Curated category
Cultural trends
- FashionThe Latin word facere means to make. This root anchors the modern term fashion, which describes the manufacturing and wearing of outfits adorned with…
- PostmodernismThe word postmodern first appeared in print during 1870. Artist John Watkins Chapman used the phrase to describe a Postmodern style of painting that departed…
- Information AgeIn 1947, a team at Bell Labs in New Jersey created the first working transistor. John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain built this germanium-based…