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  • Ebay History and Business Model

    Ebay History and Business Model

    The History of eBay eBay was founded in Pierre Omidyar's San Jose living room back in September 1995. It was from the start meant to be a marketplace for the sale of goods and services for individuals. In 1998, Pierre and his cofounder Jeff Skoll brought in Meg Whitman to sustain the success. Meg had studied at the Harvard Business School and had learned the importance of branding at companies such as Hasbro. Meg culled

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    Submitted: June 2, 2010 By: Fatih
  • History of Paintbal

    History of Paintbal

    >>>>>>>>>>>>Some Parts are made up Paintball is quite a new sport and is becoming more and more popular. It has been around since 1982, but professional paintball teams have just recently come together in 2002. The rules of paintball are not very complicated and are very concise. The game is very entertaining to play. There are also plenty of different types of products used to play the game. It is the one of the only

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    Submitted: June 2, 2010 By: Mike
  • The History of Mardi Gras

    The History of Mardi Gras

    The History of Mardi Gras In French Mardi Gras means “fat Tuesday.” It is celebrated 41 days before Easter Sunday, which is determined by the Catholic Church from the lunar calendar. It can fall anywhere from February 3 to March 9. Mardi Gras began in Paris, France during the middle ages and was brought to New Orleans by the French Explorer Iberville in 1699. The first parade took place in 1837. During the early 1800s

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    Submitted: June 3, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Gatorade: History and Product offerings

    Gatorade: History and Product offerings

    Gatorade: History and Product Offerings History Gatorade is a flavored non-carbonated sports drink manufactured by the Quaker Oats Company, a division of PepsiCo. It was invented during the 1960s by University of Florida doctors in order to hydrate the university's football team (The Gators). New brands include its vitamin-enhanced Propel Fitness Water; its Thirst Quencher series with names like Rain, Frost, and Fierce; and its Performance series, sold under the brand name Endurance. Current Offerings

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    Submitted: June 4, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Chinese History - Zhanghe

    Chinese History - Zhanghe

    Most people in China know the name of Zheng He with his seven voyages very well. Zheng He, the greatest explorer during the ancient time in China, was the first man completing the first circumnavigation of the globe decades before Christopher Columbus and one century earlier than Ferdinand Magellan during 1519-1522. Cheng Ho, who was said to have been seven feet tall, was given greater power when Zhu Di became emperor in 1402. One year

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    Submitted: June 4, 2010 By: Edward
  • Roman History

    Roman History

    Death In Rome when you died it was very important that you were buried properly and the correct procedure was followed. If something didn't go right the funeral would start again. The Romans believed in life after death, and the souls of the dead could help the living or make life hard for them. To insure that the souls of the dead rested in peace a gold coin would be placed under the tongue, this

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    Submitted: June 4, 2010 By: Bred
  • The Cinema of Czech Republic - Czechoslovakian History

    The Cinema of Czech Republic - Czechoslovakian History

    The Cinema of Czech Republic Czechoslovakian History At the end of World War I, Czechoslovakia emerged from the Austria- Hungary Empire. During World War II Czechoslovakia was under German control, but in 1939 it was liberated by the U.S. and Soviets. In 1947, it became a Communist driven country, after the suspicious death of Jan Masaryk, an non-communist foreign minister. Liberties were limited and trials were conducted from 1950 to 1952. Riots echoed the economic

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    Submitted: June 5, 2010 By: July
  • The History of Tattoos and Body Piercing

    The History of Tattoos and Body Piercing

    The History of Tattoos and Body Piercing The largest organ in the human body is the skin. Some people choose to express themselves through decorating their skin with tattoos, piercing and other kinds of body art. It's true origin, symbolism, variety, and modern day versions go way back in time. The first tattoo known to man, was found on Otzi, the “Iceman“, in 1991. Otzi himself is from around 4,000 B.C. Fifty-eight tattoos were found

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    Submitted: June 5, 2010 By: July
  • Significal Presidential Elections in American History

