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Only the year, rather than the specific date, has been documented.
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Only the year, rather than the specific date, is appropriate for the connected events.
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Born Feb 22 1732
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Became a license surveyor and went on expedition in West Virginia, age 17 George Washington
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Andrew Bell was born on March 27, 1753 in Scotland.
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First encounter of the French and Indian war. Lt, Colonel Virginian regiment George Washington
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Switch to wheat as a cash crop after primarily growing tobacco, did grow hemp but not to smoke but for rope. George Washington
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Selected to be commander in chief for the Continental army
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Crossed the Delaware River in the middle of the winter to push back the British and retake New Jersey on Christmas
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Andrew Bell was a private tutor in the Virginia Colony. In 1781, he returned to Scotland where he tutored and became a clergyman in the Anglican Church.
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Andrew Bell started seeking ordination in the Church of England in 1781 and received it in 1785.
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Switched from a three-year crop rotation to a seven-year crop rotation with wheat as the cash crop
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Andrew Bell traveled to Madras, India to implement a particular teaching method in an orphan school. This plan was to overcome the shortage of teachers by allowing the better students to help with those who were younger or struggling.
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Andrew Bell published 'An Experiment in Education', describing his Madras system. This did not become popular until it was adopted by Joseph Lancaster and Robert Owen.
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Died at the age of 67 because of a throat infection
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John Deere was born in Rutland, Vermont
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Andrew Bell was named Master of Sherburn Hospital. Sherburn Hospital is a medieval hospital located in England.
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Andrew Bell became the Superintendent of the National Society for Promoting the Education of Poor in the Principles of the Established Church. This society was formed to keep nondenominational schools from spreading.
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Andrew Bell became Canon of Hereford Cathedral. The Hereford Cathedral is located at Hereford in England.
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Andrew Bell became Prebend of Westminster.
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Apprenticed as a blacksmith at the age of 17, learning essential skills that would define his career.
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John Deere married Demarius Lamb, a Vermont native. They had a strong partnership, and Demarius supported John during the early, difficult years of his career.
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Andrew Bell passed away on January 27, 1832 in England.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens is born in Florida, Missouri, the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens.
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Invented the first commercially successful steel plow, made from a broken saw blade, which could cut through the tough Midwestern soil without clogging like traditional wooden or cast-iron plows.
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Began manufacturing and selling steel plows, gaining popularity among farmers. His plows were in high demand because they were efficient and durable.
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He spent the early years of his life in his father’s plantation service shops,(his father was slave master Jessie Lewis and his mother is unknown) where he mastered the trades of tinsmithing, harness making, and shoemaking. Here he also learned several languages. Such as French, German, and Italian.
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Born in Jeffersonville,Georgia and would go on to be a farmer, politician and railroad executive.
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Samuel Clemens begins a successful two-year apprenticeship to become a licensed river pilot. He learns the lingo of the trade, including "mark twain," a phrase that refers to the river depth at which a boat is safe to navigate. He soon adopts it as his pen name.
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Birth of Theodore Roosevelt
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John Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont
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Adams married Sallie Green, the mulatto daughter of the nearby Green Plantation owner before 1865. Together they had 16 children. The date of their marriage is likely around 1860. This would make Lewis about 18. History has all but forgotten Mrs. Adams most likely because of her racial status as a mulatto. Although Adams was also a mulatto his strong African-American features hid that. Her importance cannot be remembered enough she was a stay at home mom to 16 children and taught early home ec.
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Born in Cedarville, Illinois. Right before the Civil War.
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The Civil War breaks out. Trade along the Mississippi River is halted, forcing an end to Twain's steamboat career. Twain spends two weeks training in a volunteer Confederate militia before it disbands.
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In an adventure later chronicled in the book Roughing It, Twain travels to Nevada with his brother Orion, who had been named the secretary to the territorial governor. He tries his hand at mining and other schemes before becoming a reporter for the Virginia City Daily Territorial Enterprise.
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Julius Rosenwald was born to Samuel and Augusta Rosenwald in Springfield, Illinois.
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Secured a patent for the improved steel plow, solidifying his influence in agricultural innovation.
