Pieter Brueghel – European Art
Pieter Brueghel, Children's Games (1560 AD) Did Brueghel see Chinese art? As European traders began to sail directly to China in the late 1400s AD, they brought back all kinds [...]
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Easiest chocolate mousse recipe for microwave
Chocolate mousse Chocolate mousse isn't anything the Aztecs would have eaten, because they didn't have butter or sugar. Chocolate mousse is also not good for you, but it's delicious! One [...]
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Chocolate and sugar: Chocolate comes to Europe
History of chocolate: an Aztec man serving a cup of cacao Chocolate and Europeans When Spanish invaders came to the court of the Aztec ruler Montezuma in 1519, Montezuma naturally [...]
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Medieval and modern knitting history
Modern knitting history: Stocking frame knitting machine (1750) Knitting silk stockings In the 1500s AD, knitters in Spain and France started to produce very fine knitted silk stockings, with little tiny [...]
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Polyester fabric – World War II and the invention of polyester
Polyester fabric: a polyester shirt Who invented polyester fabric? The British scientists John Whinfield and James Dickson first invented polyester cloth in 1941 in England. World War II had made [...]
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Why use concrete? History of Architecture
History of concrete: The fountain in the center of the courtyard is concrete (This is from the Palace of Domitian in Rome) What is concrete? Concrete is a kind of [...]
