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Bernardo Razzimazi
• October 4, 1633-November 5, 1714 Italian doctor
• encouraged the use of the cinchona plant to treat malaria
• wrote a book on the diseases of workers -
Industrial Revolution
• 1750-1850
• Invented the 1st car Model T by Henry Ford
• Creation of the assembly line -
Thomas Malthus
• feb 14, 1766-dec 29, 1834
• 1814: Observations on the effects of the Corn Laws
• 1815: The Nature of Rent -
Agricultural Revolution
• 18th century- 19th Century
• Tools invented were seed drill
• Also Sickles -
Civilian Conservation Groups
• 1933 to 1942
• Ran by FDR
• Chuck Yeager, test pilot (first human to break the sound barrier), former enrollee -
China Three Gorges Dam
• Has 34 generators
• expands to the Yangtze river -
WWII
• 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945
• Created the United Nations
• Atomic bombs named Fat Boy, and Little Man -
Rainbow Warrior
• 1978 – 1985
• The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior was the book based on the event
• The ship was bomb by French Intelligence service -
Chernobyl
• Apr 26, 1986
• Radioactive explosion
• Involved 500,000 workers -
Exxon Valdez
• March 24, 1989
• 55 million US gallons of oil that spilled
• Largest oil spill -
Persian Gulf War
• 2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991
• Broadcasted by CNN
• Cost $61.1 billion dollars -
An inconvenient Truth
• May 24, 2006
• Al gore documentary about global warming
• grossed an average of $91,447 per theater, the highest of any movie that weekend and a record for a documentary, though it was only playing on four screens at the time -
BP Gulf Oil Spill
• Apr 20th, 2010-July 15, 2010
• 11 people died
• 4.9 billion barrels -
General Motors
• Sept 16, 1908
• Multinational automotive corporation
• Largest automaker in Detroit