Category: Modern Age
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History of Printing Technology
Before Johannes Gutenberg invent the printing press around 1440, the quantity of manuscript books in medieval Europe could be summed in a few thousands. By 1500, a thousand printing presses were in operation in 250 cities and had printed 8 million copies of books. Today, the world has produced over a trillion books. From woodblocks…
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How Machine Gun Revolutionized Combat During World War I
The Great War witness the rise of powerful weapons like machine guns, heavy artillery and flamethrowers. The impact of machine gun was huge, allowing just a few soldiers to easily kill large number of charging enemies. Most machine guns of WWI were based upon Hiram Maxim’s 1884 design which has a continual fire of 450-600…
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Fidel Castro: A Timeline of His Revolutionary Life
Fidel Castro, the rebel communist who led the revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista’s capitalist government and established a socialist state in Cuba, finally dies at 90. Castro was Cuba’s first Marxist leader, along with his military adviser Che Guevara. He is praised by many for promoting social values, education and standing up against ten U.S.…
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Top 10 Most Influential Poets in Western History
Poetry is once a dominant form of entertainment and poets are once considered the voice of their generation. They are widely aplauded for their ideas and wordplay. William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe and the other great poetic masters left a huge literary legacies that still resonate to this day. It’s not easy to…
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Where does Bourbon Come From?
Hello drinkers! Want to know where does bourbon come from? Bourbon is America’s well known contribution to the growing world of whiskey. If legends are true, Elijah Craig and Jacob Spears of Kentucky invented and named ‘bourbon’ before sailing it down the river of Ohio in late 18th century. Today tons of American whiskey are…
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How did Hitler Rise to Power?
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The Shot That Started World War I
The First World War took the lives of 10 million soldiers, 7 million civilians, 21 million more wounded and 7.7 million were missing. It all started with an assassination a century ago. On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a member of a secret military society called Blackhand, assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand along with his…
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The Fallen of World War II
Created and narrated by Neil Halloran, The Fallen of World War II is an incredible data visualization, revealing the casualties of world war 2 by country. The film chronicles the deaths of soldiers as well as civilians, after which Halloran places those massive numbers into context comparing the wars that followed before and after. See…
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Most Popular and Iconic Home Design Styles
Home design has definitely changed and improved since the 1400s, but in some ways the housing styles of these periods has remained the same. Today’s infographic showcase 20 different iconic architectural styles; from Tudor house—that appeared during medieval times—to contemporary houses of today. This is also a good home-style basic guide for home shoppers to…
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Life And Times During The Great Depression
The Great Depression reminds us of what America went through after the great crash of the stock market in 1929. The failure of capitalist system causes a huge economic crisis; as a result, businesses went bankrupt, unemployment rate increases, crime rate rises, discrimination is prevalent and many who lost their jobs became homeless. See this…