October 27, 1938 was a special day in the history of nylon. For it was on that day that its makers announced it officially, to a crowd of 4,000 women. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at how this fibre came to ...
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Today in History for Nov. 2: In 1164, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket began a six-year self-imposed exile in France. Once a close friend of England's Henry II, Becket had become an outspoken ...
The event, hosted by clothing brand SP5DER and Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo, merges the “raw spirit of rodeo grit with the ...
A Chinese woman has been arrested and charged over the theft of gold from the Natural History Museum in Paris, in one of ...
Making nylon plastic from raw chemicals used to be a very common demo; depending where and when you grew up, you may well have done it in high school or even earlier. What’s not common is ...