Category Archives: WHEN?
341.WHEN WERE TAXES FIRST STARTED?
There is an expression that “death and taxes are always with us.” In one way or another, people have been paying taxes since very ancient times. But there is a big difference between the taxes of ancient times and the taxes we pay today.
In ancient times people paid a tax on things they consumed, and they had to pay a tax, or duty, on imported articles. These taxes were levied by the rulers on the people, and were usually as high as they could possibly bear. It was the duty of the underprivileged classes— slaves, vassals, peasants, colonists, and conquered peoples — to support the ruling class.
340.WHEN DID INSURANCE BEGIN?
Insurance is protection against financial loss. In order to protect his future, a person may join a group in which each member pays a certain sum of money regularly with the guarantee that the group will pay any loss suffered by any member. This is known as a mutual company. Or, he may pay an organized commercial company which carries a large amount of capital to take the responsibility of any loss that he suffers.
There are many, many kinds of insurance in effect today and we won’t attempt to describe them all. A partial list includes life, fire, health, accident, automobile, title, liability, burglary, and even crop, rain, and earthquake insurance.
315.WHEN WERE COMBS FIRST USED?
The first time a woman noticed that she could make herself more attractive by arranging her hair in some special way was probably the first time a “comb” was used. A comb is simply any implement with “teeth” which go through hair, thereby arranging it.
There are people who live in New Guinea called Papuans. They have very crisp hair which grows in tight ringlets. Some people believe that in order to arrange these ringlets into a big mop at the top of the head, the Papuans must have invented the comb.
