Encyclopedia - Coldplay: Encyclopedia Ii - Coldplay - History
Coldplay - Origin and early years September 1996–October 1999. The members of the band met in the halls of residence at the Universit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Common Cold: Encyclopedia Ii - Common Cold - History
Colds were known in ancient Egypt; there were hieroglyphs for cough and for the common cold. The Greek Hippocrates gave a description of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coca-cola: Encyclopedia Ii - Coca-cola - History
Coca-Cola - Early years. Coca-Cola was invented in Columbus, Georgia, by John S. Pemberton in 1884, originally as a cocawine called Pem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Connecticut Colony: Encyclopedia Ii - Connecticut Colony - History
The first Europeans to the area the members of the expedition of Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, who sailed through Long Island Sound and u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - County Cork: Encyclopedia Ii - County Cork - History
In 1601 the decisive Battle of Kinsale (Cath Cionn tSáile) took place in County Cork, which was to lead to English domination of Ireland...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cognitive Radio: Encyclopedia Ii - Cognitive Radio - History
The idea of Cognitive radio was first presented officially in the article by Joseph Mitola III and Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr. [1]. It was a n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colombia: Encyclopedia Ii - Colombia - History
Around 1450 BC there was cultural activity near Bogotá, in "El Abra". In 1000 BC, groups of amerindians developed the political system o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comedy Central: Encyclopedia Ii - Comedy Central - History
Comedy Central began on April Fool's Day 1991, after Home Box Office, owned by Time Warner, merged its Comedy Channel with MTV Networks' ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Containerization: Encyclopedia Ii - Containerization - History
Containerization is an important element of the logistics revolution that changed freight handling in the 20th century. Malcolm McLean cl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conspiracy Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Conspiracy Caesar - History
The following passage is part of an eyewitness account of this conspiracy written by Nicolaus of Damascus, a few years after the assassin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Console Emulator: Encyclopedia Ii - Console Emulator - History
Emulation was occasionally employed by console manufacturers in the early 1980s to allow games from other (and sometimes competing) hardw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Continental Airlines: Encyclopedia Ii - Continental Airlines - History
Continental Airlines - Early history. Continental Airlines began service in 1934 as Varney Speed Lines, named after its initial owner, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Continental Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Continental Philosophy - History
The distinction between continental and analytic philosophy is relatively recent, probably dating from the early twentieth century. The b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Convention On Psychotropic Substances: Encyclopedia Ii - Convention On Psychotropic Substances - History
International drug control began with the 1912 International Opium Convention, a treaty which adopted import and export restrictions on t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Convent Of Wurmsbach: Encyclopedia Ii - Convent Of Wurmsbach - History
The Earl Rudolf of Rapperswil donated his castle Wurmsbach together with a considerable area of land in 1259. In 1261 the convent was est...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commodity Markets: Encyclopedia Ii - Commodity Markets - History
The modern commodity markets have their roots in the trading of agricultural products. While wheat and corn, cattle and pigs, were widely...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cotton Candy: Encyclopedia Ii - Cotton Candy - History
Spun sugar has been a culinary staple for many years. It was popular in Italy in the fifteenth century [1] but making it involves dipping...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conscription In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Conscription In The United States - History
Conscription in the United States - Early drafts. The United States first employed a form of conscription during the War of 1812. The i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Congressional Black Caucus: Encyclopedia Ii - Congressional Black Caucus - History
The Caucus was founded in January 1969, by a group of black members of the House of Representatives, including Shirley Chisholm of New Yo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cowes: Encyclopedia Ii - Cowes - History
There are two theories about the origin of the name:- Cowes and East Cowes derive their names from the time of Henry VIII, when fortific...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coney Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Coney Island - History
Coney Island - The Name. There are a number of explanations for Coney's name, but the generally accepted source is from coney, an obsol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crescent Amtrak: Encyclopedia Ii - Crescent Amtrak - History
Before Amtrak took over the route, a train called the Southern Crescent was operated by the Southern Railway, a predecessor of Norfolk So...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coventry: Encyclopedia Ii - Coventry - History
Coventry is traditionally believed to have been established in the year 1043 with the founding of a Benedictine Abbey by Leofric, Earl of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conquistador: Encyclopedia Ii - Conquistador - History
Conquistador - New World. The first Spanish conquest in the Americas was the island of Hispaniola (presently shared by Haiti and the Do...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Connecticut Turnpike: Encyclopedia Ii - Connecticut Turnpike - History
The Connecticut Turnpike opened on January 2, 1958 however the westernmost portion of the highway (the three miles connecting Stamford wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conventional Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Conventional Warfare - History
