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Editor in Chief Bill	08 Jul 2020 1:20 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 2:30 p.m. PST
It was sulfanilamide in 1935, but nonetheless antibiotics most certainly changed the world
HMS Exeter	08 Jul 2020 8:03 p.m. PST
Neil deGrasse Tyson on this question. link
14th NJ Vol	09 Jul 2020 5:39 p.m. PST
Semiconductors in 1947
Wargamer Blue	10 Jul 2020 12:44 a.m. PST
What year was chocolate invented?
HMS Exeter	10 Jul 2020 6:06 a.m. PST
What year was air conditioning invented?
Herkybird	10 Jul 2020 3:28 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 6:34 a.m. PST
the invention of negative gearing

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