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| Who entered the race to make-a-better-bulb in 1878? |
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| What year did Thomas Edison enter the race to make-a-better-bulb? |
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| What other items was Edison famous for creating before the light bulb? |
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| A better stock market ticker and phonograph. |
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| What did Edison declare after only working on the project for a few months? |
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| " I have just solved the problem of subdivision of the electric light." |
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| What occurred because of Edison's pronouncement? |
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| Stocks of the gas companies were driven to the ground. |
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| What lighting was used before electricity? |
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| What was wrong with Edison's declaration? |
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| Where did Edison work with his research team? |
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| Who worked in Menlo Park? |
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| Edison and his research team. |
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| What was Edison known as? |
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| The Wizard of Menlo Park. |
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| Who was known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park"? |
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| What year was the first practical incandescent light bulb developed? |
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| What was invented in 1879? |
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| The first practical incandescent light bulb. |
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| Who was the English immigrant employed by Edison in 1881? |
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| Who employed Samuel Insull? |
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| Why did Thomas Edison employ Samuel Insuell? |
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| To find investment money to create the first central generating plant. |
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| What year was Samuel Insull employed? |
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| Where was the first central generating plant planned to be built? |
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| On Pearl Street in New York City's financial district. |
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| What provided the motive power to generators? |
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| Reciprocating steam engines. |
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| What did generators produced? |
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| Direct-current (DC) electricity. |
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| To whom was DC electricity supplied to? |
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| To shop owners and other businesses who used lighting as a novelty to attract customers. |
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| When did Samuel Insull move to Chicago? |
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| Where did Samuel Insull move to in 1892? |
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| Who moved to Chicago in 1892? |
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| How many companies were producing electricity in Chicago in 1892? |
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| What city had more than 20 companies producing electricity in 1892? |
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| Who assumed presidency of a small Chicago Edison company? |
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| What did Insull realize about his company? |
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| That it could make more money by increasing the "load factor". |
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| What is the "load factor"? |
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| The ratio of average daily or annual power use to the maximum load sustained during the same period. |
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| Who first utilized the "load factor"? |
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| What kind of customers did Samuel Insull look to attract? |
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| Customers who would use electricity at "off peak" times. |
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| What did Insull how to gain from attracting "off-peak" customers? |
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| He could increase his company's income while avoiding new capital purchases. |
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| What specific groups of customers did Insuell attract? |
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| Street railway companies, ice houses, and other business with low rates for off-peak power usage. |
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| What did Insull find out about lower-cost power? |
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| Lower-cost power stimulated demand, but still earned healthy profits. |
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| How long did George Westinghouse attend college? |
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| Who attended college for only three months but obtained a patent? |
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| Why did George Westinghouse drop out of college? |
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| Because he obtained his first patent for a rotary steam engine. |
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| When did George Westinghouse receive his patent for the rotary steam engine. |
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| What did George Westinghouse receive his patent for on October 31, 1865? |
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| What occurred on October 31, 1865? |
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| George Westinghouse obtained a patent for the rotary steam engine. |
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| What else did George Westinghouse invent? |
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| An instrument which replaced derailed freight cars on the train tracks. |
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| What did George Westinghouse do in order to create his instrument for derailed freight cars on train tracks? |
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| He started a business to manufacture his invention. |
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| What did George Westinghouse receive a patent for in April 1869? |
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| Who was patented for the air brakes in April 1869? |
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| When was George Westinghouse's air brakes patented? |
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| What did the air brakes enable? |
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| It enabled trains to be stopped with fail-safe accuracy by the locomotive engineer. |
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| What invention was eventually adopted by the majority of the world's railroads? |
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| George Westinghouse's air brakes. |
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| What did George Westinghouse organize and president over in July of 1869? |
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| The Westinghouse Air Brake Company. |
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| When did George Westinghouse organize the Westinghouse Air Brake Company? |
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| Who was the president of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company in July of 1869? |
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| After the air brakes what did George Westinghouse go on to develop? |
