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History of dance
History of dance: the record of human structured movement as ritual, courtship, rite of passage, protest, and art. Covers ancient Greece, India's Natyashastra, Christian dance, modern figures, and dance historiography.
History of dating services
The history of dating services covers paid matchmaking from matrimonial ads in late 17th-century British newspapers, through 1960s computer dating, to the first online site in 1994.
History of Delhi
The history of Delhi, also known as Dhillika, spans roughly 3,000 years on the Yamuna's banks, from Indraprastha through the Sultanate, Mughals, and British rule to India's capital.
History of democracy
The history of democracy covers rule by the people from Athenian demokratia around 507 BC through the Roman Republic to modern representative democracy from the 18th century.
History of democratic thought
The history of democratic thought traces how ideas of rule by the people developed from the Greek city-states through the French Revolution to modern representative democracy.
History of Denmark
History of Denmark: the Danish kingdom from Stone Age settlement (12,500 BC), through the Viking Age (800–1050) and Jelling, the 1849 Grundloven, the 1864 defeat, occupation in 1940, to the modern welfare and defense state.
History of desalination
The history of desalination covers removing salt from seawater, from Aristotle's evaporation experiments and the 1881 Malta plant to reverse osmosis, now in over 20,000 plants worldwide.
History of Detroit
History of Detroit: founded July 24, 1701 by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac as Fort Pontchartrain du détroit; French, then British, then American; rose as the auto industry's Motor City, fourth-largest US city by 1920, then declined, filing the largest US municipal bankruptcy in 2013.
History of disco
Disco is a style of dance music that emerged in the early 1970s among Black, Latino, and LGBTQ+ club communities in New York City and Philadelphia, peaking commercially from 1977 to 1979.
History of discrete spacetime ideas
The history of discrete spacetime ideas traces proposals that space and time are made of fundamental elements, from Riemann in 1854 to causal set theory founded in 1987.
History of Djibouti
History of Djibouti: from prehistoric Gobaad basin settlement and the Ifat and Adal sultanates to French Somaliland (1862–1977), independence under Hassan Gouled Aptidon, the 1991–2001 FRUD civil war, and the current multi-base geostrategic state under Ismaïl Omar Guelleh.
History of Doctor Who
History of Doctor Who: the BBC science fiction series first broadcast 23 November 1963, created under Sydney Newman, known for the Doctor's regenerations, missing 1960s episodes, the 1989 hiatus, and the 2005 Russell T Davies revival.
History of domestic sewing
The history of domestic sewing covers how home sewing moved from obligatory women's work to wartime necessity, declined in the late twentieth century, and revived as leisure.
History of Dubai
History of Dubai: emirate on the Persian Gulf ruled by the Al Maktoum family since 1833; pearling port under British protection, oil found at Fateh field 1966, UAE founding member 1971, diversified to under 1% oil GDP.
History of Dublin
The history of Dublin traces the city from a Gaelic settlement and Viking trading town on the River Liffey through Anglo-Norman and Georgian growth to Ireland's capital.
History of Earth
The history of Earth covers the planet's roughly 4.54 billion years of change, from its formation and the Moon-forming impact to the rise of oxygen and life.
History of East Asia
History of East Asia: the connected past of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, defined by shared use of the Chinese script, a tribute-based interstate order (1368-1841), modernization, colonialism, and post-1945 division and growth.
History of Easter Island
History of Easter Island (Rapa Nui, Isla de Pascua): Polynesian settlement around 1000–1200 CE, moai building, 1722 Roggeveen contact, Chilean annexation 1888, sheep-ranch era, and the ecocide-versus-resilience debate.
History of Eclipse Aviation
Eclipse Aviation was an Albuquerque aircraft maker founded by Vern Raburn in 1998 to build the Eclipse 500 very light jet, which entered service after a controversial certification.
History of economic thought
The history of economic thought, also called history of economics, studies how ideas about production, exchange, money, and value developed, organized as schools from pre-classical writers to the present.
History of Ecuador
History of Ecuador: human occupation from Las Vegas and Valdivia cultures through Inca rule, Spanish conquest (1531-1534), Audiencia of Quito, independence (1809, 1822), Gran Colombia, and the republic since 1830.
History of education
History of education: the study of how education systems, practices, and institutions evolved. Covers state schooling, German-to-China knowledge transfer, Jullien's contested founding of comparative education, and the global-history turn.
History of education in England
History of education in England: development of English schooling from 7th-century cathedral and grammar schools through the 1870 and 1902 Acts, the 1944 tripartite system, comprehensives, the 1988 National Curriculum, and today's academies.
History of education in the Indian subcontinent
History of education in the Indian subcontinent: ancient Nalanda and Takshashila, madrasahs, Charter Act 1813, Macaulay's Minute 1835, Wood's Despatch 1854, colonial commissions, and post-1947 national systems.
History of education in the United States
History of education in the United States: colonial-era schooling, the 19th-century common school movement, the 1867 federal Education Department, Brown v. Board and the 1965 ESEA, and today's decentralized system.
History of Egypt
History of Egypt: from pharaonic unification around 3150 BCE (Narmer), Old and New Kingdom pyramids and empire, Islamic dynasties and the 1517 Ottoman conquest, Muhammad Ali 1805, British occupation 1882, 1922 conditional independence, the 1952 Free Officers republic, and the 2011 revolution.
History of Egypt under the British
History of Egypt under the British (1882–1956): occupation after the 'Urabi revolt and Tel-el-Kebir, veiled protectorate, 1914 protectorate, 1922 nominal independence, 1952 revolution, and 1954 withdrawal agreement.
History of electrical engineering
The history of electrical engineering traces how electricity and magnetism became a quantitative science and then a profession, with turning points including Volta's pile, electromagnetism, induction, and the telegraph.
History of electromagnetic theory
The history of electromagnetic theory traces how electricity and magnetism developed from separate observations into a single theory, unified mathematically by James Clerk Maxwell in 1865.
History of email
The history of email traces the messaging system from Ray Tomlinson's first networked ARPANET message in 1971, through SMTP in 1982, to over 4.3 billion users.