Ropes of Revolution by J. Gunderson

Book: Ropes of Revolution

Author: J. Gunderson

ISBN: 978-1-4342-0433-7

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Chapter 1: The Secret Meeting

1. The characters in this chapter are Samuel Adams, John Adams and Paul Revere.
2. The meeting was located at the Green Dragon Tavern.
3. The colonist don’t want to be taxed because they want to be represented.
4. Answers will vary
5. The Sons of Liberty are going to dump the tea in the harbor.
6. Master Diggins is a loyalist and he will tell the British about the secret.

Chapter 2: The Escape

1. Master Diggins locked Benjamin in his room.
2. Benjamin escapes by ripping his clothes and making a rope to climb down his window.
3. Benjamin gets courage by thinking of the Sons of Liberty.
4. The guards were guarding Mr. Diggins’ house.
5. The guards started chasing Benjamin

Chapter 3: Salt Water Tea

1. Joseph is Benjamin’s friend.
2. Joseph is waiting for Benjamin at the Black Smith’s Shop.
3. Answers will vary
4. Benjamin is going to meet The Sons of Liberty.
5. Answers will vary
6. Answers will vary

Chapter 4: Overboard!

1. The names of the ships at the harbor were Dartmouth, Beaver and Eleanor.
2. Benjamin threw crates of tea into the water.
3. Master Diggins was hit by a crate and fell into the water.
4. Answers will vary
5. There were 7,000 people watching from the harbor.
6. Benjamin rescued Master Diggins from the water.

Chapter 5: The Man Behind the Disguise

1. Joseph helped Benjamin save Master Diggins.
2. Answers will vary

Chapter 6: The Loyalist’s Fate

1. Master Diggins lied to the British to protect Benjamin and Joseph.
2. People reacted to the tea taxes by creating mobs of angry people.
3. Answers will vary

The Gingerbread Man by Madge Tovey

Book: The Gingerbread Man

Author: Madge Tovey

ISBN: 0-201-32210-2

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1. The little old man and little old woman lived in a cozy cottage on a farm in the woods.
2. The little old woman baked the gingerbread man.
3. The gingerbread man had dark raisin eyes, a pink frosting mouth, and fat gumdrop buttons.
4. Answers will vary
5. Answers will vary
6. The little old man and woman yelled at the gingerbread man to stop running.
7. Answers will vary
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9. Answers will vary
10. The gingerbread man was running by the pasture when he ran into the cow.
11. The gingerbread man was running by the lane when he ran into the heavy old horse.
12. The gingerbread man ran into the fox at the stream.
13. The fox said he didn’t like to eat gingerbread man.
14. The furry-tailed fox offer to carry the gingerbread man across the stream.
15. The fox said to hop on his head to keep dry.
16. He flipped him with his nose and just ate him.
17. Answers will vary

A Bumpy Road to Rio by Glenn Greenberg

Magazine: Time for Kids

Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 24

Date: May 6, 2016

Article: A Bumpy Road to Rio

Author: Glenn Greenberg

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1. The four hurdles Rio de Janeiro faced before preparing to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games are (1) threat from a virus, (2) garbage-filled water, (3) making room for the games, and (4) political problems.
2. Rio de Janeiro was worried about the Zika virus.
3. 4,000 families were removed from their homes to make room for the games.
4. The government offered the families money or housing in other locations.
5. The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, stepped down from office after being accused of mismanaging the country’s money.
6. Rio’s Guanabara Bay problem is the water in Guanabara Bay is polluted.

Get Ready for the Games by Glenn Greenberg

Magazine: Time for Kids

Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 24

Date: May 6, 2016

Article: Get Ready for the Games

Author: Glenn Greenberg

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1. The olympic games are taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2. Answers will vary
3. The olympics will take place on August 5-21, 2016.
4. 206 countries will send athletes to the Rio Olympics.
5. Athletes will compete in 46 sports.
6. 4.3 billion people will watch the olympics.
7. The Paralympics will take place on September 7-18, 2016.
8. 4,350 athletes are expected to participate in Paralympics.
9. 176 countries will send athletes for the paralympics.
10. The paralympics will have 23 sports.
11. French Educator Pierre de Coubertin founded the first modern olympics.
12. The first modern olympics were held in 1896.
13. The first modern olympics were held in Athens, Greece.
14. Rio de Janeiro won the olympic bid in 2009.
15. About 85,000 police and soldiers will provide security for the athletes and fans.
16. It will cost Brazil $11 billion to host the olympic games.
17. The University of Connecticut Women’s Basketball Team has won 4 consecutive NCAA tournament championships.
18. Breanna Stewart was the number 1 pick in the WNBA Draft.