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When slavery was abolished in 1865, Lewis Adams left his father’s plantation and opened his own shop in Tuskegee. Because his service was in such high demand, his reputation improved race relations in the complicated Reconstruction Era. While there is no record of the service he provided. it is assumed that it was a blacksmithing shop where he made and repaired tools and such things for the locals. This is believed because he taught his trades here to any male youth who would have him.
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The short story "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, "later known as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County" appears in the New York Saturday Press. The story proves extremely popular and raises Twain's profile as a writer.
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Twain travels to Hawaii as a reporter for San Francisco's Alta California newspaper. When he returns to the mainland a few months later, he gives his first public lecture.
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Adams influenced a number of young men causing them to apprentice themselves to him and learn his valuation trades. At the family residence, his wife, “Sallie,” mother of his sixteen children, taught cooking and sewing to interested young women. As both places attracted many more students than they could accommodate, Lewis Adams wished for a vocational school to provide this training.
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two years after Demarius’ death, John married her sister, Lucinda Lamb. This arrangement, while unusual by modern standards, was not uncommon in the 19th century and often helped maintain family unity and support.
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Officially incorporated Deere Company, which grew to become one of the largest agricultural equipment manufacturers in the world.
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Mark Twain's first book, The Innocents Abroad, becomes a bestseller.
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Born in Chiaravalle, Italy
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Approximately 300 deaths, and over 100,000 residents left homeless
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Elected as the mayor of Moline, Illinois. During his tenure, he focused on civic improvements like street lighting and infrastructure development.
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Adams was especially concerned that, without an education, the recently freed slaves (and future generations) would not be able to fully support themselves. There were no institutions at that time to teach them essential skills. In partnership with a white former slave owner, Adams established a school in 1874.
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Dewey graduated with a degree in phiolosophy
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Julius Rosenwald moved to New York to begin his apprenticeship with his uncle who owned a wholesale clothing manufacturing business.
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During Reconstruction Adams, at this time an established leader in the Black community was approached by two white politicians who wanted to secure the Black vote for them in the 1880 election. Adams agreed to ensure them the black vote so long as they would provide a "Normal" for colored people. Both side kept their end of the bargain.
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7) Adams and banker, George W Campbell another former slave-owner skillfully convinced the Alabama Legislature to begin the funding of US$2,000 annually for a "Negro Normal School in Tuskegee". Adams and two other men were appointed commissioners, and with Campbell's help, they recruited Booker T. Washington as the first principal at Tuskegee.
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Dewey received his doctorate from John Dewey where he studied philosophy and psychology.
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Went to Rockford and was the first student to earn her Bachelors Degree from Rockford College for women.
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In the span of less than a year, Twain publishes both his greatest fiction and non-fiction works: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and a biography of President Ulysses S.
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The couple married and over the span of the marriage had 6 kids and adopted 1 kid
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Passed away on May 17 in Moline, Illinois, leaving a legacy as a pioneer in agricultural innovation.
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Born in Adair County Iowa
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Found Hull House (settlement house) in Chicago
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As the Main founder Lewis Adams worked diligently to ensure that the Tuskegee Institute would be a success and then in 1890 he joined the staff as the teacher of his three trades.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson, Twain's last novel, is published. After ten difficult years, Twain's publishing house, Charles L. Webster & Co., finally goes belly-up. The writer finds himself essentially bankrupt. Close friend Henry Huttleston Rogers takes over his finances, saving him from complete disaster.
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This was an experimental elementary school at University of Chicago. He had the intent of testing educational theories.
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Henry meets Carver, get his passion for studying plants
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Rosenwald became a quarter owner in the business and from 1895-1907 helped sales skyrocket from $750,000 to $50 million.
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Became the first woman to obtain a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Univerisity of Rome.
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Receives Lieutenant-Colonel and forms Rough riders
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Teddy resigns from government job to join the Spanish American war and forms the Rough Riders.
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This work was his first piece on education and laid the foundation for his future works
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Dewey was elected into the President position of the American Psychological Association
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Booker T. Washington claims that he received one of the greatest surprises of his life when he attended a meeting in Boston. Attendees of the meeting noticed that Washington seemed quite tired, and they surprised him and his wife with an all-expenses-paid trip to Europe for three months. Lewis Adams served as a translator of Italian, French, and German for Booker T. Washington on this venture.
