Modern commercial American cream cheese was developed in 1872, when William Lawrence, from Chester, New York, while looking for a way to recreate the soft, French cheese Neufchâtel, accidentally came up with a way of making an “unripened cheese” that is heavier and creamier, other dairymen came up with similar creations independently.
View moreHowever, modern cheesecake is not usually classified as a cake, despite the name.
View moreThe modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis.
View moreThe rules of modern tennis have changed little since the 1890s.
View moreModern processors often run so fast that gigahertz (GHz) is used instead.
View moreMany old CPUs from the 70s, 80s and early 90s (and many modern embedded systems) have an 8 bit or 16 bit word size.
View moreTokyo is a marvelous mix of modern living and old-fashioned manners, slick high-tech gadgets and cutesy cartoon mascots.
View moreModern computers can do billions of calculations in a second.
View moreBeing able to calculate many times per second allows modern computers to multitask, which means they can do many different tasks at the same time.
View moreModern Mexicans are a unique blend of many ancient civilizations, including the Olmec, Zapotec, Toltec, Maya, Aztec, Inca, African, French, and Spanish.
View moreThe modern games of both rugby football and association football comes from 19th-century England.
View moreA modern laptop is self-contained, with built-in rechargeable battery and peripheral equipment.
View moreMost modern laptops feature integrated webcams and built-in microphones, while many also have touchscreens.
View moreGrid owned patents for the "Clamshell" design which is used in almost all modern laptop designs.
View moreThe Gavilan sc was the ancestor of the modern laptop.
View moreModern phone makers have been able to use smaller parts.
View moreOne of the main modern uses for it seems to be in the gaming world.
View moreIn 1905, he published four pivotal scientific works, which would revolutionise modern physics.
View moreThe template for all modern computers is the Von Neumann architecture, detailed in a 1945 paper by Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann.
View moreHistorically, marine mammals such as whales, dolphins and seals have been eaten as food, though that happens to a lesser extent in modern times.
View moreFindings in a sea cave at Pinnacle Point in South Africa indicate Homo sapiens (modern humans) harvested marine life as early as 165,000 years ago.
View moreThe city is famous for its 19th century modern architecture.
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