![]() ![]() Mosaics and brick columns were one of the achievements in art and architecture of Sumerians. and 2,000 B.C.-used asphalt to glue their mosaic works on floors and walls. The Sumerian civilization-which dominated the Mesopotamia region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what we now refer to as the Middle East between 4,000 B.C. Mesopotamians also used bitumen for road construction and sealing and waterproofing their boats. This complete history of fossil fuels will dwell on:Īncient civilizations did not have the technology to either drill or refine oil, but they used the petroleum that they found seeping on the surface for construction and waterproofing.Īccording to ancient Greek historian Herodotus, bitumen from a small tributary of the River Euphrates (in modern-day Iraq), was used for the construction of the wall of Babylon, the most famous city of ancient Mesopotamia. In ancient times, the use of fossil fuels may have been limited due to lack of knowledge and technology, but civilizations tried and, to some extent, managed to make the most of the fossil fuel resources they could extract and use in their everyday lives. Those three fuels combined account for the majority of the global energy use now. Of course, early uses of fossil fuels cannot compare in volume to today’s exploration, extraction, processing, and trading industries in the three main fossil fuels - crude oil, natural gas, and coal. The history of the use of fossil fuels is as old as is the history of human civilization. Some forms of petroleum, coal, and natural gas were used thousands of years ago by various civilizations on various continents, according to historical records and archaeological finds. But people started using fossil fuels long before the first steam engine running on coal or the first commercially drilled oil well. They are conflicts between two rights.” - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (born this date in 1770, died 1831).Fossil fuels are the primary source of energy in the world today. Thought for Today: “Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. Contemporary Christian musician Megan Garrett (Casting Crowns) is 38. Rock musician Tony Kanal (No Doubt) is 48. Country musician Matthew Basford (Yankee Grey) is 56. Movie director Tom Ford (Film: “Nocturnal Animals”) is 57. Rock musician Glen Matlock (The Sex Pistols) is 62. Today’s Birthdays: Author Lady Antonia Fraser is 86. A rally in Berkeley, California, was disrupted when scores of anarchists wearing black clothing and masks stormed the demonstration and attacked several supporters of President Donald Trump. One year ago: Hurricane Harvey sent devastating floods into Houston, with rising water chasing thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground streets became rivers navigable only by boat. (Hasan ended up being sentenced to death.) ![]() Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who’d fatally shot 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, rested his case without presenting any evidence during his trial’s penalty phase. A federal judge in Boise, Idaho, sentenced longtime sex offender Joseph Edward Duncan III to death for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of 9-year-old Dylan Groene (GROH’-nee).įive years ago: Maj. Ten years ago: Barack Obama was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver. In 2006, a Comair CRJ-100 crashed after trying to take off from the wrong runway in Lexington, Ky., killing 49 people and leaving the co-pilot the sole survivor. commercial satellite rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida - a Delta booster carrying a British communications satellite, the Marcopolo 1. In 1979, British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten and three other people, including his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas, were killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Army. In 1975, Haile Selassie (HY’-lee sehl-AH’-see), the last emperor of Ethiopia’s 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after being overthrown. In 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, was found dead in his London flat from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills he was 32. ![]()
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