curly hair is ugly. Different women were trying so hard to make sure that their hair is as straight as possible. This trend
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After exploring throughout the many different civilizations that we were asked to look at I ultimately decided to go with Egyptian history. Before I made that decision‚ I went to check out the Chinese and Japanese culture and was intrigued while I was up there. It was interesting to see an old samurai armor set and Katana. Ultimately‚ I decided after about an hour of searching that I would choose Sekhmet. For those of you that looked at it‚ it was largest statue they had on exhibit. It is a woman
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