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The Malay Annals is historical literature written in the form of narrative-prose with its main theme being lauding the greatness and superiority of Malacca. [32] The narration, while seemingly relating the story of the reign of the sultans of Malacca until the destruction of the sultanate by the Portuguese in 1511 and beyond, deals with a core issue of Malay statehood and historiography, the ...
As an academic discipline, history is the study of the past. [1] It conceptualizes and describes what happened by collecting and analysing evidence to construct narratives . These narratives cover not only how events unfolded but also why they happened and in which contexts, providing an explanation of relevant background conditions and causal ...
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) refers to software that is both freely available for use and distributed under licenses that grant users the freedom to access, modify, and share the software's source code. This approach contrasts with proprietary software, where the source code is typically closed and usage is restricted by licensing ...
Sambanthan was born in Sungai Siput in 1919. His father, M.S. Veerasamy, came to Malaya in the year 1896, was a pioneer rubber planter in Sungai Siput, Perak and owned several rubber plantations.
One of the first recorded rocket launchers is the "wasp nest" fire arrow launcher produced by the Ming dynasty in 1380. In Europe, rockets were also used in the same year at the Battle of Chioggia . The Joseon kingdom of Korea used a type of mobile multiple rocket launcher known as the "Munjong Hwacha " by 1451.
The left end consisted of electromechanical computing components. The right end included data and program readers, and automatic typewriters. The Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was one of the earliest general-purpose electromechanical computers used in the war effort during the last part of World War II.