Monthly Archives: January 2016

Record of a Sneeze – An Edison Kinetoscopic Film

Posted on January 9, 2016 by hystoria.ca

  The video you’re about to watch is the first movie to be copyrighted in the United States by The Edison Manufacturing Company – a company organized in 1889 by inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. Record Of A Sneeze, was filmed … Continue reading →

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Our Fancy – Aspects of Collective Behavior: Fads, Mass Hysteria, and Riots

Posted on January 3, 2016 by hystoria.ca

What is the difference between collective behavior and group behavior?Learn this and the idea behind the terms: fads, mass hysteria, and riots. – By Jeffrey Walsh   -altered by Hystoria

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The Woman Who Would Not Hang

Posted on January 1, 2016 by hystoria.ca

Lucky No.7 wins it for this two-armed, delicate bandit. Continue reading →

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New Year’s – Are We’re Doing It Wrong!?

Posted on January 1, 2016 by hystoria.ca

The Babylonians were the first to celebrate New Year’s festivities known as Akitu. This Spring Equinox festival began on the first days of the Babylonian year being in the months of March, or April – when soil was ready for … Continue reading →

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