http://www.historyof.info An all inclusive history website en-us Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:25:34 CST Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:25:34 CST http://www.historyof.info/ An all inclusive history website Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:25:34 CST http://www.historyof.info/articles/148528/Walking-Bridge-of-the-Grand-Canyon... The Grand Canyon Skywalk is a transparent horseshoe-shaped cantilever bridge and tourist attraction in Arizona near the Colorado River on the edge of a side canyon in the Grand Canyon West area of the main canyon.[USGS topographic maps show the elevation at the Skywalk's location as 4,770 ft (1,450 m) and the elevation of the Colorado River in th... 2011-11-10 http://www.historyof.info/articles/136557/YANKEES... At the end of 1900, Western League president Ban Johnson reorganized the league, adding teams in three Eastern cities, which formed the American League. Plans to put a team in New York City were blocked by the National League's New York Giants, who had enough political power to keep the AL out. Instead, a team was put in Baltimore, Maryland, a ci... 2011-04-14 http://www.historyof.info/articles/133984/90s-music... Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area. Inspired by hardcore punk, heavy metal, and indie rock, grunge is generally characterized by heavily distorted electric guitars, contrasting song dynamics, a... 2011-03-16 http://www.historyof.info/articles/133563/Evanescence... Evanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording private albums, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on Wind-up Records in 2003. Fallen sold more than 15 million copies worldwide and helped the band win two Grammy Awards. A year la... 2011-03-09 http://www.historyof.info/articles/132796/Cheerleading-... Princeton graduate Thomas Peebles introduced the thought of organized crowds cheering at football games to the University of Minnesota. Nevertheless, it was not until 1898 that College of Minnesota scholar Johnny Campbell directed a crowd in cheering Rah, Rah, Rah! Ski-u-mah, Hoo-Rah! Hoo-Rah! Varsity! Varsity! Varsity, Minn-e-So-Tah!”, ma... 2011-03-01 http://www.historyof.info/articles/132149/Stonehenge... Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) west of Amesbury and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of Salisbury. Probably the most famous sites on the planet, Stonehenge consists of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones. It's on the centre of the most dense a... 2011-02-22 http://www.historyof.info/articles/131580/St.-Patrick's-Day... Irish Society of Boston organised what was not only the first Saint Patrick's Day Parade within the colonies but the first recorded Saint Patrick's Day Parade on this planet on 18 March 1737.[34][unreliable source?] (The first parade in Eire did not happen until 1931 in Dublin.) This parade in Boston concerned Irish immigrant employees ma... 2011-02-15 http://www.historyof.info/articles/131030/The-Alphabet... The history of the alphabet began in historic Egypt. By 2700 BCE Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals to characterize syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel (or no vowel) to be provided by the native speaker. These glyphs have been used as pronunciation guides for log... 2011-02-07 http://www.historyof.info/articles/129596/Optical-Illusion... Optical illusions have been first used by the Greeks. They constructed their temples so that the roof was slanted. This gave the illusion that the temple was truly standing straight. Additionally they made the columns bulge so that from a distance they'd look perfectly proportioned. In the midst of history, folks have encountered illusions in l... 2011-01-26 http://www.historyof.info/articles/128879/The-Alamo... The Alamo, initially known as Mission San Antonio de Valero, is a former Roman Catholic mission and fortress compound, website of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, and now a museum, in San Antonio, Texas. The compound, which initially comprised a sanctuary and surrounding buildings, was constructed by the Spanish Empire in the 18th century for th... 2011-01-20 http://www.historyof.info/articles/128366/Justin-Bieber... Whereas looking for movies of a distinct singer, Scooter Braun, a former advertising and marketing govt of So So Def, clicked on one in every of Bieber's 2007 videos by accident. Impressed, Braun tracked down the theater Bieber was performing in, positioned Bieber's school, and finally contacted Mallette. Mallette was reluctant; she remembered pr... 2011-01-13 http://www.historyof.info/articles/127773/Gibson-guitar... For more than one hundred years, Gibson Guitar Corp. has been engaged in the enterprise of designing, manufacturing and distributing on the market quite a lot of musical devices, together with string instruments reminiscent of mandolins and banjos, in addition to accessories, reminiscent of amplifiers and strings, all through the United States an... 2011-01-07 http://www.historyof.info/articles/127284/castles... Historian Charles Coulson states that the accumulation of wealth and assets, akin