Wilbur Wright, born in Millville, Indiana on April 16, 1867, became ill
on a business trip to Boston in April 1912. Some have attributed his
illness to eating bad shellfish at a banquet.
After returning to Dayton,
he was diagnosed with typhoid fever. He
lingered in and out of
consciousness for several weeks until he died, at
age 45, in the
Wright family home on May 30, 1912.
Orville Wright, born in Dayton, Ohio on August 19, 1871, died on
January 30, 1948, over 35 years after his brother,
following his second
heart attack.
John T. Daniels, the Coast Guardsman who took the famous first-flight
photos in 1903, died the day after Orville Wright.
Both Wright brothers are
buried in the family plot at Woodland Cemetery
in Dayton, Ohio.
The answers are
5. A
6. A
7. B
8. C
Answer: Robert Clive was not a very nice man. He was a British colonel who while working for the British East India Company, took back the city of Calcutta which had been lost after the BEIC had lost it, and then bribed Mir Jafar, who was a military general who was later appointed Nawab of Bengal, to help get Bengal from Siraj. Clive really established the military and political supremacy of the East Idia company in Bengal-while making himself rich in the process.
Explanation:
Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, expressed the philosophy that drove 19th-century U.S. territorial expansion. Manifest Destiny held that the United States was destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent. Lousiana Purchase and the Texas independence were also big parts of it
