There is virtually no difference between costume jewelry and antique jewelry. Costume Jewelry dates back to the 1930s. By the definition of antique that would also make it antique jewelry. However, most jewelry experts have come to agree that antique jewelry predates the 1930s.
The History Of Rubies
Rubies have long been thought to have healing properties in treating both the blood and matters of the heart. When you say the word ruby you immediately visualize the colorful images of this stone, as well as an emotional response of passion, romance, and power. Yes thats the power and the beauty of a ruby!
Bracelets Past and Prestent
Bracelet popularity dates back to the Roman times and continues today.
Roman bracelets shared many of the design patterns of necklaces and earrings from that era. The ever popular ball earrings from that era were nicely matched with a ball style bracelet.
Earrings as Art
Earrings – Yesterday and Today
Bingo History: Story of the Game Bingo
Here you can read about the history of the popular game bingo, which includes dried beans, stuttering girls and mad professors.
BBC Banned Music: Top Singles Banned By the BBC
Here you can read about some the top singles that were banned by Auntie Beeb.
Who Created The First Paper Shredder? Asks Office Zone
Documents have been shredded in the United States for decades. Ever since the Egyptians created papyrus in 4000 B.C., there has been a need to destroy documents. When a mistake was made or information needed to be destroyed, the papyrus could be easily torn up or burned. Things have changed a lot since then.
Just What Is A P.C. Anyways?
The question often arises – Just what is a PC?
Computer Mice And Their Origin In Our Telephones
Like so many developments that we take for common on our computers the humble mouse had its origins in the innovative work done for more than two decades at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The PARC mouse had two rollers for horizontal and vertical motion and a single button. The deucedly boxy shape was favored by many of developers at PARC and remarkably has persisted through many mouse (or mice) incarnations.
Erasing index.dat files
Every time when you visit web sites, Windows keep information about them and cookies that have been saved on your computer in index.dat files. These files are locked by the system and it is not possible to delete or modify.
The Yahtzee Game
It was a little over 50 years ago when one of the worlds best games was invented. Yahtzee started out as nothing more than a simple game played between friends, but has now grown to one of the most popular games in the world.
BBC Banned Music: Top Singles Banned By the BBC
Here you can read about some the top singles that were banned by Auntie Beeb.