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  • #24345
    englandboy – John
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    1972

    An English expedition led by John Cabot makes the first recorded sighting of North America by a European, landing at what may have been Cape Breton Island.

    #24420
    Peggy
    Member

    1497 ❓

    #24430
    englandboy – John
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    You`re too good for me ma`am, that was correct 😀

    #24455
    Peggy
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    :bow: 😆

    Here ya go….

    In which year did England win the World Cup?

    #24460
    lucky
    Moderator

    1966

    La Amistad was a Spanish merchant ship that was taken over by 53 African men who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. The Africans were later apprehended on the vessel by the US Navy and taken into custody, and the widely publicized court cases that ensued helped propel the abolitionist movement……………what year did this event happen

    #24464
    englandboy – John
    Participant

    1839

    US and Europe agree Nato aims
    Almost exactly a year after signing the North Atlantic Treaty, 12 nations have agreed a permanent organisation for the defence of the United States and Europe. The year was ****?

    #24478
    Peggy
    Member

    1950 ❓

    #24485
    englandboy – John
    Participant

    Peggy ma`am, you are tooooooo goooooood 😀 that was correct :nana:

    #24559
    Peggy
    Member

    What year was velcro patented?

    #24605
    lucky
    Moderator

    1955 Patent no. 2,717,437 to G. DeMestral

    French Liner “Sussex” sunk by german torpedo………….

    #24691
    Peggy
    Member

    1916 ❓ ❓

    England, you better hurry up and get well!! Help! 😯

    #24693
    Anonymous
    Participant

    why did Al Gore invent the internet & when did he invent it?????????????

    Best answer gets a smoothie!!!!!!!

    #24702
    lucky
    Moderator

    WOWZERS!
    thanks Bill, for sending me looking; another political myth bites the dust…………

    Although Gore never said that he “invented the Internet,” he did say he “took the initiative in creating the Internet.” Can that claim be substantiated?
    Gore did indeed take an intellectual and legislative interest in promoting high-speed data networks in the United States, and he did this during the 1980s, at a time long before most members of the public – let alone most politicians – were thinking about such issues.

    He discussed his role in Internet development in an interview with Wolf Blitzer of Cable News Network. The interview took place on March 9, 1999 during CNN’s “Late Edition” show. Specifically, what Gore said was “I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let’s just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.
    Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn’t necessarily bring to this process?

    Clearly, Blitzer is asking Gore to offer an explanation of how he differs as a politician from other politicians in general, and his rival at the time, Bill Bradley, in particular. Here is Gore’s entire response to Blitzer’s question:

    GORE: Well, I will be offering – I’ll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.
    But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I’ve traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

    And he did, as early as 1987, begin introducing legislation relating to the subject………

    While consistently supported funding for agencies involved in science and technology, such as the National Science Foundation and for NASA, Gore also began to give speeches and hold hearings in support of high-performance computing and networking. In 1987, for instance, Gore spoke on the floor in support of research into superconducting supercomputers: In 1988, Gore argued for the creation of a high-capacity national data network: Gore made explicit the need for high-speed networking, specifically a 3-gigabit per second national network. In 1989 floor debate Gore continued his support for federally funded research in high-performance computing and networking. His words presage the Internet as we know it today:

    a great, but tedius, paper on this subject at;

    http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_10/wiggins/

    do i get the smoothie ?

    #24713
    Peggy
    Member

    😯 I think you should get a case of smoothies for that one Lucky!

    #24714
    lucky
    Moderator

    I also learned that Gore’s father was instrumental in getting the Interstate highway system funded……………..

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