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3 giorni fa · Excerpt from The New England Primer of 1690, the most popular American textbook of the 18th century Textbooks. In the 17th century, colonists imported schoolbooks from England. By 1690, Boston publishers were reprinting the English Protestant Tutor under the title of The New England Primer. The Primer was built on rote memorization.
4 giorni fa · The 18th century Southern colonies College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the first college in the South, founded 1693. Engraving showing early North Carolina settlers settle the region A map of the Thirteen Colonies in 1770, showing the number of slaves in each colony
1 giorno fa · By the early 18th century, the custom had become common in towns of the upper Rhineland, but it had not yet spread to rural areas. Wax candles, expensive items at the time, are found in attestations from the late 18th century. Along the Lower Rhine, an area of Roman Catholic majority, the Christmas tree was largely regarded as a Protestant custom.
1 giorno fa · Modern. ↓ Future. v. t. e. Archaic humans emerged out of Africa between 0.5 and 1.8 million years ago. This was followed by the emergence of anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens) in East Africa around 300,000–250,000 years ago. The earliest known recorded history arose in Ancient Egypt, [1] and later in Nubia, the Horn of Africa, the ...
1 giorno fa · The practice developed into a widespread business that flourished until the early 18th century. The demand was much higher than the supply of ancient mummies, leading to much of the offered "mummia" being counterfeit, made from recent Egyptian or European corpses – often from the gallows – instead.
5 giorni fa · A 1st-century BC Roman catapult launching 6.55 kg (14.4 lb) stones achieved a kinetic energy of 16 kilojoules, compared to a mid-19th-century 12-pounder gun, which fired a 4.1 kg (9.0 lb) round, with a kinetic energy of 240 kilojoules, or a 20th-century US battleship that fired a 1,225 kg (2,701 lb) projectile from its main battery with an energy level surpassing 350 megajoules.
5 giorni fa · Atheism was first used to describe a self-avowed belief in late 18th-century Europe, specifically denoting disbelief in the monotheistic Abrahamic god. [b] In the 20th century, globalization contributed to the expansion of the term to refer to disbelief in all deities, though it remains common in Western society to describe atheism as "disbelief in God".
