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The first levees constructed in the US were located in what city?
New Orleans, LA
Which scientist published his theory of relativity in 1905?
Albert Einstein
Which man was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1989 for his creation of the steel plow?
John Deere
Which material did ITT engineers demonstrate data transmissions with in 1966?
Fiber optics
Which plastic, used in stockings, was invented in 1938?
Nylon
Which research ship did Charles Darwin sail to the Galapagos in 1835?
Beagle
Who was the first inventor to succesfully manufacture electic shavers in 1931?
Jacob Schick
Which type of sensitive informaton was reported missing from Los Alamos in June 2000?
Nuclear secrets
Which commodity was first commerically extracted in Titusville, PA in 1859?
Oil
In 18882, what did Charles Darwin die from?
Heart Attack
Which organization shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore?
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Who in the 1850s patented the first inexpensive industrial process for mass producing steel?
Henry Bessemer
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