Category: HISTORY
The Story of Television
Television became available in experimental forms in the late 1920’s, and After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white TV broadcasting became popular in the United States and Britain. In 1927 an American scientist, Philo Farnsworth made the first electronic television system and filed a patent for it that same year.
The Monumental Fall of Babylon: What Really Shattered the Empire?
The fall of Babylon is a historical event that occurred in 539 BC. This event saw the conquest of Babylon by the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great and marked the end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. The fall of Babylon is reported by a number of ancient sources, including the Cyrus Cylinder, the Greek historian Herodotus, as well as a number of books in the Old Testament.