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Documents that changed the way we live
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Title
Documents that changed the way we live / Joseph Janes.
ISBN
9781538100332
1538100339
Publication
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2017.
Physical Description
xv, 273 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Other formats
Online version: Janes, Joseph, author. Documents that changed the way we live Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Gregorian Calendar, 1582/Gutenberg Indulgence, 1454
Exaltation of Inanna, c2300 BCE
Rosetta Stone, 196 BCE
Donation of Constantine, c750
Liber Abaci (Arabic numerals), 1202
Annals of the world, 1650
Philosophical transactions, 1665
The Riot Act, 1714
Declaration of Independence deleted passage, 1776
What is the Third Estate?, 1789
The Star-Spangled Banner, 1814
Webster's Dictionary, 1828
The Book of Mormon, 1830
First women's college diploma, 1840
John Snow's cholera map, 1854
Rules of Association Football (soccer), 1863
Alaska Purchase check, 1868
Robert's Rules of Order, 1876
Alfred Nobel's will, 1895
First x-ray, 1895
Fannie Farmer Cook Book, 1896
The protocols of the elders of Zion, c1900
IQ test, 1905
Zimmerman Telegram, 1917
The Nineteenth Amendment, 1920
Statistical significance, 1925
Stock Market ticker tape, 1929
Richter Scale, 1935
Einstein's letter to Roosevelt, 1939
FDR and Thanksgiving, 1939
Letters of transit, 1942
We can do it! poster, 1943
Joseph McCarthy's list, 1950
Mental disorder diagnosis manual, 1952
Airplane "black box," 1958
Space Needle sketch, 1959
Obama birth certificate, 1961
Zapruder film, 1963
Quotations of Chairman Mao, 1965
The 18 1/2 minute gap, 1972
Internet Protocol, 1981
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982
Aids quilt, 1987
Nupedia, 2000
Palm Beach County butterfly ballot, 2000
Pope Benedict XVI's resignation, 2013.
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