    Significal Presidential Elections in American History

    Top 10 Significant Presidential Elections in American History Will the 2004 presidential election be considered one of the most significant presidential elections in US history? It is impossible to judge the importance of any presidential election until time has passed. The 2004 election will have to demonstrate its impact on the nation. In order to be included in this list of the top ten presidential elections, a significant event had to impact the election's outcome

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    Submitted: June 5, 2010 By: Mike
  • Ap American History - Dbq Divine Authority

    Ap American History - Dbq Divine Authority

    "During colonial period, religion provided the primary rationale for the authority of the king" Evaluate Religion was a primary factor in day to day life in colonial times. Minor decisions weren't made without first thinking what God would "say". Therefore something as important as choosing the king must be done with God in mind. Many believed that God appoints the king directly. Many questions were raised about God's role in delegating authority: Does authority come

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    Submitted: June 6, 2010 By: Anna
  • Oludah Equiano History Homework

    Oludah Equiano History Homework

    HISTORY HOMEWORK I was captured in 16, and thrust down into the stinking hold of a slave ship. No doubt my captors believed to be little me more than an animal. Yet I was to utterly confound their prejudices. Thirty years later I published an account of my life that became a rallying cry for all who wanted to end slavery. I became a tireless campaigner who sought to forge links between the anti-slavery

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    Submitted: June 7, 2010 By: vincent
  • History of Atomic Clock

    History of Atomic Clock

    Return Time Standards 1945 Isidor Rabi, a physics professor at Columbia University, suggests a clock could be made from a technique he developed in the 1930's called atomic beam magnetic resonance. 1949 Using Rabi’s technique, NIST (then the National Bureau of Standards) announces the world’s first atomic clock using the ammonia molecule as the source of vibrations. 1952 NIST announces the first atomic clock using cesium atoms as the vibration source. This clock is named

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    Submitted: June 7, 2010 By: Jack
  • Philanthropy History

    Philanthropy History

    PHILANTHROPY HISTORY Philanthropy began to formalise in Victorian England with the rise of industrialisation in the early 1800’s. Along with this came not only the change in the economy due to the shift from agrarian to capitalist production, but also a re-evaluation of what it was that constituted helping people. Industrialisation caused a great increase in poverty as individuals struggled to keep up with the constant demand to change with the economy. Farmers were continually

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    Submitted: June 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • History of Tv

    History of Tv

    Television has become a major industry all over the world, especially in the industrialized nations, and a major medium of communication and source of home entertainment. Television is used in many industries. A few examples are for surveillance in places inaccessible to or dangerous for human beings, in science for tissue microscopy, and in education. Today you can find a television in almost every home. This is why I decided to research the history

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    Submitted: June 8, 2010 By: David
  • The History of Western Music

    The History of Western Music

    The History of Western Music Music has been around since the dawn of time, ever since man first inhabited this planet we have learned to communicate in ways other then conventional speaking. Different Cultures all have there own specific way of communicating through music. Music is basically broken into two specific groups Eastern Music and Western Music. Eastern music is mainly derived from the orient and India. While, Western music first emerged from Europe. Western

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    Submitted: June 8, 2010 By: Jon
  • Child Raising in European History

    Child Raising in European History

    Disputes on how children should be raised have always existed. There is the common argument of nature versus nurture, and the many others that have risen. Europe contained some of the first modernized civilizations. This was where techniques on raising children began to develop. In early modern Europe the opinion of children dictated how they were raised. Actually, some Europeans believe that children are gentle, innocent gifts. As a diplomat and a father, Christoph Scheurl

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    Submitted: June 8, 2010 By: Bred
  • Californian History

    Californian History

    Californian history The first Europeans to approach California came from the south. Spanish explorers in the sixteenth century sailed northward from the ports of Acapulco and Navidad along the west coast of what is today Mexico. They came in search of gold and the water route to Asia through North America. Among the most important of these early explorers were Hernбn Cortйs, Fortъn Jimйnez, and Francisco de Ulloa. They sailed along the coast of Baja

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    Submitted: June 10, 2010 By: Max
  • History of Tjx Companies, Inc.

