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Composed by Richard Mulcaster, headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School in London, The Elementarie is now viewed as an important forerunner of the first actual dictionary in English, although it was not an actual dictionary. At a time when English spelling was, in Mulcaster's words, "without any certain direction," The Elementarie listed 8,000 ...
Johnson's dictionary was not the first English dictionary, nor even among the first dozen. Over the previous 150 years more than twenty dictionaries had been published in England, the oldest of these being a Latin-English "wordbook" by Sir Thomas Elyot published in 1538. The next to appear was by Richard Mulcaster, a headmaster, in 1583 ...
The Broadway Melody, first ever musical film. Also the first sound film and first musical to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Happy Days is the first feature film to be shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world. It was filmed using the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. [50] Glorifying the American Girl, the first film with sound to swear.
Similarly, the first European feature was the 90-minute film L'Enfant prodigue (France, 1907), although that was an unmodified record of a stage play; Europe's first feature adapted directly for the screen, Les Misérables [better source needed], came from France in 1909. [14] The first Russian feature was Defence of Sevastopol in 1911. [15]
"The first cannon in history" used gunpowder almost identical with the ideal composition for explosive gunpowder. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] However, Iqtidar Alam Khan argued that it was the invading Mongols who introduced gunpowder to the Islamic world [ 14 ] and cites Mamluk antagonism towards early riflemen as an example of how gunpowder weapons were not ...
A shot from the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, often regarded as one of the most influential television programs in history. A sitcom (short for situation comedy or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy produced for radio and television, that centers on a recurring cast of characters as they navigate humorous situations within a consistent setting, such as a home, workplace, or ...
Probably the first fictional film ever made was the Lumières' The Waterer Watered (L'Arroseur Arrosé), which was first screened at the Grand Café Capucines on December 28, 1895. [2] A year later in 1896, Alice Guy-Blaché directed the fictional film The Fairy of the Cabbages (La Fée aux Choux).
Infantry were the first military forces in history. This warrior statuette demonstrates that military culture was an important part of historical societies, c.480 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen . Military history is the study of armed conflict in the history of humanity , and its impact on the societies, cultures and economies thereof, as ...