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Personal computer history doesn't begin with IBM or Microsoft, although Microsoft was an early participant in the PC industry. Until 1975, there were no „Personal Computers“. There just were the so called „mainframe“-computers and microcomputers. PC means, that there is ONE Computer for ONE person. We may say. that this is absolutely normal for us, but in the seventies this was unimaginable.
- The first personal computers were introduced in 1975: The MITS Altair 8800, followed by the IMSAI 8080, an Altair clone
Unlike most of the other non-foolish holidays, the history of April Fool's Day, sometimes called All Fool's Day, is not totally clear. There really wasn't a "first April Fool's Day" that can be pinpointed on the calendar. Some believe it sort of evolved simultaneously in several cultures at the same time, from celebrations involving the first day of spring.
The closest point in time that can be identified as the beginning of this tradition was in 1582,
I am writing you a complain about the services you have mentioned in your brochure about the Star Hotel, Northwold.
First af all I would like to advise you to give correct and clear informations in your brochures. Although there is nothing to complain about the staff, rooms and in gerneral the hotel, there are a lot of other details that bothered me.
I have visited the Northwold during a weekend and I expected, that the hill top castle should be open, but it was shut. I felt really disap
Foreign exchange rate responses to many different factors in the economy including the economic stability, interest rates, house market, import & export, investment, oil prices, unemployment, or elections. Exchange rate is a price of one currency related to another.
Both the inflation factor and the purchasing power of the currencies directly impact currency exchange-rates. Consumers try to avoid the eroding effect inflation has on their purchasing power. Consequ
Arthur C. Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He lived from 1859-1930. He graduated at Stonyhurst and Edinburgh University and adopted the profession of medicine. He was made a peer. He will be remembered chiefly for his creaton of the amateur dedective, Sherlock Holmes, embodied in a cycle of stories like "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes" 1891, "The Memories of Sherlock Holmes" 1894, "The Hound of Baskerville"1902 and others. Everybody will also remember his second fi
Work In Britain live 59 millions people and work 27 millions. The most people work in the full time. For instance: in the car factory work 2000 people. London is on first place in Europe and at third place on world from point of view money.
Holidays August is one from the most popular months for holiday. Englishmen travel on Florida because in that place is more sun and warmer. From 19th century they begin travel on holiday in the big cities. But also in the Britain you can spend holiday. You can swim,
New York is one of the largest cities not only in the USA but in the world. The city has 5 parts: Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Richmond. It is an important seaport and harbor. NY is nicknamed the Big Apple. Its first name was New Amsterdam. The Dutch colonizers bought the island from Indians for beads and ornaments for 24 dollars. The Florentine navigator entered to NY. Bay. The area was explored by Henri Hudson. After him is named the Hudson River. Manhattan mea
The official name of the country is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and it lies on the British Isles of the north-western coast of Europe. The British Isles consist of 2 big islands = Great Britain and Ireland and many smaller islands. The largest of them are The Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Anglesey, the Hebrides, the Orkneyes and the Shetlands. The British Isles include 2 states. The UK consisting of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Eac
There are many ways how and where to live, everybody can choose the best for him, that what he likes, needs or can afford. I live in small town in a three-room-flat with my family. I definitely would not stand up living in cottage house in the middle of nowhere. Living in such an area must be very boring a living in that type of house is surely very uncomfortable. It is true that the way people live in the country is much more quite than in a town or a city, they do not suffer under stress that much. But living in a country seems to me t
In Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, the main character has ambition and pride. These are important qualities because they improve her life. Her ambition to become a
governess gives her independence from the orphanage. Later, after she falls in
love with Mr. Rochester, her pride makes her leave him because she won’t lower herself
to be his mistress. Finally, she shows ambition when she decided to come back to
Leisure time is the time that we spend the way we like to spend it, usually after all the work that we have to do is done. Leisure time is the time for fun, time for entertainment and the time for hobbies. Hobbies are the activities that people like to do in their free time. There are many different ways of spending free time and many types of hobbies too. Just for example, people like to go to cinema, theater, concerts, art exhibitions or going for a walk during their leisure time. Many of them like to spend their time practicing their hobbies
When it comes to mixing oil and water, oceans suffer from far more than an occasional devastating spill. Disasters make headlines, but hundreds of millions of gallons of oil quietly end up in the seas every year, mostly from non-accidental sources.
Down the Drain: 363 Million Gallons Used engine oil can end up in waterways. An average oil change uses five quarts; one change can contaminate a million gallons of fresh water. Much oil in runoff from land and municipal and industrial wastes ends up in the oceans. 363 million ga
The young Phil Knight always wanted to be number one, but as a student at the University of Oregan joinging the track and field team, he only ran good enough to come second. But it is his aggressive will to win that permates the whole company. After a brief spell as an accountant, Phil Knight started selling running shoes from the boot of his car. NIKE, the brand was born in 1971 and was soon known as „the saturday Knight Live“ of the sport business. It was Knight’s college track coach, Bill Bowerman, who designed the famous waffle - shap
Looking at the history of rock and roll, it is impossible to overstate the importance of Bob Dylan. The grandchild of Jewish-Russian immigrants, Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman, on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, where his father, Abe, worked for the Standard Oil Company. In 1947, the Zimmerman family moved to the small town of Hibbing, where an unexceptional childhood did little to hint at the brilliance to come. Robert started writing poems around the age of ten, and taught himself rudimentary piano and guitar in his early teens. Fa
Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828 in France. Pier’s and Sophie’s son Jules went to school in Paris. His dad was a lawyer. When he was a young boy, he ran away from his home. Jules Verne got married to Honorie Anne Marie Morel who has already two daughters named Valentine and Suzana. Later on they had a child together. It was a boy and they called him Michael. Later on in his life he started writing the unrealistic stories and he became a very famous writer who wrote a lots of great books. Jules studied geography and science. That’s
At 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria. His mother Klara gave birth to two boys and a girl, all of whom died. In1889 her fourth child, Adolf was born healthy and was baptized a Roman Catholic. Throughout his early days, young Adolf's mother feared losing him as well and lavished much care and affection on him. His father was busy working most of the time and also spent a lot of time on his main hobby, keeping bees
The "American dream" means many different things to many different people. For some people it is the freedom of religion so that they can worship in any way they like without feeling threatened. For some it is the dream of becoming your own boss, a pursuit that just isn't possible in many countries. To some it is knowing that for all of their hard work their children and grandchildren will have a much better life than they had. For others it is living in a country where they know that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness a
Trotsky, in fear of his life, fled to Mexico where he was hunted down and killed by Stalin’s secret police, creating a dictatorship. Without a voice against him, Stalin gained power and influence over his people. They believed everything he said and promised because they wanted to believe. Their goal of a better life was their weakness as Napoleon manipulated and used propaganda to get them to do what he wanted. The most awarding part about the dictatorship for Stalin was his ability to ignore the rules of communism without opposition and wit