Ahmadiyya is the third most popular branch of Islam which originated from India and spread all across the world. It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in 1889. The total population of the community is estimated to be between 10-15 million, with main concentrations in South Asia. F...
The History of Ayyavazhi traces the religious history of Ayyavazhi, a belief-system originated in the mid-19th century in Southern India. Ayyavazhi came to be noticed by the large number of people gathering to worship Ayya Vaikundar in the middle of the 19th century. The majority...
This article covers the history of Blogger, a blogging platform, similar to WordPress or MovableType that allows private or multi-user blogs.Major EventsMajor events in the history of Blogger:*On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated...
This is a brief history of First Minister positions in Canada, which include the Prime Minister of Canada and thirteen Premiers of Canada's ten provinces and three territories.CanadaAlbertaIn the unusual case of Alberta, the line of premiers can be divided into four unbroken "dyn...
The city of Chandigarh, India was established in the early mid-1950s, but the history of the land extends many centuries earlier.It is situated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent and is also the capital of India's Punjab as well as Haryana. Bronze Age The Indus Valle...
Johns Hopkins University was established in 1876, admitting women and men to their well known graduate programs from the beginning. The university was also established with an undergraduate program that only admitted men up until 1970.Admission of women to Johns Hopkins undergrad...
The history of companies stretches back to Roman times, and deals principally with associations of people formed to run a business, but also for charitable or leisure purposes. A corporation is one kind of company, and refers to an entity which has a separate legal identity from ...
Dedham, Massachusetts, has been featured on both television and film screens.* William Desmond Taylor's 1919 silent film Anne of Green Gables was filmed in Dedham.<ref name"Green"/><ref name"Higham2006"/> It was the favorite role of star Mary Miles Minter, but no copies of the fi...
The late 1970s emergence of fiber optics disrupted the expected further development of Microwave radio relay, L-system, and microwave waveguide technology.Fixed/Mobile Convergence is widely recognised as a disruptive technology in that it has the potential to change the structure...
History of Dried Cherries The first recorded experiments attempting to dry Montmorency Tart Cherries were performed in the late 1970’s by professors at Utah State University. After drying the cherries, they were rolled in sugar and then sampled as “snow cherries.” These were a gr...
Early developments in electricity Electricity has been a subject of scientific interest since at least the seventeenth century. However it was not until the nineteenth century that research into the subject started to intensify. Notable developments in this century include the wo...
This article summarizes the backstory of For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston. Story outline by year1979As readers first meet the Pattersons, 5-year-old Michael is having trouble adjusting to his new baby sister Elizabeth, while Elly is struggling with the stress of caring fo...
This is an expanded discussion of the history of French Mother Sauces. In French cuisine, a "Mother" sauce, also known as a “Grand” or “Leading” sauce, is a sauce from which other sauces, often called “Daughter” sauces, are derived. Classifying sauces into either Mother or Daught...
thumbThis History of Full Rigged Ships in America describes the development of sailing ships, such as Schooners and Clippers, from the beginning of the 18th century onwards. Today, they are commonly referred to as tall ships. Origins and Rigging At the peak of their influence, fu...
History of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), 1860's - 1914 Tentative division of the history of the SPDOne may say that the history of SPD consists of 3 parts: 1) The origin of the party is marked by a struggle between the Lassaleans and the "Eisenachs",2) the struggle wi...
This article covers the history of Google Buzz, a social networking and messaging tool from Google designed to integrate into the company's web-based email program, Gmail.Google Buzz was announced on February 9, 2010, in a press conference at the company's Mountain View headquart...
History of Hindu-Christian Encounters (AD 304 to 1996) is a book by Sita Ram Goel which he published in 1986 under his Voice of India imprint. Synopsis The book opens with a discussion of the belief common to many Christians in South India that St. Thomas the apostle travelled to...
The history of Hispanic immigration to the United States refers to the immigration to the United States of people from Central America, South America and the Caribbean, and dates from the very beginning of the country.. Hispanics have affected the United States culturally, econom...
The history of human sanctity has had a range of concepts that each attempt to deal with the question of human beginnings; at what point in human development is a human organism to be considered a human being, and therefore protected? The concept relates to contemporary issues su...
Adblocking on the Internet dates to the early 2000s, when the commercialization of the Internet had gotten underway. Adblocking technologies however somewhat predated this, as there were advertising censorship add-ons for some online services in the late 1990s.The technology has ...