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July 2010 Miscellaneous History
History of Basketball
 James Naismith is recognized with inventing basketball. This happened in December 1891. Naismith was a physician, clergyman and an educator from Canada. At that point, he was working at the YMCA Training School located in Springfield, Massachusetts.
When Dr. Luther H. Gulick has asked him to organize an energetic recreation that was ideal as an indoor winter game, Naismith came up with the idea of basketball. He formulated a game that involved key fundamentals of American football, hockey and soccer.More...
History of Peanut Butter
 For many, peanut butter is a must on the breakfast table, in the sandwich carried to work, or simply as comfort food. Even though it is said to have been first discovered in mummy tombs in Peru, peanut butter is actually quite a young food.
Dr. John Kellogg, the man who made corn flakes popular, created peanut butter in 1890, as a protein substitute for those with no teeth. The process to manufacture peanut butter was actually formulated by George A. Bayle, Jr., while Abrose W. Straub was issued a patent for a peanut butter machine in 1903.More...
History of CPU
 November 1971 was when the first single chip CPU was invented. It was also referred to as the Intel 4004. It was a 4-bit processor that was made for a calculator, and it had its own data and program. Then in 1972, the 4-bit TMS 1000 was launched by Texas Instruments. It was considered to be the first microprocessor, which included sufficient RAM, with room for a program ROM, which could facilitate operation without a number of external support chips. It also came with a ground-breaking feature that could add routine instructions to the CPU.More...
History of Earth Day
Earth Day was established by Gaylord Nelson in the year 1970. Nelson was a senator from Wisconsin during that time, and he had stumbled upon the idea in September 1969, while suggesting a national day to teach about the environment so that people would become aware about the environment and related issues.More...
History of Women Rights in Japan
 Japan was largely a patriarchal society all through its history, and women were given second-class status till the late 1860s. Thereafter, the situation for women improved as they had access to more educational opportunities. However, the laws of Japan granted the nation’s women equal status only after the First World War.
Even in modern day Japan, women still face inequity and prejudice, and suffer from stereotypes, in spite of all the remarkable progress made in all fields.More...
History of Meteorology
 Meteorology is defined as the study of atmosphere, which lays special emphasis on weather forecast and processes. Meteorology as a stream gained prominence only in the 18th century, and the 19th century was the time when major breakthroughs were realized in this field.
With the advent of technology and computers, further breakthroughs in forecasting the weather were possible in the second half of the 20th century. A meteorological phenomenon occurs when there is a weather event that can be reasoned with the science of meteorology. This kind of an event is governed by variables in the atmosphere, like air pressure, temperature, water vapor, the gradients and interaction of these variables and changes in them over time.More...
History of Cave of Lascaux
 The cave of Lascaux in southwestern France is well known for the fabulous Paleolithic art contained in them. The original cave is situated in the Dordogne departmentin Montignac, and house Upper Paleolithic art that is said to be around 17,000 years old.
These paintings mainly depict lifelike images of huge animals that actually lived in that area, as has been documented from fossils that have been discovered. Lascaux was given the status of an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, at the same time this distinction was conferred on other sites of prehistoric importance located in the Vézère valley.More...
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