Gotta make a presentation in Euro

[Psychospacecow]

I've got to drum up a presentation for history and need 3 topics, one of which will later be chosen by the teacher.

I've got some topics in mind but would like opinions or alternatives, if no one minds of course.

The topics I've got in mind are:

The history of automatic rifles
(Nothing yet, but this is kinda my thing)

The Chernobyl Nuclear facility

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W4ke...sp=sharing
(what I've got so far. Will go into wiki source links and use those as sources)

The history of ferrous metallurgy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrous_metallurgy
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...0313002057
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_process
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootz_steel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carburizing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cementation_process
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_meteorite
http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Ogun (not gonna use this as a source, but it was inspiration)
http://www.mamiwata.com/ogun.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_expansion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_furnace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite
http://www.metalafrica.info/


So, thoughts? Opinions? Alternatives?

[Kakariko Kid]

Nice topics. Feel free to use these as covers, posters and what not for your presentations.

Automatic Rifles


Chernobyl Nuclear 


Ferrous Metallurgy

[Psychospacecow]

but that isn't automatic or a rifle.

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

For at least one subject, I'd do something really obscure, like that ferrous metallurgy business, 10/10.
It sucks that the teacher decides which one you do. Surely the student should be allowed to choose their own paper !

[Kakariko Kid]

but that isn't automatic or a rifle.

Oh, it's a shotgun. Dude, it was late and my eyes were kinda blurry and heavy. My bad.
But, it does make a good meme when it says "Back to Back World War Champs!" or "Gun and Flag - Made in China". Here -


I agree with Seriously Though.....though
Ferrous Metallurgy just sounds awesome

[Psychospacecow]

I'm thinking something more like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F_Pay7MErw
http://i.imgur.com/TbjJcaA.png
http://i.imgur.com/O0bgteO.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6J6nzLo.jpg

[Psychospacecow]

Okay, here's my pitch for them.

Chernobyl


Chernobyl was a city in The Kiev Oblast,Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic which was afflicted with a grave disaster. The Geiger counters of Chernobyl’s Lenin Power Station’s control room read 3.6. They were never meant to go above 3.6, which by all accounts was a safe reading. In actuality, if proper Geiger counters were implemented, they would have read 15,000. On April 26th, 1986, an explosion went off in The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, spewing a swath of fire and radioactive particles into the air, creeping through the atmosphere to Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Sweden, The United Kingdom, Turkey, China, and Japan. 5% of Chernobyl’s explosive output found its way into North Africa, accumulating Cesium-137, Plutonium-239 and Plutonium-240 in The Nile River. 1% of the initial blast found its way to North America. By Soviet accounts, 31 people died during this event, but some figures indicate that Chernobyl was responsible for the deaths of as many as 985,000 people. Six days after the Lenin Nuclear power station exploded, Alexei Ananenko, Boris Baranov, and Valeri Bezpalov volunteered to dive into the cooling chambers of the facility. They had to manually turn valves underneath the water to pump 20,000 tonnes of radioactive water. Had they not succeeded, a thermal explosion would have gone off. The fires of Chernobyl were finally finally made controllable in mid-ay.

Ferrous Metals

The Yoruba of Western Africa believed in many spirits, and many gods. One among them has many names. Some call him Ogun, some call him Ogu or other similar names. The general consensus is that Ogun was the Spirit of Iron. He had a brother, Sango, the spirit of fire. So, why do I bring notice to deities of West Africa? Ogun’s story revolves around the people’s need to land from the forests. They simply couldn’t do it with the softer metals at their disposal. Ogun was responsible for the gift of iron, like Prometheus gave fire to the greek in their mythology.
I bring to your attention this most ancient of deities because his existence in the tales of The Yoruba are a demonstration of the changing times in Africa. For, at this time, humanity was taking control of the earth around it. We were harnessing the power of iron.

History of Semi - Automatic Rifles

The first successful semi-automatic rifle design was given to the world by Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher with the M1885. Mannlicher was an esteemed German engineer known more for his bolt-action rifles and pistols.

General consensus recognizes the M1908 Mondragon Semiautomatic rifle as the first adopted military semi-automatic rifle, though there were danish rifles adopted in the 1890s in extremely small numbers with limited success. Despite the rifle being designed by the Mexican General, Manuel Mondragon, the rifle itself was manufactured in Switzerland.

Interest for a semi-automatic rifle raised in The United States in 1901 with military trials being helf from 1916 to 1918. John C. Garand began work in 1919 at the Springfield Armory on what would become the M1922 in 1924. He designed a .276 caliber round which gained favor over the .30-06 round the military was using at the time. However, General Douglas MacArthur ordered that all resources from the .276’s development be moved to work on the .30-06. On August 3rd, 1933, The Garand Rifle was re-designated Semi-Automatic Rifle, Caliber 30, M1. The M1 Garand is notable as being the first standardized Semi-Automatic Rifle as of January 9th, 1936. By the end of its career, approximately 5.4 million M1 Garands had been brought upon the world. It made its mark in history, performing during World War 2 against German Karabiner 98k’s, a german bolt-action rifle, and found its way into all US conflicts until 1965 when the transition to the M14, a derivative of the M1, was complete. Reserve forces outside The United States would continue to use the Garand rifle into the 1970s and surplus rifles were provided to Germany, Italy, and Japan after the events of World War 2.

[retrolinkx]

It's a shame you weren't doing it about revolvers.

You could've copied Ocelot's revolver trick to do at the start.

After that, they'll either be so impressed they'd give you an A or so scared they'd give you an A. (This is for school right)

Win/win really.

[Psychospacecow]

I'd be arrested.

[retrolinkx]

^

Can't deny that A tho'

[Psychospacecow]

Ferrous Metals.