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- 911: Charles Manson
- ... grocery store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, Indiana, where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caught and sent to the National Training School for Boys in Washington D.C. Manson never had a place to call "home" or a real family. He spent his childhood being sent from one place to another, and trouble always seemed to follow him. His mother's ... bus and headed south in the spring of 1968. The "Family" settled at Spahn Ranch in the Santa Susana Mountains, just north of San Fernando Valley. The owner of the Ranch, eighty five year old George Spahn, was blind and feeble and allowed the family to stay with him. Manson ordered one of his girls to care for the man so that the "Family" could might stay there as long as ...
- 912: Capital Punishment Deters Murder, and Is Just Retribution
- ... that 18 murders were deterred by each execution is the U.S. He also found that executions increases in probability of arrest, conviction, and other executions of heinous offenders. According to a statement issued by George C. Smith, Director of Litigation, Washington Legal Foundation, titled "In Support of the Death Penalty", support for the death penalty has grown in the U.S., as the crime rate increased. In 1966, 42% of Americans were in favour of capital ...
- 913: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... the late 1950s and early 1960s has its origins in American's economic interests and its anticommunist policies in the region. The same man who had helped formulate American containment policy towards the Soviet threat, George Kennan, in 1950 spoke to US Chiefs of Mission in Rio de Janeiro about Latin America. He said that American policy had several purposes in the region, . . . to protect the vital supplies of raw materials ... and Company, 1990. The New York Times. 16 April to 22 April, 1961. New York: The New York Times, 1961. United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Cuba. Map, 22 by 52 cm, No. 502988 1-77. Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 1977. Vandenbroucke, Lucien S. "Anatomy of a Failure: The Decision to Land at the Bay of Pigs." Political Science Quarterly, Volume 99, Number 3, Fall 1984.
- 914: Should Gambling Be Legalized?
- ... pie. Gambling has shaped American history since its beginning. Lotteries were used by The First Continental Congress to help finance the Revolutionary war. Many of our founding fathers, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington, have sponsored private lotteries. It has been said that "Our founding fathers were just numbers guys in wigs" At one time baseball would have seemed to be the American pastime. This is not so now ...
- 915: Capital Punishment: Pro
- ... that 18 murders were deterred by each execution is the U.S. He also found that executions increases in probability of arrest, conviction, and other executions of heinous offenders. According to a statement issued by George C. Smith, Director of Litigation, Washington Legal Foundation, titled "In Support of the Death Penalty", support for the death penalty has grown in the U.S., as the crime rate increased. In 1966, 42% of Americans were in favour of capital ...
- 916: Benjamin Franklin 2
- ... they built forts for frontiersmen so they could be protected from the French and the Indians. In 1757, he was sent to England by the Pennsylvania Assembly. There he heard Lord Granville say that King George III's laws were were "the Law of the Land: for the King is the Legislator of the Colonies." This made Benjamin Franklin stop to think again about the relationship between England and the Colonies ... from the townspeople, he spoke up against it. In 1764 he lost the election for another term on the Pennsylvania Assembly. Later in the year the Assembly sent him back to England to petition King George III for Pennsylvania to become a royal colony. When King George III issued the Stamp Act in 1765 The crisis precipitated by the stamp Act, Pennsylvania becoming a royal colony was no longer important, but Benjamin Franklin stayed in England to defend the rights of ...
- 917: Capital Punishment: Deters murder, and is just Retribution
- ... that 18 murders were deterred by each execution is the U.S. He also found that executions increases in probability of arrest, conviction, and other executions of heinous offenders. According to a statement issued by George C. Smith, Director of Litigation, Washington Legal Foundation, titled "In Support of the Death Penalty", support for the death penalty has grown in the U.S., as the crime rate increased. In 1966, 42% of Americans were in favour of capital ...
- 918: Facts About Marijuana
- ... variety of new and better medicines like aspirin, morpheine (habit forming), chloral, barbituates tranquilizers, and when it got on the list of drugs thought by the world community to require legal restrictions. Our first President, George Washington, grew cannabis on his plantation. The cannabis he grew was more fibrous and is better known as hemp. Hemp was used to make rope, twine, paper and canvas (the word "canvas" comes from Cannabis) and ...
- 919: Q/A: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... hashish, as did Benjamin Franklin and Mary Todd Lincoln. President John F. Kennedy is also reported to have smoked marijuana to relieve his back pain. Many of America's grgrt leaders and Founding Fathers (including George Washington) were hemp farmers. Sources: National archives, published reports. 4. Archeologists report that cannabis was possibly the first plant cultivated by humans - about 8,000 B.C. - and was used fororinen, paper and garments. Source: Columbia ...
- 920: Leo Szilard and the Atomic Bomb
- ... get the U.S. government interested. Einstein was reluctant so Szilard went to another old friend a politician Gustaw Stulper who then introduced them to Dr. Alexander Sachs and economist who knew his way around Washington. Einstein helped them by writing a letter which Sachs personally delivered to President F.D.R. Letters were sent and Szilard's patience was being tested. They gave Sach's ten days to act. Eventually ... progress on the bomb. News from Berlin that a section of the Kaiser Wilhem Institute was being converted to uranium research was unsettling to Szilard. He convinced Einstein to get Sachs to put pressure on Washington. Szilard told Washington he would submit an article to the Physical Review describing a graphite uranium system he felt would be chain reacting. The article would be released if the government didn't start with the nuclear ...
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