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Suggestion survey: May (Discovery)

🕑 Added 2018-05-17 17:00:01 +0000 UTC

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Lady Bug

can I still do this or am I late?

Robert Rath

Both of these are 100% valid.

Primarch359

Suggest the guide of the OREGON TRAIL. Kit Carson <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLxsSGO2VWE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLxsSGO2VWE</a>

Joe Korshoff

Somebody do discovery of steam power and engineering, it's a topic that is way too looked over, yet it fundamentally changed humanity permanently

Aureelian

I suggested Victor-Franz Hess and the discovery of the Cosmic rays. This was a major discovery of the first half of the 20th century which contributed alot to our knowledge of the universe and its properties.

Erik Eldritch

The Dutch East India Company. The first publicly traded corporation, it (and the British East India Company) became monstrous, like cyber-punk megacorporations, capable of minting their own coins, fielding their own militaries and annexing their own territory. The VOC and EIC exploited the discoveries of new maritime technology and new markets east of India, the world discovered through them, the dangers of unregulated corporations.

LeoZiggy

I'd say the Vikings' discovery of America. It's not often something talked about when people talk about European discovery of the Americas.

Julia Augusta

The Shackleton expedition is probably a story worth putting in (I almost did), but I went with Isaac Newton because his life is so darned fascinating.

Chris Gay

Discovery of the evolution of species.

General Luigi

I went with the discovery of the various elements. Considering how many there are these days, I imagine some discoveries would get more attention than others if my idea got picked. Presumably, this would also include some of the missteps made in the process, such as the rise and fall of phlogiston theory.

Jim Land

I suggested Ernest Shakleton, but now think I should have done Roanoke Island. Anyone already put that one in?

Hayden Tuff

periodic table

Rossum

Which is a better topic: How about the discovery and eventual exploitation of penicillin or Fritz Haber?

arthur D. gonzalez-martin

is the discovery of oil or the cal gold rush valid

Christina Maria Jessen

It wasn't a formal thing, people just discovered that the people west of them would buy the stuff they'd bought from the east of them and trade gradually grew. Few merchants ever really traded along the full length of the Silk Road, so it's more just a matter of there being a production surplus in China that could be sold to outsiders and sufficient capital further west for people to buy those Chinese goods.

Extra History

For anyone who is confused about how we do the suggestion survey system--we have a ratio of 2 suggestion surveys to every 1 voting poll. So if/when we ever do a theme for the survey, that theme will appear twice in a row. The results of both surveys are collected and added together when we determine patron suggestions to include in the next voting poll.