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What was The Directory of 1795?

After the Reign of Terror and the demise of the Committee of Public Safety, the French revolutionary government adopted a new constitution, France's third. As per this new constitution, the Directory was established with two houses: the Council of Ancients, made of 250 people, and a second council of 500 people. At the head of this bicameral legislature was a panel of five directors, of whom the most important historically was Paul Barras.\nBecause the Directory was an attempt to avoid the kind of tyrannical powers held by the Committee of Public Safety, its executive powers were necessar..

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Who invented the personal computer?

In 1975, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems hired students Bill Gates and Paul Allen to write a programming language for Altair, which facilitated its use. The two went on to start Microsoft and sell personal computers running on their BASIC programming language. In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak used a better microprocessor to build the first Apple personal computer.

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What is the timeline for Pedro Alvares Cabral's key explorations?

The fleet stayed anchored off the coast of Brazil from April 22nd to May 2nd or 3rd, taking on supplies and interacting with the indigenous Tupiniquim people. Cabral claimed the land in the name of Portugal, sending a ship back to the home country to notify King Manual I of the discovery.\nAfter leaving, the fleet sailed east, past Africa's Cape of Good Hope. Turning northward, a severe storm sank four ships, killing 380 crew and scattering the remainder of Cabral's flotilla into several groups that later regrouped near the Horn of Africa. Cabral stopped several times along the Afric..

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Did Obama get lower high school scores than Bush?

Obama transferred to Columbia College from Occidental Community College in Los Angeles. Breitbart discovered documentation stating that Columbia's incoming transfer class that year was made up of students with high school SAT scores averaging 1100. George Bush scored 1206 on the same test, and if Obama's score was near the average of Columbia's transferring class, it may mean that Bush scored higher. Obama did finish second in his graduating class at Harvard law school, however, and was elected president of the Harvard Law Review. Both were notable academic achievements.

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What are some facts about the Roaring Twenties?

With Americans able to drive, a new economy built up including gas stations, motels and other travel-related industries. This newfound freedom was also heard in the music of the day, jazz. Sometimes coined as the Jazz Age, the twenties featured an advent of popular music over the radio and through the sales of phonograph records.\nIn 1920 women gained the right to vote with the 19th Amendment. Additionally, more women became part of the workforce and saw their responsibilities at home eased with the advent of appliances such as the washing machine and the vacuum cleaner. Women's rights fu..

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What physical handicap afflicted Juliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of America?

As tradition dictated, wedding attendees threw rice at the married couple after the ceremony, and a grain of rice lodged in Low's ear. The rice became impacted and Low had the grain removed, but she suffered regular ear infections afterward until she lost hearing in both ears. Low died of breast cancer in 1927, 15 years after she registered her first American troop of Girl Scouts, originally called Girl Guides.

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Who was involved in the French Revolution?

French citizens of note who were involved in the Revolution include Napoleon Bonaparte, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Charles de Calonne, Lazare Carnot, Marquis de Lafayette, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Maximilien Robespierre and Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes. Louis XVI was the French king deposed by the Revolution along with his queen, Marie Antoinette, who was seen by the commoners as the embodiment of the excess of the French monarchy. Both the king and queen were executed in 1793. Napoleon Bonaparte was a French general who took over the government, effectively ending the French Revolution.

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What are the highlights of Spain's history?

After the Moors were defeated in Spain, money became available to fund the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Americas. Although he could not return with the gold promised to King Ferdinand, the introduction of New World staples such as potatoes and tomatoes changed Spanish and European populations forever. The interaction between Spaniards and native South Americans also made Spanish a dominant language in the Western hemisphere.The Spanish Civil War ended with the victory of Francisco Franco on April 1, 1939. The country was in economic and political ruin by this time but Franco's la..

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What is an invention disclosure form?

According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the use of an invention disclosure form has been discontinued as of Feb. 1, 2007. The form has been replaced with an application for a provisional patent. The new application offers the inventors more protection for their inventions than the former disclosure form. There is only a one year period allowed for the inventor to file for a true patent with the a provisional patent, unlike the two year period that was used with the invention disclosure form.

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What type of education did Sacagawea receive?

Sacagawea became part of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition into the American West as an interpreter in 1805, shortly after giving birth to a son. She, her husband and newborn son became part of the expedition. She was the only woman.Despite her lack of formal education, she proved to be useful to the expedition in many ways. Speaking Shoshone and Hidatsa, she served as translator, along her her French-speaking husband, when the so-called Corps of Discovery met and traded with Native Americans. She also gathered roots, berries and other food and medicinal items. When a boat tipped over, she..

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