Conventional warfare - Formation of the state. For more details on this topic, see State#Formation_of_the_state. The state was first ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Copenhagen Tobacco: Encyclopedia Ii - Copenhagen Tobacco - History
George Weyman, inventor of Copenhagen snuff, opened his tobacco shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania sometime during 1822. In April 1845, Wey...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corpus Christi College Oxford: Encyclopedia Ii - Corpus Christi College Oxford - History
The college was founded in 1517 by Richard Fox, the Bishop of Winchester. Although intended as a traditional training college for secular...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corrugated Galvanised Iron: Encyclopedia Ii - Corrugated Galvanised Iron - History
CGI was invented in the 1840s, and was originally made (as the name suggests) from wrought iron. It proved to be light, strong, corrosion...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coutances: Encyclopedia Ii - Coutances - History
Capital of the Unelli, a Gaulish tribe, the town took the name of Constantia in 298 during the reign of Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cork Bandon And South Coast Railway: Encyclopedia Ii - Cork Bandon And South Coast Railway - History
The first part of the CBSCR was incorporated under the Cork and Brandon Railway Act, 1845 and opened for traffic in December 1851, betwee...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conyers Georgia: Encyclopedia Ii - Conyers Georgia - History
Before European settlement, The area which is now Conyers and the surrounding county of Rockdale, was occupied by Mound Building Native A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cricket World Cup: Encyclopedia Ii - Cricket World Cup - History
The Cricket World Cup was first held in 1975 in England, with eight teams participating: Australia, England, the West Indies, Pakistan, I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - County Limerick: Encyclopedia Ii - County Limerick - History
It is thought that man had established himself in the Lough Gur area of the county as early as 3000 BC, while megalithic remains found at...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - County Of Tripoli: Encyclopedia Ii - County Of Tripoli - History
The beginnings of the County came in 1102, when Count Raymond IV of Toulouse, one of the leaders of the First Crusade, began a lengthy wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cowboy: Encyclopedia Ii - Cowboy - History
The Spanish were adept at herding livestock. In fact the Spanish invented what we now know as the cowboy tradition beginning in the Middl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cowan Tennessee: Encyclopedia Ii - Cowan Tennessee - History
Cowan dates from the mid-19th century and developed mostly as a railroad town. It was the site where several branch lines met the main Na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cork International Airport: Encyclopedia Ii - Cork International Airport - History
In 1957 the Irish Government agreed in principle to the building of an airport for Cork City. After viewing many sites in the area it was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Covenanter Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Covenanter Tank - History
In 1938, the War Office had issued a requirement for a new, better armored cruiser tank to replace the Cruiser IV. Nuffield's A16 design ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corn Construction: Encyclopedia Ii - Corn Construction - History
Corn has long been used in manufacturing, and there were particular innovations in the United States in the early 1900s. For example, Hen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cornell University: Encyclopedia Ii - Cornell University - History
Cornell University - Conception of Cornell. When Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White met in the New York Senate in January 1864, each...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cornish Pasty: Encyclopedia Ii - Cornish Pasty - History
By the 1800s the pasty had evolved to meet the needs of tin miners, as tin mining was a major Cornish industry at the time. Tradition cla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cornish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Cornish Language - History
The proto-Cornish language came into being after the Southwest Britons of Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall became geographically sepa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cremona: Encyclopedia Ii - Cremona - History
Cremona - Ancient city. Cremona was originally a settlement of the Cenomani, a Gaul tribe. The today's city was founded in 218 BC by th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concord Grape: Encyclopedia Ii - Concord Grape - History
The 'Concord' grape was developed in 1849 by Ephraim Wales Bull in Concord, Massachusetts. Bull planted seeds from wild Vitis labrusca an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Collier's Weekly: Encyclopedia Ii - Collier's Weekly - History
The periodical was founded as Collier's Once a Week in April 1888 as a magazine of "fiction, fact, sensation, wit, humor, news" by Peter ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - College Radio: Encyclopedia Ii - College Radio - History
College radio - United States. College radio as it is generally known began in the United States in the 1960s when the FCC began issuin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - College Of William And Mary: Encyclopedia Ii - College Of William And Mary - History
College of William and Mary - Early History. The history of the College's founding predates the founding of the United States. It begi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colmar: Encyclopedia Ii - Colmar - History
The town of Colmar was founded in the 9th century. This was the place where Charles the Fat held a diet in 884. Colmar was granted the st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coat Of Arms Of Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - Coat Of Arms Of Croatia - History
The red and white checkerboard has been a symbol of Croatian kings since at least the 10th century, ranging in size from 3×3 to 8×8, bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concord University: Encyclopedia Ii - Concord University - History