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| The automatic air brake system and the triple valve. |
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| Who developed the automatic air brake system and the triple valve? |
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| Who formed the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company? |
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| What did George Westinghouse do when he saw potential in electricity. |
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| He formed the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. |
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| Who obtained exclusive rights to Tesla's patents for a polyphase system of alternating current in 1888? |
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| What did George Westinghouse obtained exclusive patents to? |
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| Tesla's polyphase system of alternating current. |
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| What year did George Westinghouse obtain the patent to Tesla's polyphase system of alternating current. |
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| What inventor joined the Westinghouse Electric Company? |
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| Who provided the lighting system for the entire Columbian Exposition Chicago in 1893? |
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| George Westinghouse's Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. |
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| For whom did George Westinghouse provide a lighting system for? |
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| The Columbian Exposition in Chicago. |
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| When was the project for harnessing Niagara Falls energy finished? |
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| Who won the contract to build three generators for harnessing energy of the Niagara Falls water into electrical energy. |
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| Where is Nikola Tesla an immigrant from? |
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| What did Nikola Tesla develop? |
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| The system of AC power generation and transmission. |
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| Who developed the system for AC power generation and transmission? |
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| What did Nikola Tesla do in 1887? |
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| He filed for seven patents in the field of polyphase AC motors and power transmission. |
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| Who filed for seven patents in 1887 for polyphase AC motors and power transmission? |
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| When did Tesla file for seven patents in the field of polyphase AC motors power and transmission? |
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| How many patents did Tesla file in the field of polyphase AC motors power and transmission? |
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| What did polyphase AC motors and power transmission comprise of? |
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| A complete system of generators, transformers, transmission lines, motors and lighting. |
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| What patents were most valuable since the telephone? |
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| Nikola Tesla's polyphase AC motors and power transmission patents. |
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| When were dime novels first issued? |
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| What was first issued in 1860? |
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| What publishing company sold four million copies of their dime novels? |
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| What did Beadle and Adams sell? |
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| How many dime novels were sold in 1860 and to who? |
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| Four million copies to Union Army camps during the civil war. |
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| What were early dime novels about? |
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| American history and the Revolution. |
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| What focus did dime novels switch to in 1865? |
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| Why did dime novels switch to the American West in 1865? |
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| Because of the end of the Civil War. |
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| When did Dime novels switch to the American West? |
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| What also switch in 1865 with dime novels? |
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| They became increasingly violent and was geared toward a juvenile audience. |
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| Who was a prototype of the more violent action characters? |
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| When did the format of dime novels fold? |
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| What happened after the 20th century to dime novels? |
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| The style and subject matter was adopted by pulp fiction and comic books. |
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| What did pulp fiction and comic books adopt their style and format from? |
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| Who was the subject of more dime novels than any other character? |
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| Who was Buffalo Bill Cody? |
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| Dime novel subject who was a Pony Express rider. |
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| How did Buffalo Bill Cody get his name? |
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| By killing buffalo to feed railroad companies and the military. |
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| Why did Buffalo Bill Cody kill buffalo? |
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| To feed railroad companies and the military. |
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| What did Buffalo Bill Cody serve as? |
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| A scout and Indian fighter for the Army. |
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| Who served as a scout and Indian fighter? |
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| Who started the Wild West Show in 1883? |
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| When did Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show start? |
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| What did Buffalo Bill Cody start in 1883? |
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| What did the Wild West Show feature? |
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| Cowboys, Indians (including Sitting Bull), recreations of battles, buffalo, mountain lions, and wild horses. |
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| Who became a famous attraction of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show? |
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| Sharpshooter Annie Oakley. |
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| What was Sharpshooter Annie Oakley famous from? |
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| Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. |
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| What did Buffalo Bill Cody promote? |
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| Who displayed "savage" people from around the globe? |
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| Who was second only to Buffalo Bill in dime novels? |
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| Who was Jesse James second to in dime novels? |
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| Who was Jesse James second to in dime novels? |
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| What did Jessie James do? |
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| He served in the Civil war and ran with William Quantrill's outlaw raiders? |
