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Pesticides, Crop Dusters, DDT, USA, 1940s - 1950s
Pesticides, Crop Dusters, DDT, 1940s - 1950s compilation
Mississippi Flood, USA, 1927
Mississippi Flood, USA, 1927 compilation.
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles inundated up to a depth of 30 feet. To try to prevent future floods, the federal government built the world's longest system of levees and floodways
Scopes Monkey Trial, Tennessee, USA, 1925
Scopes Monkey Trial 1925 compilation
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.[1] The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he incriminated himself purposely so the case could have a defendant
