Timeline of computing 500 BC-1949 - Timeline of computing 500 BC-1949 This article presents a detailed timeline of events in the history of computing from 500BC until 1949. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of computing. Computing timelines: 500 BC-1949, 1950-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-present 500 B.C The abacus was first used by the Babylonians as an aid to simple arithmetic at sometime around this date. The abacus in the form we are most familiar with was first used in China in around 1300 A.D.. 87 BC The Antikythera Mechanism A clockwork, analog computer designed and built in Rhodes. The mechanism contains the first known differential gear and was capable of tracking the relative positions of the Earth, Moon and Sun. 1500 Leonardo da Vinci produced drawings of a device consisting of.
History of Mexico - Reforms 6 French Intervention and an Emperor 7 Order, Progress and the Díaz Dictatorship 8 The Mexican Revolution 9 Stabilization and the Revolution Institutionalized 10 Fall of the PRI 11 Rulers and Presidents 12 Further Reading Prehistory The area occupied by today's Mexico was settled as early as 10000 BC, and many remains of ancient settlers (one of the most famous, the Tepexpan Man) have been found and dated to that time. Pre-Columbian Mexico Present-day Mexico covers the area where several advanced Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations like the Maya, Olmec, Toltec and Aztec cultures developed and flourished for centuries before first contact with Europeans. The modern name "Mexico" comes from either an Aztec god named Mextli or a name for ruling group of the Aztec people, the "Meshika". Spanish Conquest The native.
Government of the United States - The legal system of the United States is based on English common law; judicial review of legislative acts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Legislative branch 2 Executive branch 2.1 The Executive Departments 2.1.1 Department of Agriculture 2.1.2 Department of Commerce 2.1.3 Department of Defense 2.1.4 Department of Education 2.1.5 Department of Energy 2.1.6 Department of Health and Human Services 2.1.7 Department of Homeland Security 2.1.8 Department of Housing and Urban Development 2.1.9 Department of the Interior 2.1.10 Department of Justice 2.1.11 Department of Labor 2.1.12 Department of State 2.1.13 Department of Transportation 2.1.14 Department of the Treasury 2.1.15 Department of Veterans Affairs 3 Judicial branch 3.2 The Federal Court System 4 Related Articles 4.2.16 Executive Office of the President 5 External Links Legislative branch Article.
Phelsuma - Madagascar rapporté au Museum par M. le prof. Millot. Descripton d'une espèce nouvelle de genre Paracontias. Mem. Inst. sci. Magagascar, Tananarive, A,3: 81-87. Angel, F. (1950) Reptiles et amphibiens de Madagascar et des Îles voisines, faisant partie des collections du musée zoologique de Strasbourg. Ibid., ser. 2, 2,: 553-558. Annandale, F. (1904) The lizards of the Andamans. Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol. I part II page 12. Anonymous (1967) Foto van Phelsuma madagascariensis. DATZ 3: 75. Anonymous (1967) Phelsuma madagascariensis madagascariensis (GRAY 1831) (kleurenfoto). Lacerta 25 (12): 91. Anonymous (1970) Phelsuma lineata chloroscelis (foto) Lacerta 28 (4): 25. Anonymous (1981) Phelsuma phanciers. Notes of NOAH (Cleveland), Ohio, 8(9): 13. Anonymous (1987) Schone voorruit bij daggecko's. Tip in: Lacerta (Den Haag), 45 (9) 13. Arnold, E. N. (1975/86 ?) Fossil reptiles.
Moses - he is a historical figure, he may have lived between the 13th century BC and the early part of the 12th century BC. According to the Hebrew Bible, Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. He received the will of God on Mount Sinai, which he then wrote down. The Torah also contains the life story of Moses and his people till his death at the age of 120 years old. It has been traditionally assumed that Moses wrote all, or almost all, of the Torah, and this is stll the view of much of Christianity and most of Orthodox Judaism. However, advances in higher criticism have convinced several Bible scholars that this work, in the form we know it today, was edited together from several earlier sources. This idea is.
Japan - Japanese Capital Tokyo Largest City Tokyo Emperor Akihito Independence 660 BC Prime minister Koizumi Junichiro Area - Total - % water Ranked 60th 377,835 km² 0.8% Population - Total (2003) - Density Ranked 10th 127,214,499 335/km² GDP (base PPP) - Total (2002) - GDP/head Ranked 3rd 3,55 trillions $ 28,000 $ Currency Yen Time zone UTC +9 National anthem Kimi Ga Yo Internet TLD .JP Calling Code 81 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Introduction 2 History 3 Politics 4 Prefectures 5 Geography 6 Economy 7 Demographics 8 Culture 9 Miscellaneous topics 10 External Links 10.1 Official 10.2 Other Introduction Japan (Nippon/Nihon 日本, literally "the origin of thesun") is a country in Far East Asia located between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, and east of the Korean peninsula. Japan.
