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Tribute Page Project - FreeCodeCamp (Solution)
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<title>Tribute Page</title>
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<body id="main">
<section id="title">
<h1>Dr. Norman Borlaug</h1>
<p id="tribute-info">The man who saved a billion lives</p>
<header>
<figure id="img-div">
<img id="image" src="./doctor.jpeg" alt="doctor" />
<figcaption id="img-label">
Dr. Norman Borlaug, third from the left, trains biologists in Mexico
on how to increase wheat yields - part of his life-long war on
hunger.
</figcaption>
</figure>
</section>
</header>
<main>
<section id="main-content">
<article id="time-line">
<h3 id="article-title">Here's a time line of Dr. Borlaug's life:</h3>
<ul id="time-line-list" class="text-content">
<li>
<time datetime="1914"><b>1914</b></time> - Born in Cresco, Iowa
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="1933"><b>1933</b></time> - Leaves his family's
farm to attend the University of Minnesota, thanks to a Depression
era program known as the "National Youth Administration"
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="1935"><b>1935</b></time> - Has to stop school and
save up more money. Works in the Civilian Conservation Corps,
helping starving Americans. "I saw how food changed them", he
said. "All of this left scars on me."
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="1937"><b>1937</b></time> - Finishes university and
takes a job in the US Forestry Service
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="1938"><b>1938</b></time> - Marries wife of 69
years Margret Gibson. Gets laid off due to budget cuts. Inspired
by Elvin Charles Stakman, he returns to school study under
Stakman, who teaches him about breeding pest-resistent plants.
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="1941"><b>1941</b></time> - Tries to enroll in the
military after the Pearl Harbor attack, but is rejected. Instead,
the military asked his lab to work on waterproof glue, DDT to
control malaria, disinfectants, and other applied science.
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="1942"><b>1942</b></time> - Receives a Ph.D. in
Genetics and Plant Pathology
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="1944"><b>1944</b></time> - Rejects a 100% salary
increase from Dupont, leaves behind his pregnant wife, and flies
to Mexico to head a new plant pathology program. Over the next 16
years, his team breeds 6,000 different strains of disease
resistent wheat - including different varieties for each major
climate on Earth.
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="1953"><b>1953</b></time> - Discovers a way to
grown wheat twice each season, doubling wheat yields
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="1962"><b>1962</b></time
>- Crosses a short, sturdy dwarf breed of wheat with a
high-yeidling American breed, creating a strain that responds well
to fertilizer. It goes on to provide 95% of Mexico's wheat.
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="1970"><b>1970</b></time> - Visits Delhi and brings
his high-yielding strains of wheat to the Indian subcontinent in
time to help mitigate mass starvation due to a rapidly expanding
population
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="1983"><b>1983</b></time> - Receives the Nobel
Peace Prize
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="1984"><b>1984</b></time
>- Helps seven African countries dramatically increase their maize
and sorghum yields
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="2005"><b>2005</b></time> - Becomes a distinguished
professor at Texas A&M University
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="2007"><b>2007</b></time> - States "we will have to
double the world food supply by 2050." Argues that genetically
modified crops are the only way we can meet the demand, as we run
out of arable land. Says that GM crops are not inherently
dangerous because "we've been genetically modifying plants and
animals for a long time. Long before we called it science, people
were selecting the best breeds."
</li>
<li>
<time datetime="2009"><b>2009</b></time
>- Dies at the age of 95.
</li>
</ul>
</article>
<blockquote id="tribute" class="text-content">
<em>
"Borlaug's life and achievement are testimony to the far-reaching
contribution that one man's towering intellect, persistence and
scientific vision can make to human peace and progress."
</em>
<br />
<cite><em>-- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singhem</em></cite>
</blockquote>
</section>
</main>
<footer>
<h3 id="footer-content">
If you have time, you should read more about this incredible human being
on his
<a href="#" target="_blank" id="tribute-link">Wikipedia entry</a>.
</h3>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
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