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Brielle F

Lindbergh Flies the Atlantic, 1927 - 0 views

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Brielle 1927 Charles Lindbergh flight

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      Brielle F on 26 Feb 14
       
      Good information. For more info I would look on the side bar.
  • "Spirit of St Louis" and aimed her down the dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island.
  • Thirty-three and one half-hours and 3,500 miles later he landed in Paris, the first to fly the Atlantic alone.
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  • His feat electrified the nation and inspired enthusiastic interest in aviation.
  • president awarded him the Distinguished Flying Cross.
  • Brielle F on 26 Feb 14
     
    Lindbergh's "feat electrified the nation and inspired enthusiastic interest in aviation"
Paul F

Tangshan - The Deadliest Earthquake - 1 views

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Paul 1970s Tangshan Earthquake

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  • At 3:42 a.m. on July 28, 1976, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit the sleeping cit
  • . The very large earthquake, striking an area where it was totally unexpected, obliterated the city of Tangshan and killed over 240,000 people - making it the deadliest earthquake of the twentieth century.
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  • When the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Tangshan at 3:42 a.m. on July 28, over a million people lay sleeping, unaware of the disaster that was to befall them. As the earth began to shake, a few people who were awake had the forethought to dive under a table or other heavy piece of furniture, but most were asleep and did not have time. The entire earthquake lasted approximately 14 to 16 seconds.
  • Though 80 percent of the people trapped under rubble were saved, a 7.1 magnitude aftershock that hit in the afternoon of July 28 sealed the fate for many who had been waiting under the rubble for help.
  • After the earthquake hit, 242,419 people lay dead or dying, along with another 164,581 people who were severely injured. In 7,218 households, all members of the family were killed by the earthquake.
Xavier W

Defense.gov News Article: The Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm Timeline - 0 views

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Xavier 1990 Operation Desert Storm Iraq Kuwait

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  • Iraq invades Kuwait, Aug. 2, 1990. 
  • Operation Desert Shield begins, Aug. 7. 
  • Operation Desert Storm and air war phase begins, 3 a.m., Jan. 17, 1991 (Jan. 16, 7 p.m. Eastern time).
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  • President Bush authorizes the call-up of up to 1 million National Guardsmen and Reservist for up to two years, Jan. 18. 
  • Iraq officially accepts cease-fire terms, April 6. 
  • Cease-fire takes effect, April 11.
  • Xavier W on 26 Feb 14
     
    Gives a timeline of The Operation Dessert Shield/Desert Storm
  • Xavier W on 26 Feb 14
     
    Gives a timeline of The Operation Dessert Shield/Desert Storm 
Xavier W

Cold War Museum - 0 views

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Xavier cold war soviet union

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  • In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries.
  • The Soviet Union was built on approximately the same territory as the Russian Empire which it succeeded. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the newly-formed government developed a philosophy of socialism with the eventual and gradual transition to Communism.
  • By the time of the 1985 rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s last leader, the country was in a situation of severe stagnation, with deep economic and political problems which sorely needed to be addressed and overcome.
  • Xavier W on 26 Feb 14
     
    Fall Of The Soviet Union
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    Fall Of The Soviet Union 
Xavier W

HubbleSite - The Telescope - Hubble Essentials - 0 views

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Xavier hubble telescope hubble telescope essentials

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  • since the time of Galileo, astronomers have shared a single goal — to see more, see farther, see deeper.
  • The Hubble Space Telescope's launch in 1990 sped humanity to one of its greatest advances in that journey.
  • Hubble is a telescope that orbits Earth.
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  • Its position above the atmosphere, which distorts and blocks the light that reaches our planet, gives it a view of the universe that typically far surpasses that of ground-based telescopes.
  • Hubble is one of NASA's most successful and long-lasting science missions.
  • Hubble's discoveries have transformed the way scientists look at the universe.
  • Among its many discoveries, Hubble has revealed the age of the universe to be about 13 to 14 billion years
  • Hubble has shown scientists galaxies in all stages of evolution, including toddler galaxies that were around when the universe was still young, helping them understand how galaxies form. It found protoplanetary disks, clumps of gas and dust around young stars that likely function as birthing grounds for new planets. It discovered that gamma-ray bursts — strange, incredibly powerful explosions of energy — occur in far-distant galaxies when massive stars collapse. And these are only a handful of its many contributions to astronomy.
  • More than 10,000 scientific articles have been published based on Hubble data.
  • Xavier W on 26 Feb 14
     
