Important Years of World History

Important Years: B.C.3000 Building of the Great Pyramid.776 First Olympiad in Greece.753 Foundation of Rome.490 Greeks defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.360 The period of Aristotle and Plato.332 Egypt conquered by Alexander.323 Alexander dies at Babylon.214 Work on the Great Wall of China begins.55 Julius Ceasar attacks Great Britain.4 Birth of Jesus Christ. A.D.29 Crucifixion...

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Inventions and Discoveries

Invention and Discoveries Adding Machine, 1642. Inventor : Blaise Pascal (France) (1623-62). Earliest commercial machine invented by William Burroughs (U.S.) in St. Louis, Missouri in 1885. Addressograph, 1893. Inventor : J.S. Duncan (U.S.). Manufactured in Chicago, Illinois. Airplane, 1903. Inventors: Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright (1867-1912), (U.S.) Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Airship (non-rigid),...

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Smallest and Biggest in the world

Largest Continent Asia, 17,212,2000 square miles Smallest Continent Australia,312,2000 square miles Highest Mountain Mount Everest, Himalayan Mountains, Nepal-Tibet, 29,035 feet above sea level Lowest Point on land The Dead Sea, Israel-Jordan, water surface 1,349 feet below sea level Deepest Underwater Trench Marina Trench, 200 miles...

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