to food, led to the necessity for defensive structures. The earliest fortifications originated within the Fertile Crescent, the Indus Valley, Egypt, and China where settlements have been protected by large walls. Northern Europe was slower than the East to develop d... 2011-01-02 http://www.historyof.info/articles/126475/SlipKnot... Slipknot is an American heavy steel band from Des Moines, Iowa. Formed in 1995, the group was based by percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray, after a number of lineup adjustments of their early days the band consisted of 9 members for the larger part of their tenure-Sid Wilson, Paul Grey, Joey Jordison, Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jone... 2010-12-27 http://www.historyof.info/articles/126111/The-Beatles... Aged sixteen, singer and guitarist John Lennon formed the skiffle group The Quarrymen with some Liverpool schoolfriends in March 1957. Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined as a guitarist after he and Lennon met that July. When McCartney in turn invited George Harrison to watch the group the following February, the latter joined as lead guitaris... 2010-12-23 http://www.historyof.info/articles/125189/Lingerie-... The concept of lingerie as visually appealing undergarment was developed during the late nineteenth century. Lady Duff-Gordon of Lucile was a pioneer in developing lingerie that freed women from more restrictive corsets. Through the first half of the 20th century, women wore underwear for three primary reasons: to alter their outward shape (first... 2010-12-18 http://www.historyof.info/articles/123813/Grand-Canyon... The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park, one of the first national parks in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited it on nume... 2010-12-07 http://www.historyof.info/articles/122837/Ford-mustang... The Ford Mustang is a car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. It was initially based on the second generation North American Ford Falcon, a compact car. Introduced early on April 17, 1964, the 1965 Mustang was the automaker's most successful launch since the Model A. The Mustang created the pony car class of American automobile — spo... 2010-11-30 http://www.historyof.info/articles/121464/FAMILY-GUY... MacFarlane initially conceived Family Guy in 1995 while studying animation under the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). During college, he created his thesis film entitled The Life of Larry, which was later submitted by his professor at RISD to Hanna-Barbera, which led to MacFarlane being hired by the company. In 1996, MacFarlane created a seq... 2010-11-23 http://www.historyof.info/articles/120102/Suzuki... Suzuki Motor Corporation (スズキ株式会社, Suzuki Kabushiki-Kaisha?) is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small int... 2010-11-18 http://www.historyof.info/articles/119344/Kawasaki-Motorcycle-Corporation... Kawasaki Motors Corporation began as Kawasaki Motorcycle Corporation as far back as 1960 when Kawasaki Aircraft, LTD was known to have made an agreement with Meguro Works to form Kawasaki Motor Sales. Some motorcycles display an emblem with Kawasaki Aircraft on the fuel tank. During the merger in 1962, Kawasaki engineers were engaged in the de... 2010-11-13 http://www.historyof.info/articles/118614/Yu-Gi-Oh!... Takahashi said that the card game held the strongest influence in the manga, because it happened to evoke the most response from readers. Prior to that point, Takahashi did not plan to make the series about a card game. When an interviewer asked Takahashi if he tried to introduce younger readers to real life gaming culture referenced in the se... 2010-11-04 http://www.historyof.info/articles/118406/Indian-motorcycles... Indian motorcycles were manufactured from 1901 to 1953 by a company in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, initially known as the Hendee Manufacturing Company but which was renamed the Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company in 1928. The Indian factory team took the first three places in the 1911 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy. During the 1910s Indian b... 2010-10-31 http://www.historyof.info/articles/117646/Santa-Claus... Santa Claus Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Sinterklaas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a historical, legendary and mythological figure who, in many Western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24[2] or on his Fe... 2010-10-26 http://www.historyof.info/articles/116832/Hooters-Girl-Uniform... The looks of the waitresses are a main selling feature of the restaurant. A Hooters Girl is a waitress employed by the Hooters restaurant chain. The girls are recognizable by their uniform of a white tank top with the Hootie the Owl logo and the location name on the front paired with the famously short nylon orange runner's shorts. Originally, ... 