Japan Gets a New 2020 Olympic Logo by Time for Kids

Magazine: Time for Kids

Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 24

Date: May 6, 2016

Article: Japan Gets a New 2020 Olympic Logo

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1. The new olympic logo was revealed on April 25, 2016.
2. The next olympics will be held in 2020.
3. The next olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan.
4. The new logo is called Harmonized Checkered Emblem.
5. The new logo has 3 types of rectangular shapes.
6. The logo represents different countries, cultures, and ways of thinking.
7. Designer Asao Tokoro designed the new olympic logo.
8. Designer Kenjiro Sano designed the old olympic logo.
9. Artist Olivier Debby is accusing Artist Sano of plagiarism.

A Creative Memory Trick by Time for Kids

Magazine: Time for Kids

Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 24

Date: May 6, 2016

Article: A Creative Memory Trick

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1. The brain is a complicated organ.
2. Yes, the brain is an advanced computer.
3. No, the brain doesn’t have a good storage system.
4. No, memory is not perfect.
5. The 3 things that memory depends on are how rested we are, how attentive we are, and many other things
6. The paper that suggests an unusual plan of action for improving memory is called “Journal of Experimental Psychology.”
7. The unusual plan of action for improving memory are drawings.
8. Psychologist Jeffrey Wammes ran the new study.
9. Answers will vary

The Plot Chickens by Mary Jane and Herm Auch

Book: The Plot Chickens
Author: Mary Jane and Herm Auch
ISBN: 978-0-8234-2087-2
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1. Henrietta went to the library while she was in town.
2. The librarian gave Henrietta 3 books.
3. Henrietta read to her aunts.
4. Henrietta started reading books about writing.
5. The librarian was impressed with Henrietta's book choice.
6. The first rule is to have a main character.
7. Reed Moore is the author of "Writing Rules!"
8. Aunt Golda was chosen as the main character.
9. Henrietta used a typewriter to write her story.
10. Rule two, you need to hatch a plot.
11. A plot is what happens in the story.
12. Rule three, is giving your main character a problem.
13. Rule four, is develop your plot by asking "what if?"
14. Maxine is the name of Henrietta's new character.
15. Answers will vary
16. Answers will vary
17. Rule 5 is write what you know.
18. Rule 6 is build suspense.
19. Rule 7 is to make your story come alive by using all five senses.
20. Rule 8 is the main character must solve her, or his, own problem.
21. Henrietta sent her story to a publisher.
22. Fox Publishing is the name of the publishing company that rejected Henrietta's story.
23. Hunter Fox is the name of the editor of the publishing company.
24. The librarian suggested that she send her book to "The Corn Book" to be reviewed.
25. "The Corn Book" magazine said they didn't like it.
26. Noah Lyke is the name of the reviewer at "The Corn Book" magazine.
27. Answers will vary
28. Answers will vary
29. Henrietta saw that her book was voted the best book of the year by "Our Story Hour" for children.
30. Answers will vary
31. Answers will vary

Aani and the Tree Huggers by Jeannine Atkins

Book: Aani and the Tree Huggers
Author: Jeannine Atkins
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1. Her grandfather constantly complained in Aani's house that drowned out her own thinking.
2. Aani's sister constantly gossiped in Aani's house that drowned out her own thinking.
3. The Himalayas is the name of the snow-capped mountains by her village.
4. Answers will vary
5. The loud roar was a truck.
6. The men were in a distant field cutting stalks of rice.
7. Aani's mother was by the river.
8. Aani's mother described the truck as "a gigantic and swift cart."
9. Kalawati was the oldest person in the village.
10. The men in the truck were there to cut the trees.
11. Aani ran towards the men in the truck.
12. The men began to cut down the trees.
13. Kalawati cried "stop."
14. Kalawati said to the men that the trees give them fruit, their wood provides for their housing, plows, and hoes.  She also said that their roots keep the land from sliding when it rains.
15. Aani saw spirits.
16. Kalawati tried to stop the man with the ax.
17. Aani pressed and hugged a tree.
18. All the women from the village began hugging trees.
19. The man from the truck offered them 1,000 rupees for them to go away.
20. 1,000 rupees can buy you a goat, new scythes for cutting rice or enough tea and sugar for everyone to last for a year.
21. Answers will vary

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22. The story took place in Northern India.
23. This story took place in the 1970s.
24. This movement was known as the "Hug the Tree Movement."
25. The Chipko Andolan is known as "Hug the Tree Movement."