May 10, 1875, classes begin with 70 students. Captain James Harvey French was the first principal, and he served until his death in 1891....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colorado State University: Encyclopedia Ii - Colorado State University - History
The act to create the university was signed by Colorado Territory governor Edward McCook in 1870 arising from the Morrill Act. During the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - College Republicans: Encyclopedia Ii - College Republicans - History
The College Republicans were founded on May 17, 1892 at the University of Michigan by James Francis Burke. The organization was christene...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Collective Soul: Encyclopedia Ii - Collective Soul - History
Collective Soul broke through in 1994 after being signed to Atlantic Records after years of trial and error. They struck it big with thei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Codpiece: Encyclopedia Ii - Codpiece - History
At first, the codpiece was entirely a practical matter of modesty. Men's hose were typically very snug on the legs and open at the crotch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Codex Argenteus: Encyclopedia Ii - Codex Argenteus - History
Codex Argenteus - Origin. The tribes we consider Gothic were nominally Arians during the period of time when Ulfilas translated the Chr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Creatures: Encyclopedia Ii - Creatures - History
Creatures was developed as a consumer product by Millennium, and was released by Mindscape in 1996. The program was instantly successful,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colectivo: Encyclopedia Ii - Colectivo - History
Colectivo - 1930–1950. Taxi-bus car-bus van-bus. Creation of the líneas.. In the 1900s Argentina was the "Granary of the World", one...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colchicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Colchicine - History
Colchicum extract was first described as a treatment for gout in De Materia Medica by Padanius Dioscorides in the first century CE. The c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colt's Manufacturing Company: Encyclopedia Ii - Colt's Manufacturing Company - History
Colt's Manufacturing Company - 1847-1911. CMC was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1847 by Samuel Colt in order to produce revolvers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cream Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Cream Band - History
Celebrated as the first of the great power trios of rock, their sound was characterised by a melange of blues and psychedelia, combining ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computer Associates: Encyclopedia Ii - Computer Associates - History
Founded by Queens College graduate Charles B. Wang along with others including Russell M. Arzt 1976, CA has been based in New York since ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computer-assisted Language Learning: Encyclopedia Ii - Computer-assisted Language Learning - History
The History of CALL website traces the development of CALL from its origins on mainframe computers in the 1960s to the present day: http:...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crack The Sky: Encyclopedia Ii - Crack The Sky - History
Crack The Sky - 1970s. Crack The Sky traces it's roots to an early seventies band called ArcAngel, which featured John Palumbo on vocal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Counterfeit: Encyclopedia Ii - Counterfeit - History
Counterfeiting money is probably as old as money itself. However, the introduction of paper money has made it an easier thing to do. Nati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conception Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Conception Band - History
The band was formed in Norway in 1989 by guitarist Tore Østby, singer Dag Østby, drummer Werner Skogli and bassist Freddy Samsonstuen. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cox's Bazar District: Encyclopedia Ii - Cox's Bazar District - History
The history of the place goes back to the Mughal period. On his way to Arakan, when the Mughal Prince Shah Shuja passed through the hilly...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Compuserve: Encyclopedia Ii - Compuserve - History
CompuServe was founded in 1969 in Columbus, Ohio as a subsidiary of Golden United Investment Company. Its first president, Jeffrey Wilkin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Columbine High School: Encyclopedia Ii - Columbine High School - History
Columbine High School opened in the Fall of 1973; there was no senior class its first year. The school's first graduating class was the c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crane School Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Crane School Of Music - History
The Crane School was founded in 1886 by Julia E. Crane (1855-1923) as the Crane Normal Institute of Music and was one of the first instit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Columbia County New York: Encyclopedia Ii - Columbia County New York - History
When counties were established in the Province of New York in 1683, the present Columbia County was part of Albany County. This was an en...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coahuila: Encyclopedia Ii - Coahuila - History
The Spanish explored the north of Mexico some decades after their victory in the capital of the Aztecs, because in the north climate was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cbs: Encyclopedia Ii - Cbs - History
CBS - Early years. CBS can trace its origins to the creation, in 1927 of the "United Independent Broadcasters" network. Begun by New Yo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commonwealth Of Independent States: Encyclopedia Ii - Commonwealth Of Independent States - History
Commonwealth of Independent States - Foundation. Initiating the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the autumn of 1991, the leaders of R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cobalt: Encyclopedia Ii - Cobalt - History
Cobalt was known in ancient times through its compounds, which would color glass a rich blue. George Brandt (1694-1768) is credited with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concord New Hampshire: Encyclopedia Ii - Concord New Hampshire - History