Hittites - I, who conquered the plain south of Hattush, all the way to the outskirts of modern-day Aleppo in Syria. Though it remained for his heir, Mursilis I, to conquer that city, Hattusilis was clearly influenced by the rich culture he discovered in northern Mesopotamia and founded a school in his capital to spread the cuneiform style of writing he encountered there. Mursilis continued the conquests of Hattusilis, reaching down Mesopotamia and threatening Babylonia itself. This lengthy campaign, however, strained the country's resources and left the capital in a state of near-anarchy. Mursilis was assassinated shortly after his return home, and the Hittite Empire was plunged into chaos. The Hurrians, a people living in the mountainous region along the upper Tigris and Euphrates rivers, took advantage of the situation to seize Aleppo.
History of Kansas - begun for mastery and supremacy over the Republic. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Prehistory 1.1 Native tribe of Kansas 2 1500s 3 1600s 4 1700s 5 1800s 5.2 Indian Tribes 5.3 Territory ceded 5.4 Territorial History 5.4.1 Missourian Emigration 5.4.2 Eastern Emigration 5.4.3 First Territorial Appointments 5.4.4 Territory's First Election 5.4.5 Free-state Movement 5.4.6 The Big Springs Convention 5.4.7 Wakarusa War 5.4.8 Sacking of Lawrence 5.4.9 Pottawatomie Murders 5.4.10 End of hostilities 5.4.11 Constitutions 5.4.12 Territorial Election 5.5 Statehood 5.5.13 Civil War 5.5.14 Prohibition 5.5.15 Troubles in Kansas 5.5.16 Era of Peace 6 1900s 6.6 World War One 6.7 World War Two 6.8 Cold War 7 2000s 8 Links, Resources, References Prehistory As late as 7000 BC, inhabitants of Asian immigrants entered into North America reaching Kansas. Between 1 AD to.
Greek numerals - system of numerals in Greek was acrophonic, operating much like Roman numerals with the following scheme: Ι = 1, Î = 5, Δ = 10, Η = 100, Χ = 1000, and Îœ = 10000. Starting in the 4th century BC, the acrophonic system was replaced with a quasi-decimal alphabetic system, sometimes called the Ionic numeral system. Each unit (1, 2, ..., 9) was assigned a separate letter, each tens (10, 20, ..., 90) a separate letter, and each hundreds (100, 200, ..., 900) a separate letter. This requires 27 letters, so the 24-letter Greek alphabet was extended by using three obsolete letters: digamma (ϝ) for 6, qoppa (ϟ) for 90, and sampi (ϡ) for 900. An acute sign (´) is used to distinguish numerals from letters. The alphabetic system operates.
Eclogues - major works by the Latin poet Virgil. Written in around 37 BC, it consists of ten poems with a rural setting. (For this reason, they are sometimes known as "The Bucolics".) Most of the individual poems are in the form of conversations between characters with names such as "Tityrus" (supposedly representing Virgil himself), "Meliboeus", "Menalcas" and "Mopsus". The most famous of them is Eclogue 4, which appears to contain a Messianic prophecy, and was seized on by early Christians as such - one reason why Dante later chose Virgil as his guide through the underworld. Eclogue 10 is in praise of Virgil's near-contemporary, the poet Gallus..
Acetic acid - Flash point 43°C Autoignition temperature 427°C Explosive limits 5-16% More info Properties NIST WebBook MSDS Hazardous Chemical Database SI units were used where possible. Unless otherwise stated, standard conditions were used. Disclaimer and references The chemical compound acetic acid (from the Latin word acetum, meaning "vinegar"), systematically called ethanoic acid, is the acid that gives vinegar its sour taste. It is a carboxylic acid with chemical formula C2H4O2, often written as CH3COOH to better reflect the structure shown at right. Acetic acid is a molecule central to biochemistry, and is produced in some amount by nearly all forms of life. The Acetobacter genus of bacteria is named for its tendency to produce acetic acid, and these bacteria are found universally in foodstuffs, water, and soil. As such, acetic acid is produced.
Temple of Set - of being a Nazi sympathizer, citing a recurrent use of Nazi imagery and symbolism, and frequent references to Nazi theorists and ideology, which they claim are found throughout the Temple of Set's literature. On at least one occasion, Michael Aquino provided the address for the Institute for Historical Review -- a leading proponent of Holocaust revisionism -- to the entire Temple of Set membership, saying that he had found "much food for thought" in their journal. Michael Aquino has filed libel lawsuits against critics. This civil recourse is a fundamental right within the U.S.A., but some of his critics say he has abused this right, calling the 1997 suit he filed against ElectriCiti.com a SLAPP. Some critics claim to have been subjected to campaigns of harassment by Temple of Set members.
Book burning - The practice, often carried out publicly, is usually motivated by moral, political or religious objections to the material. "Burning books and killing scholars" in 212 BC is counted as the greatest crime of Qin Shi Huang Di of China. The writer Heinrich Heine famously said in 1821 "Where they burn books, they will end in burning human beings." (Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen). Just over a century later the Nazis did exactly as Heine had forecast. The Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 is about a fictional future society that has institutionalized book burning. Incidents of book burnings have included: Following the advice of Li Si, Qin Shi Huang Di ordered all philosophy books and history books from states other than Qin (state)-except copies in the.