2010-10-18 http://www.historyof.info/articles/116110/John-Deere... Deere & Company, usually known by its brand name John Deere (NYSE:DE), is an American corporation based in Moline, Illinois, and the leading manufacturer of agricultural machinery in the world. In 2008, it was listed as 102nd in the Fortune 500 ranking. Deere and Company agricultural products, usually sold under the John Deere name, inc... 2010-10-07 http://www.historyof.info/articles/115876/Fingernail-art... The various forms of modern nail art trends include nail polish used to colour the fingernails and toenails. Nail art history shows, that French Revlon company founded in 1932, started with a single product - a nail enamel unlike any before it -developed a unique manufacturing process. Using pigments instead of dyes, Revlon was able to offer to w... 2010-10-03 http://www.historyof.info/articles/114784/Mona-Lisa... Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde) is a sixteenth-century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel in Florence, Italy by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci during the Renaissance. The work is currently owned by the Government of France and is on display at the Musée du Louvre museum in Paris under the title Portrait o... 2010-09-21 http://www.historyof.info/articles/114157/Mecca... Ptolemy may have called the city Macoraba, though this identification is controversial.[Archaeology found no inscriptions or mentionings of Mecca from before that time, although other cities and kingdoms in that region are well documented in historical records. According to Islamic tradition, the history of Mecca goes back to Abraham (Ibrahim)... 2010-09-12 http://www.historyof.info/articles/113580/Dallas-Cowboys... The Dallas Cowboys are an American football team that plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. The team plays its home games at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, which finished construction ... 2010-09-05 http://www.historyof.info/articles/113179/WWE... In 1980, the son of Vincent J. McMahon, Vincent Kennedy McMahon, founded Titan Sports, Inc. and in 1982 purchased Capitol Wrestling Corporation from his father. The elder McMahon had long since established the northeastern territory as one of the most vibrant members of the NWA. He had long since recognized that professional wrestling was... 2010-09-01 http://www.historyof.info/articles/112083/silly-bandz... The original shaped silicone rubber bands were created in 2002 by a Japanese design team who wanted to introduce a more environmentally-sustainable rubber band as an office product.[1] Robert Croak, owner of Toledo, Ohio-based BCP Imports (known for distributing the Livestrong wristbands[2]), encountered the bands on a business trip and decided t... 2010-08-20 http://www.historyof.info/articles/111475/Body-piercing... Body piercings have seen a resurgence of interest in the last ten to twenty years and are becoming more and more a part of the mainstream Western culture. Take a look at any fashion or entertainment magazine and you'll see plenty of well-known celebrities with body piercings like navel rings or a labret. You might be surprised to find out... 2010-08-13 http://www.historyof.info/articles/111056/Soccer... The modern rules of football are based on the mid-19th century efforts to standardise the widely varying forms of football played at the public schools of England. The Cambridge Rules, first drawn up at Cambridge University in 1848, were particularly influential in the development of subsequent codes, including association football. T... 2010-08-09 http://www.historyof.info/articles/110536/Leaning-Tower-of-Pisa... The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: Torre pendente di Pisa) or simply the Tower of Pisa (La Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa. It is situated behind the Cathedral and is the third oldest structure in Pisa's Cathedral Square (Piazza del Duomo) after the Cathedral and t... 2010-08-02 http://www.historyof.info/articles/109573/Tattoo... Tattooing has been practiced for centuries worldwide. The Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, traditionally wore facial tattoos. Today one can find Berbers of Tamazgha (North Africa), Māori of New Zealand, Arabic people in East-Turkey and Atayal of Taiwan with facial tattoos. Tattooing was widespread among Polynesian peoples and among ... 2010-07-26 http://www.historyof.info/articles/106228/Victoria-Secret... Victoria's Secret was started in San Francisco, California, in 1977 by Stanford Graduate School of Business alumnus Roy Raymond, who felt embarrassed trying to purchase lingerie for his wife in a department store environment. He opened the first store at Stanford Shopping Center, and quickly followed it with a mail-order catalog and three... 2010-07-20 http://www.historyof.info/articles/103420/Carnival-Cruise-Lines... Carnival Cruise Lines is a British-American owned cruise line, based in the Doral suburb of Miami, Florida in the United States. Originally an independent company founded in 1972 by Ted Arison, the company is now one of eleven cruise ship brands owned and operated by Carnival Corporation & plc. The company has the largest fleet in the... 2010-07-15 http://www.historyof.info/articles/101180/Hooters... Hooters is the trade name of two privately held American restaurant chains: Hooters of America, Incorporated, based in Atlanta, Georgia, and Hooters, Incorporated, based in Clearwater, Florida. Hooters is a restaurant with a waitstaff primarily made up of attractive waitresses, though the company also employs other males/females as cooks... 