A Brief History Today, July 24, 2021, we celebrate Ancient History Day! Digging Deeper This playlist organized by Digital Hammurabi presents a collaborative project to bring hours of new historical content to YouTube! The preceding videos have covered just some aspects of Ancient History. It is our hope that by watching these videos, you will feel motivated to learn more! Question for students (and subscribers): Which video in the playlist did you find to be the most interesting? Please let us know in the comments section below this article. As part of the YouTube Ancient History Day, a survey is also…
Browsing: July 24
A Brief History On July 24, 2001, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha made history as the first monarch of a country to get elected to the top political government job, in this case, Prime Minister of Bulgaria. Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, born in 1937, had previously reigned as the last Czar of Bulgaria from 1943 to 1946. As a minor child while Czar (or Tsar if you prefer), he reigned as Simeon II, though with a regency appointed to actually make the royal decisions Digging Deeper Speaking of leadership trivia, there are only 2 surviving people that served as head of state during World War…
A Brief History On July 24, 2017, in New Delhi, The Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, spoke at the launch of the online complaint system “Sexual Harassment e-Box” for registering complaints related to sexual harassment at workplace. Workplaces with toxic employees affect the office environment and upset the employees. Workplace toxicity is damaging to the company’s success and could either make or break your business. No matter how much time and effort you invest into your business to create a company culture mirroring the company values, a toxic employee could make it crumble to…
A Brief History On July 24, 1935, the heat wave aspect of the Great Dust Bowl hit its high point, with temperatures soaring in the Midwest and on the Great Plains, cities such as Chicago reaching 109 °F and Milwaukee hitting 104 °F. Striking the central United States during the Great Depression (1929 to 1939-1941, depending on interpretation) made the environmental catastrophe of drought and heat all the worse. The enormous increase in the use of motorized tractors plowing the prairie, replacing tough prairie grasses with roots that held the soil together with loosely plowed earth and food crops, the…
A Brief History On July 24, 1983, Major League Baseball experienced a strange incident that caused a furor on the field, in corporate offices, and in the homes of baseball fans all over the country when George Brett of the Kansas City Royals blasted a homerun and then had it taken away! Stunned and outraged, Brett just about had a meltdown on the spot while the Yankee Stadium crowd roared its approval. Referred to as “The Pine Tar Incident,” the decision to take away Brett’s homer went down in baseball lore as one wacky, weird, and wonderful incident, and here…
