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Where did Louis Pasteur do his work?

Pasteur is believed to have saved the wine and beer industries in Europe. His knowledge and work in germ theory and fermentation led to the ceasing of using contaminated sources in production. Pasteurization, where a contaminated liquid is heated to kill microbes, was also a result of Pasteur's work. Wine, however, does not benefit from pasteurization, as the microbes contribute to the required aging process.

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What were the political influences that caused World War 2?

Nazi party politics in Germany during the 1930s contributed to World War II because of the intentions that Germany and Hitler had for Europe. The inhumane treatment of Jews was alarming to the other world powers. The Jewish people were being killed in gas chambers and being sent to degrading and deadly concentration camps. Those who managed to hide were living in fear and were stripped of their rights as human beings. Nazi Germany's politics later became threatening to other countries as well, because the Germans were interested in world domination through the expansion of its borders.Iso..

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Who was Ferdinand Magellan?

Magellan was born in Portugal around 1480. As a student, he studied navigation and cartography. His parents died when he was 10 years old, but since they were Portuguese nobility, he was made a page for the queen and allowed to continue his studies. When he was in his 20s, Magellan joined a fleet that was headed to East Africa. There, the Portuguese destroyed Egyptian ships in the Arabian Sea in the Battle of Diu. He also participated in the conquest of the port of Malacca. Magellan was wounded in Morocco and walked with a limp for the rest of his life. Later, he was falsely accused of trading..

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What was decided by the Treaty of Tordesillas?

When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his discovery of the New World, he stopped at Lisbon and told the Portuguese King John II about his discoveries. Because the Portuguese had earlier been granted all land south of the Canary Islands by the Pope and in a Spanish treaty, John II argued that Columbus' new discoveries belonged to Portugal. Unfortunately for the Portuguese, a new Pope with Spanish ancestry, Alexander VI (also known as Rodrigo Borgia), had declared all lands west of the 38th meridian to be Spanish. This included nearly all of the Americas. Spain and Portugal ulti..

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What countries were in the Central Powers?

The countries that were considered the Central Powers banded together because of their geographical location and because they had a pride and loyalty to each other as the result of past losses. They were located in between the Russian Empire and Great Britain and France. The Russian Empire was located to the east of the Central Powers and Great Britain was to the west of the Central Powers.The group of countries were positioned between three major players from the allies in World War I. The countries that made up the allies and were focusing their efforts against the Central Powers were France..

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What is the history of the National Park System?

With the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, a global surge towards creating national parks and monuments began. Before the NPS, the Department of the Interior, the War Department and the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture maintained all parks and historical sites. At its inception, the bureau worked within the Department of the Interior and protected 35 parks and monuments.\nIn 1933, an executive order put the 56 historical sites and monuments under the War Department and the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture into the hands of the NPS, further consol..

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What was the relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama?

Connections between the two figures mainly involved social or political gatherings. Ayers and his wife hosted an event at their home at which Obama was named Alice Palmer's successor in the Illinois state senate, and Obama and Ayers both served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, with three overlapping years during which they were both serving. Obama has condemned Ayers' past and claims no association with him.

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What caused the U.S. entry into WWI?

A major swaying point arose in Jan. 1917, when Britain intercepted the Zimmerman Telegram, a German proposal seeking aid from Mexico in return for recovering ceded territory from the United States.\n\nDespite a pledge to stay out of the war, the U.S. government was a major trading partner of Britain, placing American ships in Germany's line of fire. In early 1915, a German cruiser sunk a private American ship, the William P. Frye, and in May, 128 Americans died when a British ocean liner, the Lusitania, was assaulted while transporting munitions.\n\nIn March 1916, German ships sunk the Su..

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What is the significance of the Doomsday Clock?

The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists meets twice each year to determine if the hands of the clock need to be moved. and, if so, whether they need to be moved closer to midnight, signaling human behavior threatening the safety of the world, or backward, signalling the decrease in some world-threatening tension.\nFor many years, the primary concern was the nuclear weapon, with the hands being at their closest, two minutes to midnight, in 1953. As Cold War and nuclear tensions decreased, human impacts, such as climate change, became deciding factors in the movem..

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What were the first six American states?

In 1786, the states were struggling under the unstable union of the Articles of Confederation and needed an unbiased central authority to regulate interstate issues, such as commerce. On May 25, 1787, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention approved the draft of the U.S. Constitution, which advocated for a stronger centralized government. The Articles of Confederation mandated a minimum requirement of nine states to ratify the Constitution. Many of the earliest supporters were smaller states, such as New Jersey, Delaware and Connecticut, which had the most to gain from curbing the power..

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