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    The shipment of meat was also a subject of federal inspections during the whole process of meat making. Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States passed the Meat Inspection policy in June 30, 1906. A couple of months before the Federal Meat Inspection Act became a law, in April 18, 1906 there was a major earthquake in the city of San Francisco. It wasn’t just a simple earthquake. It was a massive earthquake…

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    In 1906 San Francisco suffered a devastating earthquake and fire. Naturally, this brought a building boom to the area; making the years 1906 to 1910 Maybeck’s most productive. One year after the earthquake Professor Andrew Lawson (famous geologists associated with the Golden Gate Bridge) asked Maybeck to design his house. However, around that time, Lawson also had discovered that the Hayward Fault ran almost directly underneath where his house was suppose to be build. Instead of picking a…

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    On April 18, 1906 Mark Faint woke up early morning only to hear screams and yells for help. He looked out the window only to see what seemed to be death overcoming people every second. “The city was in flames, killing people by the second.” The San Francisco Earthquake was catastrophic because of its massive destruction, huge amount of death, and raging fires. One of the most destructive earthquakes occurred April 18, 1906 in the popular city, San Francisco. The earthquake caused great damage…

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    2) The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was significant because it set standards for quality of drugs and also required proper labeling of medications. Prior to this federal regulation, medications were sold freely to physicians and consumers without any proof of safety or effectiveness. 3) The FDA is involved in regulating the pharmaceutical industry and ensuring that basic standards are followed. They do this by inspecting facilities where drugs are made, reviewing new drug applications,and…

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    4:50 AM April 18, 1906. John was working another seventeen hour day for the fourth night in a row. This case has kept his whole team on their feet. John, having a full head of hair coming out of law school, is not known for losing clumps of it at a time. He started losing his hair along with his sanity. The only thing that keeps his mind at ease is his wife, Alice, and his newly-born daughter, Ethel. John has missed the past three family dinners, he knows it upsets Alice, but he hopes she…

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    transform boundary, with the Pacific plate. A transform boundary is when two plates slide against each other, causing many earthquakes since San Francisco is on the west coast of the north american plate. One earthquake that you might’ve heard of is the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, which was caused by the transform boundary. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8, which is described as a major earthquake, with…

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    to the dangerous and addictive power of non-prescription medicine marketed in the country. This act specifically referred to alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and several other agents. Following The Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 was The Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914. “An Act to provide for the registration of,…

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    were hosting a concert that had artists from the house music record label 100 percent silk. 36 people were killed in that fire and it is said that is was the deadliest fire ever in the history of Oakland. It was the deadliest in California since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Nobody knows exactly what caused the fire but it was such a bad warehouse because of all the safety hazards and that’s why it was abandoned. The founder Derick Ion Almena didn’t know there were people there. It is said…

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    It is not every day that we come across something in the archive that captures our attention and drives us wild with infatuation, but this actually happened to me when I came across Edward Browne’s The Persian Revolution, 1906-1911. The reddish-brown cover seems pretty plain and doesn’t invite the read into the text, but the books curb-appeal doesn’t really matter because the actual words written in the book will drive any historian insane. Browne’s message throughout the text is of a nation…

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    The Blind Man of Toledo, 1906 Meadows museum is the first place when I visit in America. These museum is my choice, because closer the place where I am living now, than when I compered to anther museums in Dallas and free. The front desk employees are very nice, friendly they helped me everything I need to write my paper. I started My first question by asking about the Meadows museum and they give me the information, that Meadows museum was opened in 1965 to the public. The Museum…

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