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(History) Breaking World Records Flashcards

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Library of Alexandria

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  • 283 BC
  • Large archive of texts
  • Major part located in the Temple of Serapis
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Destruction of Library of Alexandria

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  • Near 48 AD
  • Julius Ceasar - burning ships
  • Theophilus - Temple of Serapis which contained 10%
  • Moslem Caliph Omar - order docs to be burned 640 AD
  • Cyril also part
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Preservations of Library of Alexandria by Mark Antony

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  • Supposedly transferred 200k scrolls to Cleopatra
  • Books & writings scattered around middle east
  • Library still exists in pieces
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House of Wisdom

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  • Library founded by Caliph Al-mamun in the 700s
  • Contains scripts in Pahlavi, Syriac, Greek & Sanskrit translated to Arabic
  • Open for public at the time
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Origin of the House of Wisdom

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  • Muawiyah I of the Umayyad dynasty
  • Collected a lot of books in Damascus
  • Promotion for scholarship by Caliph Al Masurand Al-mamun
  • Pushing the Islamic golden age forward
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Destruction of the House of Wisdom

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  • 1258, Baghdad
  • Mongols attacked region & threw books into rivers
  • Rivers ran black for 6 months due to ink
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Mongols barrier of expansion

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  • Genghis Khan took over most of Asia in 1026
  • Started with Europe
  • Temperature different
  • Ghenghis Khan died
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Dendrochronology to see why Genghis Khan didn’t take over Europe

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  • Cold & wet conditions
  • Little mobility & efficiency for the Khan
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Khan’s death

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  • Before reaching Hungary, Ogodei took over
  • Ogodei died soon in 1241, maybe due to bad weather
  • Giant empire collapsed
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Tripitaka Koreana

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  • Big collection of Buddhism texts
  • Located in Haeinsa Tempt rn
  • Transfered to Heainsa & safekept in depositories
  • All wood blocks transfered into copper & digitized
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Creations & destruction of Tripitaka Koreana

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  • Completed in 1087
  • Destroyed in 1232 by Mongols
  • 1237, King Gojong ordered to remake & damage proof the collection using salt, seawater, …
  • Carved into wood on Ganghwa Island, completed in 11 years
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Awards for Tripitaka Koreana

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  • Deemed National Treasure in 1962
  • UNESCO heritage site in 1995
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Century Safe

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  • First ever planned time capsule
  • Created in 1876 at the US Centennial Expo in Philadelphia & sealed in 1879
  • Gold pen & ink stand
  • Book on temperance
  • Civilian & famous figures’ signatures
  • Picture of Ulysses Grant and other figures from Mathew Brady
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Discovery of Century Safe

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  • Opened at bicentennial festivals in 1976
  • Attended by Gerald Ford
  • Mike Mansfied fulfilled “the wish of a lady who sought to speak to us from the other side of a 100-year gulf.”
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Massachusetts State House Time Capsule

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  • Oldest time capsule, unplanned, 1795
  • Created by Samuel Adams & Paul Revere
  • Opened in 1855 to add & clean
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Discovery & contents of the Massachusetts State House Time Capsule

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  • Found in 2014, opened in 2015
  • Newspapers, coins from 1600s, page from colony record
  • Copper medal awarded to George Washington
  • Silver plaque describing info
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Crypt of Civilization & dates

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  • Oglethorpe’s attempt to preserve all of human history
  • Founded by Thornnwell Jacob, believed it’d be useful
  • Construction begun in 1937- 1940
  • Closed for 6000 years until 8113
  • Instructions to teach future people English to understand artifacts
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Contents of Crypt of Civilization

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  • 640k microfilmed books, religious texts, etc…
  • Early TV, beer container & set of Lincoln Logs
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Westinghouse Time Capsule

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  • Sealed in the 1939 World Fair
  • Created by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing
  • Located in a 50-foot Immortal Well
  • Deemed a time bomb before being named the first time capsule
  • Another one sealed in 1965
  • Opened in 6939 in 5000 years
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Contents of the Westinghouse Time Capsule

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  • Collection of seeds, metals, textiles, microfilm & newspapers
  • The Beatles record, bikini, pack of cigars, mickey mouse cup
  • Letter from Albert Einstein on scientific progress
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Detroit Century Box

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  • Sealed in Jan 1, 1901 by Mayor William Maybury
  • Opened by Dennis Archer in Dec 2000 & discovered contents
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Contents of the Detroit Century Box

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  • Maybury asking how quick transports are & how they communicate
  • Wrong estimates by politicians:
    + Canada annexed, Ontario join USA
    + Prisoners sent through flying machines & pistons, …
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Expo 70 Capsule

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  • Created by Panasonic & sealed in the 1970 Expo in Osaka
  • To be closed for 5000 yrs
  • Sealed with special gas to preserve contents
  • Control capsule opened for cleaning every 100 years
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Contents of Expo 70 Capsule

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  • Films, ceremonial Kimono & slinky
  • Fingernail of a Hiroshima survivor
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Juneau Capsule

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Alaska’s capsule in its federal building
1994 - 2094

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Contents of the Juneau Capsule

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  • Sony Walkman, Wonderbra, Barbie doll, restaurant menus
  • Letters from children to students of the future
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Future Library

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  • Collection of writings in the making
  • By Katie Paterson, started in 2014, all published in 2114
  • 1000 trees in Oslo supplied printing paper
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How Future Library works

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  • Pieces of writing submitted once every year
  • Collection of 100 books not to be revealed until 2114
  • Writers of submissions only give titles
  • Margaret Atwood submitted “Scribbler Moon” in 2014
  • David Mitchell provided a second novel in 2015
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Polish Polar time capsule

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  • Buried 5m deep in snow in Svalbard in 2017 by an org
  • Mark the 60th anniversary of the year 1957-58
  • Representation of science & tech rn
  • Open whenever it surfaces, around 500k years later
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Content of the Polish Polar time capsule

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  • Namibian sand, basaltic lava, 4.5 billion years old asteroid, credit card, DNA
  • Give future civilizations a better insight of our lives
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ITCS

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International Time Capsule Society
- Dedicated to tracking time capsules, their opening dates,…
- Paul Hudson oversees keeping track operations
- Thousands of capsules over 30 years
- Guaranteed trust fund giving money to the org & free volunteered service
- US gov certified repository system
- Andrienne Waterman - chairman of ITCS seeing increase in registration
- 80% still go unregistered

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New time capsule discoveries by ICTS

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  • Base of Robert E Lee statue
  • In 2020
  • Banknotes, books & pamphlets
  • Sealed in 1887
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Everyday Collections

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  • Andrew Warhol collecting everyday items in a box
  • 6th grade classroom in Portland making a time capsule to be opened in 2046 when they’ve matured

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