Souperchicken by Mary Jane and Herm Auch

Book: Souperchicken
Author: Mary Jane and Herm Auch
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1. Henrietta was the name of the chicken.
2. Answer will vary
3. Aunt Zoe complained that Henrietta hasn't laid eggs.
4. Aunt Golda complained that Henrietta wastes time.
5. The farmer said egg production was down.
6. Answers will vary
7. Aunt Emily thought they were going to the beach on vacation.
8. Aunt Morissa said they rather play golf.
9. Answers will vary
10. Answers will vary
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12. The farmer felt Henrietta owed him eggs.
13. The driver gave the farmer a wad of money.
14. The truck's name was Souper Soup Company.
15. Henrietta hung on until the truck hit the expressway.
16. Henrietta went to the supermarket to look up the soup company's address.
17. Henrietta warned some pigs that they weren't going on vacation.
18. Saucy Sausage Company was the name on the pig's truck.
19. Happy Hamburger Company was the name of the truck the cows were traveling in.
20. Answers will vary
21. Aunt Golda was the aunt that said it was a terrible hotel.
22. Aunt Emily said that there's no beach.
23. Aunt Morissa said that there's no golf course.
24. Aunt Olive wanted their hammock.
25. They were in a chicken soup factory.
26. The hens decided to live with Ms. Brewster.
27. The lady told Henrietta that she didn't eat meat/beef.
28. Ms. Brewster kept cows for milk.
29. Ms. Brewster kept pigs for digging truffles.
30. Ms. Brewster kept chickens for eggs.
31. The chicken's job was to eat the bugs in Ms. Brewster's big organic vegetable garden.
32. Henrietta became a reading teacher.

Beauty And The Beaks, A Turkey's Cautionary Tale by Mary Jane and Herm Auch

Book: Beauty And The Beaks, A Turkey's Cautionary Tale
Author: Mary Jane and Herm Auch
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1. The center of gossip was at The Chic Hen.
2. Beauty was the proprietor of a beauty shop.
3. The mission of The Chic Hen was to make chickens look their best.
4. Beauty's favorite eggercise is flying.
5. She liked to eggercise because it allowed her to eggsplore.
6. Gladys is Beauty's assistant.
7. Lance is a turkey.
8. The other birds that were at the feast were Hattie, Matilda and Lucille.
9. Answers will vary
10. Beauty decided to fly to the farmhouse and investigate to get to the bottom of this feast.
11. Beauty found out that Lance was going to be cooked.
12. Beauty helped Lance by teaching him to fly over the fence.
13. The two failed attempts to get Lance to safety were to get Lance to fly and getting him to climb a ladder.
14. Beauty's idea was to give Lance an eggstreme makeover, make him look like a hen.
15. Sam and Ethel are the names' of the farmers.
16. Sam was the farmer that wanted a plump hen for Thanksgiving dinner.
17. The farmers went to have Thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant.
18. Answers will vary
19. Lance enjoyed scratching in the Garden Club and the Weekly Chickens Tournament.
20. Answers will vary

Chapter 50: Golden Rice, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
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Chapter 50: Golden Rice


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1. Beta-carotene’s colors in fruits and vegetables are orange and yellow.
2. Professor Ingo Potrykus of the Institute of Plant Sciences in Zurich and Professor Peter Beyer of the University of Freiburg in Germany developed Golden Rice.
3. The orange sweet potato was developed in Uganda in 2012.

Chapter 49: Powdered Milk, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 49: Powdered Milk


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1. The North American Free Trade Agreement was signed in 1994.
2. The American powdered milk drove Mexican dairy farmers out of business.
3. True, commodity dumping occurs when developed countries that subsidize their agricultural sector, such as America and the countries of the European Union, sell agricultural goods such as powdered milk to less developed countries at below the price of production.
4. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation declared war on the Mexican State on January 1, 1994.
5. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation declared war on the Mexican State of Chiapas.

