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Ben Thorpe 1896 - 1978

Ben Thorpe of Crescent, McIntosh County, Georgia was born on November 24, 1896, and died at age 81 years old in March 1978.
Ben Thorpe
Crescent, McIntosh County, Georgia 31304
November 24, 1896
March 1978
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    1896

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    November 24, 1896
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  • 03/dd
    1978

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    March 1978
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    Ben Thorpe lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1896, in the year that Ben Thorpe was born, in April, the first study on global warming due to CO2 - carbon dioxide - in the atmosphere was published by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius. Arrhenius concluded that human activity due to the Industrial Revolution would amplify CO2 in the atmosphere, causing a greenhouse effect. His conclusions have been extensively tested in the ensuing 100+ years and are still seen to hold true.
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In 1905, by the time he was just 9 years old, the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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