Jim thorpe

Jim Thorpe was an absolutely amazing athlete. He was a professional football player, professional baseball player, professional basketball player, double Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon (which he won be 700 points) and the pentathlon, he placed fourth in high jump and seventh in long jump. Jim was born may 28, 1888, he was a native American and was raised as a Sac and Fox. Although he was such an incredible athlete he had to deal with a lot of racism and discrimination throughout his life. He was an Indian in a white power time in the United States, if he weren't so incredible he would have gone no where. On top of that when Thorpe was young his brother died of pneumonia and he ran away a few times. His mother sent him to Haskel Indian Nations University in Kansas, a boarding school so that he would not run away anymore. His mother died two years later while giving birth to a child so Jim came home. He got into a fight with his father and moved away to work on a horse ranch. He returned to his father two years later and returned to school again, this time he attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. This is where he met his biggest influence, football coach Pop Warner. Later that year Jim's father died from gangrene poisoning in a hunting accident. Jim dropped out of school again. He went back to farm to work for a few years, until he returned to Charlisle to kick off is sporting career. In 1950, a Press poll of nearly 400 sportswriters and broadcasters voted Thorpe the greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century. In 1999, the Associated Press placed him third on their list of athletes of the century list behind Babe Ruth and Micheal Jordan, and ESPN ranked him seventh on their list of North American athletes of the century. On top of that, on May 27, 1999 the United States House of Representatives passed resolution 198 declaring Thorpe "America's athlete of the century".
In 1911 Jim would gain nationwide attention playing football for Carlisle when he scored all of his team's points—four field goals and a touchdown—in an 18-15 upset of Harvard.His team finished the season 11–1. The following year, he led Carlisle to the national collegiate championship, scoring 25 touchdowns and 198 points. And that was only football...

Jim Thorpe is an unbelievable individual. He was amazing at every thing he did, at the international level too. In my opinion he is the most athletic man of all time, that i have heard of.

Chuck yeager

Chuck Yeager was an American general and a test pilot in the US air force. He entered pilot training in 1942 and became a p-51 pilot. He became a test pilot once Wold War 2 was over. He tested many different types of aircraft and rocket planes in his career as a test pilot but in 1947 he became the very first man to ever travel faster than Mach 1. His record was quickly broken by a man named Scott Crossfield but Chuck answered back, beating Scott's mach 2 with mach 2.4!

Two nights before Chucks test flight he fell off a horse and broke two ribs. He only told his wife and the man that closes the door on his plane, Mike Riddle. He was in such pain the day of the flight that he could not close the door of his aircraft and had to get Riddle to close it for him. Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947 flying the experimental X-1 at mach 1 at an altitude of 45,000 feet, with two broken ribs...

I think that Chuck must have been quit a brave man to test out all of these new airplanes. He was the first man with the record and the third, because Scott beat his original record. He may have been a bit of a reckless man though because of his not telling anyone about of his broken ribs.

Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 17, 1899. He grew up in a rough neighborhood and was a member of two "kid gangs," the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors. He was said to be very large and actually quite smart. When he was 19 he got married and had kids with Mary "Mae" Coughlin. They moved to Chicago that year, where Capone started an empire. He got involved with a man named John Torrio who saw Capones potential ant tool him under his wing. Capone worked his way up the food chain until he was the number two man. When Torrio was shot by a rival gang Capone got full control over the empire of Bootleging, saloons, gambling houses and brothels. Caopne was an even better leader that Torrio was. Capone expanded the business to include horse and dog race tracks, night clubs, distilleries, breweries and even the largest cleaning and dieing plant in Chicago. The mayor was one of Capones main business partners. Eventually the mayor turned on him and drove him out of Chicago. When Capone looked for a new place to live, he quickly discovered that he was unpopular in much of the country. He finally bought an estate at 93 Palm Island, Florida in 1928.

