Space Exploration

By the time the 1960s was over the United States had made two successful manned lunar landings. Some Americans were losing interest in going into space because they had accomplished a goal from President Kennedy. They were also spending a lot of money to go to outer space. Moon landings continued through 1972.they almost lost Apollo 13 astronauts in April 1970.

Apollo 20 was cancelled but they carried out Apollo-Soyuz Test Projects on July 1975. Many projects that the NASA had planned for the 70s were being cancelled. The US and Solvent were having unmanned missions and having lunar launches. China entered the space race in the 1970. Japan launched for the first time in 1972.

Kurt Vonnegut

• November 11, 1922- April 11, 2007


• Indianapolis, IN


• Kurt Vonnegut was an American author. He was known for his outspoken political opinions. He wrote essays, articles, and short stories. Lots of Vonnegut's work has now been translated into t.v shows or films.


• A fun fact was that he elevated himself above the est of humanity.


• Kurt Vonnegut attended Shortridge high school, where he wrote for the schools paper. After high school, he enrolled in New York's Cornell University. He got a major in biochemistry but then ended up leaving Cornell to join the U.S. army in 1942.


• In 1970 Vonnegut began teaching creative writing at Harvard University.


• Vonnegut's work are: SLAUGHTER HOUSE-FIVE (1972), BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (1973), GALAPAGOS (1985), BLUEBEARD (1987), HOCUS POCUS (1990), TIMEQUAKE (1997).

Gloria Marie Steinem

• March 25, 1934


• Toledo, Ohio


• Gloria Steinem is an American feminist icon. She is a journalist and a social and political activist. She became an important political leader of the women's rights movment of the 1960's and 1970's.


• Steinem attended Waite High School in Toledo, but she graduated from Western High School om Washington, D.C. After she graduated she attended Smith College.


• Gloria Steinem got her carrer in journalism. she wrote for help! She was impolyed as a playboy bunny at the new York Playboy club. Then she began doing special edition for the New York Magazine.

Richard Nixon

• January 9, 1913-April 22, 1994


• Yorba Linda, California


• Richard Nixon was the 36Th vice-president of the united states. He was a senator from California.


• Oneof Richard Nixon's important work he did when he was president, was to go to china.


• One of Nixon's bad achievement was the Watergate. That's what made him resign as the president of the united states. This was so bad because he was involved and he had offered to pay for the people that broke in the Watergate for their silence.


• Richard was and wasn't a significant person. Hewas the president of the united states. he was the first president to go to china and work things out. The only thing that he did that was bad was the whole Watergate conflict. The Watergate was the thing that messed up his career and being president.

Foods of the 1970s

What average people eat in all times and places depends upon who they are (religious/ethnic heritage), where they live (urban centers, rural outposts) and how much money they have (wealthy folks had more choices). American chefs in the 1970s got to choose between classic French and fresh innovation. When New Southwest Cuisine spliced into the kitchen our American culinary map exploded into delicious fragments of provocative taste.
Most home cooks did not have this luxury of choice. Economic challenges of the 1970s went beyond the even/odd days at gas pumps. They also visited butcher counters in local supermarkets. Period cookbooks are imperfect barometers of actual plates served to real people. At best, they accurately report the collective vision of what average, middle class-people "should be" eating. For that reason they are worth examining. If you interview anybody who ate their way through the 1970s you are likely to find their meal recollections were pretty different from the following recommendations. People eat what's in the house. If the primary cook has time to cook traditional time-consuming recipes then so dines the rest of these house. Most folks through the ages valued food economy & prep time.
Since World War II, and especially since the 1970s, shifts in eating patterns have greatly accelerated. World War II played a key role in making the American diet more cosmopolitan. Overseas service introduced soldiers to a variety of foreign cuisines, while population movements at home exposed to a wider variety of American food ways. The post-war expansion of international trade also made American diets more diverse, making fresh fruits and vegetables available year round.

Historical Figure-Ayaotollah Khomeini

Ayatollah Khomeini was born in September 24, 1902. He was a religious leader and dictator of Iran in 1979. In 1962, the monarch of Iran passed a bill that allowed municipal officials in the country to take their oaths of office on whatever Holy Scripture they preferred. The move offended Khomeini and other Islamic fundamentalists, who considered the Koran to be the only appropriate swearing mechanism. While the United States has a blase attitude toward protests and boycotts, the monarchy in Iran was less flexible. The order was rescinded, and suddenly Khomeini was a force to be reckoned with. The fallout from the swearing issue led to widespread unrest, as the secular monarchy struggled to contain the strong fundamentalist population. In November 1979, a group of student radicals overran the U.S. embassy and took everyone inside hostage, with Khomeini's support, in retaliation for the U.S. agreeing to shelter the Shah. The crisis lasted for more than a year, paralyzing Jimmy Carter's presidency and eventually contributing greatly to his loss toRonald Reagan in the 1980 election. After the Shah died, the hostages were released on Jan. 20, 1981, the day of Reagan's inauguration.
Khomeini himself died of prostate in June 1989. Although the man died, the revolution lived on.
Doubtless he would have been disappointed by Iran's expression of sympathy to the United States on September 11, and he probably would have been infuriated by the fact that Iran is currently trying to patch up relations with the U.S. in order to avoid being the next target of George W. Bush's wrath.
　
　

The world's first general microprocessor

The Intel 4004 is a 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) released by Intel Corporation in 1971. The 4004 is the first complete CPU on one chip, the first commercially available microprocessor, a feat made possible by the use of the new silicon gate technology allowing the integration of a higher number of transistors and a faster speed than was possible before. The 4004 employed a 10 μm silicon-gate enhancement load pMOS technology and could execute approximately 92,000 instructions per second (that is, a single instruction cycle was 11 microseconds).
The 4004 was released on November 15, 1971. Packaged in a 16-pin ceramic dual in-line package, the 4004 is the first computer processor designed and manufactured by chip maker Intel, which previously made semiconductor memory chips. The chief designers of the chip were Federico Faggin and Ted Hoff of Intel, and Masatoshi Shima of Busicom (later of ZiLOG, founded by Federico Faggin)
Originally designed for the Japanese company Busicom to be used in their line of calculators (instead of the complex special purpose calculator chipset that Busicom had designed themselves and brought to Intel to have made, which Intel determined was too complex to make with the technology they had at the time), the 4004 was also provided with a family of custom support chips. For instance, each "Program ROM" internally latched for its own use the 4004's 12-bit program address, which allowed 4 KB memory access from the 4-bit address bus if all 16 ROMs were installed. The 4004 circuit was built of 2,300 transistors, and was followed the next year by the first ever 8-bit microprocessor, the 3,300 transistor 8008 (and the 4040, a revised 4004).A popular myth has it that Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to leave the solar system, used an Intel 4004 microprocessor. However, according to Dr. Larry Lasher of Ames Research Center, the Pioneer team did evaluate the 4004, but decided it was too new at the time to include in any of the Pioneer projects.
I think that this is signifigant because it was the first microprocessor. Which are used by a lot of house hold electronics. if this was never invented we would probably have no computer like electronics like video game systems or laptops and stuff like that.