Features: biography of Teddy Roosevelt, biography of Queen Victoria, images, trivia quiz.
Contents:
1900- "Box Brownie" camera invented by Kodak -- 1900- The Boxer Rebellion -- 1901- Queen Victoria dies -- 1901- U.S. President Kinley assassinated -- 1901- Marconi sends first "wireless" message across Atlantic Ocean -- 1902- The Boer War -- 1903- Ford Motor Company founded -- 1903- The Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk -- 1904- Russo-Japanese War: Japan stuns Imperial Russia -- 1905- First movie theater built in America -- 1905- E=mc2: Einstein publishes theory that will shake the world -- 1906- 8.3 earthquake flattens San Francisco -- 1910- King Edward VII dies: end of the "Edwardian Summer" -- 1911- Norwegian Roald Amundsen is the first to reach the South Pole -- 1912- Sun Yat-Sen: Leader of the New Chinese Republic -- 1912- Iceberg sinks the Titanic -- 1913- Panama Canal opened -- 1914- Austrian Archduke Ferdinand assassinated: World War I begins -- 1915- The Armenian Genocide -- 1916- Battle of the Somme: the bloodiest day in WWI -- 1917- Czar Nicholas II abdicates: The Russian Revolution begins -- 1917- U.S. enters World War I -- 1918- Armistice, World War I ends.
Summary:
Assembled from the archival vaults of Pathe and the BBC, Encyclopedia of the 20th Century traces the global milestones of our era. Acclaimed documentarian Gary Tarpinian presents a narrative portrait of the events that shook our world and changed our lives forever.
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