By Sanjay Verma | On October 31, 2009 | In Humanities | Rated 
The O2 arena, an indoor multi-purpose arena is located at the centre of The O2 which is a massive entertainment complex in Greenwich peninsula in South East London. From the year 2001 until 2008, it has held the crown of the Worlds Busiest Arena, a title which previously belonged to the MEN Arena in Manchester.
By Sanjay Verma | On October 31, 2009 | In Humanities | Rated
The late sixties and the early seventies saw a flurry of activity at the NASA headquarters as various manned missions to the moon were executed one after the other. Christopher Freville reasons that the race to the moon was basically triggered by the Cold War between the US and the former Soviet Union
By Sanjay Verma | On October 31, 2009 | In Humanities | Rated
Henry VIII was born on 28 June 1491 and reigned as the King of England until his death on 28 January 1547. He succeeded his father Henry VII and was the second in the line of monarchs of the House of Tudor
By Sanjay Verma | On October 31, 2009 | In Humanities | Rated
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451 and was a great explorer who went on to accidentally land on the shores of the North American continent and later helped establish contact between the Europeans and native Americans.
By Sanjay Verma | On October 31, 2009 | In Humanities | Rated
The use of plants for healing ailments depicted in cave paintings suggest that herbal medicine was practiced since prehistoric times. Using trail and error as a means of gaining experience, many tribal cultures had developed a database of medical knowledge that was used to cure many diseases.
By Sanjay Verma | On October 31, 2009 | In Humanities | Rated
The ARPANET was a kind of predecessor to the Internet says Christopher Freville. At 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969, it first linked the University of California, Los Angeles with the Stanford Research Institute.
By Sanjay Verma | On October 31, 2009 | In Humanities | Rated
The Cold War is a state of relationship between the USSR and its surrounding regions, and the Western World led by the United States over a period ranging from 1945 to 1991. The Cold War according to Christopher Freville expressed itself in military tension
By Sanjay Verma | On October 31, 2009 | In Humanities | Rated
The Inuit people were probably the first ones to indulge in a sport activity that resembled the trampoline in many respects. They used walrus skins to toss one another into the air.
By Sanjay Verma | On October 31, 2009 | In Humanities | Rated
Tennis as we know the game today originated in the late 19th Century in the United Kingdom. Termed as ‘lawn tennis’, the rules of the game were heavily borrowed from other field and lawn games and also from the royal version of tennis which is also called ‘real tennis’.
By Sanjay Verma | On October 31, 2009 | In Humanities | Rated
From 1485 AD until 1603 AD, the Tudors were the royal house that ruled England and its neighboring regions. Henry VII was the first among the five Monarchs that constituted the Tudor reign that extended for more than a century.
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