
business history - Why, and how, did chain stores come into being ...
2015年5月5日 · Chain stores became popular in the United States after World War II, when American soldiers came back from war, with a bent for "standardizing" society. In 1954, for instance, a veteran named Ray Kroc, who was working as a paper cup salesman, noted that the hamburger store of the McDonald Brothers did the same business as five ordinary outlets.
What are "stripes" in relation to ancient Roman slaves?
2024年1月5日 · I'm reading the Cambridge medieval history collection, specifically the chapter on Roman law (Justinian and earlier, vol2, ch3), and there is this sentence pertaining to serfs: And for some offenc...
How does one find historic prices for goods?
2024年8月7日 · I used my library's A-Z Databases to consult the archives for my local newspaper, where I found store-brand bottled water from $0.69 to $0.79 for a ~3/4 liter bottle, and $6.99 for a case of 20-ounce bottles, quantity unstated but possibly 12 bottles. Here are a couple of ads from 1995 newspapers in Houston, Texas, in the summer months.
fashion - Was the painting of men's nails a rare practice in the mid ...
"Men go in for powder polish and buffing or for clear, colorless liquid polish" 1946 Chain Store Age - Volume 22, Issues 1-6 - Page 337 "Customers are pleased with the lasting gloss of powder polish...Business men will appreciate the cut in manicuring time" 1934 Commercial America - Volume 31 - Page 19
How were drawbridges and portcullises used tactically?
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The British used to (still?) classify their guns by weight in pounds ...
2024年11月27日 · Cannonballs were also spherical (ignoring chain/grape shot here), meaning there is a direct conversion from weight to barrel size (though not linear, as weight increases by a cube, not linearly). This is assuming the same material is used for all cannonballs and all cannonballs are assumed to be perfect spheres, both of which are reasonable ...
Did Google simply beat Microsoft to market?
2020年2月8日 · By the time Windows Mobile had come out, Apple was in full swing with the App Store and externally developed apps, and Android had added the same feature. The independent developers had already committed to one or both of those platforms, so a third platform struggled to attract mobile developer mindshare, while existing Windows developers ...
ancient history - Did the Celts really go into battle naked? - History ...
2013年2月12日 · Some of them have iron cuirasses, chain-wrought, but others are satisfied with the armour which Nature has given them and go into battle naked. And finally in Caesar's de Bello Gallico, IV, 1, we learn that the Suebi:
Did medieval stores have names? - History Stack Exchange
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How did such a relatively minor event as the assassination of an ...
The simplest answer might be something like "the assassination itself caused only the Austro-Hungarian declaration of war against Serbia, not the World War itself which was the result of a chain reaction and long underlying factors". To illustrate this, I could add something based on a very relevant comment by user Michael.