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Did you ever wonder who invented products like Liquid Paper, Kevlar or paper bags? Most would think a man invented these items. Guess what? Women invented each of these. What? You don't believe me? Well, read this:

Liquid Paper was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham in 1951 and originally called Mistake Out. Being a typist, Bette was increasingly _ with being unable to erase her typing mistakes. The messy business left her hands black and the paper dirty. Bette was good at painting and remembered that an artist paints over mistakes. She applied that same principle to typing mistakes and Liquid Paper was born, making Bette into a self-made millionaire.

Kevlar, yes, the Kevlar of the bullet proof vest --what police officers and soldiers wear, was invented by Stephanie Kwolek. Stephanie worked for the DuPont Company as a research chemist. She was asked to find a high-performance fiber. Originally, this fiber was intended to be used for car tires . However, the fiber she developed in 1964 was amazing and is still used in products such as sailboats, skis, shoes, and yes, bullet proof vests. In 1995 Stephanie was named to the National Inventor's Hall of Fame.

Margaret Knight invented a machine that revolutionized the making of paper bags. Paper bags had been made like envelopes but Margaret developed a machine that would fold and paste a flat-bottom paper bag, the very same type we still use today. Margaret's family was poor and she started working at the age of nine. Her first invention at the age of twelve was a safety tool for a loom . Later she worked for the Columbia Paper Bag Company. It was there that she worked on improving the making of paper bags. She was issued her patent in 1870.

So next time you use a new product or an old one, will you wonder who made it? Do some research on the web and answer a few questions like: Who invented it? How was it invented? You may be surprised at some of the stories you uncover.

1. Women invented which 3 common products?
2. Who invented liquid paper?
3. In what year?
4. What was the product originally called?
5. What was Bette before becoming an inventor?
6. She was also good at what?
7. Who invented the bullet proof vest?
8. When was it developed?
9. Is it still used today?
10. What honor did she receive in 1995?
11. What did Margaret Knight invent?
12. At what age did she begin working?
13. At what age did she have her first invetion?
14. What did she create?
15. When was her patent issued?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Liquid Paper, Kevlar or paper bags
2. Bette Nesmith Graham
3. 1951
4. Mistake Out.
5. Typist
6. Painting
7. Stephanie Kwolek
8. 1964
9. yes
10. National Inventor's Hall of Fame
11. a machine that revolutionized the making of paper bags
12. Nine
13. 12
14. safety tool for a loom
15. 1870

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Royal assent is sometimes associated with elaborate ceremonies. In the United Kingdom, for instance, the sovereign may appear personally in the House of Lords or may appoint Lords Commissioners, who announce that royal assent has been granted at a ceremony held at the Palace of Westminster. However, royal assent is usually granted less ceremonially by letters patent. In other nations, such as Australia, the governor-general merely signs the bill. In Canada, the governor general may give assent either in person at a ceremony held in the Senate or by a written declaration notifying parliament of his or her agreement to the bill.

Royal assent is the method by which a country's constitutional monarch (possibly through a delegated official) formally approves an act of that nation's parliament, thus making it a law or letting it be promulgated as law. In the vast majority of contemporary monarchies, this act is considered to be little more than a formality; even in those nations which still permit their ruler to withhold the royal assent (such as the United Kingdom, Norway, and Liechtenstein), the monarch almost never does so, save in a dire political emergency or upon the advice of their government. While the power to withhold royal assent was once exercised often in European monarchies, it is exceedingly rare in the modern, democratic political atmosphere that has developed there since the 18th century.

1. How does a monarch approve an act of parliament?
2. What does that do?
3. Is this just a formality?
4. Is there a ceremony to go with it?
5. In the UK do they hold a ceremony?
6. where?
7. Who will announce it?
8. Where might the sovereign show up?
9. Does Canada hold a ceremony?
10. Where will it be?
11. Does someone give assent in person?
12. who?
13. What is the other way in Canada?
14. Who will that go to?
15. What does it tell them?
16. Is there a ceremony in Australia?
17. What happens there?
18. Who?
19. How often does the monarch not give assent?
20. When might they not give it?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. through royal assent
2. makes it a law
3. yes
4. sometimes
5. yes
6. the Palace of Westminster
7. Lords Commissioners
8. in the House of Lords
9. sometimes
10. in the Senate
11. yes
12. the governor general
13. by a written declaration n
14. parliament
15. of the agreement to the bill.
16. no
17. the just sign the bill.
18. the governor-general
19. almost never
20. in a dire political emergency

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Annie Oakley was born in 1860 in Darke County, Ohio. Her family was very poor. She decided to help her family even when she was very young, so she learned to use a gun, and began hunting animals for food. She could shoot them without losing the important parts of the meat.

Soon her shooting ability became well known. When she was sixteen, she was invited to a competition with a famous marksman , Frank Butler. Annie surprised everyone by winning the competition. Later that year she and Frank married.

In 1882, Annie Oakley and Frank Butler started putting on shows together. Frank Butler was the star of the show and she was his assistant. The famous Native American leader, Sitting Bull, thought so highly of her shooting ability that he called her "Little Sure Shot". Later Annie Oakley became the star of the show and Frank Butler was her assistant. Posters for the show called her the "Champion Markswoman".

During World War One, Annie Oakley wanted to train a group of women volunteers for the army, but the United States did not accept it. She gave American soldiers shooting lessons, and traveled across the country visiting many training camps. She gave shooting performances and raised money to support the American soldiers.

Annie Oakley died on November 3, 1926. Eighteen days later, Frank Butler died too.

1. Is Annie Oakley still alive?
2. When did she die?
3. Did she outlive her partner?
4. What was her partners name?
5. When did he pass?
6. When did they start working with each other?
7. Who was the main character in their program initially?
8. Did that change?
9. What was her nickname?
10. Where did that name come from?
11. Did she have another nickname?
12. What was that?
13. Who nicknamed her that?
14. Was she rich as a child?
15. Where did she 1st live?
16. Did she hunt?
17. Was she single?
18. Who did she marry?
19. How did they meet?
20. Did her dad approve of the marriage?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. no
2. November 3, 1926
3. no
4. Frank Butler
5. Eighteen days after she died
6. In 1882
7. Frank Butler
8. yes
9. the "Champion Markswoman"
10. her shooting ability
11. yes
12. "Little Sure Shot"
13. Sitting Bull
14. no
15. Darke County, Ohio
16. yes
17. no
18. Frank Butler
19. a shooting competition
20. unknown