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When Did People First Start Clapping to Show Appreciation? (2017x70)

Date de diffusion: Mar 22, 2017

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Are Some People Really Born With Tails? https://youtu.be/dQMHd6IYQak?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 Why Do People Seem To Get More Colds In The Winter? https://youtu.be/ei6Y-BxJ2E0?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 In this video: Clapping is the near-ubiquitous way we show our appreciation of something, particularly when we’re in large groups. But have you ever wondered why slapping our hands together has come to be so closely associated with approval and where the practise originated from? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/04/people-first-start-clapping-show-appreciation-something/ Sources: http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2003/pdfs/310.pdf http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/q-and-a/a5487/history-of-applause-0209/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/a-brief-history-of-applause-the-big-data-of-the-ancient-world/274014/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/ask-smithsonian/ask-smithsonian-what-is-the-origin-of-appla/ http://libguides.gallaudet.edu/content.php?pid=351741 http://www.cpr.org/classical/story/clapping-question-should-classical-audiences-applaud-between-movements http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-06-20/news/9906200402_1_applause-clapping-elizabethan https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cB9itIyijdUC&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=plautus+plaudite&source=bl&ots=OO-9fwDJyj&sig=o6fpE6wQQqNA6BFVG38bbXQGJeU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjjkp2I_6zMAhWB2xoKHQpVAs4Q6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=plautus%20plaudite&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yN84nN6LHwYC&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=ancient+greek+plays+applause&sou