Documents. 1  Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a Safer World: guidelines for natural disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation. 2  Report of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, 18â22 January 2005 in PDF format. 3  Timetable for Kobe conference in PDF format.
Bessie Blount, was a physical therapist who worked with soldiers injured in W.W.II. Her war service inspired her to patent a device, in 1951, that allowed amputees to feed themselves.
Grace Murray Hopper: Laziness is the Mother of Invention. Laziness is the Mother of Invention. Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper '28 is best known for the invention of the compiler, the intermediate program that translates English language instructions into the language of the target computer.