Who was the British mathematician who designed a computer that assisted in breaking the secret German codes during World War II?
a. Vaughn Williams
b. Alan Turing
c. Ian Botham
d. Anthony Powell
e. John Major
b
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a. spices. b. gold. c. salt. d. tobacco. e. silk.
In the "Freeport Doctrine,"
a. the Supreme Court ruled that residence in Freeport, Illinois, did not automatically free runaways. b. Stephen Douglas suggested that the territories could maintain popular sovereignty by refusing to protect slavery there. c. Abraham Lincoln agreed that there was no means of preventing the extension of slavery. d. Stephen Douglas insisted that slavery was legal in all the free states and territories. e. slaves who escaped to the North were declared free.
The mosque of the “Dome of the Rock” in Jerusalem was the first important shrine of Islam
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The Soviet Union first learned of the American atomic bomb _______
A) from President Roosevelt during the Yalta Conference B) from President Truman at the Potsdam Conference C) when Truman invited Stalin to see a film of a test D) through the use of espionage E) when the first one was dropped on Hiroshima