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| Who ran with William Quantrill's outlaw riders? |
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| Who's outlaw raiders did Jesse James run with? |
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| Who was Jesse James' brother? |
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| How was Jesse James killed? |
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| By a member of his own gang. |
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| What appeared after Jesse James death? |
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| Broadway plays on his life. |
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| Who was a friend of Buffalo Bill? |
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| Who was Wild Bill Hickok's friend? |
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| Who said "Wild prairie men call him a hero of hereos." about Buffalo Bill? |
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| Who was Wild Bill Hickok? |
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| Rode with the Pony express and served as a lawman in wild cow towns. |
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| Who rode with the Pony Express and served as a lawman for wild cow towns? |
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| What was Wild Bill Hickok's reputation? |
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| Who's reputation was the "Prince of Pistoleers?" |
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| What is the legend about Wild Bill Hickok? |
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| That he was shot in the back while playing poker, holding the "dead man's hand" of aces over eights. |
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| Who's legend is that they were shot in the back while playing poker, while holding the "dead man's hand" of aces over eights? |
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| Who is the historian who analyzed "The Reorientation of American culture in the 1890s." |
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| What did John Higham analyze? |
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| "The Reorientation of American Culture in the 1890s." |
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| What did John Higham see outdoor activities and athletic contests as? |
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| Reactions to the changes brought by industrialism and urbanization. |
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| Who saw outdoor activities and atheletic contests as reactions to the changes brought by industrialism and urbanization? |
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| What did John Higham cite? |
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| A boom in bike sales from one to ten million during the decade. |
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| Who cited a boom in bike sales from one to ten million during the decade? |
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| Who argued that sports turned college campuses into "theaters of organized combat." |
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| What did John Higham argue about sports in college? |
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| That it turned colleges into "theaters of organized combat." |
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| Who was created in 1869 by Burt L. Standish for the Tip Top Weekly periodical? |
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| When was Frank Merriwell created? |
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| Who created Frank Merriwell? |
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| What was Frank Merriwell created for? |
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| Created in 1896 for the Tip Top Weekly periodical. |
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| Where did Frank Merriwell attend? |
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| Fardale Academy and then Yale. |
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| Who attended Fardale Academy and then Yale? |
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| What did stories of Frank Merriwell focus on? |
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| Off-field adventures with his brother Dick that tied to fix sporting events. |
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| What character had stories of off-field sporting adventures with his brother dick that tied to fix sporting events? |
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| Why was Frank Merriwell given his name? |
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| To suggest someone aboveboard, direct, to the point. Merri indicating a cheerful outlook and well for good health. |
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| Who is the historian who identifies a "psychic crisis" that afflicted Americans in the 1890s. |
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| What did Richard Hofstadter identify? |
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| A "psychic crisis" of Americans in the 1890s. |
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| What was the "psychic crisis" brought on by. |
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| Routines, boredum, frustrations, and anxieties of living in an urban-industrial environment. |
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| What was one sign of the "psychic crisis" according to Richard Hofstadter? |
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| The popularity of marital music of John Philip Sousa. |
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| The support for the Spanish-American war was also another sign of what? |
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| The "psychic crisis" described by Richard Hofstadter. |
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| What did Atlantic editor Walter Hines Page say about the "psychic crisis"? |
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| "A generation has come to manhood that had no part in any great adventure." |
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| Who said "A generation has come to manhood that has had no part in any great adventure?" |
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| Atlantic editor, Waltor Hines Page. |
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| Who became the boxing champion at Harvard? |
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| Theodore Roosevelt became what in his youth? |
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| The boxing champion at Harvard. |
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| Where did Theodore Roosevelt go to in the 1880s to become a rancher? |
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| When did Theodore Roosevelt go to the Dakotas to be a rancher? |
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| Why did Theodore Roosevelt go to the Dakotas in the 1880s? |
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| Who went to the Dakotas in the 1880s to become a rancher? |
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| Who wore buckskin like Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett? |
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| Who did Theodore Roosevelt wear buckskin like? |
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| Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. |
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| Who wrote Winning of the West? |
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| What did Theodore Roosevelt write? |
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| What did Theodore Roosevelt note about American history? |
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| That it had been made by a people with a "sheer love of adventure." |
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| Who noted that American history had been made by a people with a "sheer love of adventure." |
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| Who left a government job to join the Rough Riders? |
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| What did Theodore Roosevelt leave his government job to? |
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| To join the Rough Riders. |