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Wallace starts experimenting with corn breeding on his own
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Became the director of the Orthophrenic School for Developmentally Disabled children.
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Begins a second degree - in Education, Experimental Psychology, and Anthropology - at the University of Rome
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Theodore Roosevelt became president when William McKinley was assassinated in 1901.
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Becomes the 26th President of the United States after the assassination of President McKinly
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Mediates between labor and capitol rather than just crushing strikes.
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Established Pelican Island FL as the first federal bird reserve
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Becomes Vice President of the National Women’s Trade Union League.
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Signed treaty with Panama to build the Panama Canal
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The first National Park is established
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Theodore Roosevelt signed the Panama Canal Treaty in 1903 that led to the building of the Panama Canal.
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Twain's wife Livy dies after a serious two-year illness. Following his wife's death, Twain moves to New York City and begins writing his autobiography.
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Established the US Forest Service
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Could not find the date, but the year was 1905 that the United States Forest Service was developed
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Established Wichita Forest, OK as the first federal game reserve
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He died in Sunday School on April 30, 1905, felled by a stroke while singing, “Whosoever Will Let Him Come.” I can not think of a better way to pass away then in church singing a negro spiritual. He was remembered as both a great man and a great man of God.
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Serves as a member of Chicago Board of Education
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Became the first President to leave the country during office to visit the Panama Canal
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In December 1906 Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War.
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Opened first Montessori school in Rome.
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More than 1000 Montessori schools opened in the United States.
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In a show of American naval power, Teddy Roosevelt sends Admiral Dewey and his Great White Fleet on a round-the-world trip.
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Johnson is the first of five children born to Samuel and Rebekah Johnson. He is born in a farmhouse near Stonewall, Texas, a town that he would consider home for the rest of his life.
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Richard Sears resigned and Rosenwald was named his replacement. He continued to serve as president until 1924 when he became te chairman of the board.
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Found National Association for Advancement of Colored people. Elected 1st woman President of National Conference of Charities and Corrections
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Wrote her first book in the span of a month. It was translated in 20 different languages.
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Wallace continues to experiment with high-yield corn breeding, graduates from Iowa State University with a degree in Animal Husbandry
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Wrote her second book called Pedagogical Anthropology.
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1st Vice of National American Woman Suffrage Association. 1st head of National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers.
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Rosenwald served on the board and endowed the Institute so that Booker T. Washington could focus on managing the Institute instead of fundraising.
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For his 50th birthday Rosenwald decided to celebrate by donating about $700,000.
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Attempted Assassination before he gave a speech at a political rally for his third election. The bullet went through his 50 page speech and still entered his body; but he still gave a 90 minute speech and the doctors decided to leave the bullet in him instead of preforming surgery.
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Norman Ernest Borlaug was born on a farm near Cresco, a small farming community in northeast Iowa, to Henry and Clara Borlaug
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Hughes lost his bid for reelection in 1916. He returned to farming in Danville, Georgia.
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Dudley Hughes was one of the writers of the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917
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The Julius Rosenwald Fund donated over $70 million to public schools, museums, Jewish charities, and black institutions. One of the cool things this money was used for was to build over 5000 black schools and add libraries onto 4000 more.
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Theodore Roosevelt passed away January 6th, 1919
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Along with colleagues Charles beard, Thorstein Veblen, James Harvey Robinson and Wesley Clair Mitchel founded The New School for Social Research was founded
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Dewey traveled the world learning about and talking about educational reform and then he brought his findings back to the US
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Helps found the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Months, rather than specific days, are more appropriate to mark the beginning and end
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Took over as editor of his family magazine when his father became Secretary of Agriculture. Used his family magazine to get the word out to farmers about his high yield hybrid corn
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Wallace had nowhere to sell his hybrid corn so he started the Hi-Bred Corn Company, today the company is known as Pioneer Hi-Bred International
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Hughes died in Macon, Georgia, in 1927. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Perry, Georgia.
