Jeremiah

= Decade Researched:1950 = = Name:Jeremiah =

= Toy or Game: Marbles = In marbles you can have 2-6 players but you always need 13 marbles, a circle, 2 lines, ( the lines have to be oposite from each other but touching the cicle) and a slightly bigger marble for each person.You don't need to set up the marbles in any particular order you can just scatter them in the circle. There are 2 ways to play. On the first one the rules are that if someone knock out the other players shooter you don't have the advantage of shooting inside the circle your next turn. If you knock out the most marbles you win. Keepsies is another way to play.The only other rules are if you knock out marbles you get to keep it, but you can not keep someone else's shooter.

= Famous Person: Dr. Jonas Salk = = = = = Jason Salk is an important person because he found out a prevention for the polio viruse in April 12 1955. His prevention for the polio viruse is still used today. Polio is a viruse that infects your lungs so you can not breath. A lot of people died from it in the early 1900s. If you don't die from it you have to live in steel lungs for the rest of your life. Steel lungs are lungs made out of steel that force air inside your body. Many people tried to make a prevention before Jonas Salk but none of them succeded except Jonas Salk.

= Clothing: = = Invention or Discovery:Small Mechanical Hearing Aids = Small mechanical hearing aids were invented in 1950.They were invented it because people got tired of carrying a two-pound hearing on there ear.This useful invention was used a lot by people with hearing disabilities.It helped many people hear better.The inventor of the hearing aid (not hearing trumpet) was Miller Reese Hutchingson.

= Important Event:Alaska and Hawaii becoming states =

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