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What were some of the tools used by Christopher Columbus?

While attempting to use celestial navigation, one of the most important tools used by Columbus was a quadrant. A quadrant is a tool used for taking measurements of altitude. Unfortunately, celestial navigation proved to be difficult for Columbus and he often ended up with false readings.Columbus used a variety of other tools on his journeys. He used a sandglass to measure time and a nocturnal, which was a tool used to tell the time of night by the rotation of the stars.

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Who invented the fork?

Royal courts of the Middle East began to use forks in the 7th century A.D. From the 10th through the 13th centuries, many of the wealthy Byzantium people used forks. Italians started widely using forks in the 16th century. In 1533, forks were brought from Italy to France, and then from France to England in 1608.

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Who invented the globe?

While Copernicus is the person attributed with the invention of the globe, the first ever historically recorded globe was made by a German map-maker named Martin Behaim in 1492. The globe as a mini representation of the Earth emerged as ideas regarding the shape of the Earth began changing during the 15th century. Prior to 1450, the flat-Earth theory was prevalent in Western society.

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What are some interesting facts about Rene Descartes?

Young Rene Descartes began his education at age 8 by entering a Jesuit College, where he learned classics, logic and the philosophy of Aristotle. Despite receiving a religious education, he believed in the Enlightenment ideal of separating intellectual pursuits from religion.\n\nThough intelligent, his health was poor, and young Rene was allowed to stay in bed until 11 in the morning, something that he continued throughout his life.\n\nHe ended up joining the Dutch military after earning his degree in law, and it was during his military service that Descartes began having original philosophica..

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How was discipline maintained in the trenches in World War I?

FirstWorldWar reports that during trench combat, soldiers not only had to worry about sudden death by machine gun or sniper but also about rats as large as cats, lice, discomfort and disease. Daily life in the trenches was governed by commanding officers. Troops in trench warfare were sedentary, which made holding soldiers accountable for their duties easier than if they were on the march.\nDiscipline in the trenches was ingrained through the daily schedule. Each morning before sunrise, soldiers would awaken and guard their trench with bayonets against a morning raid by the enemy. This event w..

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Why did Anne Frank become so famous?

Frank was born to Jewish parents in 1929, just years before the Nazis rose to power. In 1942, the Frank family was forced into hiding from the Nazis, but were later found and taken to concentration camps in 1944. The family was split up, with Frank and her sister taken to a different camp in 1945. Frank died at the age of 15, just a few months before the end of the war.

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For whom is America named?

Vespucci made the first trip to the New World in the early 1500s. A map produced by Martin Waldseemuller in 1507 named the new continent America in recognition of Vespucci's theory of this land being a new continent. Vespucci made more than one trip to the New World, discovering that the coast of what would become South America stretched much further south than first believed, lending credibility to the concept that this was a new country.

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When was the first V-8 Engine built?

An Antoinette engine was first used in speedboats in 1901. In 1905, it was built as a water-cooled engine containing 8 cylinders arranged in a "V." This engine generated 50 horsepower and weighed 110 pounds. The Antoinette V-8 engine was the most popular engine of Europe until about 1910.Henry Ford introduced one of the first V-8 cars in the United States in 1932. The 1932 Ford V-8 Carbriolet had 65 horsepower and helped begin the era of the American car.

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How many days did JFK serve as president?

JFK was the 35th president of the United States and the first Roman Catholic president. He was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a convertible during a motorcade. It is believed that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots that killed the president. Two hours after the assassination, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president on Air Force One at Dallas Love Field in Dallas, Texas.

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Did Earle Dickson have children?

According to Johnson & Johnson company legend, Dickson invented a ready-made bandage to help his wife, who frequently injured herself while cooking. He placed small patches of sterile gauze down the center of a long roll of surgical tape, then covered the tape and gauze with a strip of crinoline so that the tape would not stick to itself. His wife could then cut off a piece of bandage whenever she needed one. When Dickson showed his invention to James Johnson, the CEO of the company, Johnson decided to mass produce the bandages under the name Band-Aid adhesive bandages.

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