Chapter 48: Starbucks Coffee, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 48: Starbucks Coffee


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1. Starbucks started in 1971.
2. At the beginning, Starbucks was a coffee roaster and retailer.
3. In 1971, Starbucks was located in Pike Place Market.
4. Howard Schultz took over and Starbucks then began to expand as a coffee house.
5. Starbucks opened a coffee house in Tokyo in 1996.
6. Starbucks opened a coffee house in London in 1998.
7. Britain-based Costa Coffee is the second largest coffee house in the world.

Chapter 47: Campbell's Soup, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 47: Campbell’s Soup


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1. The Campbell Soup Company is located in Camden, New Jersey.
2. The Campbell Soup Company started in 1869.
3. The Campbell Soup Company won a gold medal at the Universal Exposition in 1900 in Paris, France.
4. The Campbell Soup Company got the idea from the uniform colors from the Cornell University football team.
5. Andy Warhol made 32 Campbell soup paintings.
6. Andy Warhol’s paintings are located at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Chapter 46: Swanson TV Dinner, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 46: Swanson TV Dinner


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1. A Swanson TV Dinner in 1953 cost 98 cents.
2. 33 million American households owned a TV in 1953.
3. Swanson removed the TV label from the title of its tv dinners in the 1960s.

Chapter 45: Birds Eye Frozen Fish, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 45: Birds Eye Frozen Fish


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1. Clarence Birdseye went fur trapping to Labrador in northeast Canada.
2. The Inuit fishermen taught Birdseye to ice-fish.
3. Birdseye moved back to America in 1917.
4. Birdseye developed his “quick freezing” method in 1924.
5. Birdseye’s company was called General Seafood Corporation.
6. Birdseye started his company in 1925.
7. Birdseye opened his company in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
8. Marjorie Merriweather Post tried Birdseye’s frozen fish in 1929.
9. Birdseye sold his company and patent to Postum Cereal Company.
10. Birdseye sold his company for $22 million.
11. The General Seafood Corporation changed its name to General Food Company.
12. “Fish Sticks” are known in Britain as “fish finger.”

Chapter 44: Anzac Biscuits, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 44: Anzac Biscuits


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1. Anzac Biscuits are oatmeal cookies.
2. The origin of the Anzac biscuits are in Australia and New Zealand.
3. ANZAC means Australian and New Zealand Army Corp.
4. 10 British and French ships entered the Sea of Marmara on March 18th, 1915.
5. 6 ships that entered the Sea of Marmara hit mines.
6. 3 ships sunk that got hit by mines in the Sea of Marmara.
7. German General Liman von Sanders commanded the Turkish Army in the Gallipoli Peninsula.
8. Lieutenant Colonel Mustapha Kemal was in charge of the reserves in the Turkish Army in the Gallipoli Peninsula.
9. Mustapha Kemal became president of Turkey.
10. Mustapha Kemal became the Father of the Turks.
11. Mustapha Kemal said, “I do not order you to fight, I order you to die.”
12. 44,000 Allied servicemen, 8,700 Australians, 2,700 New Zealanders died in the Battle of Lone Pine.
13. The hardtack was the army biscuit.
14. The hardtack was “the Anzac wafer.”
15. April 25th is Anzac Day Day in Australia and New Zealand.
16. True, Australia and New Zealand participated in the Vietnam War.
17. A Gunfire Breakfast is a cup of coffee with a shot of rum in it.

Chapter 43: Hamburger, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 43: Hamburger


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1. Athens, Texas and New Haven, Connecticut are two cities that are claiming to be “The Home of the Hamburger.”
2. The first White Tower restaurant opened in 1921.
3. The first White Tower restaurant opened in Wichita, Kansas.
4. White Castle is also known as White Tower.
5. Dick and Mac McDonald are from San Bernardino, California.
6. McDonald’s began to franchise in 1953.
7. Ray Kroc became a franchise agent for the McDonald’s chain.
8. The first McDonald’s open in France in 1979.
9. Answers will vary

Chapter 42: Coca-Cola, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 42: Coca-Cola


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1. Coca-Cola developed in 1886.
2. Pharmacist John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola.
3. Coca-Cola was invented in Atlanta, Georgia.
4. Pharmacist John Pemberton created Pemberton’s French Wine Coca.
5. John Pemberton died in 1888.
6. Asa Chandler bought out everybody who had a stake in Coca-Cola.
7. True, In line with the usual company practice of supplying Coke as syrup rather than in bottles, Coca-Cola began to establish temporary bottling plants in large American military bases around the world and installed soda fountains where that was not practicable.  The Coca-Cola employees who accompanied the military wherever they went were given the status of Technical Observers and the work they did was considered vital to America’s war effort by many senior military commanders because of its impact on morale.
8. Coca-Cola introduce New Coke in 1985.

