Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin (OPV) WHAT : Invented/Created the Polio vaccination. WHEN : 1955 WHERE : Virus Research Lab at The University of Pittsburgh. WHY : The country had to live with daily fear of the Polio disease. In 1955‚ nearly 30‚000 cases of Polio‚ but in 1957‚ the number dropped to a little less than 6‚000. HOW : Salk‚ his wife and their three sons were a sample group. After the sample‚ they launched
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Martin Luther King was born on January 15‚ 1929 in Atlanta‚ Georgia. Martin Luther King is best known for advancing the Civil Rights Movement and his “I Have a Dream” speech. Martin started his college education at age 15. In the United States‚ there are more the 720 streets named after Martin Luther King. In 1963‚ King helped organize the “March on Washington.” More 250‚000 people attended the march in an effort to show the importance in civil rights legislation. It was at the “March on Washington”
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References: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/1840/J90.htmlEntores Ltd v. Miles Far East Corporation (1955) EWCA Civ 3‚ (1955) 2 QB 327 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/1955/3.htmlJackson v Union Marine Insurance (1874) 10 Common Pleas 125 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_v_Union_Marine_Insurance Tsakiroglou & Co Lt v Noblee Thorl GmbH (1962) AC 93‚ (1961) 2 All ER 179 http://pntodd
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Lucy Rosentreter Mr. Whitsit US History 19 April 2024 How the Montgomery Bus Boycott Sparked the Civil Rights Movement “One person can change the world” (Rosa Parks). Needing transportation‚ civilians of different races rode on the same bus to get to and from work. Segregation caused African Americans to be forced to the back of the bus‚ while whites got to enjoy the luxury of sitting in the front. This continued until an African American woman‚ Rosa Parks‚ refused to give up her seat at the front
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IMD371 07.10.2008 INTERNATIONAL TESCO: DELIVERING THE GOODS (A) Senior Research Fellow JeanLouis Barsoux and Professor Jean-François Manzoni prepared this case as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a business situation. First-time visitors to Tesco’s head office were always surprised. Based in a drab five-storey block‚ on an industrial estate north of London‚ it hardly seemed a fitting location for Britain’s most successful retailer
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Investment Company and Disney Film Recording Company took over the Disney brothers’ partnership. In December 26‚ 1939 the company moved from Burbank California to Hyperion Studio‚ LA. Walt Disney Music Company was formed on October 1 1949. On July 17 1955‚ the first Disney Park known as Disneyland opened for audience in Anaheim California. Walt Disney World Resort and two hotels are opened near Orlando Florida on 1 October 1971. Walt Disney World Village later renamed Disney Village Market place opens
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One of the most powerful leaders of the civil rights movement was the African American Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin King Jr was born into a family that was big on Christianity. The date May 1936 was the date of when he got baptized‚ but this event had a very little effect on him. But one big event that had a big impact on his life was the death of his grandmother on May 1941 when Martin Luther King was only twelve years old. King Jr. had blamed himself for his grandmother’s death as he was out
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jeopardized. Two historical events that are featured in many documentaries are the Holocaust and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Director‚ Alain Resnais‚ captures the horrors that took place in the Jewish concentration camps during World War II in the 1955 short documentary film Night and Fog; whereas director‚ Michael Moore‚ focuses on the actions of President George W. Bush following the 9/11 attacks in the 2004 documentary‚ Fahrenheit 9/11. Though both films expose the truth behind the said historical
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Fournier‚ Shawn Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller was an officer in the United States Marine Corps with a career spanning thirty-seven years from 1918 – 1955. His career included three wars and ten distinct battles. Puller retired from a highly decorated career in the United States Marine Corps on November 1‚ 1955 due to failing health‚ but his legacy as one of the most decorated members of the Marine Corps with five Navy Crosses and one Distinguished Service Cross has lived on as
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Movies are a special tool that can keep one company when they are in a moody situation. It is a contrivance that is being used almost all over the world by different types of people for a particular purpose. There are diverse film genres like comedy‚ action‚ family‚ musical‚ and romance that are being produced each year in the twenty-first century but however‚ the twentieth century has contributed various types of classic films such as King Kong‚ Annie Hall‚ which can never be forgotten. Director
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