Capone's most notorious killing was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, four Capone men entered a garage at 2122 N. Clark Street. The building was the main liquor headquarters of bootlegger George "Bugs" Moran's North Side gang. Capone sent in his men in dressed up as police officers. They ended shooting the six men over 150 times. Capone never got caught for murdering anyone because he always had an alibi, in this case he was in Florida.
In 1927 Capone was tried for tax evasion which lead to his down fall. It was said that Capone was making $100 000 000 per year, so the income tax would have been staggering. The only thing was, Capone never filed an income tax return, owned nothing in his own name, and never made a declaration of assets or income. He did all his business through front men so that he was anonymous when it came to income. The governments answer was to put a man from the IRS's Special Intelligence Unit (Frank Wilson)to investigate Capones financial situation. Wilson accidentally found a cash receipts ledger that not only showed the operation's net profits for a gambling house and a record of Capone's income from it. Capone was soon convicted for tax evasion. At the court hearing tried to bribe the jury but the judge changed the jury at the last second. Capone was found not guilty on 18 of the 23 counts and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was sent to a prison in Atlanta, where he "took over" so he was transferred to Alcatraz. He could not get any influence in Alcatraz, due to the super tight security which lead to him going crazy and finishing his sentence in the hospital. Once released Capone did not take his business over again because he was not the same as he was before and died a short while after.

I think that Al Capone was an amazing man that wored wis way to the very top of the food chain when he started at the bottom. His good side is also under rated. He was the first person to open soup places to give out a free lunch to the people devestated by the stock market crash during the great depression.

Boxer Reellion

The Boxer rebellion was a Chinese rebellion (1899-1901) against any forign influence in china. The fought forign influence in areas like trade, politics, religion and thecnology in China during the final years of the Manchu Rule. The group was made up of mainly Chinese peasents who whole haertedly beleived in anti-forignisim and anti-imperialisim. They attacked forigners building rail roads and people responsable for the forign donination of china.
In June 1900 the Boxers invaded Beijing, killing 230 forigners along with tens of thousands of Chinese Christians, Catholics and Protestants. This lead to the end of the Qing dynast and the formation of the modern Chinese Republic. After that little incident a multinational coalition semt 20 000 troops to China to get things back under controle.
I think that the Boxers were bitter that forigners were bitter that Forigners, their new way of doing things and their "strange" new culture were starting to take over the old China. The same thing happened all over the world, just not with the same, extreme, reprecutions as in China.

Marc Chagall was born in 1887 in Vitebsk in the Russian Empire. He was an artist who was influenced by Cubism, Fauvism and Surrealism. "My art is an extravagant art, a flaming vermilion, a blue soul flooding over my paintings," he says. His paintings have symbols of his childhood and of his Jewish religion inter mixed into the main work. Vitebsk was where he was born and is where he was inspired to become an artist. "The soil that nourished the roots of my art was Vitesbsk." He started his career as an artist like any other, poor and living in hardship but by 1930 he was known world wide.
In 1906 Marc decided that he wanted to pursue his passion to become an artist. The problem was that his parents did not want him to do this. After getting into a furious argument with his father Marc fled to St. Petersburg with nothing but a few roubles. He began to study but it was too difficult for him in St Petersburg because he was Jewish and Jews were given a very hard time there in that time, so he moved to Paris.
I find that when I first looked at Marc's paintings i was like, "wtf is this," but when you see it a few times and really take the time to examin it them they are very detailed. He uses numerous shades of the same colour and throws all kinds of different symbols into all of his paintings. I like how he puts different shapes into is paintings using colour alone.

The Bristol Beaufighter

The Bristol Beaufighter was a British long range heavy fihter. It was manufactured by the Bristol Aeroplane Company and was designed by Leslie Frise and Roy Fredden. The fighters madien voyage was on July 17, 1939 but was not introduced to to battle until July 27, 1940. It had a 20 year career in the Allies air force, retiring in 1960. The fighter had four Histano 20mm cannons that were mounted on the lower fuselage area and had a bomb bay near the rear of the air craft. The fighter was a two man aircraft with a pilot in the front and a navigator at the very back of the plane in a bubble armed with a machine gun, just in case. Many different, new and improved models of the Beaufighter came out as time went on. Every model had some sort of new feature or improvement. For example in 1942, Mk VICs (an improved version of the Beaufighter) were being equipped with torpedo-carrying gear, enabling them to carry the British 18-inch or the US 22.5-inch torpedo externally. The first successful torpedo attacks by Beaufighters came in April 1943, with No. 254 Squadron sinking two merchant ships off Norway.
The Beaufighter took part in many battles. The key to the success of these fighters were the tactics that were developed for the planes. The North Coates strike wing developed attack tactics. They used the the Beau fighters for anti-flank suppression using their cannons and rockets while the Torbeaus (another type of fighter) attacked the lower level of the ships.
The Beaufighters sound to me like they were the cutting edge as far as fighter planes went at the time. They had tons of fire power and were very successful.

