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An Espresso Timeline
1901 - Luigi Bezzera files a patent for machine that contained a boiler and four "groups". Each group could take varying sized filters that contained the coffee. Boiling... |
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Walt Disney
Walt Disney founded the animation and entertainment empire which still bears his name. He began as a cartoonist in the 1920s, creating Mickey Mouse and eventually moving... |
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Werner Heisenberg, Uncertainty Principle
Werner Heisenberg was one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century. He is best known as a founder of quantum mechanics, the new physics of the atomic world, an... |
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Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan
Hirohito, the Showa Emperor, reigned over Japan from 1926 to 1989. He was known in the West by his given name Hirohito (he had no surname). He was the 124th Emperor of Ja... |
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Historical Timeline Australia
1901 Australia’s population is 1, 795, 873. 1903 Women vote for the Australian Parliament, and three women stand for election. 1911 Douglas Mawson, Australian explorer an... |
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Just So Stories, Kipling
These are questions that children around the world have asked for centuries, but it took Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling's lively, hilarious stories to give them answe... |
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Charles Lindbergh, Aviator
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic be... |
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Karl Popper, Philosophy of Science
The most important philosopher of science since Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Sir Karl Popper finally solved the puzzle of scientific method, which in practice had never see... |
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Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl was born in Berlin in 1902. She studied painting and started her artistic career as a dancer. She became already so famous after her first dance hat Max... |
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Tour de France: The official website
Race of legend in world cycling, Le Tour de France is one of the premier events attracting the widest worldwide media coverage. It is also a great popular festival where... |
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World Series, Baseball
It all began 100 years ago with a gentlemen's challenge. Two Major Leagues -- an established one called the "National" and a newcomer called the "American." The owners of... |
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Wright brothers, First Flying Airplane
Between 1899 and 1905, the Wright Brothers conducted a program of aeronautica research and experimentation that led to the first successful powered airplane in 190 an... |
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George Orwell
English novelist, essayist and critic, famous for his political satires ANIMAL FARM (1945), an anti-Soviet tale, and NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (1949), which shows that the des... |
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John von Neumann, Mathematician
John von Neumann was a Hungarian American mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechani... |
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Printed Circuit Board History
The printed circuit board hsitory from printed wire in 1903 to multi-layer printed circuit boards of the 1980's.... |
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