Then we have found that cotton, another natural fiber, was also used between 3,000 – 5,000 B.C. according to scholars’ research, as well as wool used by people of the Late Stone Age. Then we have the most precious fiber ever, which is silk, discovered by a Chinese princess around 2,600 B.C. Some scholars researched about Hemp as one of the oldest fibers on earth. The hemp plant is also
Chang is said to have developed the 13 classic tai chi postures. During the Ming Dynasty, from 1368 to 1644 AD, Wang Tsung-yueh or Wang Zongyue, may have been the next person who had an impact on the history of tai chi. Again, historians are uncertain as to whether Wang actually lived. Wang is said to have been the first person to call the art "tai chi chuan" and to have developed the choreography between the original 13 postures. Source: http://www.life123.com/health/fitness/tai-chi/a-brief-history-of-tai-chi.shtml History of taekwondo The earliest records of Taekwondo practice date back to about 50 B.C.
Simliar pieces to this were made in Song China [960-1279]; found in Goryeo metal prototypes. The potter who created this piece, was then replicating previous pieces like this that had been done before. However, since there is a difference of medium between the Chinese celadon and Goryeo piece, it becomes a new work upon its own, standing different from the previous pieces. The best-known example of refined, undecorated celadon produced during the first half of the twelfth century is a group of objects unearthed from the tomb of King Injong (r. 1122–46). The Fitzwilliam cup-and-stand set has a stronger blue tint in its glaze color and is not as flawless as the Injong tomb pieces, but it clearly demonstrates a comparable dedication to craftsmanship.
Paper is a major form of communication in today’s society. Intriguingly, the ancient Chinese invented paper during the Han Dynasty by Cai Lun. Although paper existed in China before Cai Lun (since the 2nd century BC), he was responsible for the first
It is not known exactly when the button hole was invented, however it was around the year 1200 that the button and the button-hole were brought to Europe by the Crusaders from the Turks, Mongols and battles in the Middle East. The word “button” stems from either the French word “bouton” for bud or “bouter” to push. It was the French who established the Button Makers Guild in 1250. It was the Guild who made beautiful buttons that were designed with great artistry. Each button was created individually by hand.
It is important to mention, that recorded theories of visual recognition date back to the 17th century, which were based on conjecture and observations only. For instance, although Aristotle (1734), observed the retina, his theory was based on Joanna Hinckley's (1717) earlier work which showed, how with the assistance of the lens and humors, the retina was responsible for light detection. (Zeki, 1993). Therefore, it was not until the 18th century that visual recognition theories gained scientific validity with the help of René Descartes (1867) research. For example, by surgically removing an ox's eye, he was able to
This plant was originally from round the Mediterranean Sea (Leak-Garcia pg9, ¶2). The earliest mention of the globe artichoke was in Greek and Roman literature dating back to 77AD (http://www.gourmetsleuth.com, Artichokes). The plant then made it to England in the year 1548. The Spanish were the first to bring artichokes to America in the 1600’s. It wasn’t until the 1920’s that California started to become known for producing artichokes (http://www.gourmetsleuth.com, Artichokes).
Introduction Evidence from contemporary newspapers and other sources suggest that by the mid nineteenth-century England was beginning to realize the depth of its opium problem. Opium had been introduced by the Arabs around the sixteenth-century, England began to seriously trade it around the late seventeenth- century. English citizens, by this time, through its exploits, were using the drug for medical reasons. However, most of these new cures all used opium in some form. No matter in which, form it was used, opium had only one effect.
Traditional scholarship puts the origin of olive trees in ancient Iran and Turkestan. However, other scholars argue
A few of these stories were actually put into print as early as the 1637 in Giambattista Basile’s Italian collection of stories entitled The Pentamerone; a few others can also be traced to another Italian who goes by the name of Giovanni Fransesco Straparola, his 73 folktales were collected in the book Facetious Nights, were a source for plays by both Shakespeare and Moliere. Some of the first collections of the stories came to bear the name “Mother Goose” and was produced by Charles Perrault in 1697. His book that he had written which contained 10 different fairytales was titled “Tales From the Past with Morals”, and underneath the front picture of an old woman telling stories to children and a cat appeared a subtitle for the book: “Tales from My Mother Goose.” Perrault’s book was translated into English around the year 1729 as “mother Goose’s Fairy tales”, but the stories did not get much attention until about 1760, this was when John Newberry, a friend and publisher of Olive Goldsmith very effectively made a brand new branch of the book trade by publishing 3 kid’s books: “The Top Book of All”, “Gammer Gurton’s Garland”, and