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1 giorno fa · The pound ( sign: £) is the main unit of sterling, [4] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [5] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. [4] Sterling is the world's oldest currency in continuous use since its inception. [6]
1 giorno fa · 6th century BC: University in Taxila, of the Indus Valley, then part of the kingdom of Gandhara, of the Achaemenid Empire (modern-day Pakistan). 6th century – 2nd century BC: Systematization of medicine and surgery in the Sushruta Samhita in Vedic Northern India. Documented procedures to: Perform cataract surgery .
5 giorni fa · History of Wahhabism. The Wahhabi movement started as a revivalist and reform movement in the Arabian Peninsula during the early 18th century, whose adherents described themselves as "Muwahhidun" (Unitarians). [a] A young Hanbali cleric named Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab (1703–1792 C.E/ 1115-1206 A.H), the leader of the Muwahhidun and eponym ...
3 giorni fa · From the 1st century BC, Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla grew to control the peninsula and Manchuria as the Three Kingdoms of Korea (57 BC–668 AD), until unification by Silla in 676. In 698, King Go established Balhae in the old territories of Goguryeo, [14] [15] which led to the Northern and Southern States period (698–926) of saw Balhae and Silla coexisting.
4 giorni fa · 18th century Satirical cartoon by James Gillray showing a Royal Institution lecture, with Humphry Davy holding the bellows and Count Rumford looking on at extreme right Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) was an English polymath who discovered nitrous oxide , nitric oxide , ammonia , hydrogen chloride , and (along with Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier ) oxygen .
2 giorni fa · 370. Famine in Phrygia. Phrygia. 372–373. Famine in Edessa. Edessa. 400–800. Various famines in Western Europe associated with the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and its sack by Alaric I. Between 400 and 800 AD, the population of the city of Rome fell by over 90%, mainly because of famine and plague. [citation needed]
1 giorno fa · Along with the universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh, the university was part of the Scottish Enlightenment during the 18th century. Glasgow is the largest university in Scotland by total enrolment and with over 19,500 postgraduates the second-largest in the United Kingdom by postgraduate enrolment.