Chapter 41: American Buffalo, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 41: American Buffalo


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1. The Lakota people migrated into the Great Plains in 1650.
2. The Lakota people are part of the Great Sioux Nation.
3. In the 1730s the Lakota people relied on the buffalo when the neighboring Cheyenne introduced them to the horse.
4. In 1803 for $15 million, Napolean Bonaparte bought the Great Plains in the Louisiana Purchase.
5. The Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851 was the treaty that guaranteed safe passage to wagon trains.
6. The Great Sioux War took place in 1876.
7. Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse led the Great Sioux War of 1876.
8. The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought in June 25-26, 1876.
9. George Armstrong Custer and 267 US Soldiers died in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
10. Native tribes moved from the Great Sioux Reservation in April 1877.
11. Buffalo bones were grounded down because they were used for fertilizer.
12. William Cody was also known as Buffalo Bill.
13. President Ulysses S. Grant vetoed US Congress effort to save the buffalo.
14. General William T. Sherman and General Philip Sheridan advised the President against saving the buffalo.

Chapter 40: Jaffa Orange, Fifty Foods that Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 40: Jaffa Orange


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1. Oranges come from Jaffa.
2. The British Mandatory Palestine was in the State of Israel.
3. Southern Syria was part of Ottoman province.
4. Sweet oranges appeared in the 15th century.
5. The Shamouti Orange was the name of the 1850s orange that Arab growers established.
6. Zionism is a movement to establish a Jewish homeland.
7. Jaffa became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1516 when it was taken away from the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt.
8. The Ottomans sided with The Central Powers, Germany and Austria-Hungary, during World War I.
9. Istanbul was called Constantinople during World War I.
10. Jerusalem fell from Ottoman control in December 1917.
11. The British gave assurances of support to Hussein bin Ali, the Sharif of Mecca, over the creation of an independent Arab State.
12. The Sykes-Picot Agreement divided the Ottoman territories into “spheres of influence” between two countries.
13. The Sykes-Picot Agreement was named after Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot, they were doing the negotiations for Britain and France.
14. The Balfour Declaration is one of the founding documents of the State of Israel.
15. The Treaty of Sevres was the name of the peace settlement signed in 1920 between the Allies and the defeated Ottoman Empire.
16. Tel Aviv is the name of the port of Jaffa.
17. 1947 was the year of the Civil War in Mandatory Palestine.
18. The new State of Israel was declared in 1948.
19. 4,000 Palestinians remained after the War in Jaffa.
20. 60,000 muslims were in Jaffa before the war.

Chapter 39 Corned Beef, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 39: Corned Beef


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1. Fray Bentos is the name of a port in the Uruguay River.
2. Liebig's Extract of Meat Company is the name of the company that opened a meat company in the port of the Uruguay River.
3. The meat packing company opened in 1863.
4. The meat was wasted that wasn't used for hide.
5. German Chemist and Founder of the company Justus von Liebig created the industrial method to canned the meat extract.
6. In 1873 the company installed a canning plant and began to produce corned beef.
7. Today, Fray Bentos' is called Barrio Anglo.
8. The Vestey Brothers in 1924 purchased Justus von Liebig's company.
9. The Liebig's Extract of Meat Company changed its name to Frigorifico Anglo del Uruguay.
10. William and Edmund Vestey were from Liverpool.
11. The Brothers made their fortune importing meat into Britain.
12. Blue Star Line is the shipping company the Vestey Brothers owned.
13. The population in Britain was 9 million people in 1801.
14. The population in Britain was 40 million people in 1901.
15. The British Army called corned beef, "Bully Beef."
16. World War I was declared on September 1914.
17. Franz von Papen was a German military attache in Washington.
18. Horst von der Goltz was a German secret agent who was captured in London.
19. Fritz Duquesne was the Afrikaner agent working for the Germans in South America responsible for sinking 15 Allied Ships.
20. "The Zimmermann Telegram" was a telegram sent from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Ambassador in Mexico.  The German offer said to the Mexican government of a military alliance that would in the event of America entering the war, entail German support for Mexico to regain those territories it had lost to America over the course of the 19th century if the Mexicans undertook to attack America as a means of forcing it to keep its armed forces at home rather than sending them to Europe.
21. The U.S. declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917.
22. Brazil declared war on Germany in 1917.

