Nikola Tesla and Coca Cola

Morphine was a pain-killer that replaced opium in the Civil War. A man named John Pemberton invented a drink called Coca Cola to help him bear his pain when he got slashed in the chest. Morphine was included in this drink so Pemberton could drink something sweet, but it still helped him. Opium was very…

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✈️9/11/01🏙

On the morning of September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked used to crash into three important buildings in the United States.  There were 3,000 casualties and many more were injured.  The planes that were used were probably chosen because of the extra fuel needed for their original flights to California.  They were taken over by…

President George H. W. Bush

George H .W. Bush was the forty- first president of the United States.  He was born on June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts.  He went to school like any other normal child. When World War Two started the same year that he graduated, instead of going to college, he enlisted for the Navy.  He became…

President Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford Jr. was born in Omaha, Nebraska on July 14, 1913.  He was named Leslie Lynch King, Jr., but after his mom escaped from her first mean and abusive husband and married another, she changed his name to match his stepfather's.  Ford wasn't told of his birth father until he was seventeen.  He became a…

President John F. Kennedy

History Lesson 135 Essay       By Caitlin       1.           President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president, was one of the most beloved presidents of the United States.  He founded NASA, he was the president when the Bay of Pigs invasion happened and when the Berlin Wall was built,…

The History of Hollywood

The History of Hollywood By Caitlin           Hollywood and it movies have a rich history, filled with surprising facts.  The original inventor of most of the movie products was Thomas Edison.  Many people set up their production studios in Los Angeles, in California.  Two of the most famous movies of all…

History lesson 85

Lessons 80 - 84 Review After the Civil War, the U.S. had to get up again and move on. This became easy as industrialism in America resulted in a favorable outcome. America attracted lots of immigrants looking for religious, economical, and political freedom. Ellis Island was a big immigrant office. Ships filled with   new…

Reconstruction in the South

English lesson 80 Lesson 76 review Andrew Johnson, who was president Lincoln’s vice president, became president after Lincoln’s assassination. Lincoln had chosen Andrew for his vice president because he came from the southern states. Andrew was a democrat. Lincoln believed he would appeal to both the northern and the southern states. The Reconstruction’s objective was…