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When did beets come to America?

When did beets come to America? Beets were brought to North America by American colonists, but it is not known when for certain. They were well established by the eighteenth century, as mention is made of chard, and red, white, and yellow beetroot being grown in U.S. gardens in the early 1800's. ...

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When did consumer culture begin?

When did consumer culture begin? Over the course of the 20th Century, capitalism moulded the ordinary person into a consumer. Kerryn Higgs traces the historical roots of the world's unquenchable thirst for more stuff. The notion of human beings as consumers first took shape before World War One, ...

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When did Farewell to Manzanar take place?

When did Farewell to Manzanar take place? Farewell to Manzanar begins with the U.S. entry into World War II after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1942, three years after war had begun raging in Europe. What is the setting of the book Farewell to Manzanar? We've learned that Farewell ...

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When did Father Damien go to Molokai?

When did Father Damien go to Molokai? In 1873 he learned of the need for priests to serve the 700 Hansen's disease victims confined on the island of Moloka`i. He and three other priests volunteered to go in succession. Damien was the first, and soon he was on a boat carrying cattle and 50 patients ...

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When did Flight 175 get hijacked?

When did Flight 175 get hijacked? When did Flight 175 take off? 8:14 8:14: United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767, carrying 56 passengers and 9 crew members, departs 14 minutes late from Logan International Airport in Boston, bound for Los Angeles International Airport. Five hijackers are ...

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When did record stores go out of business?

When did record stores go out of business? Do record stores still exist? Record shop chains still present in North America include Sunrise Records (Canada), FYE, Sam Goody and Rough Trade (all USA). Outside of Europe and North America, the current record store chains include Virgin ...

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When did Samuel Slater invent the factory system?

When did Samuel Slater invent the factory system? Slater set foot in New York in late 1789, having memorized the details of Britain's innovative machines. With the support of a Quaker merchant, Moses Brown, Slater built America's first water-powered cotton spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode ...

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Whats the difference between Enquiry and inquiry?

Whats the difference between Enquiry and inquiry? The word "inquiry" is being used in relation to a formal inquest (i.e., an investigation), while "enquiry" is being used to denote "the act of questioning." However, there is still considerable leniency on this distinction. What is meaning of ...

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