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- 2601: The Lottery
- ... pursue justice in the case of false lottery claims. How are state lotteries falsifying odds and misleading those who participate. In Ronald Renos article he quote The New Republic as saying Take a current Washington D.C. lottery ad campaign for D.C. Daily Million. The slogan is A Million a DayJust Play. D.C. Daily Millions would be more accurately titled D.C. Daily Thousands: no one has ...
- 2602: President Millard Fillmore
- ... no good. Although he supported the national government during the Civil War, he felt that the conflict was unnecessary and was highly critical of the Lincoln administration. In the 1864 presidential election he supported Democrat George B. McClellan. During the Reconstruction period his sympathies were with President Andrew Johnson. In private life Fillmore devoted much of his time to civic activities. He was the first chancellor of the University of Buffalo ...
- 2603: Stephon Marbury
- ... that if he failed to make it to the National Basketball Association, he would be ridiculed in Brooklyn. New York City can be unforgiving toward its phenoms. The starmakers ballyhooed former playground legend Dwayne (Pearl) Washington, who never lived up to his precious nickname while playing at Syracuse, and struggling St. John's guard Felipe Lopez, who sat for Richard Avedon's camera while still in high school, only to turn ...
- 2604: Minor League Baseball: Boom or Bust to Communities?
- ... day there is no professional baseball being played in Fresno, California(Johnson 133). Franchises Relocating have also been based on a community not meeting the needs or the demands of the owner. Charlotte Knights owner George Shinn wanted to build a stadium that would be capable of hosting more than a minor league baseball team. To make his stadium plans work, Shinn had to avoid use restrictions of this stadium and ...
- 2605: The Civil War
- ... battlefield first and the Confederates won for the next few days and the Union was shocked. After a few more days at Bull Run Creek, or Manassas, Virginia, the Union lost and retreated back to Washington and the Bull Run set the tone for the whole war. Even though the Union outnumbered the Confederates, they pulled through with the victory. Mcdowell and the rest of the Union were very surprised. Most ...
- 2606: The Effects of Aristotelian Teleological Thought on Darwin's Mechanistic Views of Evolution
- ... Raven, J. and Schofield, M. The Presocratic Philosophers. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1983. Mayr, Ernst. Toward a New Philosophy of Biology. Harvard University Press. 1988. Moore, Ruth. Evolution. Time-life books. Alexandria, Virginia. 1980. Simpson, George The Meaning of Evolution. Yale University Press. New Haven and London. 1949.
- 2607: The Springfield Armory
- ... lives have been made better due to better and better technology. Perhaps one of the most profound examples of the advancement of technology and productivity was the Springfield Armory. In the late 1700s, President Washington ordered two federal arsenals to be built in order for the United States to produce their own weapons instead of relying on foreign suppliers. One of these armories was built in Springfield, Massachusetts. The location ...
- 2608: The Importance of Communication and Teamwork Among the Flight and Cabin Crew
- ... Cockpit/cabin communication: I. A tale of two cultures." [http://olias.arc.nasa.gov/personnel/people/RebeccaChute/JA1.htm.]. Oct 1996. Federal Aviation Administration. (1995) Crew resource management training (AFS- 210, AC no. 120-51B). Washington, D. C. Nader, R. & Smith, W. J. (1994). Collision course: The truth about airline safety. PA: TAB Books. FAA News. "Atlantic coast airlines first to use FAA crew performance program." [http://www.dot.gov/affairs ...
- 2609: John Locke: Property Rights
- ... 1975. Magill, Frank, Masterpieces of World Philosophy, Harper and Row, New York, 1961. O'Connor, D.J., John Locke, Pelican Books, London, 1952. Squadrito, Kathleen, Locke's Theory of Sensitive Knowledge, University Press of America, Washington, 1978. Yolton, J.W., Locke and the Compass of Human Understanding, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970.
- 2610: Stephen Sondheim
- ... musical thriller. But their next show, Merrily We Roll Along (1981), flopped, and the two men went their separate ways. Sondheim turned to the author and director James Lapine for Sunday In The Park With George (1984), a work that seemed at times an autobiographical reflection on the problems of making art in a commercial environment. His most recent shows illustrate one of his greatest strengths, his ability to write against ...
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