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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nWho invented the radio?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is reputed that Nathan B. Stubblefield, a farmer from Murray, Kentucky, made a voice transmission four years before anyone else. In 1892, Stubblefield handed his friend Rainey T. Wells a box and told him to walk away some distance. Wells said later: \u201cI had hardly reached my post.. when I heard HELLO RAINEY come booming out of the receiver.\u201d More about the History of Radio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Who was the first to fly?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n At 10h35 on Friday 17 December 1903, Orville Wright took the Flyer that he and his brother Wilbur built into the air for what has come to be known as the first powered flight. Earlier, unbeknownst to them, Gustave Whitehead and Richard Pearse were also experimenting with flying machines. Who actually took first to the sky remains a controversy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n Running out of steam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Heron of Greece invented steam power in 50 BC. But the leaders of the day thought that it would cause unemployment which may lead to unrest and the invention, well, ran out of steam. There were many such untimely inventions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Garde a l’eau!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is often incorrectly quoted that the toilet was invented by a Mr Thomas Crapper in the 18th century. There was a Mr Crapper – he happened to be a successful plumber, appropriately. But who invented the toilet<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mickey Mouse has a history<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The first film animation was \u201cHumorous Phases of Funny Faces\u201d made in 1906 by American J. Stuart Blacton. But it was in 1919, when 18-year-old Walt Disney teamed up with Ub Iwerks, that the art of film animation took roots. They produced a series of cartoons entitled “Alice in Cartoonland.” The Walt Disney company was founded in 1923, and in 1927 Walt came up with the idea for an animated mouse called Mortimer Mouse. His wife Lillian convinced him to change it to Mickey Mouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mickey debuted the same year in \u201cPlane Crazy,\u201d which was followed with \u201cGalloping Goucho.\u201d In 1928, Disney launched the first animation with synchronized sound, \u201cSteamboat Willy\u201d, with Walt as the voice of Mickey Mouse. In 1937, Disney won a special Oscar<\/a> for the first full-length animation: \u201cSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not to be outdone, two other Americans, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, created Tom and Jerry in 1939. They went on to win their first Oscar for Yankee Doodle Mouse in 1943. Six more Oscars would follow for them. But it was a Disney company movie that won the first Best Picture Oscar for an animation, with “Beauty and the Beast” in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Walter Elisas Disney (12\/5\/1901 – 12\/15\/1966): “I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northern Ireland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A brief history<\/a> but, after a thousand years, the longest dispute amongst peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kashmir<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The land that has been called Heaven on Earth. But hell for its people<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kosovo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Kosovo and the battered Balkans – the story behind the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n History: gossip well told<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n History. It can enlighten or shame, cause laughter and tears. You cannot bring it back or wish it away. Might as well enjoy it! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Browse the interesting brief history facts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n | 2000 – 2099<\/a> | 1900 – 1999<\/a> | 1800 – 1899<\/a> | 1700 – 1799<\/a> | 1600 – 1699<\/a> | 1500 – 1599<\/a> | 1400 -1499<\/a> | 1300 – 1399<\/a> | 1200 – 1299<\/a> | 1100 – 1199<\/a> | 1000 – 1099<\/a> | 900 – 999<\/a> | 800 – 899<\/a> | 700 – 799<\/a> | 600 – 699<\/a> | 500 – 599<\/a> | 400 – 499<\/a> | 300 – 399<\/a> | 200 – 299<\/a> | 100 – 199<\/a> | 1 – 99<\/a> | Before Christ<\/a> |<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Famous inventions, discoveries and happenings throughout the centuries. 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