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The sport we in the United States know as football is more so called gridiron football, for the vertical yard lines that mark the field. Closely related to some English sports, rugby and soccer gridiron football originated at collages in North America, primarily the United States, in the late 19th century. On November 6 1869, the players from Princeton and Rutgers held the first intercollegiate football contest in New Brunswick, New Jersey, playing a soccer style game with rules adapted from the…

times. The car wasn 't easy to drive because it didn 't have brakes, it didn 't have power steering, which make steering easy, and it was safer to drive during the day because it didn 't have lights either. He never gave up and kept on trying, “In 1888 he was satisfied that his automobile was both safe and practical, as demonstrated by his wife, Bertha. Bertha showed the progress of the new horseless carriage by successfully completing a trip from Mannheim to her mother houses Pforzheim and back…

Jack the Ripper In London 1888, Jack the Ripper was a murderer that killed prostitutes such as Mary Nichols, Annie Chapman and a few others (Jones). His real identity is still unknown today, because of their lack of forensics and technology then they could not find the actual murderer (Jack the Ripper Biography). The name Jack the Ripper was created by one of the letters that was sent to the Metropolitan newsletter and they had signed it as "Jack the Ripper" (History.com Staff 1).…

Professsor Christiansen HIST 100 02 7 December 2015 An Unpleasant Vienna During the end of the nineteenth century, also known as the “Fin De Siecle” the people of the city of Vienna, Austria struggled greatly. RJ Longstreet Nothing was going right for the people of Vienna causing many to experience emotional distress. During this time period, there was a great cultural change. This shift varied from the music that was being composed to the new steps in architectural beauty throughout the city…

White chapel London 1888 was being terrorized by an unknown killer. From august to November, at least five prostitutes had been found viciously murdered. Their throats were cut, they had abdominal mutilations and some of their organs had been removed. This was the most vicious string of murders that London had ever seen. The killer, Jack the ripper, was originally called “the white chapel murderer” or “leather apron” and didn’t actually get the name Jack…

Unemployment and famine in Southern Europe, and overpopulation in Japan during the late nineteenth century, led millions of people to cross the Atlantic Ocean in search of a better life in Argentina or Brazil. During the closing decades of the nineteenth century, Europeans faced famine due to poverty, leading the first Italians to migrate to Argentina, where food was plentiful. The economic depression of northern Italy led millions of Italians to travel to South America in search for new jobs,…

basketball as it is known today was created by Dr.ions James Naismith in December 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to condition young athletes during cold months. He only had 13 rules to the game at first. The first professional league was founded in 1888. There were only six teams in the league. The first champions were the Trenton Nationals and other teams in the future but the league was abandoned in 1904. Then, many small championships were organized, but most of them were not as…

Henry Ford was one of the men who revolutionized the United States in many ways. He was born on July 30, 1863 in greenfield township, Michigan he married Clara Jane Bryant in 1888. Henry ford founded the ford motor company in 1903, he revolutionized the use of automobiles by creating cars that not only the upper class could afford but also the middle class of Americans. This caused automobiles to be a more common commodity among most all Americans. Again in 1913 Henry Ford revolutionized the…

drawing she had passed her love for the arts on to her son, but his father had nothing to do with the arts he was a country miner. Van Gogh’s education was at royal academy of fine art for one year in 1886 and then at Willem II collage from 1886 to 1888, he was a post-impressionist painter, his career an artist began in earnest in Etten, He decided to become an artist at the age of 27 in 1880, he moved around teaching himself to draw. One of van Gogh’s main exhibitions is in Melbourne this…

This chapter, except for the section on the Hazaras in the early Ismaili literature, has already been published under the title of ‘The Shi‘a Ismaʿili Da‘wat in Khurasan: From Its Early Beginning to the Ghaznawid Era’, at the Journal of Shʿia Islamic Studies, 2015, Vol. VIII, No. 1, pp. 37-59. In several qaṣīdas of his dīwān (1956), Farrukhī praises Sulṭān Maḥmūd Ghaznawī as the King of Zāwulistān. For further details see, Baiza, Y. (2014) The Hazaras of Afghanistan and their Shiʿa…