DNL US Timeline by SIMONIN Cécile https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991 1ere DNL CALLOT 2021 en-us 2021-12-14 21:13:14 UTC 2024-05-26 11:04:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f5fd.png George Washington lcsimonin https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048694 George Washington was born in 1732 and died in 1799.
He is already very popular before being president 
because he wins a lot of battle.
He also helped with the war of independence. 
He was elected on 30 April 1789 until 3 March 1797.
The president is a very beloved president. 
He gives his name to the capital of the united states 
and his face for the dollar note 

]]> 2021-12-14 21:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048694 Benjamin Franklin lcsimonin https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048696  He participated to the writing of the Declaration of Independence of the USA because he was inventor, naturalist, printer, writer and editor. 
He was one of the signatories so he was among the founding fathers of America ; he invented the lightning rod and the swimming pad.
]]> 2021-12-14 21:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048696 Martin Luther King Jr lcsimonin https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048699 •Martin Luther King Jr was born in January 15, 1929. An American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. He was the son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr. He grew up in segregationist America, in a privileged environment for the time. His first experience of racial segregation was when he was six years old, when two white playmates told him they were no longer allowed to play with him. His mother then explains to him that it is because they are now in white segregationist schools.]]> 2021-12-14 21:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048699 Walter Elias Disney lcsimonin https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048705
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American producer, director, screenwriter, and animator. He is one of the pioneers of animation and is an icon of the 20th century.

In 1923 he founded the Walt Disney Company and gradually became one of the most famous film producers. Walt Disney was also the creator of the first "theme park", inventing the concept. Known as a storyteller and television star, he and his team created many of the world's most famous animated characters, one of which is considered by several journalists to be his alter ego: Mickey Mouse.


Fun fact : 
Disney’s favorite character was Goofy (Dingo in French).










]]> 2021-12-14 21:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048705 Katherine Johnson lcsimonin https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048706 Worked for the NACA (National Advisoty Commitee for Aeronautics), and then for the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 

Mercury-Atlas 6 in 1962 = one of the astronauts (John Glenn) demanded that Katherine Johnson checked the trajectory, otherwise he wouldn't participate.

Worked on the Apollo 11 mission

miscellanous fact =>  since she attended university she was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first association created by and for black women.
=> she had to go to the toilets that were far away from the NASA office she worked at under pouring rains and in heels because they hadn't any black women toilets.]]> 2021-12-14 21:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048706 Henry Ford lcsimonin https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048709 Henry Ford, born 30 July 1863 in Dearborn in the Michigan.
Some years after his mother’s death in 1876, Henry met Clara Bryant. They marry and give birth to a son named Edsel Ford.
To make himself known, Ford, with the help of his partner, took part in a race on the big tip circuit behind the wheel of a racing car he designed, the 999. Ford won it.Ford became known throughout the United States.
On 16 June 1903, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company with the support of eleven investors.
The plant is based in Detroit, and it has a difficult start.
The success came in 1908 with the arrival of the famous Ford T on August 12, 1908. The success of the Ford T was such that demand will exceed supply. In 1922, Ford bought the American manufacturer Lincoln from Cadillac.




 


]]> 2021-12-14 21:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048709 Betty Friedan lcsimonin https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048710 Betty Friedan was an American writer,activist and feminist, but also a leading figure in the women’s movement in the USA. She helped set up the National Organization for Women (NOW), co-founded the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws to improve the acces to medically supervised abortion and finally co-founded the National Women’s Political Caucus which is a lobby aimed at facilitating the  adoption of laws in favor of equal civil rights for women. ]]> 2021-12-14 21:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048710 lcsimonin https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048711 Muhammad Ali is a legendary black boxer who by his character, his convictions and his exploits carried and supported an entire segregated African-American community in a racist America of the 1960s. He was born in 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA and died in 2016 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. He won twice the National Golden Gloves, a gold medal at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, four times the WBA World Championship, and twice the WBC World Champioship. In 1966, he refuses to fight in the Vietnam war he is dispossessed of his world title and his boxing license. He says “No Vietcong ever called me a nigger. I have nothing against them.”.