    Launch Of Hubble Telescope - Everything to know
Gracie M

Super Bowl History - Super Bowl I - 0 views

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first super bowl 60s gracie

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  • Green Bay Packers 35 Kansas City Chiefs 10
  • Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers (13-2) against Hank Stram's Chiefs (12-2-1) and was played before 61,946 fans in Los Angeles' 100,000-seat Memorial Coliseum. The television audience for this game is estimated to have been approximately 60 million viewers.
  • Max McGee
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  • McGee was later quoted as saying, "I waddled in about 7:30 in the morning and I could barely stand up for the kickoff. On the bench Paul (Hornung) kept needling me, 'What would you do if you had to play?' And I said, 'No way, there's no way I could make it.'" As fate would have it, Dowler did get hurt early in the game and McGee was suddenly thrust into a game he had no business being in.
  • he caught a 37-yard touchdown pass from Bart Starr to cap off an 80-yard drive that gave the Packers an early lead. On the day, McGee caught seven passes for 138 yards and two touchdowns as the Packers went on to win the first Super Bowl, 35-10.
  • Gracie M on 26 Feb 14
     
    First American Super Bowl
Nick B

On This Day: Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki - 0 views

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bomb 'Nagasaki Fat man nick 1940's japan

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    On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki.
Ivy A

1930s Timeline - History Timeline of the 1930s - 2 views

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ivy 1930's timeline events

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  • ck History Month Facts American History Trip Timeline 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 197
  • Amelia Earhart First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic
  • Scientists Split the Atom
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  • The Dust Bowl
  • World War II Begins
  • Prohibition Ends in the U.S.
  • 1930s
Gracie M

First human heart transplant - History.com This Day in History - 12/3/1967 - 0 views

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first heart transplant Lewis Washkansky christan barnard 60s gracie

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  • On December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Washkansky, a South African grocer dying from chronic heart disease, received the transplant from Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old woman who was fatally injured in a car accident. Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who trained at the University of Cape Town and in the United States, performed the revolutionary medical operation. The technique Barnard employed had been initially developed by a group of American researchers in the 1950s.
  • 18 days later he died from double pneumonia. Despite the setback, Washkansky's new heart had functioned normally until his death.
  • Gracie M on 26 Feb 14
     
    First heart transplant in South Africa preformed by an American, Surgeon Christian Barnard. 
Paul F

Kent State Shootings - 2 views

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Paul 1970s Kent State Shootings

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  • On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen were on the Kent State college campus to maintain order during a student protest against the Vietnam War.
  • Protests by students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio began on May 1, 1970. At noon, students held a protest rally on campus and later that night rioters built a bonfire and threw beer bottles at police off campus. The mayor declared a state of emergency and asked the governor for help. The governor sent in the Ohio National Guard.
  • On May 2, 1970, during a protest near the ROTC building on campus, someone set fire to the abandoned building. The National Guard entered the campus and used tear gas to control the crowd.
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  • On May 4, 1970, another student rally was scheduled for noon at the Commons on the Kent State University campus. Before the rally began, the National Guard ordered those congregated to disperse. Since the students refused to leave, the National Guard attempted to use tear gas on the crowd.
  • Because of the shifting wind, the tear gas was ineffective at moving the crowd of students. The National Guard then advanced upon the crowd, with bayonets attached to their rifles. This scattered the crowd. After dispersing the crowd, the National Guardsmen stood around for about ten minutes and then turned around and began to retrace their steps.
Nick B

On This Day: United States Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima - 0 views

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  • On Aug. 6, 1945, U.S. war plane Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy,” a 8,900-pound atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan.
  • The United States and Japan had been at war since 1941. By 1945,
  • Truman authorized the use of the atomic bomb as soon after Aug.
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  • The 8,900-pound bomb, called “Little Boy,” was to be carried in a B-29 Superfortress piloted by Col. Paul W. Tibbets,
  • At 8:15 a.m. local time, the Enola Gay dropped Little Boy onto Hiroshima. Just 43 seconds later it exploded 1,900 feet above the city.
  • It has been difficult to determine a definitive death toll. Between 70,000 and 80,000 of the more than 340,000 people in the city are believed to have been killed by the initial blast, and many more died in the following weeks and years from injuries and radiation. The official Japanese death toll, calculated a year after the explosion, is 118,661. Other estimates put the number of deaths at more than 140,000, while thousands of other victims have suffered from radiation sickness, cancer and other long-term effects.
  • Nick B on 26 Feb 14
     
    this website gives the name of the Bomb, the plane, and the pilot who flew the plane. Also it give you the death toll of the explosion.
Gracie M