Bonnie nad Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde where notorious robbers and criminals in 1931-1935 during what was called the public enemy ear. Bonnie Parker was said to be an attractive woman, standing at only 4 ft 11 in, and weighing only 90 pounds. She was a gifted poet and gave introductuctory speeches for local politicians. She married at age 15 but the marriage was short lived, ending just three years later. She met Clyde while working as a waitress, and the two immediately became transfixed with one-another. Clyde Barrow was born into a poor farming family with seven or eight siblings. He always held down "square" jobs, but he cracked safes, burgled stores and stole cars on the side. Clyde's goal in life was not to gain fame and fortune from robbing banks, but to eventually seek revenge against the Texas prison system for the abuses he suffered while serving his time.
Although the duo was known primarily for robbing banks they actually mainly focused on robbing filling stations and grocery stores. Clyde made his dream come true in 1934 in what was called the "Eastham Breakout." Clyde was the mastermind behind the operation, he got Henry Methvin, Raymond Hamilton and several others out of the Texas Prison. Phillips, another member of the Barrow gang, describes the breakout as the burning passion of Clydes life.
After this little stunt Bonnie and Clyde were then under the full power of the texas government. Texas Department of Corrections reportedly promised him every person involved in the breakout would be hunted down and killed. He kept his word, except for Henry Methvin, whose life was exchanged in return for betraying Bonnie and Clyde. The Texas Department of Corrections then contacted legendary retired man hunter and Texas Ranger Captain Frand A. Hammer, and convinced him to accept a commission to hunt down the Barrow Gang. He accepted the job immediately, studying the duos habits and patterns to eventually corned them and kill them in a hail of bullet.
Clyde went on to kill 4 more officers of the law in epic gun battles, while Bonnie is said to have never even shot a gun in any of the gangs history.
On may 23, 1934 Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed and killed while driving down a desolate road on their way to their hide out in Louisiana. They were shot with over 130 rounds by 6 officers with machine guns and armour tipped bullets. They went out in a blaze of gun fire.
I think that Bonnie and Clyde were very interesting and i found it fascinating to learn about them. They were celebrates of their time and age, which is quite an accomplishment, to have celebrity status as a thief on the run; yet still not get caught for years.

Boer War

The Boer Wars was the name given to the South African Wars of 1880-1881 and 1899-1902, that were fought between the British and the descendants of the Dutch settlers (Boers) in South Africa. After the first Boer War William Gladstone granted the Boers self-government in the Transvaal. A few years after being granted their independence the British took it away again. The Boers, under the leadership of Paul Kruger, were given military equipment from Germany and the Boers immediately had a series of successes on the borders of Capr Colony and Natal between October 1899 and January 1900. Even though the Boers only had 88 000 soldiers, they had outstanding leadership that lead them to victory. In 1900 reinforcements arrived for the British(who were getting wrecked by the Boers) and with these "fresh legs" the Boers were surrounded and captured and had no choice but to surrender. The British then went on to seize the two capital cities and gained the upper hand in the war. Just wen the British thought they had the war won, the Boers made a come back, adopting a guerrilla style of war fare. This proved to be very effecting against the British soldiers.

But as soon as the Boers made their come back, the British regained control by setting up lines of fences all over, reducing the Boers freedom to move around so easily, along with inside information given to them by Local African natives.

In all, the war had cost around 75,000 lives. 22,000 British soldiers (7,792 battle casualties, the rest through disease), 6,000 – 7,000 Boer soldiers, 20,000 – 28,000 Boer civilians and perhaps 20,000 indigenous Africans. The last of the Boers surrendered in May 1902 and the war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging in the same month.

The Boers were given £3,000,000 for reconstruction and were promised eventual self-government, which in my opinion defeats the whole purpose of the war. The second Boer war started because the British took the freedom of the Boers and after three additional years of fighting and bloodshed they lose the war and get it back anyway.

