Professional boxing match between Luis Ramon Campas and Amin Asikainen In 1891, the National Sporting Club (N.S.C.), a private club in London, began to promote professional glove fights at its own premises, and created nine of its own rules to … Read More
Fernand Gabriel driving a Mors in Paris-Madrid 1903 The start Auto racing began almost immediately after the construction of the first successful petrol-fuelled autos. In 1894, the first contest was organized by Paris magazine Le Petit Journal, a reliability test … Read More
Illustration of a game of three ball pocket billiards in early 19th century Tübingen, Germany The game of billiards dates back to the 15th century but snooker is a more recent invention. In the late 19th century billiards games were … Read More
Ye Gude Olde Days, from Hockey: Canada’s Royal Winter Game, 1899. Games between teams hitting an object with curved sticks have been played throughout the world since prehistoric times. The word “hockey” has been used since the 16th century, but … Read More
Selected quarterly Case–Shiller index values, 1987–2008. The Standard & Poor’s Case–Shiller Home Price Indices are constant-quality house price indices for the United States. There are multiple Case–Shiller home price indices: A national home price index, a 20-city composite index, a … Read More
Sputnik 1: The first artificial satellite In May, 1946, the Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship stated, “A satellite vehicle with appropriate instrumentation can be expected to be one of the most potent scientific tools of the Twentieth Century. … Read More
Bronchial Asthma Classifications and external resources ICD-10 J45. ICD-9 493 OMIM 600807 DiseasesDB 1006 MedlinePlus 000141 eMedicine med/177 emerg/43 MeSH C08.127.108 Asthma is a disease of the respiratory system in which the airways constrict, become inflamed, and are lined with … Read More
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of multitasking. Normally the job is managed … Read More
Bas-relief at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, c. 1150, depicting a demon inducing an abortion by pounding the abdomen of a pregnant woman with a pestle. An abortifacient is a substance that induces abortion. History The ancient Greek colony of Cyrene at … Read More
Flash grew out of a chain of thought that started in the 1980s with some ideas Jonathan Gay had at school, then at college and later while working for Silicon Beach Software and its successors.[1] In January 1993, Charlie Jackson, … Read More
