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History of Atomic Clock
Return Time Standards 1945 Isidor Rabi, a physics professor at Columbia University, suggests a clock could be made from a technique he developed in the 1930's called atomic beam magnetic resonance. 1949 Using Rabi’s technique, NIST (then the National Bureau of Standards) announces the world’s first atomic clock using the ammonia molecule as the source of vibrations. 1952 NIST announces the first atomic clock using cesium atoms as the vibration source. This clock is named
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Philanthropy History
PHILANTHROPY HISTORY Philanthropy began to formalise in Victorian England with the rise of industrialisation in the early 1800’s. Along with this came not only the change in the economy due to the shift from agrarian to capitalist production, but also a re-evaluation of what it was that constituted helping people. Industrialisation caused a great increase in poverty as individuals struggled to keep up with the constant demand to change with the economy. Farmers were continually
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History of Tv
Television has become a major industry all over the world, especially in the industrialized nations, and a major medium of communication and source of home entertainment. Television is used in many industries. A few examples are for surveillance in places inaccessible to or dangerous for human beings, in science for tissue microscopy, and in education. Today you can find a television in almost every home. This is why I decided to research the history
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The History of Western Music
The History of Western Music Music has been around since the dawn of time, ever since man first inhabited this planet we have learned to communicate in ways other then conventional speaking. Different Cultures all have there own specific way of communicating through music. Music is basically broken into two specific groups Eastern Music and Western Music. Eastern music is mainly derived from the orient and India. While, Western music first emerged from Europe. Western
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Child Raising in European History
Disputes on how children should be raised have always existed. There is the common argument of nature versus nurture, and the many others that have risen. Europe contained some of the first modernized civilizations. This was where techniques on raising children began to develop. In early modern Europe the opinion of children dictated how they were raised. Actually, some Europeans believe that children are gentle, innocent gifts. As a diplomat and a father, Christoph Scheurl
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Californian History
Californian history The first Europeans to approach California came from the south. Spanish explorers in the sixteenth century sailed northward from the ports of Acapulco and Navidad along the west coast of what is today Mexico. They came in search of gold and the water route to Asia through North America. Among the most important of these early explorers were Hernбn Cortйs, Fortъn Jimйnez, and Francisco de Ulloa. They sailed along the coast of Baja
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History of Tjx Companies, Inc.
History of TJX Companies, Inc. The TJX Companies is the leading off-price apparel and home fashions retailer in the United States and worldwide. In 2005 alone TJX produced over $16 billion in revenue. To earn such an impressive bottom line TJX relies on its eight retail chains: TJMaxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, A.J. Wright, Bob’s Stores, TKMaxx, Winners, and HomeSense. The TJX Companies, Inc. traces its history back to Zayre Corp. This corporation was the parent company
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History and Perspective
In 1998 there were just a handful of sites of the type that are now identified as weblogs (so named by Jorn Barger in December 1997). Jesse James Garrett, editor of Infosift, began compiling a list of "other sites like his" as he found them in his travels around the web. In November of that year, he sent that list to Cameron Barrett. Cameron published the list on Camworld, and others maintaining similar sites began
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What Factors Have Led to Church & Dwight’s Long History of Slow and Stable Growth?
What factors have led to Church & Dwight’s long history of slow and stable growth? Church and Dwight can attribute much of its success to the fact that it has concentrated on the production and sales of sodium bicarbonate. Strong family control has shielded management from the problems of defending the company from hostile takeover attempts. The company has successfully taken a commodity chemical, branded it, and marketed it to the point where it controls
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Kodak History
On July 12, 1854 in the village of Waterville Maria Kilbourn and George Washington Eastman had a child that would change the way the world took pictures forever, and that child was George Eastman. When George was five his father sold the family nursery business and moved to Rochester where he founded the Eastman Commercial College. Shortly thereafter George’s father died and the College failed leaving George and his mother in financial despair. So because
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A Brief History of Gui
Today, almost everybody in the developed world interacts with personal computers in some form or another. We use them at home and at work, for entertainment, information, and as tools to leverage our knowledge and intelligence. It is pretty much assumed whenever anyone sits down to use a personal computer that it will operate with a graphical user interface. We expect to interact with it primarily using a mouse, launch programs by clicking on icons,
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History
History is facilitated by the formation of a 'true discourse of past'. The modern discipline of History is dedicated to the institutional production of this discourse. More precisely, history is the narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race;[1] as well as the study of all events in time, in relation to humanity.[2] This emphasis on the 'human' has made human subjects central to the narratives of the classical discourse of
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A History of Photography
