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- 1791: Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- ... like a colossus. The 1800’s are no less awe-inspiring than ours’ for its intellectual mindset and technological feats. Yet his morally severe and pompously conservative age was very different from our secular, deregulated world founded on naturalistic principles and fast information exchange. Darwin's theory of evolution was published in the On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859. As its implications sank in, late ... ship, H.M.S. Beagle. VOYAGE ON H.M.S. BEAGLE AND PERSONAL LIFE From 1831 to 1836, Darwin served as naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle on a British science expedition around the world. The aristocratic Captain of the Beagle, Robert Fitzroy, fearing the loneliness of command, had requested a young gentleman companion - and that's how a self-financed Darwin cruised the world as an imperial-evangelical mission. Fitzroy meticulously surveyed the South American coast ready for the merchant traders. Darwin was converted to evolutionism by the results of his voyage on H.M.S. Beagle several ...
- 1792: Igor Stravinsky
- ... that carried this much premature power. It was almost as though there was a sense of jealousy from his colleagues. The entire musical establishment criticized stravinsky, but he didn’t really seem to care. During World War I, Stravinsky lived in Switzerland. There he concentrated on smaller-scale chamber pieces, piano works, and songs. One of these, The Soldier's Tale, was a chamber ensemble, with speaking actors, and one dancer. He also started a career as a conductor, most of the time performing his own music, and toured Europe and America after the end of the war. As soon as the war was over, Stravinsky decided to move from Switzerland and settle in France; during the next 20 years (1920-39) he lived in various places there - Biarritz, Nice, Voreppe, and ...
- 1793: GPS: The Future of Navigation and Technology
- ... As we enter the 21st century, we are constantly being bombarded with new technologies. From the wireless community to operations that once took weeks to recover and now only take a day or so, our world will never be the same. Another technology that is revolutionizing the world we live in is the Global Positioning System or GPS. The first GPS satellite was called GPS Block I. Launched in 1978, it was a develop- mental satellite. Another nine Block I satellites were launched through 1988. GPS is the only system today able to show you your exact position on the Earth anytime, in any weather, anywhere. There are 24 GPS satellites in orbiting the world at 11,000 nautical miles above the Earth. They are continuously monitored by ground stations located worldwide. They transmit signals that can be detected by anyone with a GPS receiver. Using the receiver, you ...
- 1794: The Reformation
- ... Church. Jesuits set up colleges and seminaries and sent missionaries to spread Catholicism to other lands. The Counter-Reformation created many conflicts. In Germany, Catholics and Protestants began to fight, and the Thirty Five Years War erupted. The war left Germany devastated. Results of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation The Reformation and Counter-Reformation devastated Europe. The religious unity that once held Europe together had been broken. In both Catholic and Protestant countries, the ... and the literacy rate improved. The spread of education also spawned many very intelligent people. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation strenghtened the middle-class. The Effects of the Reformation Today The Reformation has shaped the world we live in today. Almost everywhere you go in the U.S., you can see Protestant churches, of many different sects, such as Epsicopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Evangelical, Unitarian,etc. The Reformation also was a ...
- 1795: Harry S. Truman 2
- ... and all the planets had fallen on me." Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884. He grew up in Independence, and for 12 years prospered as a Missouri farmer. He went to France during World War I as a captain in the Field Artillery. Returning, he married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, and opened a haberdashery in Kansas City. Active in the Democratic Party, Truman was elected a judge of the Jackson County Court (an administrative position) in 1922. He became a Senator in 1934. During World War II he headed the Senate war investigating committee, checking into waste and corruption and saving perhaps as much as 15 billion dollars. As President, Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in ...
- 1796: Technology In Our Society
- Technology In Our Society No doubt, technology is increasingly important in the modern world. It is amazing how fast technology has been developed. Nearly every major advance was invented in the last century. These invention are always planned for a positive result, however the negative effects often do not ... be tests for 5000 diseases." It is a remarkable increase. In the near future, hopefully, genetic testing will be employed to reveal potential health risks. It is a positive effect of technology in the modern world. Another useful source for the effects of technology in our world is the documentary. On 23 April 1996, SBS broadcasted a film entitled "Weapon: A Battle for Humanity". It recorded that landmines and laser weapons are devils. Evidently, mines do not just shatter individual lives, ...
- 1797: Economic Espionage
- ... First lets look at, what exactly is economic espionage. Espionage and intelligence is no longer the exclusive domain of monarchs and governments, it has become a must for modern international business. Large corporations around the world particularly in western Europe and Asia now hire agents to gather intelligence on their competitors and other countries. The goal of economic espionage is to steal trade secrets, plans and confidential procedures or anything to ... that earn under 11 million dollars annually. How do industrial spies go about collecting information. It is a well known fact that modern spies have used all of the collection methods used during the cold war for collecting information on industrial competitors. Practitioners of modern espionage seldom use one method by itself, but combine them into concerted collection programs. countries and corporations have been known to turn legitimate transactions or business ... data interchange, a system of transferring corporate bidding, invoice, and pricing data electronically overseas. many foreign government and corporate information collectors find this information invaluable.(Security On-line: issue 1) Another tactic used in the world of corporate espionage is economic misinformation. Some governments use misinformation campaigns to scare their domestic companies and potential clients away from dealing with US companies. The press and governments agencies often discuss foreign economic ...
- 1798: David Guterson and His Use of the Theme of Nature
- ... addresses some of the moral dilemmas that humans face throughout their lives. His first novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, narrates the trial of a Japanese man accused of murdering a white man in the post World War II era. Throughout his literary works, Guterson uses elements of nature: land, trees, water and especially snow, as literal and metaphorical tools to develop and resolve conflicts. David Guterson uses the same aspects and characteristics ... and void by the snow”(Snow Falling 320). The snow covered the fields; all of the fields seemed as one field. The nine inches of snow caused a visual unity of the strawberry fields. “..the world was one world”(Snow Falling 320). The element of water is used as a paradox in Guterson's novel Snow Falling on Cedars. Water is both the sustainer and taker of life. The damp ...
- 1799: Iwo Jima
- Iwo Jima The war of Iwo Jima was one of the most important battles in Word War II. The United States Marine Corps played a huge role in defeating the Japanese. Iwo Jima was a small island that was controlled by Japan. Iwo Jima is only about 4 miles long and half ... Battle for Iwo Jima was very interesting to me and I wanted to find out all about it. In my research I want to discover what was the battle of Iwo Jima’s effect on World War 2, and what battle tactics were used.3 days before the invasion the U.S. air force bombarded Iwo Jima with B-29 bombers. In those 3 days Iwo Jima took 40,000 ...
- 1800: Geoffrey Chaucer
- ... of Chaucer belongs to his time and that much of that time is dead, extinct, and never to be made alive again. What was alive in it, lives through him..._ --John Masefield Geoffrey Chaucer¦s world was the Europe of the fourteenth century. It was neither rich or poor, happy nor sad. Rather, it was the intermingling of these, a mixture of splendor and poverty, displaying both worldly desire and spiritual purity. Chaucer¦s travels through it, mostly on ¦the King¦s business,_ or civil service, shaped his writing, offering the readers of today a brief glimpse into the world in which he lived. Chaucer lived from approximately AD 1340 to 1400. The world in which he lived was not one of peace or stability. Born the son of a London vintner, he remained a Londoner for most of the rest of his life, leaving the city only ...
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