Chapter 38 Bananas, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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1. Lorenzo Dow Baker brought the banana to Boston from Jamaica in 1870.
2. Andrew Preston, Lorenzo Dow Baker, and group of investors were the owners of the Boston Fruit Company.
3. Andrew Preston is credited in introducing the system of refrigerated transport in steamships and railway boxcars, together with cold-storage warehouse.
4. The Tropical Trading and Transport Company was the Boston Fruit Company's main competition.
5. Minor C. Keith owned The Tropical Trading and Transport Company.
6. Minor C. Keith was working building a railroad in Costa Rica.
7. Minor C. Keith started banana plantations in Costa Rica.
8. In 1899, Keith's bananas would come from Costa Rica through New Orleans.
9. Bradley Palmer, a lawyer working for Henry Preston, merged the Boston Fruit Company and The Tropical Trading and Transport.
10. United Fruit Company was the name of the new company after the merger.
11. The new company operated in Honduras, Guatemala, and Colombia.
12. The United Fruit Company had 80% of the banana market.
13. "Banana Republics" were countries that the United Fruit Company controlled.
14. Guatemala's left-wing government of President Jacobo Arbenz was overthrown by the CIA helping the United Fruit Company.
15. The United Fruit Company owned 40% of Guatemala's land before the coup d'etat against President Jacobo Arbenz.
16. The Panama disease was a fungal infection.
17. President Arbenz's land reform program "aimed at seizing uncultivated land on large estates and giving it to the landless poor.  The owners of the land were to be paid compensation calculated on valuations taken from their tax returns and, since United Fruit hardly paid any tax, the amount they were due to receive for their seized holdings was much less than its true worth.
18. The Civil War in Guatemala began in 1944.
19. The Civil War in Guatemala ended in 1996.
20. Chiquita is the brand name that the United Fruit Company sells its bananas.
21. Rice, wheat, corn, and bananas are the top 4 most valuable cultivated crops in the world.
22. Gros Michel is the banana plant most affected by the Panama disease.
23. Cavendish was affected by the Black Sigatoka.

Chapter 37 Caviar, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 37: Caviar

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1. Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible, in 1556, expanded Russia from the Caspian Sea in the north to the Volga delta.
2. The railway between Volga and the River Don was completed in 1859.
3. The factor that introduced caviar to the Mediterranean was the steamship.
4. Caviar became a sensation in Paris.
5. True, Volga fishermen began to take sturgeon from the Caspian Sea as well as from the river, leading to a situation where Caspian sturgeon would have become extinct had it not been for the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the subsequent introduction of strict regulations by officials of the Soviet Union.
6. Today, caviar comes from farmed fish.
7. True, all three of the Caspian sturgeon are now considered to be critically endangered in the wild.

Chapter 36 Madeleines, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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1. Marcel Proust wrote "Remembrance of Things Past."
2. Involuntary memories are recollections of the past that arise without any deliberate or conscious attempt to remember them.
3. Madeleines look like Genoise sponge cakes.
4. Combray is the name of the fictional town in Remembrance of Things Past.
5. Combray is the fictional town that should represent Illiers.

