Born in Indianapolis, John Dillinger, the
Tommy gun-wielding gangster, robbed at least a dozen banks and led
police and federal agents on a yearlong chase across the Midwest before
being gunned down outside a Chicago movie theater in July 1934. Below,
learn 10 surprising facts about the short and infamous life of the man
the authorities branded “Public Enemy No. 1.”
Tuesday, 2 September 2014
6 Infamous Impostors
Throughout history, people have taken on new
identities and pretended to be someone they’re not. Some do it live a
more exciting life and attract attention, while others have more
sinister motives, such as pulling off a crime. Find out more about six
of history’s most fascinating phonies, including a murderer who claimed
to be a member of a famous American family, a woman who passed as a male
soldier during the U.S. Civil War, and a charlatan who invented an
entire history and language for a country he’d never even laid eyes on.
1. Christian Gerhartsreiter: A murderer who pretended to be a Rockefeller
Civil War Week 2013 Preview
All this week HISTORY commemorates the 150th anniversary of two of
the most significant clashes of the American Civil War–the battles of
Gettysburg and Vicksburg—with a fresh slate of daily articles, original
videos, interactive features, a great deal on our award-winning mobile app and more.
Each day we’ll feature new, original articles and exclusive video
examining various aspects of the battles and their impact on both the
war and American history.
10 Famous Elephants From History
Although known for millennia by many of the peoples of Africa and
Asia, elephants’ introduction to the classical West came around 331
B.C., when Alexander the Great encountered war elephants as his army
swept from Persia into India. At the river Jhelum, in present-day
Pakistan, Alexander defeated the Indian ruler Porus, who was said to
have 100,000 war elephants in his army. Ever since, whether revered as a
divine symbol of luck and wisdom, used as unique tools of diplomacy
between leaders, deployed to intimidate opposing armies or put on
display in the service of status or science, elephants have loomed large
in the historical record. Check out 10 notable examples.
1. Pyrrhus’s Pachyderms
10 Fascinating Facts About Charles Lindbergh
On May 20, 1927, 25-year-old pilot Charles
Lindbergh strapped into his famous airplane, “The Spirit of St. Louis,”
and took off on the first ever non-stop flight from New York to Paris.
The 33.5-hour crossing vaulted Lindbergh to international stardom, but
he was later visited by tragedy in 1932, when his 20-month-old son was
kidnapped and murdered in what was dubbed “the Crime of the Century.”
Below, learn 10 surprising facts about the heroic and controversial life
of the aviator known as “The Lone Eagle.”
1. His father was a U.S. Congressman.
7 Presidential War Stories
More than two thirds of U.S. presidents did
some form of military service before becoming Commander in Chief, and
many left with some truly harrowing combat stories. From James Monroe’s
Revolutionary War heroics to George H.W. Bush’s brush with death during
World War II, get the facts on the wartime experiences of seven American
chief executives.
1. James Monroe
Monday, 1 September 2014
List of musical symbols
Musical symbols are the marks and symbols, used since about the 13th century in the musical notation of musical scores, styles, and instruments, in order to describe pitch, rhythm, tempo – and, to some degree, its articulation (e.g., a composition in its fundamentals).
Lines
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Staff The staff is the fundamental latticework of music notation, upon which symbols are placed. The five staff lines and four intervening spaces correspond to pitches of the diatonic scale – which pitch is meant by a given line or space is defined by the clef. |
Musical notation
This article is about the musical term. For other uses, see Note (disambiguation).
In music, the term note has two primary meanings:- A sign used in musical notation to represent the relative duration and pitch of a sound (♪, ♫);
- A pitched sound itself.
Brief History of the Guitar
The guitar is an ancient and noble instrument, whose history can be traced back over 4000 years. Many theories have been advanced about the instrument's ancestry. It has often been claimed that the guitar is a development of the lute,
Sunday, 31 August 2014
Company rule in India
Expansion and territory
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British India and the Native States
India during the British Raj was made up of two types of territory: British India and the Native States (or Princely States).[15] In its Interpretation Act 1889, the British Parliament adopted the following definitions:
(4.) The expression "British India" shall mean all territories and places within Her Majesty's dominions which are for the time being governed by Her Majesty through the Governor-General of India or through any governor or other officer subordinate to the Governor-General of India.
(5.) The expression "India" shall mean British India together with any
A Brief History of the Game
Football’s Early Beginnings
Football (as well
as rugby and soccer) are believed to have descended from the ancient Greek game
of harpaston. Harpaston
is mentioned frequently in classical literature, where it is often referred to
as a “very rough and brutal game“. The
rules of this ancient sport were quite simple:
Points were awarded when a player would cross a goal line by either
kicking the ball, running with it across the goal line, or throwing it across
the line to another player. The other team’s objective was simply to stop them
by any means possible. There was no
specific field length, no side line boundaries, no specified number of
players per team, only a glaring lack of rules.
History of football in England
The History of English football is a long and detailed one, as it is not only the national sport[citation needed] but England was where the game was developed and codified. The modern global game of Football
was first codified in 1863 in London. The impetus for this was to unify
English public school and university football games. There is evidence
for refereed, team football games being played in English schools since
at least 1581. An account of an exclusively kicking football game from Nottinghamshire
in the 15th century bears similarity to football. England can boast the
earliest ever documented use of the English word "football" (1409) and
the earliest reference to the sport in French (1314). England is home to
the oldest football clubs in the world (dating from at least 1857), the
world's oldest competition (the FA Cup
founded in 1871) and the first ever football league (1888). For these
reasons England is considered the home of the game of
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