The Flying Fortress

The Boeing B-17 was first introduced in 1941 after the army requested for a large multy engined bomber. It was a low-wing monoplane armed with bombs and five .30-caliber machine guns. The B-17 was the first Boeing military aircraft with a flight deck instead of an open cockpit. With every improver model of the B-17, like the B-17E and the B-17G, they grew more and more deadly. The B-17E had nine machine guns and carried a 4000 pound bomb load. The B-17G was the best of the three models. It had an improved tail that was bigger, allowing for a smoother more satble flight at high altitudes. It also had 11 to 13 machine guns and carried a 9600 pound bomb pay-load. Over 1200 B-17's were made nation-wide.

The B-17 was known as the Flying Fortress because of its legendary reputation of being able to take a beating but still make it home. In June 1942 when US carrier aircraft (with assistance from US submarines) inflicted a crushing defeat on the Japanese Navy in the Battle of Midway by B-17s. Headlines in the US read "Army Fliers Blasted Two Fleets off Midway." This was greatly resented in the Navy because they did not even hit one ship, but this mythical account of the Midway battle persisted until the end of the war.

I think that the B-17 was a remarkable aircraft for its time. It was the most powerful and packed more heat than any other bomber in its time; and on top of all that it was the toughest as well. It became known as the Flying Fortress because it could take a lick'n but keep on kick'n.

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden was born on March 10, 1957 into a very rich Islamic family in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Osamas father, Muhammed bin Laden, obtained his riches by being the building contractor for the Saudi royal family during the 1950's. Muhammed is unofficially said to have had 55 children with his 22 wives. Osama was his seventeenth child. Shortly after being born Ossamas parents divorced and his mother remarried to Muhammed al-Attas, a man who worked for Muhammed bin Laden. He already had 4 children, so when Osama moved in he had three stepbrothers and a stepsister. When Osama was 17 he married his first cousin and later went on to Marie 3 other women. He was the father of anywhere form 12-24 children.
Osama was the founder of the organisation called al-Qaeda. He issued two fatwas, in 1996 and 1998, saying that muslims should kill civilians and military personnel from the US and allied countries until they withdraw forces from Islamic countries. In 1998 he was blamed by the US for the bombing of the US embassy and made it onto the top 10 most wanted fugitives list. On September 11, 2001 Osama takes credit for the attacks on the twin towers and the United States. The attacks involved suicide pilots hijacking four American air planes and crashing them into various important buildings in the US. The targeted buildings were the two World Trade buildings, the Pentagon and the White house (although the plane for the white house never reached its destination). To this day Osama bin Laden has not been brought to justice for his unspeakable crimes, or even found for that matter.
I think Osama had the right idea to want American and Allied forces out of his country but he went to far in bombing the US embassy and way, way to far in planning and carrying out his planed attacks on the United States.

TheRussian Cvil war lasted from 1917 to 1921. It all started few years after Lenin's Boleviks overew the existing provisional government, when signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. It was the treaty that ended the war with Germany, but gave tem a huge chunk of land and people. Not only did the siging of the treaty infurriate some Russin people but also the British and French. They were at war with Germany and because Russia backed out of the war and gave up land and people to Germany, the German army got a huge boost in numbers and power.

Lenin 's communist party became known as the Red Army and their opposition was called the White Army. The Whites consisted of mainly people form mid eastern Russia and were allied with the French and the British; becuse they want their revenge on lenin for almost screwing them over by giving Germany all that land. The Red Army ended up winning because of better resorces and better leadership. The end resut was a country left in ruins.

I say that in reality both countries lost because all they did was destory their own counrty. Nothing even ended up changing because Lenin started the war in power and ended the war, still, in power.

Rasputin

Rasputin was born in the village of Pokrovskoye as a pesant. When he was just a child buth his brother and sister died at a young age, this was said to have greatly effected rasputin. The mythes surrounding rasputin say that he had supernatural powers through put his childhood. The say that he could identify theves. Ironically wen he was eighteen he was sent to prison for theft. His experience there combined with his supposed vision of the other of God turned him in to a wondering "holy man." By 1903 he was widly known to have healing powers and prophetical powers on top of being a holy man. In 1904 Tsarevich Alexie (a hemophiliac) suffered from uncortroable internal bleading afer falling off a horse. At that time there was nothing anyone could do for him so out of despiration the tsar got rasputian to help his son. Rasputin succesfully helped the family over and over again. He bacme a close freind of the family and caused much contravercy with the public. He was accused by many people, of various misdeeds, ranging from an unrestricted sexual life (including raping a nun) to undue political domination over the royal family.