    History of Tjx Companies, Inc.

    History of TJX Companies, Inc. The TJX Companies is the leading off-price apparel and home fashions retailer in the United States and worldwide. In 2005 alone TJX produced over $16 billion in revenue. To earn such an impressive bottom line TJX relies on its eight retail chains: TJMaxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, A.J. Wright, Bob’s Stores, TKMaxx, Winners, and HomeSense. The TJX Companies, Inc. traces its history back to Zayre Corp. This corporation was the parent company

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    Submitted: June 10, 2010 By: Janna
  • History and Perspective

    History and Perspective

    In 1998 there were just a handful of sites of the type that are now identified as weblogs (so named by Jorn Barger in December 1997). Jesse James Garrett, editor of Infosift, began compiling a list of "other sites like his" as he found them in his travels around the web. In November of that year, he sent that list to Cameron Barrett. Cameron published the list on Camworld, and others maintaining similar sites began

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    Submitted: June 11, 2010 By: Fonta
  • What Factors Have Led to Church & Dwight’s Long History of Slow and Stable Growth?

    What Factors Have Led to Church & Dwight’s Long History of Slow and Stable Growth?

    What factors have led to Church & Dwight’s long history of slow and stable growth? Church and Dwight can attribute much of its success to the fact that it has concentrated on the production and sales of sodium bicarbonate. Strong family control has shielded management from the problems of defending the company from hostile takeover attempts. The company has successfully taken a commodity chemical, branded it, and marketed it to the point where it controls

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    Submitted: June 11, 2010 By: Mike
  • Kodak History

    Kodak History

    On July 12, 1854 in the village of Waterville Maria Kilbourn and George Washington Eastman had a child that would change the way the world took pictures forever, and that child was George Eastman. When George was five his father sold the family nursery business and moved to Rochester where he founded the Eastman Commercial College. Shortly thereafter George’s father died and the College failed leaving George and his mother in financial despair. So because

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    Submitted: June 12, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • A Brief History of Gui

    A Brief History of Gui

    Today, almost everybody in the developed world interacts with personal computers in some form or another. We use them at home and at work, for entertainment, information, and as tools to leverage our knowledge and intelligence. It is pretty much assumed whenever anyone sits down to use a personal computer that it will operate with a graphical user interface. We expect to interact with it primarily using a mouse, launch programs by clicking on icons,

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    Submitted: June 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • History

    History

    History is facilitated by the formation of a 'true discourse of past'. The modern discipline of History is dedicated to the institutional production of this discourse. More precisely, history is the narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race;[1] as well as the study of all events in time, in relation to humanity.[2] This emphasis on the 'human' has made human subjects central to the narratives of the classical discourse of

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    Submitted: June 13, 2010 By: Janna
  • A History of Photography

    A History of Photography

    The name "Photography" comes from the Greek words for light and writing. Sir John Herschel, was the first to use the term photography in 1839, when he managed to fix images using hyposulphite of soda. He described photography as "The application of the chemical rays to the purpose of pictorial representation". Herschel also coined the terms "negative", "positive" and "snapshot". But a man called de la Roche (1729 - 1774), wrote Giphantie and in this

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    Submitted: June 17, 2010 By:
  • A History of Black Death and Its Effects on Western Europe

    A History of Black Death and Its Effects on Western Europe

    A History of Black Death and its Effects on Western Europe Black Death in Western Europe This plague, thought to be the Bubonic plague, spread throughout Europe, killing about half its population. It was called the Black Death because of the black blotches that appeared on the victims' bodies. This plague was carried by infected fleas of the black rat. Theology, developed in accordance with this idea, threw about all cures, even those which resulted

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    Submitted: July 13, 2010 By: Andrey

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