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1 day ago · George Washington ( John Trumbull, 1780), with William Lee, Washington's enslaved personal servant. The history of George Washington and slavery reflects Washington 's changing attitude toward the ownership of human beings. The preeminent Founding Father of the United States and a hereditary slaveowner, Washington became increasingly uneasy ...
1 day ago · Life Before Dianetics Main article: Life of L. Ron Hubbard from 1911 to 1950 See also: Scientology and psychiatry § Hubbard's early encounters with psychiatry Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was born on March 13, 1911, the only child of Ledora May Waterbury (1885–1959), who had trained as a teacher, and Harry Ross Hubbard (1886–1975), a low-ranking United States Navy officer. Like many military ...
4 hours ago · June 28, 2024 at 1:32 PM PDT. Listen. 3:36. The US Supreme Court’s Friday decision limiting how prosecutors can use an Enron-era obstruction law could give Donald Trump new fuel to fight charges ...
1 day ago · Harvard University: George Moulton Carpenter: 1864 Brown University: William T. Sherman: 1866 Dartmouth College: Henry Adams: 1872 Harvard University: Henry James: 1872 Harvard University: William Henry Moody: 1876 Harvard University: Robert Peary: 1877 Bowdoin College: William Howard Taft: 1878 Yale College: John Dewey: 1879 University of ...
1 day ago · Etymology Main article: Name of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh was named in 1758, by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. As Forbes was a Scotsman, he probably pronounced the name / ˈ p ɪ t s b ər ə / PITS -bər-ə (similar to Edinburgh). Pittsburgh was incorporated as a borough on April 22, 1794, with the following Act: "Be it enacted by the ...
1 day ago · 100 rasm wa-akthar PN6222.E6 L32 2001 Labbād, Muḥyī al-Dīn. 18 Yawman : riwāyah muṣawwarah DT107.87 .A283 2011 ʻAbyah, Muḥammad Hishām
1 day ago · The University of Alabama varsity football program (nicknamed the Crimson Tide), inaugurated in 1892, ranks as one of the ten best in US history. In a 1913 speech president George H. Denny extolled the university as the "capstone of the public school system in the state", thereby establishing the university's current nickname, The Capstone. As ...
