1. Aqueducts,
2. The arch,
3. Central heating.
The only women in the United States who wore a uniform at the time United were, in addition to the nurses, the ten thousand young women who had just enlisted in the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (Female Auxiliary Corps of the Army). Created in May 1942 under the slogan Free a man for combat, it sou
BART (Jean)(Dunkirk, 1650-1702.) Sailor from a family of merchant navigators. Jean Bart, is a French sailor, born in Dunkirk on October 21, 1650, and died on April 27, 1702. He is the son of Cornil Bart and Catherine Jansen (Jan Bart, pronounced Yann for Jan and the T of Bart, Flemish, as the Dun
The Chinese emperor Hien Tsung , of the Tang dynasty , was the first to impose in 807 the spread of paper notes to replace the copper, difficult to find, with which coins were usually minted. The mechanism provided that the merchants paid their coins to the public Treasury office, receiving i
The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a conflict between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies on the east coast of North America. Following its victory over France in 1763, Great Britain had become the first colonial power in the world. In the New World, once the threat of