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Is Zero an Even or an Odd Number?
The Apple II
10 Inventions That Changed Your World
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Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
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7 Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Inventors
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Scolex (head) of the tapeworm Taenia solium. The hooks of the scolex enable the tapeworm to attach to the intestinal wall.
Uninvited Guests: The 7 Worst Parasitic Worms
The Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. (Civil War, Pennsylvania)
9 Worst Generals in History
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
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The 6 Deadliest Earthquakes Since 1950
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. August 28th 1963
Was Martin Luther King, Jr., a Republican or a Democrat?
Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson awards the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Marty A. Hammer, during a visit to military personnel, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, October 26, 1966. President Johnson
Vietnam War Timeline
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How Can Some Trees Survive for Thousands of Years?

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Born February 11, 1891 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died December 1, 1969 (aged 78) • Pennsylvania
Inventions autovalve lightning arrester
Charles Steinmetz.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
American engineer
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
John Hadley
British mathematician
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Jacques Charles
French physicist
Robert Moog
American electrical engineer
Watch a silent short of Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph and incandescent electric light
Thomas Edison
American inventor
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
American inventor
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American inventor
Armstrong, Edwin H.
Edwin H. Armstrong
American inventor
Zworykin, Vladimir
Vladimir Zworykin
American engineer and inventor
Jack Kilby
American engineer
Steve Wozniak in 2014
Steve Wozniak
American electronics engineer
Philo Farnsworth
Philo Farnsworth
American inventor
Minsky, Marvin
Marvin Minsky
American scientist
Martin Cooper
American engineer
Claude Shannon
American engineer
Robert Kahn
American computer scientist
Westinghouse
George Westinghouse
American inventor and industrialist

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