In the 1950s, Walt Disney Productions decided to have a theme park with four sections: Fantasyland, Frontierland, Adventureland and Tomorrowland. Since Tomorrowland was going to be futuristic, it would contain, in the words of Walt Disney, ‘a living blueprint of the future’. The Senior Producer Ward Kimball involved Heinz Haber, a specialist in the emerging…
In Italian, mala means ‘bad’ and aria means ‘air’. Thus the word malaria got coined basically to mean ‘bad air’.
Abraham Ortelius was a Flemish cartographer. He published the first modern atlas on 20 May 1570 and named it Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the world). He based his work on the maps of 87 cartographers. His map was comprehensive and easy to use.
Michelangelo’s Pieta is in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. Pieta is the sculpture of the Virgin Mary holding the lifeless body of Jesus on her lap. In 1499 Michelangelo carved Pieta when he was 24 years old, and it is the only one he ever signed. On 21 May 1972 Laszlo Toth, a Hungarian-born Australian Geologist, attacked…
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Douglas Carl Engelbart is an American inventor whose work mostly focused on human-computer interaction. He invented the computer mouse in the late 1960s. He received the patent in 1970. The mouse was made of a wooden shell with two wheels. He never received any royalty for his invention.
