List three facts that you learned about the history of swimming. Were any of these surprising to you? Why or why not?

Three facts about history of swimming :

1. Olympics 1896 was the first Olympics event in which swimming was held as added.

2. The Egyptian drawings is the first evident of ancient time swimming. Such drawings date back to 2500 BC.

3. Swim fins were invented by Benjamin Franklin.

The most intriguing and fascinating point of swimming was its relation to the ancient Egyptian times. It is really interesting to know that swimming is that old and is still practiced by humans in modern world.

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the industrial development of cities in the ruhr area in the nineteenth century is described. the research was based on english and german language sources. several factors that shaped growth and paths of the cities were categorized and analyzed. they are locations, resources, traditions, entrepreneurs, and technological developments. locations and resources were the most important among them; other factors may be regarded as consequences from locations and resources. among the cities, bochum, essen, gelsenkirchen, and dortmund had the richest resources and most favorable locations in the transportation network and grew to be the largest cities in the ruhr area near the end of the nineteenth century. riverside location was also a favorable factor for the development, as shown in the development of duisburg on the confluence of rhine and ruhr. resource distribution can explain the rise of textile industry, metallurgical industry, and coal and iron industries, and the northward progression of the mining industry. tradition was an important factor for cities such as krefeld, barmen, elberfeld, solingen, and remscheid, which experienced development based on their traditions through the nineteenth century. various entrepreneurs exerted influences within and beyond the local level over the ruhr area. technological development stimulated the northward progression of the mining industry and the deep connection between the coal and the iron industries.