Can you think of ten moments that changed history?

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None of those were on my list. I was thinking of a lot different events. The Battle of the 300 Midway WW I and the Middle East, primarily Arabia. Henry Ford and mass production, etc i.e. the Industrial Revolution. for starters.

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