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Who are some famous American inventors and their inventions?

Alexander Graham Bell's most famous invention is the telephone.\nGeorge Washington Carver worked primarily with peanuts and other agricultural products. Carver developed hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, pecans and soybeans, including peanut butter, a rubber substitute, adhesives, foodstuffs, dyes, and pigments.\nEli Whitney invented the cotton gin. The machine automatically separated the seeds from cotton much faster than people could with their hands. This invention led the agriculture of the American South away from a labor intensive situation into a more industrialize..

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What country did Giovanni da Verrazzano explore?

Funded by the king of France, Verrazzano sailed to the New World on Jan. 17, 1524. He first sighted land at Cape Fear, N.C. After sailing south and exploring the coast to Florida, he then sailed north, encountering New York Harbor and the New England coast. He returned to France in July of that year.\nVerrazzano made a second voyage in 1527, during which he explored the coast of Brazil. His final voyage took place in 1528, when he sailed to the Caribbean, exploring the Bahamas and the Lesser Antilles. He died on the island of Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles, a victim of cannibals.

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What was the purpose of Hammurabi's Code: "An eye for an eye"?

More objectively, the Code of Hammurabi was an attempt to codify Hammurabi's legal rulings and make them accessible to the public. While the Code does provide protections and considerations for all classes of society, as well as for both accusers and accused, many rulings are written in a manner suggesting less an attempt to standardize the law than to establish Hammurabi's rulings as a precedent for what people might expect from authority -- and to perhaps glorify his abilities as judge and sovereign.\nHowever, other aspects of the Code, including standards of value for trade and se..

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What are some characteristics of Lakota or Sioux culture?

The Lakota people controlled much of the north, including present-day Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and portions of Canada; however, they migrated over larger distances in pursuit of buffalo. When the Europeans began settling North America in the 1700s, the Lakota people started riding horses and soon became expert riders. It was at this point the Lakota nation gave up a majority of its farming practices and became reliant on the buffalo herds for sustenance.\nWarriors, war chiefs and other important military members were famous for their elaborate feathered war bonnets. The..

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What is the history of the Kiowa flag?

Each part of the Kiowa flag is significant to the tribe's history. The small buffalo head at the bottom of the flag represents the Plains' tribe's primary food source, while the Appaloosa horse ridden by the Kiowa warrior represents a breed of horse developed in Idaho and Montana, which were the traditional lands of the Kiowa. The horse has a lightning bolt tattooed on its front leg representing the voice of thunder heard by the tribe every spring.\nThe warrior's shield depicts the Rainy Mountain of Oklahoma, which is a sacred Kiowa burial ground. The warrior also carries t..

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What is the meaning of the word "excelsior" on the New York coat of arms?

The New York State motto "excelsior" is slightly misapplied, as the word is actually a comparative or intensifier of the root word excelsus, meaning high or eminent. In Latin, excelsior simply means higher. When creating the state motto, excelsior was mistaken for an adverb, indicating movement toward or striving for greater height or eminence. Since its adoption as a state motto, excelsior has been used in other contexts throughout American English, especially as a name for hotels and newspapers, or for commercial products such as wood shavings.

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Where was the Vietnam War fought?

The Vietnam War is also known as the Second Indochina War in order to distinguish it from the previous war waged by the indigenous population against the French when the region was a French colony. The war with France ended in a defeat for the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in May of 1954 and the area formerly known as Indochina became the independent countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Vietnam was partitioned at the 17th parallel by the accords of the 1954 Geneva Convention and became the two countries that were commonly referred to as North Vietnam and South Vietnam.An organized ..

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How did "Manifest Destiny" affect Native Americans?

As a direct result of the wave of nationalism rocking the country and a growing demand from European Americans for more land on which to settle, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act on May 28, 1830. The policy gave Jackson the right to negotiate removal treaties with certain tribes. These treaties compelled them to give up lands east of the Mississippi and relocate west to areas specifically delegated to them. Some tribes went peacefully, and others refused to leave their homelands. The Second Seminole War caused thousands of deaths, and the brutal westward march of the Chero..

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How did the Allies win World War II?

The Soviet Red Army improved their training regimen, and utilized more advanced technology to outmatch the Germans. The Soviet Union's emergency war economy produced armaments for the army, and the United States and Great Britain also provided aid to the Soviet troops, sending food, boots, telephone wire and trucks. The United States Air Force used intelligent bombing strategies against Germany and Japan, and when combined with Britain's air power, the German Air Force was no match. Germany was forced to use its air power as defense rather than offense. Many aircraft were destroyed, ..

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What type of hairbrush did Lyda Newman invent?

Ms. Newman’s improved hairbrush also contained another innovation. Her brush featured a design that made it easy to clean. Newman constructed the brush with a slotted back and a cover that formed a receptacle at the base of the bristles. Debris that accumulated from the hair and scalp passed through the slots and accumulated in the receptacle, which the user removed for cleaning. This design also provided access to the bristles for cleaning.

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