This article describes the uses of various verb forms in modern standard English language.This includes: Finite verb forms such as go, goes and went; Nonfinite forms such as (to) go, going and gone; Combinations of such forms with auxiliary verbs, such as was going and would have gone; The uses considered include expression of tense (time reference), aspect, mood and modality, …

Sydney is a city on the east coast of Australia which is the capital city of New South Wales.About five million people live in Sydney which makes it the biggest city in Oceania.Sydney started in 1788, when the Captain Arthur Phillip brought the First Fleet to settle in Australia. The settlers were mostly convicts from crowded prisons in England and Ireland, with a group of soldiers to …

There have been instruments like the guitar for at least 5,000 years. The guitar may have come from older instruments known as the sitara from ancient India and central Asia.The oldest known picture of a guitar-like instrument is a 3300 year old stone carving of a Hittite bard. The oldest guitar-like instrument that is still complete is the "Warwick Gittern" in the British Museum.

History. The idea of electricity, or the fact that amber acquires the power to attract light objects when rubbed, may have been known to the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, who lived about 600 B.C. . Another Greek philosopher, Theophrastus, stated in a treatise that this power is possessed by other substances. The first scientific study of electrical and magnetic …

Philosophy is the study of underlying things. It tries to understand the reasons or basis for things. It also tries to understand how things should be. "Philosophia" is the Ancient Greek word for the "love of wisdom".A person who works in the field of philosophy is called a philosopher.A philosopher is a kind of thinker and researcher.A "philosophy" can also mean a group of ideas …

The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution was an addition to the United States Constitution that put a limit on how many times a person could be elected to be President.A person is limited to being elected twice, or once if they have already served more than two years as President. Congress passed the amendment on March 1947.

The Simple English Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia for people who are learning English. The Simple English Wikipedia's articles can be used to help with school homework or just for the fun of learning about new ideas.Non-English Wikipedias can also translate from the articles here.. Wikipedia started on January 15, 2001 and it has over 35,000,000 articles in many languages, …

By the 5th century BC, there were only seven main Chinese states left. They had taken over all the smaller areas. These states continued to fight each other. Historians call this period the Warring States Period due to wars and fights among these states. ... History, culture and archaeology of the ancient Asian continent. Many articles and ...

English is a language that started in Anglo-Saxon England.It is originally from Anglo-Frisian and Old Saxon dialects.English is now used as a global language. There are about 375 million native speakers (people who use it as their first language) in the world.. Frisian is the language closest to English. The vocabulary of English was influenced by other Germanic languages in the early …

Background. The people of the far north, later called Vikings, were first noticed by the Romans around the year 100 BC. This is when the Cimbri and the Teutons moved into southern Gaul. The Romans believed these war-like tribes came from Jutland.But the Romans suspected they were only a part of a greater threat located further north. The Roman historians Jordanes described …