Pub Street in Siem Reap

Pub Street is the place to release stress or/and relax by the holidaymakers in any pubs after the daytime, they visited to the great Angkor Wat of Cambodia in the Siem Reap Province by drinking beer or soft drink, dancing, buying souvenirs in the night market, and finding the appropriated place for dinner time with friends or lover.  When...

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International Children Book Day

Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen's birthday, 2 April, International Children's Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children's books.  Each year a different National Section of IBBY has the opportunity to be the international sponsor of ICBD. It decides upon a theme and...

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Basketball is televised for the first time

On February, 28, 1940, Fordham University played the University of Pittsburgh in the first game of a double header as Pitt won 50-37. W2XBS showed the game in New York City. By the way, only one camera was used in the first televised game in the history of basketball. ...

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Oldest human footprints

Oldest human footprints found outside Africa; as a group of ancient humans walked across a muddy beach in England nearly a million years ago, little did they know that one day, their footsteps would thrill modern discoverers. The find, believed to be the oldest known human footprints found outside of Africa, wouldn’t have happened without...

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World Radio Day

World Radio Day is 13 February. It was proclaimed on 3 November 2011 by UNESCO's 36th General Conference. It was originally proposed by Spain. On 20 September 2010 Spain proposed that the UNESCO Executive Board include an agenda item on the proclamation of a World Radio Day. UNESCO's Executive Board approved the agenda item in its provisional...

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On 11 February, 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison

On 11 February, 1990, Nelson Mandela was released unconditionally from prison. Accompanied by his wife Winnie, Mandela left the Victor Verster prison (renamed Drakenstein Correctional Centre) on the outskirts of Paarl and was driven 60 km to Cape Town by African National Congress's (ANC) Rose Sonto along a route lined by thousands...

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History of Bondat Protib of Khmer

Once upon a time, a male and a female crow made a nest in a tree by the seaside. The female laid five eggs, as is normal for these birds. One day, a big storm came, and the wind blew the nest fell from tree down to the sea. That evening, when the crows were back from finding food, they knew their nest was destroyed by big storm, and the five...

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History of Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year or Traditional Chinese or and Spring Festival/Lunar New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holiday. The Chinese New Year period lasts for 15 days, beginning on the first day of the first lunar month of the Chinese calendar. The first Emperor of China Qin Shi Huang changed the beginning of the year to...

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George Stephenson, the first man invented train

George Stephenson, who was the first man invented train operated by steam engine, – the son of a colliery fireman, was born on 9th June, 1781, at Wylam, eight miles from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The cottage where the Stephenson family lived was next to the Wylam Wagonway, and George grew up with a keen interest in machines....

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Who invented the Automobile?

Perhaps, the first self-propelled land vehicle with an engine was built in 1769 by a Frenchman called Nicohlas Cughot. It was a cumbersome-three-wheel cart with an engine operated by water steam and enormous boiler. It could travel 3 miles per hour and needle to be refueled every 15 miles. In 1789, Oliver Evans, an American got the first...

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Who discovered the Atom?

Who discovered the Atom? The word of Atom comes to us from a Greek word which means Indivisible. The Greek believed all matter consisted of tiny particles which could not be divided further and called the last bit an atom. In 1803, John Dalton, an English chemist and mathematician was the first man to develop a scientific atomic theory....

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Who invented the airplane?

Who invented the airplane? The idea of flying has fascinated men since ancient days. In fact, one of our most legends tells of Icarus, who fastened wings to his body with wax in order to fly. However, when he flew off towards the sun, the wax melted and he fell to his death.  Centuries ago, Leonardo da Vinci made sketches of a flying machine that used manpower, and other artistes and dreamers. The earliest flying machines...

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