how did terroisim came about?
608226
i'm spiritual so i dont condone terrorism..\nbut as to where it came from,historically a lot of times when 1 country cant defend themselves against another by lining up their soldiers in a field somewhere they resort to kill a few here &there by stealthy means\nwe need to remember its not just 1 or 2 or 10 countries who practise it; most of the countries in the world hav done so at one time or another
8
Not sure if this is the origin, but I think it was popularized in the 1989 film "Tango & Cash". After Tango, played by Sylvester Stallone, and Cash, portrayed by Kurt Russell, were thrown into jail and setup in a failed jailbreak attempt, the bad guy Yves Perret (Jack Pallance) locked them in the boiler room with a bunch of felons Tango & Cash had put in jail. Prior to unleashing a can of whoop-ass, their conversation was as follows:\nGabriel Cash: I don't know about you, but I have an aversion to getting F.U.B.A.R...\nRay Tango: What's F.U.B.A.R.?\nGabriel Cash: Fucked-Up Beyond All Recognition.
545847
Too late the Mexicans already invented it.\n\nThe earliest true Rummy, a kind of proto-Gin, was first described briefly under the name ‘Coon Can’ in The Standard Hoyle (New York, 1887), and in more detail under the name Conquian by R. F. Foster in Foster’s Complete Hoyle of 1897. A scholarly researcher of some repute, Foster was nevertheless mystified by its name and origin, remarking only that “little is known except that it is a great favourite in Mexico, and in all the American states bordering upon it, especially Texas”. This is quite likely, given that it is played with the typically Spanish 40-card pack and is certainly more likely to have originated in the New World rather than Spain itself, as the earliest forms of Rummy appearing in Spanish card-game literature (under the name Ramy) are obvious twentieth-century transatlantic imports. In 1896 Stewart Culin records it as being played by Apaches and spells it con quién, the Spanish for “with whom”; but it’s hard to see what bearing this phrase has on any aspect of the play and Foster is probably right not to bother mentioning it.
51703
I know a little bit of it.  The Renaissance was a big period of time, so I do not know what information you need.  IM me on one of the following instant messengers:\n\nAIM - pigger186\nYahoo! - knockitoffnow89\nMSN - knockitoffnow89@yahoo.com\n\nOr... email me: knockitoffnow89@yahoo.com
891011
The whole story of Mary Magdelaine and the Priory of Sion was created in 1956 by a Frenchmen named Pierre Plantard and some friends. It was actually constructed to be a piece of "Theater of the Absurd." The perpetrators simply wanted to see how far they could take it.\n\nIt has been well researched by French journalists and found to be a hoax. It would have died like all hoaxes until two British writers found out about it and resurrected it. Their book inspired Dan Brown, and the rest, as they say, is history.\n\nThough serious historians have proven time and again that this is fictional nonsense, some people refuse to believe, just as some people refuse to believe that people actually landed on the moon.\n\nIt's total rubbish. Please dismiss it.
630686
My manager at the last restaurant I worked at told us about some interesting theories.  One was that it comes from the dimensions of a grave (8ft long 6ft deep).  He also told about a popular restaurant in New York called Delmonico's.  Apparantly, the menu at this place had numbered items, the most popular being the Delmonico Steak, #86.  Since they would sell out of #86 often, the number evetually came to be used when they were out of anything. \n\nWhen I looked this up for more information, I found those two ideas and some other good ones at this site: http://www.dinersoft.com/askdave/davenov00.htm
508887
Before it was the French, it was Croatian mercenaries in support of the King and Cardinal Richelieu in the 1600s who rode about wearing bright bits of cloth around their neck and aroused the curiousity of the French.\n\nCravat comes from cravate (french) whcihh is derived from Hrvat (meaning Croat) If you look croatia still uses .hr in their domain names etc...
635219
Wasn't able to find anything on how it started or when, but I found a couple of links where you might be able to get some more information.  I did find some speculation on it originating from Maypole dancing or tree dancing, but nothing solid.  Good luck.
999123
Vulgar fractions had been used by the Egyptians around 1000 BC; the Vedic "Sulba Sutras" ("rule of chords" in Sanskrit) * ca. 600 BC contain the first use of irrational numbers, and approximation of π at 3.16. Around 500 BC, the Greek mathematicians led by Pythagoras realized the need for irrational numbers in particular the irrationality of the square root of two. Negative numbers were invented by Indian mathematicians around 600 AD, and then possibly invented independently in China shortly after. They were not used in Europe until the 1600s, but even in the late 1700s, Leonhard Euler discarded negative solutions to equations as unrealistic.\n\nIn the 18th and 19th centuries there was much work on irrational and transcendental numbers. Lambert (1761) gave the first flawed proof that π cannot be rational, Legendre (1794) completed the proof, and showed that π is not the square root of a rational number. Ruffini (1799) and Abel (1842) both construct proofs of Abel–Ruffini theorem: that the general quintic or higher equations cannot be solved by a general formula involving only arithmetical operations and roots. Évariste Galois (1832) developed techniques for determining whether a given equation could be solved by radicals which gave rise to the field of Galois theory. Joseph Liouville (1840) showed that neither e nor e2 can be a root of an integer quadratic equation, and then established existence of transcendental numbers, the proof being subsequently displaced by Georg Cantor (1873). Charles Hermite (1873) first proved that e is transcendental, and Ferdinand von Lindemann (1882), showed that π is transcendental. Lindemann's proof was much simplified by Weierstrass (1885), still further by David Hilbert (1893), and has finally been made elementary by Hurwitz and Paul Albert Gordan.\n\nThe development of calculus in the 1700s used the entire set of real numbers without having defined them cleanly. The first rigorous definition was given by Georg Cantor in 1871. In 1874 he shows that the set of all real numbers is uncountably infinite but the set of all algebraic numbers is countably infinite. Contrary to widely held beliefs, his method was not his famous diagonal argument, which he published three years later.
317685
Because one of its creators came to Brazil right at the beginning and divulged Orkut in one of our main universities. \nPeople talked, one thing led to another, then boom; Brazilian invasion. \n(we -are- a sociable people)
798665
The history of the origin of this synbol dates as far back as ancient Eqypt.\n\nCheck out this website!\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_prescription
97470
It was popular by the mid 1800's but no one seems to know where it comes from. It was probably just someone being clever, and then it caught on.
996869
I'm pretty sure it was Aristarchus of Samos (310-230 BCE) that first suggested it, but it was Eratosthenes (276-195 BCE) that proved it.
650841
If you don't count the abacus, which is ancient, then Blaise Pascal invented the first mechanical computation machine in France in 1642. Check it yo!\n\nhttp://www.thocp.net/hardware/pascaline.htm
622501
This theory has a long, convoluted explanation which you might be better researching in google.  I had a quick look for you and came up with:\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/tokyo/1236/rayofcreation5.html\n\nI typed Ouspensky into google and got quite a lot of references to him and Gurdjieff.  Happy reading.
521015
This was an interesting question, so I decided to look it up. Here are some links, hope they help!
577298
What started this particular line of inquiry?