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- 1591: Cinncinnati: Loveland: Paxton Woods
- ... nearby woods and was never heard from again. Some locals believe he was reincarnated as Jimmy Hoffa. As a base for Northwest Territory exploration and as a defense against Indian attacks, the government built Fort Washington in 1789. The fort, demolished in 1808, was located on what is now Third Street, on a hill just above the river basin. A small park near the intersection of Third and Broadway streets marks ... the garage was being built in 1952. The name Losantiville lasted about as long as Filson in the woods. In 1790, two days after he arrived, Gen. Arthur St. Clair, the new commander of Fort Washington and the Northwest Territories, invoked his newly given powers and renamed the area Cincinnati in honor of the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary War officers of which he belonged. The society drew its ...
- 1592: Pen Pals: Based On X-Files Characters
- ... Lots of activity regarding the X-Files goes on over the Internet, and through discussions are where I get a lot of my ideas for the stories that I write. =============================================== June 8th, 1996 6:58pm- Washington, DC, Scully's Apartment Dana Scully arrived home to find a package sitting in the hallway outside her door. Curious, she picked it up and tucked it under her arm while she let herself into ... her arms around the girl and held her until the weeping subsided. "You do that, honey," she whispered softly. "It's all any of us can do for her now." June 8th, 1996 7:16pm-Washington, DC, Scully's Apartment Blinking back the tears that had resurfaced with the memory, Dana opened the last letter she had received from her pen pal and began to re-read it. Suddenly, she froze ...
- 1593: A Lesson From Oliver
- ... one-man news department. I learned that, in fact, there was more to the job than just reading someone else's re-hashing of another reporter's by-line from somewhere off in Ottawa or Washington or Nairobi. Sometimes you had to write your own material. To me the weight of this task seemed entirely disproportionate. Writing your own copy I learned was painstaking work. How was it that I should ... When line four began to flash I was sure this mysterious bank- heist story had just broken internationally. "Good morning, CJRS," I answered hiding steadfast behind my receptionist disguise. The voice that replied was not Washington's, however, but my mother's. "Look, David, my break's over so I just wanted to let you know you could take me off hold now." "No, wait, mom!" I cried, finding my own ...
- 1594: Bleeding Ireland and Black America
- ... throughout the 1960' s. Later, leaders like Stokely Carmichael, would lead blacks into the Black Power Movement which was spawned from Malcom X and the urban ghettos. Then, in 1961 the 'freedom rides' begin from Washington, DC, where groups of black and white people ride buses through the South to challenge segregation. Two people are killed, many injured in riots in response to the freedom rides as James Meredith is enrolled ... hoses and police dogs turned on the nonviolent marchers. That same year Medgar Evers, NAACP leader, is murdered June 12 as he enters his home in Jackson, Mississippi. 250,000 people attend the March on Washington, DC urging support for pending civil-rights legislation. The event was highlighted by King's "I have a dream speech. On September 15th four girls killed in bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in ...
- 1595: The Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft
- The Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft Since 1990, a battle has raged in United States courts between the United States government and the Microsoft Corporation out of Redmond, Washington, headed by Bill Gates. What is at stake is money. The federal government maintains that Microsoft's monopolistic practices are harmful to United States citizens, creating higher prices and potentially downgrading software quality, and should ... terribly wrong or illegal, my opinion will stay this way. First and foremost, Microsoft sets standards for the rest of the industry to follow. Jesse Berst, editorial director of Windows Watcher newsletter out of Redmond, Washington, and the executive director of the Windows Solutions Conference, says it best with this statement: "To use a railroad analogy, Microsoft builds the tracks on which the rest of the industry ships its products." ("Why ...