Chapter 35 American Whiskey, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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1. Fighting stop in the American Revolution in Yorktown, October 19, 1781.
2. The Declaration of Independence was signed July 4, 1776.
3. 5 years passed from the Declaration of Independence being signed to the British surrendering at Yorktown.
4. Peace negotiations concluded in the American Revolution in 1783.
5. In 1783 the British signed the peace agreement that formally recognized the United States of America as a country.
6. A President originally served for 2 years.
7. A President can only serve 2 terms.
8. Yes, George Washington started a distilling whiskey business venture.
9. The Whiskey Act was the first levied tax on American citizens.
10. Braddock's Field is in western Pennsylvania.
11. There were 6,000 men at Braddock's Field.
12. Washington led 13,000 men to combat the protest/rebellion at Braddock's Field.
13. The rebellion is called the Whiskey Rebellion.
14. The Temperance Movement was a group lobbying the federal government to stop the sale of alcohol in public places.  The group achieved its aim and succeeded despite widespread opposition.
15. Al Capone made in 1925 from Prohibition $100 million.
16. The Eighteenth Amendment had the Prohibition of Alcohol and the Volstead Act.
17. The Twenty-First Amendment returned alcohol production.
18. The Prohibition era lasted 13 years in America.
19. Moore County, Tennessee produces a famous whiskey and it is a dry county.
20. Lynchburg is the city in Moore County, Tennessee that produces a famous whiskey.
21. Jack Daniel's distillery is the famous distillery in Moore County, Tennessee.

Chapter 34 Apple Pie, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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1. Apple Pie originates from Central Asia, in the mountainous regions of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
2. English Puritans brought the apple pie to the American colonies.
3. William Penn founded the Province of Pennsylvania.
4. Pennsylvanian Dutch came from Germany
5. Philadelphia was the largest city in the Thirteen Colonies.
6. The First Continental Congress was held in Philadelphia.
7. The First Continental Congress was held in September 5, 1774.
8. Georgia did not show up to the First Continental Congress.
9. The Second Continental Congress was held at taverns and coffeehouses in Philadelphia.
10. Shoofly Pie is associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch.
11. The Declaration of Independence was signed by the Founding Fathers on July 4th, 1776.
12. The Articles of Confederation were ratified in 1777.
13. U.S. Congress and House of Representatives are the names of the two chambers of Congress.

Chapter 33 Vindaloo, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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1. "Aloo" means potato in Hindi and Urdu languages.
2. Islamic Bijapur Sultanate of Yusuf Adil Shah controlled Goa in 1510.
3. Cathedral and or Basilica of Bom Jesus is the name of the Portuguese church in Old Goa.
4. Tipu Sultan ruled the Kingdom of Mysore.
5. Tipu Sultan was the Tiger of Mysore.
6. Bangladeshi people from Sylhet, the region of the northeastern Bangladesh that borders Assam, immigrated to Brick Lane on the East End of London.
7. Bangladesh fought against Pakistan in 1971 in the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Chapter 32 Gin, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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1. Gin from the Netherlands is known as Geneva.
2. Dutch Physician Franciscus Sylvius, 1614-1674, invented Gin.
3. Gin arrived to England after the Thirty Years Wars in 1648.
4. King Charles I deposed of his crown in 1649 in the English Civil War.
5. Charles II lived in exile with his sister Mary in the Netherlands.
6. Oliver Cromwell executed King Charles I.
7. Genever is known as Hollands.
8. James II came into power after the death of his brother Charles II in 1685.
9. Declaration of Indulgence was granting much wider religious freedom to Catholics than had previously been.
10. The Immortal Seven were 6 Nobleman and a Bishop.
11. The Bill of Rights Act of 1689 was Parliament rather than the king and queen was ultimate power in Britain.
12. "Mother's Ruin" is also known as "Madame Geneva."
13. The Gin Acts of 1729-1751 has 5 Acts.

Chapter 31 Hardtack, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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1. The 3 staples of the British Royal Navy rations are hardtack, salted meat, and beer.
2. Salted meat is beef or pork.
3. Samuel Pepys was appointed Clerk of the Acts on the Navy Board in 1660.
4. Lobscouse is a type of stew originally made by sailors from Liverpool with salt beef and vegetables thickened with crumbled hardtack.
5. The Great Plague in London took place in April 1665.
6. 100,000 people, 15% of the population of London died in the Great Plague.
7. The Great Fire in London took place in 1666.
8. The Great Fire in London lasted 4 days.
9. Thomas Farriner's bakery in Pudding Lane was making biscuits for the navy when he started the Great Fire of London.
10. G.H. Bent Company, cookie factory, is located in Milton, Massachusetts.
11. Scurvy is a consequence of nutritional deficiency.
12. The solution to solving scurvy was to add lemon juice to the rum ration given to sailors.
13. Scottish Physician Gilbert came up with the solution of solving scurvy.
14. Huntley & Palmers was the hardtack bakers in Reading, Berkshire in 1822.