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Here are a few choice videos of surgeries as they occurred 80 years ago. My favorite is the C-Section video- he just pulls that baby out of there like he was auditioning for the part of Crocodile Dundee. He might have gotten the part, too, if he had been born 20 years or so later. But [...] Media presentations are a powerful influence on the public’s perception of facts and reality. Often, the media must “twist” or alter true events in order to captivate a mass audience. The case of John Nash is no exception. John Nash is a brilliant and influential mathematician whose contributions to the field of economics were officially [...]
Historically, a variety of methods have been used to dispose of human remains. The methods used are developed from a variety of factors, including religious and cultural concerns, sanitary standards, and societal restraints. From the basic purpose of the method chosen arises the technique used to ensure respectful treatment of the body [...]
Rocky Flats
When World War II ended, people were afraid the same economic recession that occurred at the end of World War I would repeat itself. These concerns turned out to be unwarranted, and Colorado entered a postwar boom. The Cold War kept national defense expenditures [...]
Dust storm in Colorado.
The Great Depression brought hard times on Colorado until the wartime of World War II began. Because Colorado was already in financial difficulties before the Depression, the state struggled especially hard after the Depression hit. The state government reacted with strong sentiments against [...]
The Industrial Revolution in the United States changed women’s lives and their traditional place in society. Although many men had reasons for not wanting women to have the right to vote, nativist sentiments among voting men overpowered the reasons against women’s suffrage. Once obtaining the right to [...]
The work environment for many miners went through many stages and critical events through the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. The silver crash of 1893 set off a series of events that changed the course of history for workers and Colorado labor laws and policies. Workers set [...] The history of the first Coloradans passed through many stages between the first known appearances of these peoples up until the arrival of the Spanish in the 1540’s. The arrival of the Spanish dramatically changed the course of history for the original Coloradans, culminating in the 1800’s with [...]
The Pike’s Peak Gold Rush was instrumental in creating the Colorado Territory in 1861. Without the population boost resulting from the gold rush, Colorado would not have attained the attention of the nation in the way it did. Although Colorado did experience a boom and bust [...] |
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