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Marie and Frederick George Manning were executed on 13 November 1849 for the murder of Patrick O'Connor

'Okies' was the name given to people from the American prairie states (many of them from Oklahoma) who were forced to abandon their farms by the dustbowls of the 1930s

10th - 13th July 1963

Thomas Alva Edison sitting beside his invention, the phonograph mb-height 1950 Inscribed in pencil upper rightThomas Alva Edison sitting beside his invention, the phonograph, 1878. Dubbed The Wizard of Menlo Park by a newspaper reporter, Edison (1847 1931) was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1093 US patents in his name, as