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 Editor in Chief Bill  | 08 Jul 2020 2:20 p.m. PST |
You were asked to decide – TMP link A recent weekend brought three major historical turning points together: Passover, Easter weekend, and April 19th (the shot heard around the world). What other major historical turning points can you think of, and what are your top five? And in the final round of voting, the top five choices were: 19% of the votes – "Gutenberg printing press"
13% – "World Wide Web invented (1989)"
12% – "First atomic bomb used in warfare (1945)"
11% – "Penicillin (1928)"
10% – "Columbus in America (1492)" |
Frederick  | 08 Jul 2020 3:30 p.m. PST |
It was sulfanilamide in 1935, but nonetheless antibiotics most certainly changed the world |
| HMS Exeter | 08 Jul 2020 9:03 p.m. PST |
Neil deGrasse Tyson on this question. link |
| 14th NJ Vol | 09 Jul 2020 6:39 p.m. PST |
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| Wargamer Blue | 10 Jul 2020 1:44 a.m. PST |
What year was chocolate invented? |
| HMS Exeter | 10 Jul 2020 7:06 a.m. PST |
What year was air conditioning invented? |
 Herkybird | 10 Jul 2020 4:28 p.m. PST |
1) The development of verbal communication. 2) The development of the wheel. 3) The event which snuffed out the Dinosaurs. 4) Domestication of animals. 5) The invention of Writing. …or did I miss the point? |
| Uparmored | 11 Jul 2020 7:34 a.m. PST |
the invention of negative gearing |
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