The 10 most important events of the human kind

The Tragic Story of the Titanic Before the fate of the Titanic, Morgan Robertson wrote a book called The Wreck of the Titan in 1898. The ship predicted "unsinkable" sank. Many lives were lost due to too few lifeboats. This story predicted the fate of the Titanic. f1q14qk In 1907, J. B. Ismay, president of White Star Lines, and Lord Pirrie, chairman of Harland & Wolf
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The Adjective

Adjectives describe the qualities of people,things,places etc. h3d1dj I. Types of adjectives: 1. Adjective proper: good,blue,alive. Noun converted into an adjective because placed before another noun: (a five-) room (house), (a ten-) year (old boy). Verb in the 3rd form,used as an adjective: (a) worried (man), (his) bored (air), (her) confused (mind). Compound
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THE AGE OF CHIVALRY

Edward III and his eldest son, the Black Prince, were greatly admired in England for their courage on the battlefield and for their courtly manners. They became symbols of the’’code of chivalry’’; the way in a perfect knight should behave. During the reign of Edward interest grew in the legendary King Arthur, if he ever existed, was probably a Celtic r
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The Apollo program

The Apollo program is the US program to land human beings on the moon. Inaugurated May, 1961, by President J. Kennedy, the program suffered a serious setback in the preparatory phase when a fire broke out in the Apollo 1 space capsule (Jan. 27, 1967) during testing at Cape Kennedy. Three astronauts in the capsule were killed, the first deaths of US astronauts. Preparations for th
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The Beatles

1. Introduction The Beatles were an extremely popular and influential group in Rock n' Roll. My question is, "Why?" What drew thousands upon thousands of screaming fans to these four British musicians? Was it something in the sound of the instruments? Could it have been the bass beat, or maybe the guitar playing? What about their lyrics? They had a certain personality,
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The Count of Monte Cristo

Short Summary The novel begins with the handsome young sailor Edmond Dantes. He has just returned from a journey aboard the Pharaon. The Pharaon's shipowner, M. Morrel, rushes out to meet the ship. He finds that the captain has died en route, and Dantes has assumed the post with admirable skill. He thus plans to make Dantes officially the next captain of the ship. j4t3tx Dan
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The crisis if king and nobles

The crisis of kingship During the fourteenth century, towards the end of the Middles Ages, there was a continous struggle between the king and his nolbles. The first crisis came in 1327 when Edward II was deposed and cruelly murdered. His eleven-year-old son, Edward III, became king, and as soon as he could, he punished those responsible. But the principle that kins were ne
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The discovery of fire

Human species, origins of Evolution of humans from ancestral primates . The African apes (gorilla and chimpanzee) are shown by anatomical and molecular comparisons to be the closest living relatives of humans. Humans are distinguished from apes by the size of their brain and jaw, their bipedalism, and their elaborate culture. Molecular studies put the date of the split between th
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The discovery of the telephone

Telephone Instrument for communicating by voice over long distances were invented by US inventor Alexander Graham Bell 1876. The transmitter (mouthpiece) consists of a carbon micro-phone, with a diaphragm that vibrates when a person speaks into it. The diaphragm vibrations compress grains of carbon to a greater or lesser extent, altering their resistance to an electric current pa
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The first TV

The first opto-mechanical system that functioned was breveted in 1884 by a student named P. Nipkow. g4l20li The first demonstration with the television system, made by Nipkow, was made in 1925 by the Scottish inventor that is known as the inventor of the television, John Logie Baird, and the first demonstration with a color television was made in 1928 by the same Scottish inve
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