At the start of ww1 rasputian said that he wanted to go to the front lnes to bless the troops before they went to battle but the general said that if he did, he would personally see to it that that rasputian is hanged. So hat night Rasputian had a vission that the only way russia could win the war was if the Tsar was in complete controle. Ofcourse the Tsar listened and went to the front to command his armins. While Tsar NicholasII was away, Rasputin's influence over Tsaritsa Alexandra increased immensely. He soon became her confidant and personal advisor. He also convinced her to fill some government posessions with his own handpicked candidates. To further advance his power, "Rasputin cohabitated with upper-class women in exchange for granting political favours." Because of World War I Russia’s economy was declining at a rapid rate. Many at the time placed the blame with Alexandra and with Rasputin, because of his influence over her.

I think that rasputian was as strange as a person could be. It is amazing how someone who started his life off in such a harsh way (with his siblings diening and being very poor) could work his way all the way to the top of the country. Althogh I do not beleiv that he had magical healing powers or visions or anything like that.

The Frisbee

The flying disk is a disk shaped object that is generally made of hard plastic and measures 20-25 centimeters in diameter. The edges are curved in-ward to make the dick easier to throw and catch. The shape of the disk, an air foil in cross section, allows the disk to fly by generating lift as it rotates and movers through the air. The term "Frisbee" is what most people use to describe a flying disk because it was the first disk on the market and the name just stuck.

The fad of the flying disk began with collage students at Yale tossing around old pie plates. In late 1955 a toy company called "Wham-O" made the first official flying disk and called it the Pluto Plater. It was not until 1964 that they changed the name to the Frisbee. Wham-O made millions of dollars off his Frisbee and it is a toy that is still loved and enjoyed by millions to this day.

I love playing Frisbee and ultament Frisbee. It is tons of fun and is really starting to get popular. It is the perfect thing to do on the beach, in between swimming and nothing.

Nazisim

The word Nazi is derived from the full name of the party in German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, in English the name of the party is the National Socialism Germans worker party. The Nazis came at a time when Germany was in need of new hope. They came about after Germany had signed the Treaty of Versailles and were in massive debt to other countries. Hitler, The leader of the party, believed in the superiority of an Aryan master race and that the German war efforts were sabotaged internally by the communists and the Jews. He put a stop to the Germans paying reparations and began to build a new army and get his revenge.
On May 10Th 1940 Germany invaded France, Belgium, Holland and other parts western Europe using a creative fighting tactic called the Blitzkrieg or "lightning warfare." They combined a lethal mixture of fast and deadly tanks on land and superior planes coverage to easily overthrow Holland and Belgium by the end of may; and just two weeks the German forces captured Paris.
I think that the Nazi party did have some good points, and some bad ones. I think that it was good that they stopped paying the reparations, found many jobs for the people of the country and recovered Germany's economy. I do not think that they needed to go to war and wast so many lives as some sort of revenge for the treaty of Versailles, and the Jewish concentration camps were absolutely horrible.

Charlie Chaplin

In the film Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times, Charlie does many things to satirize life at the turn of the century. The opening shot in the movie shows a herd of sheep passing through a gate, which sets the scene for the rest of the film. The plot of the film is Charlie working on a typical assembly line of the time, except of course, every thing is exaggerated. The conveyor belt that Charlie works on is going super fast and in reality would be impossible. He mocks the fact that the work that he is doing is so repetitive that when ever he stops he twitches and does not have control of what he is doing.

In the film he goes so crazy doing his repetitive, mindless task that he ends up destroying the factory and ends up going to an insane asylum. The final shot of the film is a joke showing charlie in the wrong place at the wrong time; he ends up getting blamed as the leader of an up-rising and gets arrested... again.

