In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United ...

The Mughal Empire was founded in 1526 CE, peaked around 1700 and steadily ... to the Crown in 1858 after the Great Rebellion of 1857, an uprising of Indian soldiers (sepoys) that was largely ...

In the late 1990s manufacturers saw a way out of this in Microsoft’s Windows CE, which would run on modest hardware without drinking power. Several devices made it to market, among them one from ...

Ah, lovely serendipity abounds! Reading about nose blindness led to researching Tycho Brahe’s golden nose and wound up ...

The white pants were found in a sunken trunk in a shipwreck in 1857 near the coast of North Carolina. They feature a five-button fly and are believed to have belonged to a miner. The jeans were ...

"Totora is traditional and ancestral, from the Mochicas (also known as the Moche culture dating from the 1st-8th Centuries CE). This totora was preserved in Chan Chan," he added, referring to the ...

He joined the newly formed Canadian Institute in 1849 and later taught chemistry and geology at Trinity College in Toronto. In 1857–8, he made a range of observations during two expeditions to ...

The culture section of 'Le Monde' offers a selection of sites highlighting maritime heritage. The 41st edition of the event ...

John Darwin - author of Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain ‘Ruling the World takes three snapshots of metropole and empire in 1838, 1857 and 1879 to illuminate the scale of the ...

Introduced in 1996, Windows CE was renamed "Windows Embedded CE" in 2006, then "Windows Embedded Compact" in 2008, and finally Windows IoT. See Windows IoT, x86, ARM and SuperH. Windows CE used ...