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23 hours ago · t. e. Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. OMRI ( / əˈliːtoʊ / ə-LEE-toh; born April 1, 1950) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated to the high court by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served on it since January 31, 2006.
23 hours ago · The history of the race and intelligence controversy concerns the historical development of a debate about possible explanations of group differences encountered in the study of race and intelligence. Since the beginning of IQ testing around the time of World War I, there have been observed differences between the average scores of different ...
10 minutes ago · City leaders in Waterbury gathered to name Joseph Karmuza the Brass City’s “Lithuanian Mayor for the day”. ... Karmuza’s father was a volunteer in the White Army in 1918 and his family ...
23 hours ago · Early life Childhood and education Oppenheimer was born Julius Robert Oppenheimer into a non-observant Jewish family in New York City on April 22, 1904, to Ella (née Friedman), a painter, and Julius Seligmann Oppenheimer, a successful textile importer. Robert had a younger brother, Frank, who also became a physicist. Their father was born in Hanau, when it was still part of the Hesse-Nassau ...
23 hours ago · Deaths: 681,692 executions and 116,000 deaths in the Gulag system (official figures) 700,000 to 1.2 million (estimated): Perpetrators: Joseph Stalin, the NKVD (Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, Lavrentiy Beria, Ivan Serov and others), Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrey Vyshinsky, Lazar Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov, Robert Eikhe and others
23 hours ago · Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955. Apart from 1922-24, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and ...
23 hours ago · Hartford, Connecticut. / 41.76250°N 72.67417°W / 41.76250; -72.67417. Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The city, located in Hartford County, had a population of 121,054 as of the 2020 census. Hartford is the most populous city in the Capitol Planning Region and the core city of the Greater Hartford ...