2010-07-11 http://www.historyof.info/articles/96842/Egg-donation... sellmyegg.com -Egg donation with Family Creation's is a rewarding process. Along with the appreciation and gratitude from your recipient's, our donors are rewarded with competitive compensation for fulfilling their donor responsibilities. Egg donation is a very safe and common procedure, performed every day through... 2010-07-04 http://www.historyof.info/articles/92471/World-Trade-Center... The World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan in New York City that were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with six new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks. The original World Trade Center was designed by Minoru Yamasaki in... 2010-06-28 http://www.historyof.info/articles/87478/Harley-Davidson... In 1901, William S. Harley, age 21, drew up plans for a small engine with a displacement of 7.07 cubic inches (116 cc) and four-inch (102 mm) flywheels. The engine was designed for use in a regular pedal-bicycle frame. Over the next two years Harley and his childhood friend Arthur Davidson labored on their motor-bicycle using the northsid... 2010-06-20 http://www.historyof.info/articles/85990/Black-Pumps... The term pump for shoes is of unknown derivation according to the Webster's Third New International Dictionary. The reference can be to different types of shoe depending on the person using the word and the speaker's dialect: A type of athletic shoe: In Britain it is one of many regional names for plimsoll shoes[1] and as such was... 2010-06-17 http://www.historyof.info/articles/81820/Walt-Disney-World... In 1959, Walt Disney Productions began looking for land for a second park to supplement Disneyland, which had opened in Anaheim, California in 1955. Market surveys revealed that only 2% of Disneyland's visitors came from east of the Mississippi River, where 75% of the population of the United States lived. Additionally, Walt Disney disliked the b... 2010-06-10 http://www.historyof.info/articles/77511/the-Louvre-... The Musée du Louvre (French pronunciation: [myze dy luvʁ]), or officially the Grand Louvre — in English, the Louvre Museum or Great Louvre, or simply the Louvre — is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited museum in the world, and a historic monument. It is a central landmark of Paris, France and is locate... 2010-06-03 http://www.historyof.info/articles/75379/Las-Vegas-Strip... The Las Vegas Strip is an approximately 3.8-mile (6.1 km) stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County, Nevada.The Strip lies in the unincorporated areas of Paradise and Winchester. Most of the Strip has been designated an All-American Road. Many of the largest hotel, casino and resort properties in the world are located on the world f... 2010-05-27 http://www.historyof.info/articles/75068/Golden-Gate-Bridge... the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1, it connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it was completed during the year... 2010-05-23 http://www.historyof.info/articles/73637/Colosseum... The Colosseum or Roman Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is considered one of the greatest works ofRoman architecture and Roman engineerin... 2010-05-16 http://www.historyof.info/articles/70544/History-of-Royal-Caribbean... Royal Caribbean Cruise Line was founded in 1968 by Anders Wilhelmsen & Company, I.M. Skaugen & Company, and Gotaas Larsen, Norwegian shipping companies. The newly created line put its first ship, the Song of Norway, into service two years later. The next year, the line's capacity was doubled with the addition of the Nordic Prince ... 2010-05-10 http://www.historyof.info/articles/67791/History-of-Cursive-Writing... Cursive is any style of handwriting that is designed for writing notes and letters quickly by hand. In the Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic writing systems, the letters in a word are connected, making a word one single complex stroke. The word cursive comes from the Latin cursivus, meaning flowing. In the United Kingdom, the phrase joined up w... 2010-05-03 http://www.historyof.info/articles/64888/The-Pyramids... The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt. There are 138 pyramids discovered in Egypt as of 2008. Most were built as tombs for the country's Pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods.The earliest known Egyptian pyramid is the Pyramid of Djoser (constructed 2630 BCE–2611... 2010-04-27 http://www.historyof.info/headlines/news/travel travel News Headline :An all inclusive history website Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:25:34 CST http://www.historyof.info/resources/partners Other Resources :An all inclusive history website Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:25:34 CST http://www.historyof.info/watch/videos Videos :An all inclusive history website Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:25:34 CST