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As we just begin
a new century, a new millennium, Clashion focuses its lens on a different
era. We look to a time before world wars, cold wars, television, radio,
movies, women's votes, air travel, car travel, and most of the other things we
consider part of our world. Clashion looks back 100 years, starting in 1902.
This was a year of
building and of discovery. Britain was building its empire in South
Africa, after the end of the Boer war. Construction on the tallest
building in New York City, the Flatiron Building, was completed. Egypt
finished its Aswan dam. As for discoveries and inventions, the teddy bear
is introduced, named for a bear that was caught and stuffed for Theodore Roosevelt. Advances were made in air conditioning, and the Tyrannosaurus Rex
was discovered in Montana.
source
HistoryChannel.com
Susan B Anthony - 82 years old, living in New
York and active with Women's rights groups
Harriet Tubman - 82 years old, living in Auburn, NY, beginning work on Harriet Tubman Home for Aged and Indigent Colored People
Mark Twain
- 67 years old, in his retirement in Connecticut
Theodore Roosevelt - 44 years old, President of the United States
George Washington Carver - 38 years old, teaching at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Herbert Hoover - 28 years old, junior partner in London-based mining
firm
Winston Churchill - 28 years old, first years of political
career in Conservative party
Albert Einstein - 23 years old, employed at Swiss patent office in
Bern
Vladimir Lenin - 22 years old, recently out of Siberian exile
Franklin D. Roosevelt - 20 years old, Harvard
University Student
Benito Mussolini - 18 years old, voluntarily exiled to
Switzerland
Eleanor Roosevelt - 18 years old, attending Allenswood School in England
Georgia O'Keefe - 14 years old, already painting, and attending the Sacred Heart Academy and High School in Williamsburg, Virginia
Joseph Stalin - 13 years old, already exiled to Siberia
Dwight D. Eisenhower - 12 years old, still in school
Adolf Hitler - 12 years old, living at home in Linz on the
Danube
Babe Ruth - 7 years old, on his way to St. Marys Industrial
School for Boys
The Soldiers of WWI - 6 years old
source
Biography.com
1
year before Wright brothers' first flight in Kitty Hawk, NC
1 year before Henry Ford starts the Ford Motor Company (Model T 5
years later)
2 years before New York City subway opens
3 years before Einstein proposes his theory of relativity
6 years before the beginning of the Middle East oil boom
10 years before the sinking of the Titanic
11 years before RJ Reynolds introduces its cigarette
12 years before WWI
12 years before Ghandi begins his campaign of non-violence
18 years before woman are given right to vote in United States
18 years before the first Miss America beauty pageant
18 years before Prohibition goes into effect
21 years before the founding of the USSR by Lenin
22 years before the first Macy's Thanksgiving day parade
25 years before Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic
25 years before television is first demonstrated and the first
talking motion picture
27 years before the Great Depression
27 years before the use of penicillin to treat infection
28 years before the discovery of the planet Pluto
37 years before WWII
43 years before WWII ends
48 years before the Cold War
48 years before the Korean War
48 years before the birth of suburbia
57 years before the United States has 50 states
57 years before the doll Barbie is created
59 years before the Berlin wall is built
59 years before the first person to go into space, Yuri Gagarin of
the USSR
61 years before Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream' speech
61 years before the assassination of President Kennedy
63 years before the first American troops land in Vietnam
67 years before man walks on the moon
72 years before Richard Nixon resigns the office of President
73 years before Microsoft is founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen
78 years before CNN, MTV follows a year later
81 years before crack cocaine is developed
84 years before the Chernobyl disaster
84 years before Nintendo launches
87 years before the fall of the Berlin Wall
88 years before the invention of "the Web"
89 years before the fall of the USSR
95 years before Dolly, the cloned sheep, is born
97 years before the Y2K bug panics the US
98 years before the completion of the Human Genome Project
100 years before the founding of Clashion
source
HistoryChannel.com
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