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Timeline of Printing in History

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:52:34 +0000

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Looking back to the past will give you a feeling to appreciate something more deeply but knowing the processes and the struggles that a certain idea or advancement experienced before it came to what it is today. Printing is one of the best discoveries in our history. It made human activity easier and facilitated creation of designs and personalized touches by using the printer and its printer ink cartridges. Here is a short timeline of the history of printing.

618-906

The first printing activity was done in China during the Tang Dynasty. Ink was used to transfer multiple images into paper. The ink was applied to carved wooden blocks then paper is placed above it to embed the images.

868

The Diamond Sutra was printed.

1241

Using movable type printing device, Koreans printed their books.

1300

China used the first wooden type printing device.

1309

Although the Chinese and Egyptians already created papyrus or paper, Europeans created their own paper.

1338

In France, the first paper mill was established.

1423

Block printing was used to print books in Europe.

1452

Metal plates were used to print books. The Bible was printed in Gutenberg which was then finished in 1456.

1457

Fust and Schoeffer used the first colored printing.

1501

The Italic printing was first used.

1819

Napier invented the rotary printing press.

1829

Louis Braille invented the embossed printing.

1844

The day electrotyping was invented.

1870

Paper was mass produced using wood pulp.

1892

The invention of four-color rotary press took place.

1907

Silk screening was used commercially.

1947

The creation of photypesetting took place.

Here is the timeline of the most relevant dates in the history of printing. Today, the creation of electronics such as microchips and motherboards gave birth to the present printer devices and their printer inkjet cartridges. The knowledge in color mixing gave rise to the discovery of new ink colors that are widely available now in several ink cartridges.

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11 Funny Trivia About Famous US Presidents

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:31:03 +0000

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US Presidents are the most reverend and respectable personnel in the nation but many of US Presidents had unusual careers and some interesting cats associated with their lives before or after entering the White House.

If you are looking for some fun and rare interesting facts about US Presidents, you are at right place.

This piece of writing includes some of very interesting and unique facts about the US Presidents. These facts might be related to their personal lives, their work, their president-ship or anything else.

Keep on reading to know these amazing facts related to the US Presidents.

1.Richard Milhous Nixon, who served as US President from

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1969 to 1974, was 37th President of US. He has received the maximum votes than any other person in the history of US President ship. His votes in first election to the Presidency in 1968, in presidential election in 1960, votes as Vice President in two terms and votes in three Congressional terms collectively makes him the maximum vote gainer in the American history.

2. Aaron Burr was a chief political figure in the early history of USA and was the vice president of US who got away with a murder. He played in a duel with Alexander Hamilton July 11, 1804. He shot Alexander Hamilton during the duel. Hamilton was mortally wounded in the duel. Alexander Hamilton died next day at home of William Bayard on the Manhattan shore. Aaron Burr was never charged for this murder as the duelling deaths was never considered as common murders.

3. The first coat of paint on White House (residence of President) was a mixture of rice, salt and glue. The Whitehouse was originally built with freestone. Freestone is a typical porous stone which is highly susceptible to water damage. Masons used the mixture of rice, salt and glue to seal the highly porous stone.

4.John F. Kennedy, originally named John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy was the 35th President of the United State.

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He served as US President from 1961 to 1963, until his assassination. Not much people know but John F. Kennedy had a mentally retarded sister, Rosemary. Rosemary is still living and is 85 years old.

5. Thomas Woodrow Wilson who served as US President from 1913 to 1921 was the only US President to receive an earned PhD in history. He earned his PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University. Thomas Woodrow was the 28th President of US.

6. Zachary Taylor could never establish his legal residency until he retired as he was a soldier and kept on moving every now and then. This was the reason that Zachary Taylor who was the 12th US President never gave his vote in elections. He didn’t even vote in his own elections.

7. John Quincy Adams who was the 6th US President was the only US President to own an alligator as a pet. He used to keep his pet alligator in the East room of the Whitehouse.

8. The famous sculpture made on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota was made by Gutzon Borglum. The sculpture included the faces of four US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Washington. Sculptor artists Gutzon Borglum took 14 years to complete that sculpture and it cost about $1million. Gutzon Borglum died before completing his sculpture in 1941 and his son completed the sculpture.

9. Thomas Marshall was an American democratic politician who served as US Vice President. He once remarked on the nation that the country only needs a good five cent cigar. On this statement made by Thomas Marshall, an American humorist Will Rogers commented that our country has plenty of good 5 cent cigars, but the trouble is that they charge 15 cents for them.

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10. Ronald Wilson Regan who was the 40th US President was the only US President to wear a Nazi uniform. Ronald Wilson Regan was also as an actor and wore this Nazi uniform in a movie.

11. Apart from the above mentioned interesting facts about the US Presidents, one very interesting fact about the US elections is that the money spent of elections t-shirts is almost 15 % of the total expense of US elections. Isn´t that amazing? The election t-shirts play a very important role in US elections.

Dona has been wearing her election shirt for past two months. She supports Ron Paul and hopes he will do good this year. Dona also loves doing concept art.

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Ancient lost settlement found in Amazon

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:49:51 +0000

Through satellite images of the Amazon region scientists have discovered a settlement made of a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived in.

The findings were published on Thursday in the journal science and described clusters of towns and smaller villages connected by complex road networks and housing society doomed by the arrival of Europeans five centuries ago because of the diseases brought by them into the new world.

The settlement now overgrown by the forest consisted of walled towns and smaller villages organized around a central plaza.

The anthropologist Mike Heckenberger from the University of Florida said in a statement: “These are not cities, but this is urbanism, built around towns,”.

“If we look at your average medieval town or your average Greek polis, most are about the scale of those we find in this part of the Amazon. Only the ones we find are much more complicated in terms of their planning,” Heckenberger added.

It took more than a decade for the researchers to map the lost communities with the help of the available satellite images.

Researchers are finding more and more that the Americas were home to many prosperous and impressive societies and large cities.

These findings come to prove that the virgin tropical forests in north-central Brazil aren’t in fact that virgin but heavily affected by past human activity.

These finding also come to prove that Americas societies weren’t that undeveloped at all.