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levi jeans history timeline In June 1996, the company offered to pay its workers an unusual dividend of up to $750 million in six years’ time, having halted an employee-stock plan at the time of the internal family buyout. However, the company failed to make cash-flow targets, and no worker dividends were paid. [25] From […]
Read More »medicine history timeline Unwritten history is not easy to interpret, and, although much may be learned from a study of the drawings, bony remains, and surgical tools of early humans, it is difficult to reconstruct their mental attitude toward the problems of disease and death. It seems probable that, as soon as they reached the […]
Read More »marshall islands history timeline Micronesian colonists reached the Marshall Islands using canoes circa 2nd millennium BC, with inter-island navigation made possible using traditional stick charts. They eventually settled here. Islands in the archipelago were first explored by Europeans in the 1520s, starting with Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese at the service of Spain, Juan Sebastián Elcano […]
Read More »seo history timeline For many, M edic will pass unnoticed. But it’s the latest stage in a long string of changes , enhancements and outright replacements to the core algorithm that got Google started in the late 90s. However unimportant individual changes may seem, all are geared towards enhancing the user experience; ensuring search results […]
Read More »std history timeline Nearly a score of other sexually transmitted diseases are known. All have reasonably effective drug cures. About half of all cases of urethritis that are not gonorrhea are chlamydia, which is caused by an infection with Chlamydia trachomatis. The latter bacterium is also the infecting agent in pelvic inflammatory disease and in […]
Read More »swedish history timeline Norway becomes independent from Sweden 19th Century Sweden BCE 4000 – People in Sweden begin a farming culture. 1700 – The Bronze Age begins in Sweden. 500 – The Iron Age begins. CE 800 – The Viking Age begins. Swedish warriors raid northern Europe and Russia. 829 – Christianity is introduced to […]
Read More »microsoft history timeline On April 4, 1975, at a time when most Americans used typewriters, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft, a company that makes computer software. Originally based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Microsoft relocated to Washington State in 1979 and eventually grew into a major multinational technology corporation. In 1987, the […]
Read More »intel processor history timeline Intel’s first 32-bit x86 processor was the 80386, released in 1985. One key advantage that this processor had was its 32-bit address bus that allowed it to support up to 4GB of system memory. Although this was far more than anyone was using at the time, RAM limitations often hurt the […]
Read More »history of humans timeline extinction of Australopithecus earliest apes amongst the primates (early Miocene period), enlarged brain First complex stone blades and grinding stones Some hominids develop meat-rich diets as scavengers, the extra energy may have favoured the evolution of larger brains Urmetazoan: The first fossils that might represent animals appear in the 665-million-year-old rocks […]
Read More »medicare history timeline More benefits, like prescription drug coverage, have been offered. At first, Medicaid gave medical insurance to people getting cash assistance. Today, a much larger group is covered: A number of different plans have been introduced that would raise the age of Medicare eligibility. [135] [136] [137] [138] Some have argued that, as […]
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