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| Who were the Rough Riders? |
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| A regiment in the Spanish-American War. |
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| Who was second in command of the unit of the Teddy's Terror of the Rough Riders? |
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| What unit did Theodore Roosevelt serve as second in command as? |
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| What was Theodore Roosevelt's "strenuous life" philosophy? |
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| It preached a life of the stern, virile qualities represented by the pioneers of the westward movement. |
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| What philosophy preached a life of the stern, virile qualities represented by the pioneers of the westward movement. |
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| The "strenuous life" philosophy of Theodore Roosevelt. |
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| What was written at the end of the 19th century by Elbert Hubbard? |
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| Who wrote "A Message to Garcia" at the end of the 19th century? |
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| When did Elbert Hubbard write "A Message to Garcia?" |
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| At the end of the 19th century. |
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| Who was entrusted with the message to Garcia? |
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| What did observers see in "A message to Garcia?" |
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| That it was an implied criticism of the labor movement. |
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| What was written as an implied criticism of the labor movement? |
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| What sermon did Russel Conwell deliver 1000 of times during the 19th century? |
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| How many times did Russell Conwell deliver his sermon "Acre of Diamonds" in the 19th century? |
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| Who delivered the sermon "Acres of Diamonds" in the 19th century? |
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| When did Russell Conwell deliver his sermon "Acres of Diamonds? |
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| What did Russell Conwell's "Acres of Diamonds" tell listeners? |
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| That treasures were to be found in their backyards, if only they had the vision to see them. |
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| What English philosopher adapted Darwinian principles to human society? |
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| What did Herbert Spencer adapt to human society today? |
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| What was the key phrase of Social Darwinism? |
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| "Survival of the Fittest." |
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| Whose phrase was "Survival of the Fittest?" |
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| Who was attracted to Social Darwinism? |
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| Industrial leaders such as John D. Rockefeller. |
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| Who gave a Sunday School lesson on the American Beauty Rose? |
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| What was John D. Rockefeller's American Beauty Rose lesson about? |
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| A beautiful rose can only fully blossom by sacrificing weaker buds early in its development. |
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| What lesson did John D. Rockefeller give? |
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| A Sunday School lesson on the American Beauty Rose. |
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| Who believed in Social Darwinism, but also believe that the wealthy had a moral, even religious, obligation to use their income for betterment of society. |
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| Who gave millions to schools and culture institutions? |
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| Who wrote The Virginian in 1902? |
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| What did Owen Wister write in 1902? |
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| When did Owen Wister write The Virginian? |
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| Who was The Virginian dedicated to? |
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| Owen Wister's Harvard classmate Theodore Roosevelt. |
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| What is The Virginian about? |
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| What novel made distinctions between the genteel, feminized East Coast and the masculine virtues of the Wild West? |
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| The main character of the Virginian served as an anecdote for what? |
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| "A debased and mongrel" America of newly-arrived immigrants depicted as "alien vermin." |
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| Who organized a traveling circus in the 1880s known as "The Greatest Show on Earth?" |
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| P.T. Barnum and James Bailey. |
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| P.T. Barnum and James Bailey organized what traveling circus in the 1880s? |
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| "The Greatest Show on Earth." |
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| When did P.T. Barnum and James Bailey organize the traveling circus "The Greatest Show on Earth?" |
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| What did "The Greatest Show on Earth." reflect? |
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| The growing centralization of the entertainment industry. |
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| What reflected the growing centralization of the entertainment industry? |
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| "The Greatest Show on Earth." |
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| What did "The Greatest Show on Earth" feature? |
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| Acrobats, clowns, slideshows, and Jumbo the elephant. |
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| Who was the largest elephant in captivity in the 1880s? |
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| "The Greatest Show on Earth" was evivated to what level? |
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| A respectable level and was advertised as entertainment for the entire family. |
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| Took traditional traveling companies and merged them into an entertainment corporation |
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| How many performers did J.H. Haverly have in his entertainment corporation? |
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| What was different about J.H. Haverly's entertainment? |
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| He included black actors and women to project a more family image. |
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| Who included black actors and women to project a more family image in entertainment? |
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| Who was the father of modern blues? |
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| Who provided a musical outlet for W.C. Handy? |
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| Who participated in self-degrading "coon songs" in order to break into show business? |
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| Who popularized the banjo into a sign of white refinement? |
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| What did Samuel S. Stewart popularize? |
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| How did Samuel S. Stewart popularize the banjo? |
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| He mass-produced, marketed, and distributed instruments, music books, and staged banjo concerts. |
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