History - May 2007

2007-05-27 16:35:31 · 9 answers · asked by Nunya B 1

I have a picture that my mother found in the atttic of Abraham Lincoln when I was born in 1957. It is in not great condition but it is on tin. I read up some on some of the photography of that time and learned of dagrotypes(sp) and that he had two photograhers at the time and they were pressed on tin at that time. The camera was invented by this man Dagrotype(sp) who was french and the paper was invented in the Civil War.

Then a man who was wealthy can out with a fancy camera and began to make the camera. After that they were pressed on glass for a while but I believe for a while they still used tin because of the paper being so thin. I would love it to be worth something.

Does anyone know about this? Also I do know that any pictures taken of him without the beard are of extreme value.

jadeeandjojo

2007-05-27 16:32:34 · 1 answers · asked by ? 2

Explain how the Bolsheviks were able to take advantage of situations that were not always to their making

2007-05-27 16:10:18 · 6 answers · asked by A M 1

2007-05-27 15:36:41 · 9 answers · asked by BELINDA B 4

Arab world don’t let Christian build churches.why they building Mosques in the Christian country?

2007-05-27 15:26:55 · 7 answers · asked by jeewa 1

What were five reasons that the Soviet Union entered WWII?

5 major war dates/events that happened in WWII for the Soviet Union (good or bad)

2007-05-27 15:23:40 · 7 answers · asked by Edgard S 1

I would like to know what you history buff thoughts are on History movies, that take themselves seriously and they add love triangles. Does this mix? I just finished watching the movie: Enemy at the Gates and found myself frustrated and disappointed. The first 30 minutes I was saying to myself, I am buying this movie and by the time I was half way through it I was fast-forwarding the DVD player (and glad I did not buy it) to get through the love story. They did the very same thing with the movie, Pearl Harbor and it distracts from the seriousness of the history content of the movie. Lets look at some other great classic war movies as well: Patton, Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Apocalypse Now (this movie had Playboy bunnies but no love triangle), Full Metal Jacket, Dirty Dozen, The Deer Hunter, The Bridge over the River Kwai, all these classics had no love triangle and most of them won academy awards.

My question is, am I the only one that finds annoyance in this?

2007-05-27 15:15:41 · 7 answers · asked by Shellback 6

2007-05-27 14:48:23 · 3 answers · asked by Johnny Y 1

did Gen. Goerge S. Patton Jr. really have a bull terrier named Willie

2007-05-27 14:38:09 · 5 answers · asked by SUBZERO 1

2007-05-27 14:22:48 · 11 answers · asked by westafrocherokee 1

i'm doing a project for school and i'm having trouble with this question.

2007-05-27 14:22:39 · 9 answers · asked by kurama3173 2

At what age did Tycho Brahe die at, I know that he died of mercury poisoning. Also, what were the names of his 8 children, and were did he get schooled?

2007-05-27 14:15:46 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Would Asians and or Indians get the same treatment(segregation, unequal opportunities) as Blacks if they were living in the Jim Crowe South before the 1960's and the civil rights movement?

2007-05-27 14:02:12 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why is it that Deleware is the first state of the union , why not Pennsyvania it was after all where the nations capital was located at the time.

2007-05-27 13:58:45 · 6 answers · asked by Michael P 1

I am doing a project and have to find the definiton / what it is / picture / what civilization it came from.

Can anyone help me?
Or knows of it?
Apparently its a contribution, but I'm not sure what it is and I can't find it. I've googled it and looked a lot >:[

2007-05-27 13:57:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-27 13:43:14 · 16 answers · asked by Garland P 1

I have a school project and need to know what civilization it came from.

Eqyptian, Scandanavian, European, Chinese, etc.

:] thankyou

2007-05-27 13:37:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

1.The Only President born on the 4th of July
2. The President who was buried with his head resting on a copy of the Constitution.
3. The first President to call his Washington D.C. resident the "White House."
4. The President who is distantly related to Presidents Pierce, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ford as well as Winston Churchill.
5. The President whose wife started the tradition of playing "Hail to the Chief" whenever a President appeared at a state Function.
6. The first President to visit all 50 states
7. The first President whose voice was heard over the radio
8. The President who grew up speaking a language other than English
9. The only President to be married in the White House.
10 The President who is credited with saying "I may be President of the United States but my private life is nobody's damn business

2007-05-27 13:09:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a term paper for my history class, but I havent chosen the topic yet. It needs to be from the Austrian history during the 20th century. Can you please give me some interesting ideas,? I don`t want to bore my professor to death, writing stuff that he has already read by other students. I don`t have problems in writing, I just need an interesting topic...please help me!!!

2007-05-27 12:53:54 · 4 answers · asked by sanjastar87 1

2007-05-27 12:49:23 · 4 answers · asked by Dan 1

What about the Native Americans?

2007-05-27 12:24:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-27 12:21:31 · 4 answers · asked by venividivici :) 2

2007-05-27 12:20:12 · 4 answers · asked by ne-ne 2

^ Question is urgent!!! Newfoundland is in Canada.

2007-05-27 11:54:14 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

or is that not true? Is it true there was a ship nearby and it was seen over the horizon but never came to there rescue?

2007-05-27 11:52:55 · 5 answers · asked by Thallasa35 2

Nothing too complicated, something a 10th grade first year world history student would have studied.

2007-05-27 11:46:01 · 14 answers · asked by Brian Lewis 2

Why did the outports have biterness towards St. John's in the late 1800s and 1900s?

Help would be appreciated. =)

2007-05-27 11:10:35 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-27 11:05:00 · 10 answers · asked by jenesuispasunnombre 6

There is a riddle that was referred to in an ancient greek play. The riddle is: Under it stands, In it begins, That which feels the wind. My clues are that it was written by Socrates, and that it would help if it was translated back into its orginal greek. When translated into greek and then back into english it reads: under it stands, in him it begins, the one that feels the air. Please help.

2007-05-27 11:01:33 · 2 answers · asked by George Washington 1

ufo's todat check it out.

2007-05-27 10:05:09 · 6 answers · asked by ? 7