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1 day ago · Those open houses sometimes became rowdy: in 1829, President Andrew Jackson had to leave for a hotel when roughly 20,000 citizens celebrated his inauguration inside the White House. His aides ultimately had to lure the mob outside with washtubs filled with a potent cocktail of orange juice and whiskey.
6 hours ago · The Whigs emerged in the 1830s in opposition to President Andrew Jackson, pulling together former members of the National Republican Party, the Anti-Masonic Party, and disaffected Democrats. The Whigs had some weak links to the defunct Federalist Party , but the Whig Party was not a direct successor to that party and many Whig leaders, including Henry Clay, had aligned with the rival ...
1 day ago · Bard's president, Leon Botstein, described the phone call with ADL CEO Greenblatt as "not civil". [143] In October 2023, the ADL sent letters to almost two hundred college presidents condemning Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters, encouraging college presidents to investigate the chapters and alleging that SJP may be funding or receiving funds from Hamas. [144]
1 day ago · Former president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: Dennis Hightower: Xi: Former Army Officer, retired business executive, college educator, and public servant who was the United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce from 2009 to 2010. Alvin Holmes: Beta Zeta: Former Alabama state House of Representative Alphonso R. Jackson
1 day ago · The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the American Civil War fought on April 6–7, 1862. The fighting took place in southwestern Tennessee, which was part of the war's Western Theater. The battlefield is located between a small, undistinguished church named Shiloh and Pittsburg Landing on ...
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1 day ago · Peter Andreas Thiel (/ t iː l /; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.