]]> 2021-12-14 21:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1948048711 Norman Rockwell gabrielcoubard1 https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1974764827 Norman Rockwell was borned in 1894 and died in 1978 in Stockbridge. He was an american illustrator and painter. He is known for his series of paintings named "the four freedoms" that are dealing with the Roosevelt speech pronounced the 6 january 1941. His most famous painting may be "the problem we all live with" painted in 1964. It described the very first day at school for a black woman accompanied by police members to protect her. He was against racial segregation and transmitted messages by its art. Actually, you can see his painting in the Norman Rocwell museum in Stockbridge]]> 2022-01-04 17:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1974764827 Lyman Beecher Izdisajojoreference https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1976079418 Lyman Beecher, born on October 12 1775 in New Haven, Connecticut and died on January 10 1863 in New York City, Cincinnati at age 87, was a minister and part of the Presbyterian church, which believed the Bible to be undeniably true. During his life, he published 6 sermons against temperance, which is being drunk or alcohol intoxicated. He also taught in the Litchfield Law School with his wife of the time, Harriet Porter. Between 1832 and 1852, he fought against slavery of africans americans in the Lane Debates. He also had eleven children, of which his seven sons all became pastors. His first daughter, Catharine Esther Beecher, became a teacher and fought for women’s right to have access to education. His third daughter, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, was a writer and a feminist. His fourth son, Henry Ward Beecher, provided weapons for the abolitionists in 1854 during the conflict known as “Bleeding Kansas”.


]]> 2022-01-05 10:28:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1976079418 Rosa Parks https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1976084146 In 1955, in an America torn apart by racial segregation, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery (Alabama). Arrested by the police and fined, she appealed her sentence and became the muse of a national civil rights movement.]]> 2022-01-05 10:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1976084146 Thomas Edison https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1982226426 Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847. He was an American inventor and businessman that greatly influenced life around the world by developing many devices including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.  Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, in his home.

Facts:

- Thomas Edison didn’t go to school.

- He set up his first lab in his parent's basement at the age of 10.

- He was partially deaf.

- His first two kids had the nicknames Dot and Dash.


]]> 2022-01-09 11:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1982226426 Louis Armstrong https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1986645682 Louis Armstrong (Satchmo), was born in New Orleans in 1901 and died in 1971 . He was the most famous jazz musicians of his time, he made many popular song as What a wonderful world, Hello Dolly, Blueberry hill... . 
In 1957 he publicly spoke out against school segregation (Little Rock Nine). His protest reverberated around the world and led the State Department to urge the restoration of civil rights for black Americans.
FUN FACTS about him : 
- A Jewish immigrant family helped him buy his first horn.
- His playing style took a heavy toll on his lips
- He served as a “musical ambassador” for the U.S. State Department]]> 2022-01-11 17:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1986645682 Mary Jackson https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1986653865  Mary Jackson (April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an aerospace engineer and mathematician for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (later the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). She became NASA’s first Black female engineer and worked to improve hiring practices for women at the administration. 

]]> 2022-01-11 18:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1986653865 Martin Scorsese https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1998878890 Martin Scorsese is a famous amercian Film Maker. I was born the November 17, 1942 in New York in the littel Italy neighborhood in lower Manhattan. He gained his way to the top by directing some of the most iconic movies of the 70's, 80's and even the 90's. His style was like no other. He also marked the cinema's history by the thematics he shown in his movies (religious guilt, gangsters and political corruption in his more recent movies). 
Fun fact : 
The climax of the Taxi Driver (1976) movie was consider as outrageously shocking for the time and was threaten to be "X-rated". Scorsese was so angry about this that he waited outside of the columbia pictures HQ with a gun to "explain" himself with the corporation's executives. ]]> 2022-01-18 19:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1998878890 https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1999749219 Franklin Roosevelt was born in 1882 and died in 1945. 
He was the 32th president of United-States, represented the democratic party and was elected four times. 
He was very famous for his participation at the world war II, precisly for providing the necessary armement for the Alliance. 
He also helped his own country by creating the New Deal, which is an huge economic program to fight the unemployement. It lasted from 1934 until 1938.
Franklin was an important person in himself, he had to fight the polyomyelitis, an illness which paralysed him around his legs. Even with his disability, he was hight regarded and was still respected. 
This president changed many things, he was known for his economic improvment but also his great decisions while the WWII.

]]> 2022-01-19 07:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lcsimonin/u3i5y8jsicpkq991/wish/1999749219