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The origin and development of the Modern Alphabet.
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Learn to Eat Meat
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The birth of the Modern Calendar we use today. Reforms made to the Roman calendar under Julius Caesar create the Julian Calendar, with 365 days in a year divided into 12 months and a leap year every four years.
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Until the end of the twelve century, Latin was very difficult to learn. Students read and memorised texts for years. Then a French man called Alexander de Villedieu developed a fast method to teach Latin. He used simple rules and wrote them in verse so the students could remember them more easily.
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In 1440 Gutenberg invented the printing press, It could take years just to copy one book. When Gutenberg devised a printing press that could print copy after copy in just a small fraction of the time, the whole world changed dramatically.
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In 1609, using this early version of the telescope, Galileo became the first person to record observations of the sky made with the help of a telescope. He soon made his first astronomical discovery.
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-1698: Thomas Savery designs an improved steam pump to pump water from mines
- 1765: James Watt invents a steam engine with a separate condenser that is five times more efficient than earlier versions
- 1776: Watt teams up with Matthew Boulton to build their first commercial steam engine
- 1799: Richard Trevithick builds a high-pressure steam engine
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The End of the African Slave Trade and Abolition of Slavery: 1807-1888 (UK, US, Mexico, Brazil)
— 1807: The United Kingdom abolishes the slave trade
— 1808: The United States bans the importation of slaves
— 1824: Mexico abolishes slavery
— 1833: Slavery is abolished in the British Empire
— 1836: The Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico and reinstates slavery
— 1865: The Thirteenth Amendment to the American Constitution abolishes slavery (US)
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Pavel Schilling creates an electromagnetic telegraph (Estonia)
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Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone: 1876 (US)
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On the Apollo 11 Astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, land on the Moon and walk on its surface.