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- 3961: Henry T. Ford
- ... came from 11 stockholders. One investor put just $2,500 into Ford s venture. The final starting capital was $100,000. Other investments in the new company came in form of equipment. The Dodge brothers, John and Horace agreed to supply the Engines. In those days major components for the cars were purchased from other companies a common practice in those days. Cars were developed and assembled in parts, from ready ...
- 3962: Herman Melville
- ... Francisco hospital in 1886 after a long illness. Throughout these griefs, and for the whole of his 19 years in the customs house, Melville's creative pace was understandably slowed. His second collection of poetry, John Marr, and Other Sailors; With Some Sea-Pieces, appeared in 1888. By then he had been in retirement for three years, assisted by legacies from friends and relatives. About 3 years later he wrote Timoleon ...
- 3963: Hofstadter
- ... and Hoover. Thus some historians have placed The American Political Tradition, along with some of Hofstadter's other works, at the heart of the "consensus" school of history that defined the postwar era. The historian John Higham famously grouped Hofstadter's writings with Louis Hartz's Liberal Tradition in America and Daniel Boorstin's Genius of American Politics as works that expressed gratitude for the absence in this country of the ...
- 3964: Why The End of Integration?
- ... Kansas City spent $1.5 billion on magnet schools in town, a 10 year failure. San Francisco spent $200 million since 1982 to improve desegregation and after found it lacked "even modest overall improvement." (NCPA) John F. Huppenthal, the Republican chairman of the Senate's education committee said, "It is evil to hold them in a system which isn't doing much for them, particularly when it is so damn expensive ...
- 3965: Tinker vs. Des Moines
- ... punishment which is still thought of today as appropriate response to direct refusal to obey school rules. Parents of one of the students, MaryBeth. The Tinker's disputed the suspension of MaryBeth and her brother, John, and took their case all the way to the Supreme Court. 2. The Tinker's accused the school district of violating MaryBeth's rights as stated in the first and fourteenth amendments. These abrupt accusations ...
- 3966: 1984: A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... Abrahams. Orwell: The Transformation. London: Gramala Publishing Limited, 1981. Tucker, Robert C. "Does Big Brother Really Exist?" 1984 Revisited, Totalitarianism In Your Century. Ed. Irving Howe, New York: Harper and Row, 1983. 89-103. Verity, John W. "Why Big Brother Isn't Watching You." Business Week 9 January, 1995: 15-16. Weight, Richard. "Return To Albion, Intellectuals in Wartime Britain." History Today. December 1994: 37-43.
- 3967: The Selection of Presidential Nominees
- ... their respective states and vote by ballot for President and vice-president. Modern Presidential campaigns vast and complex operations costing many millions of dollars. Their expense contrasts sharply with the convictions expressed in 1828 by John Qunicy Adams " to pay money for securing [the presidency of the United States] is incorrect in principle." The apparent existence of running for President owes to a variety of factors, many of which did not ...
- 3968: Isaac Asimov
- ... typewriter and started to work on his on science fiction short story (Wilsonweb). When this story was finished, he sent it in to his favorite science fiction magazine, (Galenet), however, it was rejected by editor John Wood Campbell, Jr. Although he rejected the story, he discussed it at length with Asimov and became a constant source of advice and encouragement to him. "He was lean and hungry, and very enthusiastic," Campbell ...
- 3969: The Internet And Its Effects And Its Future
- ... of data and 20.000 credit-card numbers through the Internet. Still, the new wave of network hacking is presenting fresh problems for companies, universities and law-enforcement officials in every industrial country. In July, John Deutch, head of the CIA, told Congress that he ranked information warfare as the second most serious threat to the national security, just below weapons of mass destruction in terrorist hands. The Internet suffers around ...
- 3970: Jack London 2
- Jack London was born John Griffiths Chaney and changed his name for unknown reasons. He was born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco. His mother, Flora Wellman, was unmarried and of wealthy background. His father may have been William ...
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