Nat Love
Nat Love was a African American that was a cowboy right after the Civil War in America. He was born in Tennessee as a slave to plantation owner Robert Love. Unlike most other blacks he was taught how to read and right by his father, Sampson L
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. As a young boy, he experimented and gathered specimens. He invented his first machine at the age of 12, a simple dehusking machine that was used for a few years at his friend's
Greec Debt Crisis on World Market:
Greece went into a "debt binge" ( which means they spent money even though they knew they couldnt pay it back), in the last decade. It then crashed in late 2009. It now has turned into an economic crisis and is threa
Invention of the steam engine and railroad.
In the 16th century, wagon ways were being used in Germany. These railed roads were made of wooden rails over horse-drawn carts, which made it easier for the houses to pull on rails than the dirt
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the man who wrote the Declaration of Independance. He was also the third President of the United States of America. He imagined America as an "Empire of Liberty". He was born on April 13, 1743. When he was tw
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony, a woman with a huge role in society, was born in Adams, Massachusetts in February 15th, 1820. Susan was the second oldest of seven, many of them also became very involved in society during their life. Her family was
Rockerfeller was the founder of Standard Oil Company. He was born on July 8th, 1831. He was a very smart man, even as a kid. When he was 12, he saved $50 just from working for neighbors and raising turkeys. He then loaned a local farmer the $50 a
26 year old man named Rezwan Ferdaus illegedly plotting attack on the pentagon and the US capital building.
He was going to try and crash large remote controled airplanes with C-4 explosives into the pentagon and the capital on thursday.
He began plann
Michael Jackson's Doctor Conrad Murray is on trail for involuntary manslaughter . They believe that he injected to much medication into Jackson. They were doing the injection in his bedroom at his home.
The first person contacted by Dr. Murray was Che
Ellis Island
Before Ellis Island opened, over 8 million immigrants were processed at the Castle Garden Immigration Center in lower Manhattan. Congress gave $75,000 to construct America's first Federal immigration station at Ellis Island in 1890.
Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.
He was born on October 7, 1858, in New York. We went to Harvard, studied in Germany, and then got right into politics. In 1898, he became the governor of New York and in 1901, he be
This is Bob Ford showing the gun he
used to kill Jesse
Jesse Woodson James was born Sept. 5 1847, and died April 3 1882. Jesse was a Bank and train robber, a murderer, an outlaw, and a gang leader. Jesse h
What would we be today if some inventions wernt around today?
There are a lot of common people that we know of that invented things we use all the time, like Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb or Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson invented the
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. the 26th president, 25th vice president, and 33rd governor of New York, was born on October the 27th, 1858 to Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. and and Martha Roosevelt. He was the second of four children to the couple. Below is a p
Ellis Island and other immigration stations are interesting to me. I waould like to find out more about them. I want to know how many people went though Ellis Island and more interesting facts. I can't imagine what it would have been like to pa
Moving Westward
Why should people move west?
A lot of pioneers that settled in Iowa came from the eastern states such as Indiana, New York, Ohio, and Illinois.
What attracted pioneer settlers to migrate?
People from history tell us a lot of things abou
There were hundreds of great inventions in the 1800s such as the telephone, steel plow, reaper, and the revolver. Thomas Edison is one of the greatest inventors of all time. He is most famous for inventing the light bulb, but there are some other in
On August 23, 2011 Washington DC had a 5.8 magnitude earthquake. There was no damage except for the fact that the DC police think that the Washington Monument may be tilted.
Since then, workers have been sent out to assess the exterior of the monume