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Rosenwald built the first housing development to mix residential, commercial and social uses. The building had 421 housing units, 14 stores, and a nursery school.
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Johnson earns a degree in education from Southwest State Teacher's College in San Marcos, Texas. After making money to pay for his education by teaching at poor Mexican students in southern Texas, Johnson develops a lifelong interest in fighting poverty.
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1st woman recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.
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Wallace is appointed as Secretary of Agriculture by President Roosevelt. Wallace helps Roosevelt with New Deal legislation.
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Julius Rosenwald passed away after living his life as a successful businessman and an amazing philanthropist.
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Wallace helped push the AAA as part of the New Deal. The AAA offered subsidies for farmers to limit their production of certain crops. The idea was to prevent overproduction and to increase crop prices to aid farmers during the Great Depression.
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Passes away in Chicago.
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After completing his primary and secondary education in Cresco, Borlaug enrolled in the University of Minnesota where he studied forestry. Immediately before and immediately after receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in 1937, he worked for the U.S. Forestry Service at stations in Massachusetts and Idaho.
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Norman Borlaug gets married and starts a family.
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Following the death of Congressman James Buchanan, who was from Johnson's home district in Texas, Johnson wins a special election to fill the seat. He will be re-elected five times.
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Returning to the University of Minnesota to study plant pathology, he received the master’s degree in 1939 and the doctorate in 1942.
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Wallace was co-credited with establishing the first food stamp program. Lasted 4 years, stopped because conditions that started the program were no longer prevalent. Was a foundation for the current SNAP program used today.
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Johnson joins the Navy reserves and is appointed Lieutenant Commander. He will go on to serve in the South Pacific in World War II and is awarded a Silver Star by General Douglas MacArthur.
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From 1942 to 1944, he was a microbiologist on the staff of the du Pont de Nemours Foundation where he was in charge of research on industrial and agricultural bactericides, fungicides, and preservatives
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was drafted into the army in 1943, he fought in France and Germany in WWII
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In 1944 he accepted an appointment as geneticist and plant pathologist assigned the task of organizing and directing the Cooperative Wheat Research and Production Program in Mexico. This program, a joint undertaking by the Mexican government and the Rockefeller Foundation, involved scientific research in genetics, plant breeding, plant pathology, entomology, agronomy, soil science, and cereal technology.
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Killing approximately 10,000 soldiers and 30,000 civilians
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Killing approximately 20,000 civilians
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Temple Grandin born in Boston, Massachusetts to Richard Grain and Eustacia Cutler
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In 1948, he entered Alcorn College (now Alcorn State University) in Lorman, Mississippi
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After returning from the war, Johnson is elected to the U.S. Senate. He will become the Senate Minority Leader in 1953, the youngest person in history to hold this position.
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Rosenwald set things up so that the Rosenwald fund would spend all of his money within 25 years of his death. He didnt want his money to end up being used more to keep the foundation alive rather than do as much good as possible as soon as possible.
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Wallace traveled to Mexico for the presidential inauguration of Mexican President Manuel Camacho. While there he noticed the poor state of agriculture. Wallace went to the Rockefeller Foundation and suggested establishing a research center in Mexico. Norman Borlaug was later hired to be the head of that station.
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She was diagnosed with Autism at nearly two years old. She was marked brain-damaged during that time and her parents were suggested a long-term care facility for her.
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She was born in a small village named Malemia
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Held her last training course in Innsbruck, Austria
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Dr. Hammond was born in Cleveland OH
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She began to speak at age 4
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Died in Noordwijk aan Zee, Netherlands.
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John Dewey passed away in his home in New York, New York
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The Supreme Court declared that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students, and denying black children equal educational opportunities, were unconstitutional.
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attempting to segregate the University of Mississippi Law School in 1954, he was rejected
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Evers became the first field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi
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received an honorable discharge in 1946
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Borlaug worked in Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s to make the country self-sufficient in grain. Borlaug recommended improved methods of cultivation and developed a robust strain of wheat - dwarf wheat - that was adapted to Mexican conditions. By 1956 the country had become self-sufficient in wheat.
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Evers called for a new investigation to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till
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In a narrow victory, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson defeat the Republican ticket of Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Johnson was selected as Kennedy's running mate to help Kennedy win the southern vote.
