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25 Cards in this Set
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what did thomas cook think was evil?
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drinking
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what was thomas cook?
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a baptist lay preacher
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how many people did cook organize a sunday school outing for?
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500
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what was the first form of travel he took people on?
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railways
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what year did cook become the first tour operator?
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1855
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what year did he take people to the great exhibition?
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1851
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how many peopel went on the great exhbition?
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150000
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when did cook decide to expand into europe?
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1855, when he bacame the first tour operator
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where did the grand circular tour visit?
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brussels, the field of waterloo, cologne, the rhine, heidelberg, baden, baden, strasberg and paris
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what was the cheapest option?
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harwhich to bruussels
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when did cook organize further trips to europe?
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1863
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how many tourists did he take to paris?
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2000
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how many of the 200 that travelled to paris continued to switzerland?
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500
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where did he offer circular tickets to?
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between paris and the alps
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when were the first tours of italy?
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1864
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when did he take a group to north america?
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1865
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when did he hire two steamers for as tour up the nile?
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1869
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when did he go on a tour of the world?
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1872
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how old was he when he went around the world?
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63
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when did he go to eygypt via china?
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1869
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when did orville wright make his first powered flight?
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1903
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how long was the first powered flight?
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40 yards
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when did thomas cook and son advertise thier first powered flights?
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1919
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who took over the buisness when thomas cook died?
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his three sons
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what firm sis his sons sell the buisness to?
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wagons lits
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