The land which Concord now occupies along the banks of the Merrimack River was settled thousands of years ago by Native Americans. The br...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Craiova: Encyclopedia Ii - Craiova - History
Craiova, which occupied the site of the Roman Castra Nova (Dacian name Pelendava), was formerly the capital of Little Walachia (Oltenia)....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crazy Frog: Encyclopedia Ii - Crazy Frog - History
In 1997, 17-year-old Swede Daniel Malmedahl recorded himself impersonating the sounds produced by internal combustion engines. He posted ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concord Massachusetts: Encyclopedia Ii - Concord Massachusetts - History
Concord was first settled in 1635 and was officially incorporated in that same year. Concord was a site of the initial conflict in the Am...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Columbia South Carolina: Encyclopedia Ii - Columbia South Carolina - History
Columbia South Carolina - Early History. For nearly a century before the creation of Columbia by the South Carolina General Assembly in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservative Party Uk: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservative Party Uk - History
The origins of the Conservative Party go back to the Tory faction of 1678-1681 which opposed the exclusion of the Duke of York, later Kin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chromotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Chromotherapy - History
Several findings indicate that colour and light have been used for health treatments since the beginning of recorded time. Colour therapy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colossal Cave Adventure: Encyclopedia Ii - Colossal Cave Adventure - History
Will Crowther was a programmer at the legendary Bolt, Beranek & Newman, who developed the ARPANET (the forerunner of the Internet). C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Columbia River: Encyclopedia Ii - Columbia River - History
On May 11, 1792, Captain Robert Gray became the first white man to see the Columbia River. Gray traveled to the Pacific Northwest to trad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Column: Encyclopedia Ii - Column - History
In the architecture of ancient Egypt as early as 2600 BC the architect Imhotep made use of stone columns whose surface was carved to refl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Combine Harvester: Encyclopedia Ii - Combine Harvester - History
The combine was patented in 1834 by Hiram Moore, the same year as Cyrus McCormick was granted a patent on the mechanical reaper. Early co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - College Basketball: Encyclopedia Ii - College Basketball - History
The game of basketball was devised by James Naismith in 1891. The first recorded game involving a college basketball team took place in B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Contemporary Classical Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Contemporary Classical Music - History
In the early part of the 20th century contemporary music included modernism, the twelve tone technique, atonality, unresolved and greater...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Advertising: Encyclopedia Ii - Advertising - History
In ancient times the most common form of advertising was 'word of mouth'. However, commercial messages and election campaign displays wer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Central Processing Unit: Encyclopedia Ii - Central Processing Unit - History
Prior to the advent of machines that resemble today's CPUs, computers such as ENIAC had to be physically rewired in order to perform diff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cocaine: Encyclopedia Ii - Cocaine - History
Cocaine - The coca leaf. For thousands of years and still today, South American indigenous peoples have chewed the coca leaf (Erythroxy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computed Tomography: Encyclopedia Ii - Computed Tomography - History
The CT system was invented in 1972 by Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield of EMI Central Research Laboratories (now Sensaura [1] owned by Creative...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computer Role-playing Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Computer Role-playing Game - History
Role-playing video games began in 1975 as an offshoot of early university mainframe computer text RPGs on PDP-10 and Unix-based computers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cortland New York: Encyclopedia Ii - Cortland New York - History
The City of Cortland, settled in 1791, was made a village in 1853, and was incorporated in 1900 as the 41st city in the State of New York...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coronation Of The British Monarch: Encyclopedia Ii - Coronation Of The British Monarch - History
The timing of the coronation has varied throughout British history. The first Norman monarch, William I, was crowned on the day he became...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coos County Oregon: Encyclopedia Ii - Coos County Oregon - History
Although exploration and trapping in the area occurred as early as 1828, the first settlement was established at Empire City in 1853, now...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conway South Carolina: Encyclopedia Ii - Conway South Carolina - History
Conway is one of the oldest towns in South Carolina. Originally named Kingston, the town was created in 1734 as part of Royal Governor Ro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cossack: Encyclopedia Ii - Cossack - History
Main article: Early History of the Cossacks It is not clear when the Slavic people started settling in the lower reaches of the Don and t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cornwall: Encyclopedia Ii - Cornwall - History
The history of Cornwall begins with the pre-Roman inhabitants, including speakers of a Celtic language that would develop into Brythonic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Copyleft: Encyclopedia Ii - Copyleft - History
The concept of copyleft arose when Richard Stallman was working on a Lisp interpreter. Symbolics asked to use the Lisp interpreter, and S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computus: Encyclopedia Ii - Computus - History
Easter is the most important Christian feast. Accordingly, the proper date of its celebration has been a cause of much controversy, at le...   » Read the article