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 - 1 views

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civil rights act 60s gracie

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  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
  • the Court held that racial segregation purported to be "separate but equal" was constitutional. 
  • The Civil Rights Act was eventually expanded by Congress to strengthen enforcement of these fundamental civil rights.
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  • summer of 1963.
  • The changes strengthened President Kennedy's original proposal in response to the tumultuous summer of 1963,which saw several incidents of racially motivated violence across the South.  The House Judiciary Committee approved the legislation on October 26, 1963, and formally reported it to the full House on November 20, 1963, just two days before President Kennedy was assassinated.  On November 27, 1963, President Lyndon Johnson asserted his commitment to President Kennedy's legislative agenda, particularly civil rights legislation.  The House of Representatives passed a final version of the Civil Rights Act on February 10, 1964.
  • The bill came before the Senate in February 1964. 
  • Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield filed a procedural motion to prevent the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • The Senate began debate on the proposal on March 30, 1964.
  • Senator Edward Kennedy, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dedicated his first speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate to the consideration of the Civil Rights Act. 
  • passed on June 19, 1964, by a vote of 73 to 27. 
  • The Civil Rights Act paved the way for future anti-discrimination legislation, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
  • Gracie M on 26 Feb 14
     
    Information on the Civil Rights Act
Gracie M

November 22, 1963: Death of the President - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum - 0 views

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John F. Kennedy death 60s gracie

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    JFK Death
Gracie M

http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf - 0 views

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I Have A Dream Speech Martin Luther King Jr. 60s gracie

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    I Have A Dream Speech
Paul F

Nixon declares Vietnam War is ending - History.com This Day in History - 12/8/1969 - 1 views

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Paul end of vietnam war 1970s

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  • Nixon had announced at a conference in Midway in June that the United States would be following a new program he termed "Vietnamization."
  • Under the provisions of this program, South Vietnamese forces would be built up so they could assume more responsibility for the war. As the South Vietnamese forces became more capable, U.S. forces would be withdrawn from combat and returned to the United States
  • In April 1970, he expanded the war by ordering U.S. and South Vietnamese troops to attack communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
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  • In 1972, the North Vietnamese launched a massive invasion of South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese forces reeled under the attack, but eventually prevailed with the help of U.S. airpower. After extensive negotiations and the bombing of North Vietnam in December 1972, the Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973. Under the provisions of the Accords, U.S. forces were completely withdrawn. Unfortunately, this did not end the war for the Vietnamese and the fighting continued until April 1975 when Saigon fell to the communists.
Gracie M

Timeline | Cuban Missile Crisis - 0 views

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Cuban Missile Crisis 60s gracie

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    Timeline on the Cuban Missile Crisis. 
Gracie M

Berlin Wall B+G: awesome , awesome | Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for ed... - 1 views

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Berlin wall 60s gracie

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    Creation of the Berlin Wall. Glog. 
Nick B

On This Day: Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor - 0 views

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Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor nick 1940's

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  • “avoid a charge of ‘attack without warning,’
  • U.S. forces had not received warning by the time the first wave of Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor soon before 8 a.m. A second wave followed an hour later.
  • The American Response
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress formally declared war on the Japanese Empire just hours later.
  • Nick B on 19 Feb 14
     
    this website gives an example of the reactions of the leaders of both nations involved in the attack and what happened.
Brielle F

Roaring Twenties - 0 views

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1920's Brielle

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  • The use of machinery increased productivity, while decreasing the demand for manual laborers.
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      Brielle F on 19 Feb 14
       
      Useful information about the advancement of technology. I would use another website to get more information about these main topics
  • Science, medicine and health advanced remarkably during the roaring twenties.
  • An interest developed in nutrition, caloric consumption and physical vitality
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  • The discovery of vitamins and their effects also occurred around the same time.
  • The 1920s era went by such names as the Jazz Age, the Age of Intolerance, and the Age of Wonderful Nonsense. Under any moniker, the era embodied the beginning of modern America
  • Early in the 1920s the U.S. raised tariffs on imported goods, and free immigration came to an end.
  • Amendment 18 to the Constitution (1919) had prohibited the manufacture, transport and sale of intoxicating liquor
  • "Flapper"
  • The roaring twenties ushered in a rich period of American writing, distinguished by the works of such authors
  • A uniquely American music form, whose roots lay in African expression, came to be known as jazz.
  • At the beginning of the roaring twenties, the United States was converting from a wartime to peacetime economy. When weapons for World War I were no longer needed, there was a temporary stall in the economy
  • In this decade, America became the richest nation on Earth and a culture of consumerism was born.
  • Technology
  • vital part
  • Henry Ford
  • The radio found its way into virtually every home in America
  • The year 1922 introduced the first movie made with sound
  • Charles A. Lindbergh`s pioneering flight across the Atlantic Ocean in the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927 did much to stimulate the young aviation industry.
  • Canned foods, ready-made clothing and household appliances liberated women from much household drudgery
  • New technology in the roaring twenties introduced a number of impacts on the American farm:
  • For the first time in the United States, more people were living in cities than on farms.
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