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Created the Hershey chocolate bar

Milton Hershey:

http://www.netstate.com/states/peop/people/pa_msh.htm

America the Beautiful

Katharine Bates:

http://www.fuzzylu.com/falmouth/bates/klbnotes.html

Original 1893 Ferris Wheel

George Ferris, creator of the Ferris Wheel:

http://www.ferristree.com/george_washington_gale_ferris.htm

Elisha Graves Otis

Made skyscraper buildings possible with his elevator safety technology

Elisha Otis:

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/otis.htm

1860s portrait by Oscar Halling after an 1849 daguerreotype.
1860s portrait.

The Raven

Edgar Allen Poe:

http://www.poestories.com/biography.php

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien


Tolkien in 1972, in his study at Merton Street, Oxford.

The Hobbit

Lord of the Rings

J. R. Tolkien:

http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biography.html

Sound Bite:

Share the Land (Guess Who)

Listen

Vanity Fair

William Thackeray:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jthackeray.htm

Blue Mountains, Australia, webcam:

http://www.scenicworld.com.au/webcam.asp

 

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1971 Attica prison riot:

http://libcom.org/history/1971-the-attica-prison-uprising

Music Video:

 

Mrs. Brown (Herman's Hermits)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY8PCxATwTU

Creator of the Ink Blot Test

Hermann Rorschach:

http://www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/psychtesting/profiles/rorschach.htm


The Trail of Tears


 

 

The Trail of Tears:

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-272

Duck Soup Poster


Duck Soup

http://www.filmsite.org/wavfiles/ducksoup.wav

Goddard with Comparison Microscope
Goddard with Comparison Microscope

Pioneered the science of ballistics, fingerprint indentification and the polygraph

Calvin Goddard:

http://www.goddardaward.com/Biography.htm

Decades before the explosive-devices-by-mail campaign of the Unabomber, a series of bombings in New York City was solved by one of the first applications of criminal profiling. Using little more than some letters written by the perpetrator, a psychiatrist was able to so accurately describe the bomber that he was even correct about the kind of clothes he'd be wearing when captured.

Profiler of the Mad Bomber

James Brussel:

http://www.hbo.com/autopsy/forensic/the_mad_bomber.html

The Mark

The New Man

Maurice Nicoll:

http://www.gurdjieff.org/hunter1.htm

 

Largest false child molestation case in United States history

This is a story of how decent people's lives were ruined by bizarre allegations from a mentally ill mother and shoddy (we say criminal)  police work. Hearing of this case caused many promising and bright child care workers to change course and enter other fields of endeavor for self preservation reasons...

The McMartin Preschool Trial:

http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume7/j7_2_1.htm

Hans Christian Andersen in 1869
Hans Christian Andersen in 1869

The Little Mermaid

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Ugly Duckling

Phrases such as "The Emperor has no clothes" and "ugly duckling" come from his fairy tales

Hans Christian Andersen:

http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/index_e.html

Vienna webcams:

http://rhwcam.markant.at/index1.html

 

Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving:

http://www.online-literature.com/irving/

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso:

(Imagine his full name of Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruizy Picasso being on a driver's license!)

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/cubism/Pablo-Picasso.html

Father of American Suburbia

William Levitt:

http://www.levittownbeyond.com/

Inventor of electronic television

Philo Farnsworth:

http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=philoTFarnsworth

Video interview with Elma Farnsworth:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q="elma farnsworth"

Lost Horizon (Shangri-La)

James Hilton:

http://www.jameshiltonsociety.co.uk/

Sound Bite:

Ode to Billie Joe (Bobbie Gentry)

Ode to Billie Joe

Lyrics

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/gentry-bobbie/ode-to-billie-joe-13490.html

 


Robert Fulton

Designed first practical submarine

Built first commercial steamboat

Robert Fulton:

http://www.hrmm.org/steamboats/fulton.html

Created first vaccine for rabies

Created the process of pasteurization to prevent milk and wine from going sour

Louis Pasteur:

http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/louispasteur.htm

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xheGwt1r8_E

Leo the Lion (1957–present) in the MGM logo.

http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/soundex/73553567.mp3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-VML5dCVi4&feature=related

Angry Donald Duck - Red Left 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnuBDkWJ8JQ&feature=related