Tidal acceleration - since 1969, by bouncing off short laser pulses from them: the return time yields a very accurate measure of the distance. These measurements are fitted to the equations of motion. This yields numerical values for the parameters, among others the secular acceleration. From the period 1969..2001, the result is: -25.858 ±0.003 "/cy**2 in ecliptic longitude (ref. [5]) +3.84 ±0.07 m/cy in distance (ref. [1]) (cy is centuries; the first is a quadratic term.) This is consistent with results from Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR). This is a similar technique applied to artificial satellites orbiting the Earth. This yields an accurate model for the gravitational field of the Earth, including that of the tides. This can be used to predict its effect on the motion of the Moon, which yield very similar results..
Short-finned eel - semi-transparent eels). From there, they migrate upstream, traversing numerous obstacles—if necessary, leaving the water and travelling short distances over moist ground. They are well fitted to this task, being able to absorb 50% of the oxygen they need through the skin. Eventually, they take up residence in a lake, swamp, dam or river, typically occupying a home range of about 400m in length, where they remain until they reach maturity at about 14 years for males and 18 to 24 years for females. They are carnivorous, eating crustaceans, fish, frogs and even small birds. Like other angullids, Short-finned eels are remarkably hardy: they can tolerate high water temperatures and low oxygen concentrations, endure long periods without food, and bury themselves in mud or sand and enter an energy-saving torpor when the.
Rally Navigation techniques, tips and tricks - apartheid, but a way of indicating that the route information given relates only to roads coloured on the map - many tracks and green lanes are not coloured (so-called "whites"), and may be ignored when plotting a route. Sometimes a white is used to disambiguate a route - these will be drawn as dashed lines. Sometimes a white may be part of the route! This will usually be stated in the route information, or else the route will work only if you use a clearly marked white. Grid References A Grid Reference is the standard way of plotting a point on a map. These may be given to varying degrees of accuracy, depending on the requirements of the event. A standard grid reference has 6 figures, but occasionally 8 or 10.
Roman Republic - as a representative government of Rome and its territories from 509 BC until the establishment of the Roman Empire, typically placed at 44 BC or 27 BC. The city of Rome stands on the Tiber River very near the west coast of Italy. It marked the northernmost border of the territory in which the Latin language was spoken and the southern edge of Etruria, the territory in which the Etruscan language was spoken. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Government Institutions 2 History of the Republic 3 The Legendary Founding of Rome - 753 BC 4 The Foundation of the Republic - 509 BC 5 Patrician and Plebeian 6 The end of the Republic - 133-31 BC 7 The Spartacist Rebellion - 73 - 71 BC 8 The end of the Republic.
PageRank - heavily and help to make other pages "important." In other words, a page rank results from a "ballot" amongst all the other pages on the World Wide Web about how important a page is. A hyperlink to a page counts as a vote of support. The PageRank of a page is defined recursively and depends on the number and PageRank metric of all pages that link to it ("incoming links"). A page that is linked by many pages with high rank receives a high rank itself. If there are no links to a web page there is no support of this specific page. The Google Toolbar PageRank goes from 0 to 10. It seems to be a logarithmic scale. The exact details of this scale are unknown. The name PageRankâ„¢ is.
Prefecture of Elia - to ancient Arcadia. The prefecture excludes what is now New Vouprasía, Kalógria, and includes Lambeia and parts of former Arcadia. Its present day boundary is at Neda River, going a little East of Andrítsaina, Erymanthus River, Dívri, west of Scollis, and ends between Manoláda and Kalógria with green forests bordering Larissos River. Swamplands used to cover about 1% to 1.5 (one-and-a-half) percent of the region, especially in the Samiko area. Draining of swamp waters expanded farming by about another 1% and subtracting swamplands only to the present-day deltas of the Peneus, Alpheus and Neda rivers. Only 10km² left and they are protected by recreational services. Some of its islands used to belong to the neighboring Septinsular Republic in the 1500s. Today it is a regional boundary of the Peloponnese and the.
List of WOSM members - sex (United States) or race (Israel). World Organization of the Scout Movement Members Country Membership (from 2000 or most recent available info) Name of Member Organization Year Current Scouting Organization joined WOSM Year Member Organization was founded Albania 1,730 Besa Skaut Albania 1999 1922 Algeria 11,120 Scouts Musulmans Algériens 1963 1939 Angola 13,777 Associação de Escuteros de Angola 1998 1998 Argentina 44,981 Scouts de Argentina 1922 1912 Armenia 2,256 Hayastani Azgayin Scautakan Sharjum Kazmakerputiun 1997 1912 Australia 98,084 Scouts Australia 1953 1908 Austria 13,785 Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs 1922 1912 Azerbaijan 1,414 Azerbaican Skaut Assosiasiyasi 2000 1997 the Bahamas 729 The Scout Association of the Bahamas 1974 1913 Bahrain 1,820 Boy Scouts of Bahrain 1970 1953 Bangladesh 908,435 Bangladesh Scouts 1974 19 Barbados 3,032 Barbados Boy Scouts Association 1969 1972 Belarus.
