ANSWERS FOR 1910s
- The first crossword puzzle published was diamond-shaped, had no black filled-in areas, and was numbered differently from most crossword puzzles today.
- Breaker boys separated slate rock from coal as it was brought up out of the coal mines. They often worked 14 to 16 hours a day.
- Boxer Gene Tunney defeated Jack Dempsey to win the heavyweight title in 1926.
- The Panama Canal took about ten years and $387 million to build.
- George Washington Carver went to Simpson College to study piano and painting.
- The first Girl Scout handbook was titled How Girls Can Help Their Country.
- The two 1914 films that brought the debut of Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character were Kid Auto Races at Venice and Mabel's Strange Predicament.
- The North Rim is the wettest area of Grand Canyon National Park, and the Inner Canyon is the hottest.
- Jim Thorpe's Native American name was Wa-Tho-Huk, which translates to "Bright Path."
- The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire led to World War I.
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