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Interesting history of Mallorca

The remains found in Mallorca earliest date from the 3500 a. C. at the time of the Neolithic transition period between the Bronze Age, where the first copper objects make an appearance. The earliest known inhabitants of the islands, (though of dubious ori... Read >

About island Ibiza

Ibiza is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and part of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands, Spain. It has a length of 570 km ² and a population of 125,053 inhabitants (INE 2008). Its length is 210 km coastline, where small boulders alternat... Read >

About Malaysia history

The Federation of Malaysia is a country located in Southeast Asia which consists of thirteen states and three federal territories, with an area of 329 847 km ². Its capital is Kuala Lumpur but Putrajaya is the seat of government. It has a population of t... Read >

History of Italy

The history of Italy is one of the most important in Europe and around the world. Inheriting many ancient cultures such as the Etruscans and Latins, and recipient of the Greek and Carthaginian colonization, was born the Roman Empire, bequeather of much of... Read >

Children's literature

Children's literature is defined as literature directed toward the child reader, plus the set of literary texts that society has deemed suitable for children, but they were written originally thinking of adult readers (eg Gulliver's Travels, The Island Tr... Read >

About Storms

A storm (of the common Germanic sturmaz that comes to mean "noise" or "tumult") is a phenomenon characterized by the coexistence of two or more close air masses of different temperatures. The contrast associated with the physical effects involved leads to... Read >

History of YouTube

YouTube Inc. was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in February 2005 in San Bruno, California. They all met while working at PayPal, Chen and Karim as engineers and designer Chad. According to Hurley and Chen, the idea of YouTube came at t... Read >

Cascading Style Sheets

The cascading style sheets, CSS is a language used to define the presentation of a structured document written in HTML or XML (and by extension XHTML). The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is responsible for developing the specification of style sheets tha... Read >

Alternative fuel vehicle

An alternative fuel vehicle is a motor vehicle manufactured with the ability to operate on alternative fuels, which are those that supply power to the motor without relying exclusively on petroleum fuels such as gasoline and diesel. Among the alternative ... Read >

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina (in Bosnian and Croatian language, Bosna i Hercegovina, Serbian language, Босна и Херцеговина) is a European sovereign state with its capital in Sarajevo, located on the Balkan Peninsula, southeast of the continent,... Read >

About Slovenia

The Republic of Slovenia is a country in Central Europe and since 2004 a member state of the European Union. It borders Italy to the west by the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast and north to Austria. ... Read >

About Belfast

Belfast (Béal Feirste Irish meaning "The sandy ford at the mouth of the river") is the Northern Ireland capital, in the United Kingdom. It is the largest city in Northern Ireland and the province of Ulster, and the second largest city on the island of Ir... Read >

About Budapest

Budapest (Hungarian pronunciation (IPA): [budɒpɛʃt]) is the capital of Hungary and its main industrial, commercial and transport. The city has 1,712,210 inhabitants (2009), a significant decrease from just under 2.1 million counted in the mid-1980s, re... Read >

History of Krakow

Krakow's historic center, declared World Heritage Site in 1978, is divided into three distinct areas: the hill of Wawel, the medieval city of Krakow, the medieval heart of Kazimierz. In the center is the Rynek Glowny or Market Square or Market Square (... Read >

History of Warsaw

Warsaw was founded in the thirteenth century. Initially surrounded by a wall of earth, before 1339 it was fortified with walls of brick. Originally, the city grew around the palace of the dukes of Mazovia, which later became the Royal Palace in Warsaw. ... Read >