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9 hours ago · Recorded December 8, 1941. Franklin Delano Roosevelt [a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. The longest serving U.S. president, he is the only president to have served more than two terms.
9 hours ago · Clause 2 of Section 2 provides that the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in cases involving ambassadors, ministers, and consuls, for all cases respecting foreign nation-states, and also in those controversies which are subject to federal judicial power because at least one state is a party. Cases arising under the laws of the United States and its treaties come under the jurisdiction of ...
9 hours ago · The premiere of the 2011 British game show hosted by Jason Bradbury drew 1.93 million viewers for a 15% audience share, but was canceled after only three of nine planned episodes due to poor ratings. Jim Shelley of the Daily Mirror wrote: "The idiots playing might have enjoyed themselves but even toddlers would have found the games dull and Jason creepy."
9 hours ago · v. t. e. The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the end to the Waco siege. The bombing was the deadliest act of terrorism in U.S. history before the September 11 attacks in 2001, and it ...
9 hours ago · Etymology and history Eduard Buchner By the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the digestion of meat by stomach secretions and the conversion of starch to sugars by plant extracts and saliva were known but the mechanisms by which these occurred had not been identified. French chemist Anselme Payen was the first to discover an enzyme, diastase, in 1833. A few decades later, when studying the ...
1 day ago · Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of ...
1 day ago · Area code. 309. FIPS code. 17-59000. Website. www .peoriagov .org. Peoria ( ⫽ piˈɔːriə ⫽ pee-OR-ee-ə) is a city in and county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, United States. [4] Located on the Illinois River, the city had a population of 113,150 as of the 2020 census. [5] [6] It is the principal city of the Peoria metropolitan area in ...
