One Last History

algumas curiosidades. History of Halloween History of Halloween, like any other festival's history is inspired through traditions that have transpired through ages from one generation to another. We follow them mostly as did our dads and grandpas. And as this process goes on, much of their originality get distorted with newer additions and alterations. It happens so gradually, spanning over so many ages, that we hardly come to know about these distortions. At one point of time it leaves

Information 60 years of adidas – the stories that still inspire us today adidas, one of the leading sports brands in the world, is turning 60 on August 18, 2009. It still seems an unlikely story: a modest shoemaker from a small rural town in Germany develops a range of sports products so original and so perfect that they are sought by athletes from all over the world. As he indulges his passion for sport and for innovation, he creates a brand as great as any in the world. An unlikely…

after the introduction of the iPhone to the market in 2007. Before then, Nokia invested in its "legacy" programme, attempting to adapt the Symbian software it already had. Nokia sold a respectable one million Lumia 800 phones in the last quarter of 2011 - but Apple sold 1 million iPhone 4s models in one day after its release, and 35 million in the same three-month period. "Nokia's biggest issues today are the hype around Android, which makes some users disregard Lumia," she said.…

planet becomes its own epoch, is that a bad or a good thing?1 Introduction Mark Weaver Schoolchildren are taught that we are still in the Holocene, the epoch in Earth's history that began roughly 12,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age. But some scientists say that it's high time to enter the Anthropocene, or the Age of Man. Last week, our colleague Andrew C. Revkin of Dot Earth reported on a conference at the Geological Society of London exploring the evidence for the…

Explorations, a surfing magazine. The subject matter of David’s first foray into design is still an important part of the man’s life. So much so that he lists appearing in Matt Warsaw’s Encyclopedia of Surfing alongside a similar accolade in Philip Meggs’ The History of Graphic Design as career high-points. “It probably V The book of Probes combines Carson’s distinctive visual style with the Canadian’s incisive wit and prophetic vision, topped off with an introduction from Eric, the…

The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of European history into three "epochs": the classical civilization of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the modern era. The period of the Middle Ages is usually dated from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the fifteenth century. With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade, infrastructure, learning, and security declined. A feudal, or…

British poetry during the First World War. In order to better illustrate the tone of the poetry written in the period 1914 - 1918, I would like to analyse two poems of each chosen poet, not only in their content but also in their form. THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (1914 - 1918) The twentieth century was marked by wars and, because of that, many historians called it “The Age of Catastrophe”. In 1914, there had been no major war for a century because,…

they looked up and snapped this picture and it became known as Earth Rise. And that one picture exploded in the consciousness of the human kind. It led to dramatic changes. Within 18 months of this picture the modern environmental movement had begun. The next picture was taken on the last Apollo mission, Apollo 17. This one was taken on Dec. 11, 1972 and it is the most commonly published photograph in all of history. And it is the only picture of Earth from space that we have where…

has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a opportunity to pursue their full measure of happiness. In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one to take shortcuts or settling for less of us. There…

not, because no one knows enough about Shakespeare's life to say whether or not they deal with real events and feelings, so we tend to refer to the voice of the sonnets as "the speaker"--as though he were a dramatic creation like Hamlet or King Lear. There are certainly a number of intriguing continuities throughout the poems. The first 126 of the sonnets seem to be addressed to an unnamed young nobleman, whom the speaker loves very much; the rest of the poems (except for the last two,…