The name "Photography" comes from the Greek words for light and writing. Sir John Herschel, was the first to use the term photography in 1839, when he managed to fix images using hyposulphite of soda. He described photography as "The application of the chemical rays to the purpose of pictorial representation". Herschel also coined the terms "negative", "positive" and "snapshot". But a man called de la Roche (1729 - 1774), wrote Giphantie and in this
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A History of Black Death and Its Effects on Western Europe
A History of Black Death and its Effects on Western Europe Black Death in Western Europe This plague, thought to be the Bubonic plague, spread throughout Europe, killing about half its population. It was called the Black Death because of the black blotches that appeared on the victims' bodies. This plague was carried by infected fleas of the black rat. Theology, developed in accordance with this idea, threw about all cures, even those which resulted
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British History of the Industrial Revolution
British History of the Industrial Revolution In 10 Britain was very different to what it is like now. People think that Britain just lacked technology, such as Televisions and computers etc. How ever these were not everything that Britain did not have during the18th century. People had not yet discovered that germs caused disease and only simple operations could be made because there were no anesthetics. The Industrial Revolution created an enormous increase in the
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The Best History on Earth
THE BEST HISTORY ON EARTH It all started in the Greenwich Village area of New York in 1972. Childhood friends Leonard Marsh, Hyman Golden and Arnold Greenburg saw more potential in fruit than just something to throw in the lunchroom. They began selling pure fruit drinks to health food stores, commencing the birth of Snapple beverages under the Unadulterated Food Corporation. Fast forward to the land of putting baby in the corner, hair bands and
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History
Executive Summary With the advancement of monitoring and ensuring consumer safety in e-commerce, consumers are safe to conduct business online. This is proven through collaborative commerce, increased security and verification, the rating system, and laws and regulation that protect consumers. Consumer Protection is vital in any form of e-commerce to eliminate the fear that users may have about the validity of a website. To ensure consumers safety when conducting transactions online, protection systems and laws
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Opression Transcending History and Time
How do Christina Rossetti, Kishwar Naheed and Maya Angelou depict a life of oppression in their poems," Cousin Kate", "Still I Rise", and "I Am Not That Woman'? All of these poems bring to the table the same issues yet they are different, for instance in Rossetti's poem "Cousin Kate" was written in the Victorian era and solely expresses gender bias in a male dominated world. Naheed's "I Am Not That Woman" was written in
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Fedex History
1907 – UPS created by Jim Casey as the American Messenger Company in Seattle, Washington. 1953 - UPS resumes air operations. Blue Label Air provides two-day service to Chicago, Detroit, and several major cities on the east and west coasts. 1957 - UPS serves areas of five states within 150-mile radius of Chicago. 1971 – Federal Express Corporation is founded in Little Rock, Arkansas. Frederick Smith realized the tremendous need for one to two day
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The Hypocrisy of Teaching American History
Reading, writing and arithmetic, these three subjects are the basic outline for American schools. In those subjects, where does history fit in? Some believe that teachers avoid history because of how corrupt America has been. James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, says, "Parents may feel undermined when children get tools of information not available to adults and use them in ways that seem to threaten adult-held values." (Loewen 296.) The adults
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American History
aintain fair standards. Even after a piece rate or other incentive standard is fixed, workers may be hesitant to show farmers their full performance potential. A call from a grower will best illustrate what I mean. He expressed the frustration that his employees were earning too much. "I have been thinking of reducing what I pay per grapevine from 32 cents per vine to 28," he explained. I explained to the grower that the piece
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History of Advertising
"HISTORY OF ADVERTISING" EMERGENCE OF ADVERTISING: In early times advertising was no more than signs painted on walls and town criers, who were hired by merchants to praise their goods (outdoor advertising). Gutenberg was the one who invented moveable type printing press in 1450. This invention resulted in the mass production of posters and circulars. In 1472 the first advertisement was printed as a handbill in English. (1) About 200 years later, an Englisher printed
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Economy History of Chile
Economic history of Chile Colonial era to 1690 In colonial times, the segmentation of Chile into latifundios left only small parcels for native American and mestizo villagers to cultivate. Cattle raised on the latifundios were a source of tallow and hides, which were sent, via Peru, to Spain. Wheat was Chile's principal export during the colonial period. From the inquilinos (peons), indentured to the encomenderos, or latifundio owners, to the merchants and encomenderos themselves, a
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History of Theatre
The History of Theatre Theatre is a form of performing arts; it focuses mainly on live performances. Theatre first debuted in Athens, Greece. These performances included politics, religion, festivals, law, etc. Greek theatre consisted of three forms: tragedy, comedy, and satyr play. The oldest type of tragedy developed in Athens, it emerged somewhere between 5th and 6th BCE. Many performances were to celebrate the Greek gods and competitions. Athenian tragedies sometimes focused on certain events
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History
Historians write in the context of their own time, and with due regard to the current dominant ideas of how to interpret the past, and sometimes write to provide lessons for their own society. In the words of Benedetto Croce, "All history is contemporary history". History is facilitated by the formation of a 'true discourse of past' through the production of narrative and analysis of past events relating to the human race.[12] The modern discipline
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