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2 hours ago · Robert Morris Jr. (January 20, 1734 – May 8, 1806) was an English-born American merchant, slave trader and politician who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, the Second Continental Congress, and the United States Senate, and he was a signer of the Declaration of ...
1 day ago · The Social Credit System ( Chinese: 社会信用体系; pinyin: shèhuì xìnyòng tǐxì) is a national credit rating and blacklist being developed by the government of China. [1] The social credit initiative calls for the establishment of a record system so that businesses, individuals and government institutions can be tracked and evaluated ...
2 hours ago · Capriccio is persistently linked to the role of court jester, here specifically ‘learn[ing] to play the jackanapes in the chamber’, an act which associated fools and apes with one another because they both had their own licensed versions of mockery (see Chapter 2). Furthermore, as Knowles has noted, the trope of the poet-ape ‘degraded through servile poetic imitation’ is common in the ...
2 hours ago · PS19/16 - Reporting requirements for non-Solvency II insurance firms : https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/prudential-regulation/publication/2016/reporting-requirements ...
1 day ago · Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was an American politician who served as the 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father.
1 day ago · Elected President. James A. Garfield Republican. The 1880 United States presidential election was the 24th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1880, in which Republican nominee James A. Garfield defeated Winfield Scott Hancock of the Democratic Party. The voter turnout rate was one of the highest in the nation's history.