- 1596: Computer Pornography
- ... Government should not be responsible for censorship. If so they must do it as a whole and this would be unconstitutional. Eliminate the problem by choice not by force. Works Cited BigGuy. Online Personal Interview. washington.dc.us.undernet.org/port=6667 (20 Jun. 1996). Bruce, Marty. "Censorship on the Internet." Censorship on the Internet. 1996. (29 Jun. 1996). "CDA: LP calls new bill `high-tech censorship'. " Libertarian Press July 1995 ... Chidley, Joe. "Red-Light District." MacLean's 22 May 1995: 58. Emigh, Jacqueline. "Computers & Privacy - Telecom Act Hits ISPs Hard 04/02/96." Computers & Privacy. 02 Apr. 1996. (18 Jun. 1996). GMoney. Online Personal Interview. washington.dc.us.undernet.org/port=6667 (20 Jun. 1996). Jerome, Richard and Linda Kramer. "Monkey Business No More." People Weekly 19 Feb. 1996: 51+. Lester, Meera. "What's Your Code of Ethics?" _VJF_Library_Career ...
- 1597: Government Censorship would damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on the Internet; therefore, government should not encourage censorship
- ... someone on IRC, he/she breaks the law. If a university, where some students may be under 18 years old, carries the alt.sex.* newsgroups, which contains adult material, it breaks the law. According to George Melloan from the Wall Street Journal, a censorship bill was passed by the Senate 84-16 in July, and an anticensorship bill was passed by the House 420-4 in August. There are now four ... New Age Comstockery: Exan vs the Internet Policy Analysis No. 232." Diss. Howgan & Hartson Law Firm, 1995. Hentoff, Frances. "Indecent Proposal." Entertainment Weekly 31 March, 1995. Meleedy, David. "Internet Censorship." Diss. Harvard University, 1995. Melloan, George. "Science Miracles Sprout From Creative Freedom." The Wall Street Journal 26 June 1995: A13. Philip, Elmer-Derwitt. "Porn on the Internet." Time 3 July 1995: 38+. Rheingold, Howard. Rheingolds Tomorrow: Why Censoring Cyberspace is ...
- 1598: The Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft
- The Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft Since 1990, a battle has raged in United States courts between the United States government and the Microsoft Corporation out of Redmond, Washington, headed by Bill Gates. What is at stake is money. The federal government maintains that Microsofts monopolistic practices are harmful to United States citizens, creating higher prices and potentially downgrading software quality, and should ... terribly wrong or illegal, my opinion will stay this way. First and foremost, Microsoft sets standards for the rest of the industry to follow. Jesse Berst, editorial director of Windows Watcher newsletter out of Redmond, Washington, and the executive director of the Windows Solutions Conference, says it best with this statement: "To use a railroad analogy, Microsoft builds the tracks on which the rest of the industry ships its products." ("Why ...
- 1599: Save The Internet
- ... at its source by censoring the Internet as that is to only rational solution up to today. We do not want our world to be ravaged by the present situation of Internet! Works Cited Beahm, George. War of Words-The Censorship Debate. Kansas City : Andrew and McMeel, 1993. Chidley, Joe. "Red-Light District." Maclean's 22 May 1995. Galbraith, John Kenneth. "The Page That Formerly Occupied This Site Has Been Taken ... The Internet and Censorship." http://esoptron.umd.edu/FUSFOLDER/dmontoya.html 1995 "Only disconnect." The Economist 1 July 1995. Quittner, Joshua. "How Parents Can Filter Out the Naughty Bits." Time 13 July 1995. BIBLIOGRAPHY Beahm, George. War of Words-The Censorship Debate. Kansas City : Andrew and McMeel, 1993. Chidley, Joe. "Red-Light District." Maclean's 22 May 1995. Galbraith, John Kenneth. "The Page That Formerly Occupied This Site Has Been Taken ...
- 1600: Hollywood and Computer Animation
- ... could make good use of it, thus accelerating the technologies development. Industry's First Attempts As NYIT's influence started to wane, the first wave of commercial computer graphics studios began to appear. Film visionary George Lucas (creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies) hired Catmull from NYIT in 1978 to start the Lucasfilm Computer Development Division, and a group of over half-dozen computer graphics studios around the country ... it was building back and waiting for the next big break. The break materialized in the form of a watery creation for the James Cameron 1989 film, The Abyss. For this film, the group at George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) created the first completely computer-generated entirely organic looking and thoroughly believable creature to be realistically integrated with live action footage and characters. This was the watery pseudopod that ...
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