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Who started the orphan trains?

The Orphan Train Movement transported over 100,000 orphaned, abandoned or homeless children between the ages of 5 and 18 to be fostered by farm families in 45 states, as well as Canada and Mexico. Other social agencies that placed children on the orphan trains included the New York Juvenile Asylum and the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York.

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Who invented the first boat?

Homo erectus first appeared in Africa around 1.8 million years ago and was skilled with stone tools and weaponry. Before their decline almost 1.5 million years later, erectus managed to move out of Africa to other equatorial parts of the world. Tools belonging to Homo erectus were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores and dated to approximately 800,000 years ago. Given the position of Flores during that time frame, archaeologists have determined that erectus must have used boats to travel there.

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What are pirates?

Piracy began over 2,000 years ago in ancient Greece when pirates began to attack ships on their trading routes. Roman ships were continually attacked for their cargoes of olive oil and grain. Later, the Vikings were some of the most well-known pirates. Piracy flourished between the years of 1620 and 1720. Often, sailors turned into pirates after realizing that they would be treated better on a pirate ship.

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Is it a fact that Abigail Adams was John Adams' wife?

As the wife of John Adams, Abigail Adams served as the wife of the U.S. Minister to Great Britain, the first Second Lady of the United States, as well as the second First Lady of the United States. She gave birth to five children, including son John Quincy Adams, who later served as the sixth president of the United States. Adams was politically active in her own right. She wrote letters to her husband and others requesting that they establish laws favorable to women.

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How many kids did Thomas Jefferson have?

Thomas Jefferson married Martha Wayles Skelton on January 1, 1772. He was married to his wife for ten years before she died at the age of 33 after a long illness. After her death he never remarried, however it is alleged by many historians that he carried on a relationship with Martha's half-sister, a slave named Sally Hemings. Hemings had six children, all of which are suspected of being Jefferson's. Of his known children with Martha, only his eldest daughter outlived him.

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What did the Romans eat for breakfast?

The Roman breakfast was called jentaculum and consisted of fairly simple foods, according to About.com. Lunch, or prandium, was a similar meal, although it might include leftovers from the day before as well as a meat or fish dish. Dinner, or cena, as the Romans called it, was much more sumptuous. This meal included several courses of food. The first course was lettuce and eggs; eggs were an important aspect of the ancient Roman diet. Sometimes more exotic food items were served during this meal, such as oysters, mussels and sea urchins. Dessert included fruit that was in season, such as apple..

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Why was the automobile invented?

The first automobile produced in the United States was the 1901 Curbed Dash Oldsmobile, built by Ransom E. Olds. While this car was the first to be manufactured, many people are more familiar with the invent of mass automobile production, which took place around 1908, when Henry Ford began producing the Model T. In 1896, Ford built his first gasoline powered car, but the Model T was the first of its kind to be produced in an assembly line manner. Model T production was discontinued in 1927 after 18 million vehicles had been produced.\nBefore gas-powered vehicles, steam-powered vehicles were ma..

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Where in Greece did the Battle of Thermopylae take place?

Thermopylae is a mountain pass in northern Greece near the Aegean Sea. The pass features hot sulphur springs, from which its name is derived. In antiquity, the pass was named Malis, after a Greek tribe that resided in the area. Due to its strategic location, it has been the site of several battles.

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What are some facts about the navigator John Cabot?

Historical evidence suggests that John Cabot, born Giovanni Caboto in Genoa, Italy, spent much of his early life as a spice trader for the Venetians. He presumably travelled to the Levant and reached other eastern Mediterranean destinations. John Cabot independently came to the same conclusion as Christopher Columbus that the best way to reach the rich eastern coast of Asia was by sailing west, into the Atlantic.\nUnder orders from the King Henry VII of England, Cabot began his first voyage, landing in North America soon after. His landing in 1497 was probably the first European trip to North ..

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What was the Munich Conference?

Prior to the Munich Conference, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met with Hitler privately at Berchtesgaden, the dictator's mountaintop retreat, in an attempt to convince him not to invade the Sudetenland.\nHitler successfully convinced Chamberlain that his territorial demands were not unreasonable. Chamberlain persuaded his Cabinet as well as the French to join him in pressuring Czechoslovakia to submit to Hitler's demands.\nOn September 29,1938, Chamberlain, Hitler, Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier gathered at the Munich ..

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