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James Meredith took his case to the supreme court and it was ruled in favor of, he then went to register for classes, with the help of Evers, at Ole Miss being the first black student and caused a riot.
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firebombing of their house, because he was an important member of the civil rights movement, he became a target
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.Medgar Evers was gunned down in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi, home at the age of 37.He died less than a hour later at a nearby hospital. His murder, which came just hours after President John F. Kennedy’s famed civil rights address
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Following the assassination of President Kennedy, Johnson becomes the president of the United States. He is sworn in on Air Force One while the plane was still in Dallas, with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at his side.
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Using all of his political influence, Johnson successfully pushes for the Civil Rights Act. When he signs it on July 2, 1964, it brings to an end centuries of legal discrimination against both African Americans and women of all races.
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Johnson asks Congress to approve military action in Southeast Asia after two American ships were supposedly attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is passed and the Vietnam War escalates, but it is now believed that the second American ship was never attacked.
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Aimed to establish social programs to facilitate education, health, employment, and general welfare for impoverished Americans.
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Johnson easily defeats Republican Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election. It will be a challenging term for Johnson, marked by criticism of his handling of the Vietnam War.
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Johnson defeated Goldwater with 61.1% of the popular vote and 90.3% of the electoral vote.
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The national outrage over Evers's murder increased support for legislation that would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolished literacy tests and poll taxes designed to disenfranchise African American voters and gave the federal government the authority to take over voter registration in counties with a pattern of persistent discrimination.
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The law was intended "to strengthen the educational resources of our colleges and universities and to provide financial assistance for students in postsecondary and higher education". It increased federal money given to universities, created scholarships, gave low-interest loans for students, and established a National Teachers Corps.
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Wallace passed away in Danbury, Conn
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In the mid-1960s, he introduced dwarf wheat into India and Pakistan, and production increased enormously. Yet his work had a far-reaching impact on the lives of millions of people in developing countries. His breeding of high-yielding crop varieties helped to avert mass famines that were widely predicted in the 1960s, altering the course of history.
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Graduated from Hampshire Country School (boarding school of gifted children in Rindge, New Hampshire). While she was in high school, she devised a squeeze-box called “hug machine” to relieve herself from stress and tension, which is now used by autistic children as well as adults as a comfort therapy.
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In 1968 Borlaug received an especially satisfying tribute when the people of Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico, in whose area he did some of his first experimenting, named a street in his honor.
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Provides financial assistance for low-income children, school libraries and supplementary education centers.
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Dewey Hostetler founded DewEze manufacturing incorporated on April fools of 1968.
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Dewey Hostetler started DewEze with his machine putting square bales effortlessly from the field to a flatbed trailer.
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In 1970 Norman E. Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work to feed a hungry world.
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Graduates from Franklin Pierce College with a Bachelors degree in psychology
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Borlaug travels to China with President Nixon to spread the "Green Revolution"
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Died at the age of 64
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Banda took her 3 children and left her abusive husband which is what sparked her passion for equality and education.
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Graduates from Arizona State University with a Masters degree in Animal Science. Soon after this she established Grandin Livestock Handling Systems.
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Dewey Hostetler patented his round bale loader, unloader, and unroller, commonly known as the DewEze bale bed.
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Norman Borlaug wins the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Dewey Hostetler and DewEze staff produce a machine that slices bales into smaller proportions for feeding livestock.
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Borlaug was given the position of the Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture at Texas A & M University.
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Grandin created a better kosher slaughtering system called the "low stress small animal ritual slaughter system"
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Borlaug creates the World Food Prize and travels to Africa to spread the "Green Revolution" there.
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Dewey Hostetler patented his truck bale lift, a similar model to his past loader, unloader, and unroller, but this model fits to the owners stock pickup bed.
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Dewey Hostetler patented his round bale handler. Allowing round bales to be handled much more efficiently. Arms on a trailer pick up the bales as being driven through the fields.
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published her autobiography ‘Emergence: Labeled Autistic’ which was re-released a decade later when she started gaining popularity for her work
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Grandin created the "stairway to heaven", called "an easier way to slaughter cows".
