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    Over the course of two decades, Harold Shipman is suspected to have killed over 250 people by injection, making him one of the most notorious serial killers in history. CONTINUE Over his time as a doctor, Harold Shipman wrote many false painkiller prescriptions. This began his criminal life and history as a trusted doctor. During the year of 1974 Harold Shipman, later nicknamed Doctor Death, got a job at Todmorden Group Practice in Yorkshire, where he worked for two years until his addiction to

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    I soon received a reputation as a first-rank inventor. My work included stock tickers, fire alarms, methods of sending simultaneous messages on one wire, and an electrochemical telegraph to send messages by automatic machinery. The crowning achievement of this period was the quadruplex telegraph, which sent two messages simultaneously in each direction on one wire. In 1876, I created a freestanding industrial research facility incorporating both a machine shop and laboratories. Here

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    But now everyone has cellphones and the telegraph company is not needed. 1892- on May 10th Roslyn 's mine exploded killing 45 miners and became the worst coal mining incident in Washington State history. Help had come from surrounding communities and across the pacific northwest. Four months later

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    Hosler, Jay, and K. B. Boomer. "Are Comic Books an Effective Way to Engage Nonmajors in Learning and Appreciating Science?1." CBE Life Sciences Education. American Society for Cell Biology, 2011. Web. 27 Mar. 2017. This article contains information about the potential comic books have to helpful convey important concepts to students. This article also contains information about a science text book that is a comic book. It also describes the results of a test done on students to see if use of comics

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    Anthony Bui Mrs. Trahan English 8 21 March 2017 Comparing the Strengths and Weaknesses of the North and South The Civil War was a very gruesome war fought between the Union in the North and the Confederates in the South. The Union was a very factory-dependent area while the Confederacy was dependent on farmland, which ended up in two very distinct areas. Because of these differences, the Union and Confederacy both had several strengths and weaknesses. During the war, the Union and Confederacy had

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    mailing a letter. Luckily in the mid 1800’s the telegraph was invented. Sent for the first time in 1838, the telegraph was the first instance of sending a message (4). A telegraph is defined “as the transmission of textual or symbolic messages without the physical exchange of an object. This is the first instance of a message being sent in a “virtual” sense (2). While messages could be delivered through the mail within a matter of days, a telegraph could be transmitted live. At the time this was

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    Technology in Early America revolutionized and changed the way that people saw the world that they lived in. From the early North American societies in present-day Mexico to the Early American societies in the 19th century, humans have wanted to improve the world that we live in through the different inventions created to solve some of the problems of the world. Through the use of technology, such as through astrological and maritime technology, transportation and communicational technology or through

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    at the railroad telegraph office and quickly learned how translate and transcribe Morse Code when he was only fourteen years of age. He vastly excelled and was known as the fastest in the telegrapher in the business. During his time at the western division of Pennsylvania Rail Road, Andrew caught the attention of superintendent Thomas Scott and soon became his protégé’. Scott was appointed assistant Secretary of War and Carnegie his “right hand man” organizing the military telegraph system during

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    They weren't the only thing that led this war to being so successful for the United States. It was also made possible by new technology such as steamships and the ever advancing telegraph. Steamships helped helped us to be able to invade coast cities with an ease that was never thought to be possible. The telegraph greatly improved communications between forces in mexico and their commanders still in America. It also created new ways for the press to get information about battles in a matter

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    with people than there was before. Morse had sent the first message in 1844; it had started a communication revolution. Many people had gathered together to form the western union telegraph company. On page 228 it says “By 1900, the company owned more than 900,000 miles of wire and was sending roughly 63 million telegraph messages a year.” This invention changed the world because now people can communicate with messages back and forth. This invention continues to influence our world because things

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