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- 721: Herbert Hoover
- ... a Biography (1964); Nash, G. H., The Life of Herbert Hoover, 2 vols. (1983-88); Smith, Gene, The Shattered Dream: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1984); Smith, R. N., An Uncommon Man (1984); Sobel, Robert, Herbert Hoover at the Onset of the Great Depression, 1929-1930 (1975); Wilson, Joan Hoff, Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive (1975). NAME: Herbert Clark Hoover 31st President of the United States (1929-33) Born: Aug. 10 ... 1929-33) Attorney General: William DeWitt Mitchell Postmaster General: Walter F. Brown Secretary of the Navy: Charles F. Adams Secretary of the Interior: Ray L. Wilbur Secretary of Agriculture: Arthur M. Hyde Secretary of Commerce: Robert P. Lamont (1929-32); Roy D. Chapin (1932-33) Secretary of Labor: James J. Davis (1929-30); William N. Doak (1930-33)
- 722: Argumentative Environment
- ... environmentalist, and that we created the environmental problem we are dealing with now. Personally, I feel that Lame Deer is a "tree hugger" and who much prefer nature over just about anything, especially jobs. Paehlke, Robert. "Environmentalism." Conservation and Environmentalism: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Paehlke. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1995. 260-261. This article comes from an environmental encyclopedia. It tells how environmentalism has altered. Most of our society, polity, and economy has been affected through this new ...
- 723: History of Computers
- ... The first computers were made with vacuum tubes, but by the late 1950's computers were being made out of transistors, which were smaller, less expensive, more reliable, and more efficient (Shallis, 40). In 1959, Robert Noyce, a physicist at the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, invented the integrated circuit, a tiny chip of silicon that contained an entire electronic circuit. Gone was the bulky, unreliable, but fast machine; now computers began to ... s life easier by doing difficult work for people. The computer truly is one of the most incredible inventions in history. Works Cited Chposky, James. Blue Magic. New York: Facts on File Publishing. 1988. Cringley, Robert X. Accidental Empires. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing, 1992. Dolotta, T.A. Data Processing: 1940-1985. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1985. Fluegelman, Andrew. A New World, MacWorld. San Jose, Ca: MacWorld Publishing, February, 1984 ...
- 724: History of the Computer Industry in America
- ... The first computers were made with vacuum tubes, but by the late 1950's computers were being made out of transistors, which were smaller, less expensive, more reliable, and more efficient (Shallis, 40). In 1959, Robert Noyce, a physicist at the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, invented the integrated circuit, a tiny chip of silicon that contained an entire electronic circuit. Gone was the bulky, unreliable, but fast machine; now computers began to ... s life easier by doing difficult work for people. The computer truly is one of the most incredible inventions in history. Works Cited Chposky, James. Blue Magic. New York: Facts on File Publishing. 1988. Cringley, Robert X. Accidental Empires. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing, 1992. Dolotta, T.A. Data Processing: 1940-1985. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1985. Fluegelman, Andrew. "A New World", MacWorld. San Jose, Ca: MacWorld Publishing, February, 1984 ...
- 725: History of the Computer Industry in America
- ... The first computers were made with vacuum tubes, but by the late 1950's computers were being made out of transistors, which were smaller, less expensive, more reliable, and more efficient (Shallis, 40). In 1959, Robert Noyce, a physicist at the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, invented the integrated circuit, a tiny chip of silicon that contained an entire electronic circuit. Gone was the bulky, unreliable, but fast machine; now computers began to ... s life easier by doing difficult work for people. The computer truly is one of the most incredible inventions in history. Works Cited Chposky, James. Blue Magic. New York: Facts on File Publishing. 1988. Cringley, Robert X. Accidental Empires. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing, 1992. Dolotta, T.A. Data Processing: 1940-1985. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1985. Fluegelman, Andrew. A New World, MacWorld. San Jose, Ca: MacWorld Publishing, February, 1984 ...
- 726: Societies Greatest Writer
- ... his writings. The book For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of Hemingway's most provocative books. The story opens in a small Spanish peasant town with the appearance of an American collage instructor named Robert Jordan. He has come to Spain to fight for the Loyalists in the Civil War. His mission is to blow up a bridge that is supplying the enemy. Throughout the book Jordan comes to see ... of view impacted writers for years to come. "Hemingway has won his reputation as an artist of the first rank by operating within limits that would have stifled a lesser writer." (Young 82) Commented of Robert P. Weeks about Hemingway's writings'. Ernest Hemingway is one of the most important writers of this century. His works showed us the dark side of our civilization and the courage that can be found ...
- 727: Bacillus Anthracis
- Bacillus Anthracis Robert Koch discovered Bacillus Anthracis, the bacterium for the deadly disease, Anthrax, in 1877. Robert Koch grew the bacterium into a pure culture, demonstrated its ability to form endospores, and produced experimental Anthrax by injecting it into animals. Bacillus Anthracis was the first bacterium shown to be the cause of ...
- 728: The Atomic Bomb
- ... project that would change mankind forever. He decided to name this project the Manhatten Project. This project was headed by six of the worlds best scientists: Neils Bohr, Joseph Carter, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feyman, and Robert Oppenheimer, each with their own ideas of what it would take to construct such a weapon. From left to right: Neils Borh, Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feyman, Enrico Fermi The object of the project was to produce a practical military weapon in the form of a bomb in which the energy would be released by a fast neutron chain ...
- 729: Thomas Jefferson
- ... for agricultural purposes. If the Treaty of 1795 had not been signed, the United States would have gone to war with France to gain control of the territory. Initially, Jefferson, through his minister of France, Robert R. Livingston, offered Napoleon $2 million for a small stretch of land on the lower Mississippi River (internet). There, Americans could build their own seaport. Impatient at the lack of news, Jefferson sent James Monroe ... Chicago Press, 1981). Brodie, F.M. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History. (Bantam, 1975). Fleming, Thomas. The Man From Monticello: An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson. 1969. Rayner, B.L. Life of Thomas Jefferson. (ed. Elyer Robert Coates, Sr.) 1997. Schachner, Nathan. Thomas Jefferson: A Biography. 1960. Internet. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1683. http://www.sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/tjefferson.
- 730: McCarthyism
- ... on a ship during a party and gained a lot of good press along the way. In 1944 he unsuccessfully ran against Alexander Wiley for a senatorial seat from Wisconsin, and began planning to defeat Robert La Follette, Jr., whose seat was up for re-election in two years. La Follette was a Republican, and so was McCarthy, so the real race would be for the primary. McCarty's campaign used ... votes. It was not just the high-ranking politicians that praised the committees actions; "friendly" movie stars were tripping over one another to commend the committee. Among these actors were Ronald Regan, George Murphy, Robert Montgomery, and Adolph Menjou. They "donned the mantle of the anti Communist warriors". Some people went to great lengths to make the committee happy. There wasnt much that the "friendly" actors would not do ...
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