by qdmhistory | Aug 27, 2022 | History
The Anglo-Zanzibar Military conflict between the UK and Zanzibar Sultanate in 1896 lasted only 38 minutes. And it was a conflict in response to the ascension of Sultan Khalid bin Barghash after the death of the pro-British Sultan Hamad. The shortest war in human...
by qdmhistory | Aug 26, 2022 | History
On August 26, 1873, Susan Blow opened the first free Kindergarten in St. Louis, Missouri. And soon after, kindergarten classrooms across the country started using Blow’s classroom as an education model. By 1879, the St. Louis school system had 53 kindergarten...
by qdmhistory | Aug 25, 2022 | History
For almost 200 years, The Lancet has been bringing peer-reviewed medical news, findings, and facts to the medical and scientific communities. With these journals, the rest of the world would (and still does) find cutting-edge information. While there has never been a...
by qdmhistory | Aug 24, 2022 | History
NBC had a sure bet when it came to televising the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Spanning both summer and winter television audiences, previous Olympic Games garnered millions of viewers spread throughout the globe. With its 11th production of the Olympics, NBC...
by qdmhistory | Aug 23, 2022 | History
Hurricanes begin as tropical depressions, areas in the lower atmosphere where wind speeds increase with thunderstorm clouds spinning counter-clockwise around an area called a “low-pressure” zone. Once the winds reach 39 mph and above, the “tropical...