Ferdinand Von Zeppelin

Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf (Count) von Zeppelin was a German aircraft manufacturer who went on to build the first successful rigid air ship, called the Zeppelin. Count Zeppelin first started his career in Germany building military aircraft for the German army. He got into ballooning when he mover to the United States, to work and learn with Thaddeus S.C. Lowe during the American Civil war. Soon after moving to America, all balloon research was placed off limits to civilians, so Count Zeppelin moved back to Germany. He returned to America for a second time shortly after, in 1869, where he worked with prot. Lowe again to learn all that he could about ballooning.
Count Zeppelin became intrigued by the idea of building a guidable balloon, so from the 1880's onward he focused his energy on creating a design to do so. In 1899 he began construction on the first guidalbe rigid airship, and it was a success.
The public fell in love with the idea of the Zeppelin and began making donations to Count Zeppelin, so he kept building and improving new models of the Zeppelin. In 1909 a Zeppelin was bought by the German military, and in the same year the airships began to be used as a means of transportation for civilians.
Count Von Zeppelin was very successful in his revolutionary creation of the Zeppelin. He died in 1917, luckily not having to wittiness the disastrous crash of the LZ129.

Prohibition in the 20th Century

Prohibition is the banning of drinking, manufacturing, transportation, import, export, and sale of achohol. It was usually religious groups that pushed for prohibition, but there were also many womens groups that strongly agreed with prohibition. Prohibition was a big issue in the late 1800's and early to mid 1900's. In the United States the prohibition movement first started in the 1840's when different religious grounp started to push for prohibition, then the womens rights activists jumped on the band waggon and also pushed for prohibition.
In Canada it was the Government that was pushing for prohibition. In 1898 there was a nation wide vote on prohibition and every country agreed with prohibition except for Quebec, which was %81 against it. The Canadian government decided not to inforce prohibition, but they left it up to each individual provience to decide for them selves. All proviences decided that it was a good idea and did inforce it. About 40 years later every provience realised that the law was uninforceable and they decided to drop the law.

I think that prohibition was a pointless idea because somany people were already liked drinking and were used to drinking regularly. To force millions of people to just stop drinking because the government tells them to, is just pointless.

The Creation of the Zeppelin

The Zeppelin was the first succesful air ship in history. It was created in the early 20th century by a German man named Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin. He based his desing for his rigid air ship around the previously concived idea of pioneer David Schwartz. Von Zeppelin started his construction of his air ship after the Franco Persian war, when he retired from the military and fully realised the importance of these massive air ships. He pattented his idea on August 31, 1895 and began construction in 1899. The prototype was built in a floating assembly hall on the Bodensee in the Bay of Manzell. It was 128 meters long and was powered by 14.2 hores power engin. The first flight of the very first Zeppelin (LZ1) was on July 2, 1990, it lasted 18 minutsand ended having to land on a lake after the balance machanisim broke. It's 2nd and 3rd (and final) flights were both very succesful, breaking the previous speed reccord, of 3 m/s, set by other airships at 6 m/s. Although the demonstrations were succesful, it was not enough to convience the investors and Von Zeppelin was forcedto close down his company and DISASSEMBLE the Zeppelin to sell for parts.

Although the origional Zeppelin was not overly succesful, more Zeppelins were maunfactured and used in world war 1 as bombers and scouting vehicles by the Germans. They ended up manufacturing eighty-eight ships, sixty of which were destoried... Although the Zepelins were leathal and cutting edge during the war ( breaking speed and distance reccords) they were extremely dangerious because they were just sooo easy to shoot down.

After the war, the Zepelins were used as transportation vehicles in Germany with regular routs to stockholm. They were very succesful in this niche untile the Americans demanded that the Germans give them the two remaining Zeppelins as reparations for the war; when they declinde that the Americans began developing their own rigid airship. The very first American ari ship was a complete failier, not only crashing but killing it's 44 crew-men. This was only considered a set back by the Americans staqndards. They went on to build very succesful airships of their own as well.

The Zeppelin continued to evolve and improve untile on March 4, 1937 when the Germans had no helium to fill the baloon with, so they make the fatil decision to fill it with hydrogen instead. Almost exactly one year later the LZ129 was landing in frount of thousands of people after making a trans atlantic flight, when the hydorgen suddenly exploded. The crash ended up killing 35 of the 97 people on board and will be rembered for ever.

I think that the Zeppelins were the first big steps in flight and were very important to the way we think of air travel and flight. Although the airships were very dangerious and did take many lives, they were a good step in the progression of flight.

The 20th century was full of facinating events and inventions that have revolutionized the way we do things we do today. Without the building blocks set up in the 20th century we would not have been able to creat many of the state of the art things that we have today. There were also many facinating wars and epic battles that must be rembered and learned about in order for our civilization to continue to develope and evolve.