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Women Gain Rights
Females advanced in the work force as more women began to get hired for office jobs. They also gained several rights and a freer lifestyle. In 1920, the 19th Amendment was passed in the United States, granting suffrage to women.
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The Miss American Pageant
In 1921, the first Miss America Pageant took place with a total of eight contestants in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The winner, a 16-year old girl from Washington, D.C., was Margaret Gorman.
The empire state building
The empire state building has 102 floors in it and it took 7,000,000 man hours to build it. Theirs 6,500 windows in the whole thing, that’s a lot of windows to clean. I would hope I got paid a lot to clean those windows. It took 57,000 tons of steel to make the skeleton of the building. There was 17 million feet of wiring throughout the building.
The Great Depression
It's almost perverse in a sense, but the more than 47 million people who look forward to their monthly Social Security checks owe it all to the greatest economic depression in U.S. history. Things turned ugly after the stock market crashed Oct. 29, 1929. The Great Depression of the 1930s ensued. Billions of dollars were lost as banks and businesses went belly up.
The dust bowl
The Dust Bowl got its name after Black Sunday, April 14, 1935. In 1932, 14 dust storms were recorded on the Plains. In 1933, there were 38 storms. By 1934, it was estimated that 100 million acres of farmland had lost all or most of the topsoil to the winds. By April 1935, there had been weeks of dust storms, but the cloud that appeared on the horizon that Sunday was the worst. Winds were clocked at 60 mph. Then it hit. Dust storms are really destructive to homes and anything that was in its pat
The Holocaust
The Nazi’s genocide of millions of other groups of people. Adolf Hitler was the leader of this group and they killed Jews, homo-sexuals, and many others that were not like them. It did not matter if they were German or not. The total victims amounted between 11-17 million.
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights act became effective July 2nd, 1964. The legislation outlawed discrimination against African Americans and women including racial segregation. It ended racial segregation in public places and schools. It allowed women to vote in the United States. The bill changed American history forever.
Bill Clinton
The 42nd president of the US. Bill served eight years in office (1993-2001). He was almost impeached twice as president for cheating on his wife. Most people say he was a bad president because of this but life was good when he was president.
9/11
The September 11 attacks were a series of suicide attacks that were committed in the United States on September 11, 2001. 19 terrorist from the al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally steered two planes in to the twin towers and one into the pentagon. There was also another plane headed towards the White House but I was wrecked into a field. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks.
Iraq War
The War on Iraq was a conflict that took place between 3/20/2003-12/15/2011. Violence is still going on even now. Prior to the war the US and UK claimed that Iraq had possession of weapons of mass destruction. The invasion led to the capturing of their leader Sadam Hussein. He was tried in court and led to execution. The start of the war was marked by the 9/11 attacks and the end was the execution.
Plane in Hudson
US airways flight 1549 was a scheduled to fly from New York to Charlotte, North Carolina. The pilot successfully ditched the plane into the Hudson six minutes after takeoff. They struck a flock of geese causing internal problems to the plane. All of the 150 passengers survived the crash. They stood on the wings waiting for help. Lots of lives were saved in the process.
She's an absolutely remarkable woman. She has survived five generations. She is a rock!! I love her so much!
A few months ago she had fallen down in her bathroom, shattered her hip, and survived three days laying on the ground. When she was found she had used dirt and toilet paper to make a little bed under her. She said she was very comfortable. More proof of how incredible she is. She now lays in bed knowing she will never walk again. Up til a few months ago grandma was gardening in her garden. And excited for summer and flowers. While visiting her the other day (10/09/2015) she said "I'm ready to go, there's plenty of people waiting for me" which is true. She is ready. She has done enough here.
The kids picked out a small pumpkin to take to her but she refused to take it. She doesn't want anything she can't take with her to heaven or can't give back. So we will keep this small pumpkin and remember grandma during the holiday and her birthday. 
Five beautiful generations. 2015
I am so blessed to be able to visit grandma while she is going threw this time of life. I hope to visit her many more times before she decides to leave us.
Mrs. Muir is amazing! I love her. I have many, many memories of her and playing at her house and in her backyard. She would let us do Christmas projects there to give as gifts to our parents. She amazes me and I cannot believer she's 103! She was always a positive one and I know she has truly lived her life.
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