Name anything that's 100 years or more and include a brief history about it?

Question

It can be anything, like an institution, famous person or a famous person's death anniversary, animal, plant, movement, school,, anything!!

Answer 1

Planet Earth.

A brief history of Earth....hmmm......it formed about 4.5 billion years ago. We got a moon....an ocean, and then an atmosphere. Life formed, land plants took hold, critters came waddling out onto land, dinosaurs, mammals, asteroid impacts, apes, humans, civilization, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and then finally Yahoo Answers. There, I think I pretty much covered everything.

Answer 2

the vitrola is a type of phonograph that played some of the first sound recordings. in 1906, Eldridge Johnson created a version of the vitrola with the funnel speaker facing inwards in a cabinet to make it look less like the typical phonograph.

if you see the RCA labels from years back, you will see the dog with his ear near the large cone speaker. That was a phonograph. This is the predecessor of the record player. It sounds creepy too :)

Answer 3

The United States of America goes back more than 100 years. And it was established as a further development of the "democratic" impulse dating back to Plato's "Republic."
Which took place in what we would call today a "slave state,"
but with the democratic impulse forcefully expressing itself.
Even today, as in China, we find a slave state expressing democratic ideals, and having elections and pretending to be a "people's" republic. You have to read and re-read 1984 by George Orwell, to realize what a perversion of American Ideals is Communism. And indeed it is possible and likely that future generations in our country will LIVE THROUGH the failure of democracy in this land.

Answer 4

The US of A... Our Nation was born on July 4th 1776.

The Earth... about 4. billion years ago.

...and everything that is still around since March 13the 1907

Answer 5

The Black Death. It started in 1342 and did not go away for over a hundred years. It killed over 1/3 of the population of Europe.

Answer 6

Only known fragment of a poem, title unknown:
"You've got a lot of man in you, Naso,
And a lot of men also."

By Galus Valerlus Catullus 84? to 54? B.C.
'Naso' was a female poet, one good enough for
Catullus to admire, and perhaps envy poisoned
his verse about poetical competition in Rome.

Had he been long-winded and waited awhile
Catullus could have been a Harvard Grad' too.

Answer 7

Adhesives and glue. Around 1750, the first glue or adhesive patent was issued in Britain. The glue was made from fish. Patents were then rapidly issued for adhesives using natural rubber, animal bones, fish, starch, milk protein or casein. www.aboutinventors.com

Answer 8

My Gran! She is 102 and drinks 1/2 bottle of Whiskey a day!!!!

Answer 9

I believe the concept of homework is over 100 old, do some research on it, dont't take my word on it!

Answer 10

Homework deadline looming fast??