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…The History of Taoism There is a dispute on the origins of Taoism. One theory is the earliest known Taoist text may be the work of a minister of the ruler of the Shang-Yin dynasty in the eighteenth century B.C. The other theory…

…period in the history of Malaysia can today be found in the temple sites of the Bujang Valley and Merbok Estuary in Kedah in the north west of Peninsular Malaysia, near the Thai border. The spread of Islam, introduced by Arab and Indian traders, brought…

…History of Photography I chose for my term paper three extremely different photographers, who lived in the same era, yet they had contrary set of ideas. As I was analyzing which photographers I was going to write my term paper on, I ran into Robert…

…History of Ancient Greece Why should one study the Ancient Greeks? There exist almost countless contributions that Greek culture has made to western society in the areas of art, literature, philosophy, drama, architecture and politics. Lasting…

…onwards, Eastman was becoming increasingly ill. He eventually took his own life and next to his body was a note which read, “To my friends, My work is done-why wait?” As you can see Photography has a very rich history and can not be credited with really one…

…computers, it weighed 30 tonnes contained 18,000 electronic valves and consumed around 25KW of electrical power. It was, however, capable of an amazing 100,000 calculations a second. The next major step in the history of computing was the invention…

…The History of the Mole The mole’s beginning is traced back to the most basic units of matter, atoms. Since atoms are extremely small, scientists have perplexed a great deal over finding a way to measure atomic mass. They struggled to find…

…connotation. It wasn’t until the 20th Century that we finally were called Hmong (). The Homing were thought to have originated from Central China. The Hmong were in constant with the Chinese throughout history. When they were attacked their property was seized…

…In Japan, short poems have a long history. The earliest Japanese poetry such as that of the Manyoshu, written in 759 A.D., includes stirring narrative, dramatic and short lyrical poems which scholars believe were originally written as part…

…The History of skateboarding Skateboarding has a unique hisotry which is not well known. Altough skateboarding was invented in 1950, some say ideas for skateboards arose as early as the 1930's. Skateboards were created on the California coast…