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Tristan Quilt. Detail of the Tristan quilt showing a noble and a herald. The Tristan Quilt, sometimes called the Tristan and Isolde Quilt or the Guicciardini Quilt, is one of the earliest surviving quilts in the world. [1] Depicting scenes from the story of Tristan and Isolde, an influential romance and tragedy, it was made in Sicily during the ...
Whole-cloth quilt, 18th century, Netherlands.Textile made in India. In Europe, quilting appears to have been introduced by Crusaders in the 12th century (Colby 1971) in the form of the aketon or gambeson, a quilted garment worn under armour which later developed into the doublet, which remained an essential part of fashionable men's clothing for 300 years until the early 1600s.
1523 N. 33rd Street. Lincoln, Nebraska U.S. Coordinates. 40°49′43″N 96°40′25″W / 40.82861°N 96.67361°W / 40.82861; -96.67361. Type. Textile museum. Website. www.internationalquiltmuseum.org. The International Quilt Museum at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska is the home of the largest known public ...
A documentary, The World's First Computer, was produced in 2012 by the Antikythera mechanism researcher and film-maker Tony Freeth. [100] In 2012, BBC Four aired The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer ; [ 101 ] it was also aired on 3 April 2013 in the United States on NOVA , the PBS science series, under the name Ancient Computer . [ 102 ]
First human-made signals from space. USSR Sputnik 1: 3 November 1957: First mammal in orbit, the dog Laika. USSR Sputnik 2: 31 January 1958: Confirmed existence of the Van Allen radiation belt. USA Explorer 1: 17 March 1958: First use of solar power in space. The oldest artificial object still in space. USA Vanguard 1: 4 January 1959
The following are amongst the oldest buildings in the world that have maintained the requirements to be such. Occupation sites with older human made structures, such as those in Göbekli Tepe do exist, but the structures are monuments and do not meet the definition of building (which can be seen above). Many of the buildings within the list ...
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GRB 090423. GRB 090423 was a gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected by the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission on April 23, 2009, at 07:55:19 UTC whose afterglow was detected in the infrared and enabled astronomers to determine that its redshift is z = 8.2, making it one of the most distant objects detected at that time with a spectroscopic redshift (GN-z11 ...