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Artifact 3 – The Search Engine in America

The Internet has been revolutionary to the world at large. It represents the culmination of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and computer. It is simultaneously a platform for world-wide broadcasts, a medium of communication, and a tool of collaboration. It is without a doubt, the most significant advance in communication technology in the history of mankind….

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Artifact 2 – The History of Airmail

In the famous story, flight ironically arose out of a small town in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 17, 1903, when the Wright brothers figured out heavier than air flight. Aviation technology reaches back over two thousand years, from hot air balloons and kites, to heavier-than-air jets, super-sonic flight, and aerial combat. It is without…

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Artifact 1 – History of the Japanese Language

  The Japanese are an old and venerated people that took their small island nation into the international limelight and the forefront of technology. Before these modern accomplishments however, the “people of the sun” were very exclusive and avoided contact with the outside world. The written Japanese language is largely held as the hardest language…

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King Cholera – Artifact 7

Cholera “Cholera”, from the Greek, meaning literally “gutter of a roof”. This disease is aptly named because of the dysentery-like symptoms associated with it. Victims experience muscles cramps with diarrhea and vomiting of incredibly severity. Without treatment, the victim dies of dehydration within 24 hours. The loss of water and electrolytes, but retention of protein…

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The Peoples Plague – Artifact 6

Tuberculosis “TB” is an infection caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It generally affects the lungs, but can also attack the kidneys, bones (Pott’s disease), lymph nodes, and even the brain. The modern strains of M. tuberculosis seem to have originated from a common ancestor about 15-20,000 years ago. It was also documented in Egypt more than 5,000…

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Troubles in Ireland – Artifact 5

The Irish Potato Blight Potatoes are just another luxury that the modern world could feasibly do without. But the world has not always been so. We did not always have access to every imaginable crop grown in every imaginable place. Around the 1850s, the Irish persisted also solely on potatoes as their food source. When…

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