Monthly Archives: March 2015

Port wine / Vinho do Porto Port wine (also known as Vinho do Porto, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˌviɲuduˈpoɾtu], Porto, and usually simply port) is a Portuguese fortified wine produced exclusively in the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal. It … Continue reading →

Intelligence agencies World wide Afghanistan President’s Office National Directorate of Security (NDS) Albania State Intelligence Service (SHISH) – Algeria Department of Intelligence and Security (DRS) Argentina President’s Office Secretariat of Intelligence (SI) – Secretaría de Inteligencia Australia Australian Secret Intelligence … Continue reading →

TIME ZONES Prior to the invention of clocks, people around the world kept time using some type of instrument to observe the Sun’s zenith at noon. The earliest time measuring devices used either the Sun’s shadow or the rate in … Continue reading →

Probability of Events Probability Theory (17th century) mathematics This originated with mathematical problems connected with dice throwing which were discussed in letters exchanged by French mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–62) and French lawyer and magistrate Pierre de Fermat (1601–65) … Continue reading →

Indian Tribes and Confederation The Formal confederation of the six American Indian tribes the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora referred to by the English as the Six Nations. The lroquois Confederation has a relatively uncertain time when the … Continue reading →

Césarienne ou opération, Il est presque universellement estime que l’opération au moyen de laquelle le bébé est livré par une incision pratiquée dans l’abdomen est nommée d’après Jules César, parce qu’il est né de cette façon. Mais il n’a pas … Continue reading →

Cesarean Section or Operation It is almost universally believed that the operation by means of which the baby is delivered through an incision in the abdomen is named after Julius Caesar, because he was born in this fashion. But he … Continue reading →

North American Development Scientific evidence links indigenous Americans to Asian peoples, specifically eastern Siberian populations. Indigenous peoples of the Americas have been linked to Siberian populations by linguistic factors, the distribution of blood types, and in genetic composition as reflected … Continue reading →

Charles Glover Barkla 1877- 1944) il était un physicien britannique et le lauréat du Prix Nobel de physique en 1917 pour son travail en spectroscopie des rayons-X et les domaines connexes dans l’étude des rayons X (rayons Roentgen). Barkla est … Continue reading →