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Dewey Hostetler patented his slope mower. A mower that allows users to mow on uneven grounds by having a independent suspended mowing deck.
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Born in Queens New York
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Dewey Hostetler patented his new and om,proved slope mower with an additional side frames for added safety and protection.
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Graduates from the University of Illinois with a Doctoral degree in Animal Science
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Dewey Hostetler patented his bale wrapper, a machine that wraps hay bales for further preservation and fermentation, resulting in a higher quality feed for the animal.
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Dr. Hammond served on the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium. While serving she led the development of licensing standards for beginning teachers, which has since been adopted by 40 states.
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His killer was convicted after 31 years and sentenced to life in prison and he died in 2001
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Before she started her political career, she founded the Joyce Banda Foundation which is a primary and secondary school in Malawi. Its primary focus is education and sustainable development.
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Dr. Hammond became a prominent policy watcher. She believed that teachers were being treated as 2nd class citizens and that it needed to change. She wanted teachers to be treated with more respect as well as have more say in decision making in terms of policies. She wanted teachers to have say in important policy topics such as, curriculum, test taking policies, and textbook adoptions.
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Harper Industries, a group formed by Tim Penner, President, acquires DewEze assets.
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Banda won parliamentary seat in Malawi's third democratic election. This was the start to her being able to change the way women, education, and children were looked at and treated.
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After a few years, her Foundation grew into an Orphan Care Center as well. These children were then put in housing with access to food and water while going to school.
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published “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”
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Banda received this award for advocating for women's rights to be educated in Malawi and for giving women a way to receive an education.
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Dr. Hammond was named one of the nations top 10 influential people affecting educational policy.
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Dr. Hammond served as director of President Obama's education policy transition team, and as an adviser for educational reform.
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Linda Darling-Hammond signed a manifesto that called for greatly increasing federal spending on poor schools and underprivileged students.
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Norman Ernest Borlaug died September 2009
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Dr. Hammond wrote the book called The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity will Determine our Future. The book description is "In this bestseller and Grawemeyer Award winner, Linda Darling-Hammond offers an eye-opening wake-up call concerning America’s future and vividly illustrates what the United States needs to do in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child the right to learn."
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Vice President Banda was appointed to her position as President after the current President died. She was the 4th President of Malawi and the first female President.
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Dr. Hammond was a guest writer on Diane Rivitch's blog concerning Common Core Standards, and wrote this, "What we should do is take time – at least the next 3 years – to develop curriculum resources that teachers can select, adapt, try out, and refine together in collegial professional development settings within and across their schools. We should use the standards as guideposts and not straitjackets. "
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B.A in mathematics from the only deaf liberal arts university in the world.
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Forbes named Banda as the 40th most powerful woman in the world and most powerful woman in Africa.
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The first deaf contestant on ANTM.
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Dr. Hammond created and launched the Learning Policy Institute, which is described as a research and policy "think tank." It is described by Dr. Hammond as, "a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization focused on public education pre-K through high school. The Institute conducts and communicates independent high-quality research to shape policies that improve learning for each and every child."
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President Banda spoke about why she is an advocate for social justice and equality. She is recognized globally for her leadership and commitment to empowering women and youth through entrepreneurship and education.
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First deaf dancer on Dancing with the Stars
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Provided funding for ASl and English bilingual consortium for early childhood education
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The first deaf seminar and free class provided by the NDF for first-generation deaf children and families ages 0-5
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Developed a new sign for Queer so that other deaf queer individuals can communicate their sexuality
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First deaf director on broadway- A raisin in the sun
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Certificate from Cambridge, Bachelor of Arts Degree in Early Childhood Education from Columbus University, Bachelor of Social Studies in Gender Studies from Atlantic International University, Diploma in Management of NGOs from the International Labor Organization in Italy, Received honorary doctorate in 2013 from Jeonju University and is currently studying for a Master of Arts Degree in Leadership at Royal Roads University in Canada
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Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond was appointed to California's state board of education
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In March 2020, we had a very big pandemic that spread all over the world. This pandemic was called covid -19. Due to the known problems of this pandemic schools were shut down affecting all students and staff of schools.