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What was the clothing in the Middle Colonies?

In colonial times, slaves wore whatever their owners chose to give them. The clothing was plain, durable and functional. Women usually wore some type of cotton dress, a cotton or wool apron and a head wrap. Men wore wool or cotton trousers, a shirt made from the same material and a straw hat. Rarely were slaves given shoes to wear.White families or free slaves who worked the land had a bit more choice, but still did not have much money to purchase fine fabrics. Most of their clothing was made by hand. Women wore sturdy leather shoes, heavy stockings, cotton petticoat, cotton dress and a straw ..

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When did the Triassic period begin and end?

The Triassic followed a massive extinction event at the end of the Permian period. The event killed 90 percent of all life on Earth. Only 5 percent of the ocean life survived, making Triassic oceans rather uniform in regard to their ecology. Among the surviving land animals were two different branches of vertebrates. The therapsids were the branch that later developed into mammals, and they dominated the early Triassic. Later, the archosaurs, which developed into modern reptiles, pterosaurs, dinosaurs and birds, became the dominant land animals. They remained so throughout the rest of the Meso..

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What is the oldest civilization known to man?

According to Most Extreme, the Egyptian civilization is said to have begun with the start of the Dynastic period around 3200 B.C. Prior to this, groups of people lived in villages and farmed the Nile basin, but the nucleus of what would be Egypt began with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt at the start of the First Dynasty. This political change was attended by the invention of the first writing system, another hallmark of civilization.

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Who was Ho Chi Minh?

Ho Chi Minh is known for his role in fighting against Japan, France, South Vietnam and the United States. Ho Chi Minh's ultimate goal was independence from French colonialism and a united, sovereign and communist Vietnam. His original name was Nguyen That Thanh, but he adopted the name "Ho Chi Minh," which translates to "Bringer of Light."

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What are some significant events that occurred in the 1960's?

As the 1960s began, the legal racial segregation of non-white people from white people still existed, as did prejudice and acts of persecution against people of color. The Civil Rights Movement held protests such as the 1960 student lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina and the Freedom Rides by bus through the South. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Civil Rights march on Washington in 1963. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law; this prohibited discrimination against minorities in employment and in their use of public..

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How did the Renaissance start?

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe entered a period in which scientific and scholarly advancement slowed greatly. One of the major sources of learning during this period was the Muslim world, where colleges maintained libraries of Classical Greek and Roman works, preserving the knowledge therein. During the Muslim conquest of Spain in the eighth century, these ideas were exported back to Europe, and scholars began to study the classics once more. Before the Renaissance, however, most scholarship was focused on mathematics and science.\nAround the beginning of the 14th century, Italian ..

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What are the Seven Wonders of the World?

Also referred to as the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, all of these structures date their construction before the birth of Christ. The Great Pyramid, built around 2560 B.C., is the only one of the Seven Wonders that still survives today. Some scholars believe that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon date back to 600 B.C., where they served Nebuchadnezzar II. The Temple of Artemis stood in honor of its namesake goddess from the sixth to the fourth century B.C.\nThe Greek sculptor Pheidias was the creator of the statue of Zeus, a 40-foot-tall structure containing ivory and gold. The Tomb of Maus..

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Who invented the first ship?

While there is no way to know who invented the first ship, the first named ship that historians know about is the Praise of the Two Lands. The Praise of the Two Lands was a large Egyptian ship built under the pharaoh Sneferu around 2600 B.C. and made out of cedar wood.

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Where did the Cold War take place?

The United States feared that Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator, was expanding communist influence into Asia, Africa and European countries such as Poland. Stalin also set up a communist regime in the Soviet eastern occupation zone of newly defeated Germany, which further increased the tension. There were a series of crises in the Cold War, such as the Berlin Blockade and the Cuban Missile Crisis, but the United States and the USSR did not actually fight one another.

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Who invented the light bulb?

In 1800, Italian Alessandro Volta invented the modern battery, but his copper wire that glowed was one of the first examples of incandescent lighting. British inventor Humphry Davy created the electric-arc lamp in 1802, which was the first electric light, but it was too bright and did not last long. Warren de la Rue and Joseph William Swan were other British inventors who made attempts at inventing incandescent lights in the 1800s. Edison bought the patent for the electric light from Canadians Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans, who made a failed attempt to make electric lamps commercially profit..

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