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Three Cups Of Tea/ Greg Mortenson/Afghan/Pakistan/USA History

By coleandadam
  • Greg Mortenson Born.

    Greg Mortenson Born.

    Born in St. Cloud, Minnesota
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    Life Of Greg Mortenson

  • Greg's Sister Christina Is Born

    Greg's Sister Christina Is Born

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  • Moved Back To Minnesota

    Moved Back To Minnesota

    Greg was born in Minnesota,then he spent his early years in Tanzinia. At 15 he moved back to the states.
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  • Nixon's Resignation & Watergate Scandal

    Nixon's Resignation & Watergate Scandal

    -USA History
  • Soviet Union Invades Afghanistan

    Soviet Union Invades Afghanistan

    -Afghanistan History
  • Attemp to Climb K2 Begins

    Attemp to Climb K2 Begins

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  • Promise To Build a School

    Promise To Build a School

    There is no date given as to when he promised them, but I assume it was around the same time as when he came into Korphe
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  • Stumbles Into Korphe

    Stumbles Into Korphe

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  • Pennies For Peace

    Pennies For Peace

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  • Taliban is Formed

    Taliban is Formed

    -Pakistan
  • Cole Caufield Is Born

    Cole Caufield Is Born

    -USA History
  • Adam Guilmeister is Born

    Adam Guilmeister is Born

    -USA History
  • 9/11 Attacks

    9/11 Attacks

    Al Queda Uses Hijacked Commercial Passenger Jets to crash into the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennslyvania.
    -USA
  • George W. Bush Declares War on Terror

    George W. Bush Declares War on Terror

    He declares War due to the 9/11 Attacks.
    -USA/Afghan/Pakistan History
  • Hamid Karzai Elected President of Afghanistan

    Hamid Karzai Elected President of Afghanistan

    -Afghanistan History
  • Greg and the CAI Starts Building Girls' Schools in Afganistan.

    Greg and the CAI Starts Building Girls' Schools in Afganistan.

    (The CAI stands for Central Asia Institute. Its a nonprofit organization that Greg cofounded that builds schools in Afganistan and Pakistan).
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  • Building Schools Everywhere

    Building Schools Everywhere

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  • A Massive Earthquake in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan,

    A Massive Earthquake in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan,

    ills over 74,000 people, including 18,000 students in schools, and destroys over 1,600 schools.
  • Three Cups of Tea Comes Out

    Three Cups of Tea Comes Out

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  • Osama Bin Laden is Killed

    Osama Bin Laden is Killed

  • David Oliver Relin Commits Suicide

    David Oliver Relin Commits Suicide

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