Tony Stewart, the 2005 Nextel Cup Series champion. Greg Biffle came in second behind Stewart by 35 points. Carl Edwards finished third in the championship. Tony Stewart, the 2005 Nextel Cup Series champion. Greg Biffle came in second behind Stewart by 35 points. Carl Edwards finished third in the championship.…
1- Junior Seau. Photo: flickr / CC0. … 2- Dikembe Mutombo. … 3- Terrell Suggs. … 4- Willie McGinest. … 5- Chris Hanburger. … 6- Orel Hershiser. … 7- Derrick Brooks. … 8- Jayson Williams. Who wore number 54 in the NFL? 54: Randy White. We looked at a number…
Auston Matthews of the Toronto Maple Leafs emerged as the big winner, taking home the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player as voted by the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association and the Ted Lindsay AwardTed Lindsay AwardPearson Award, is awarded annually to the National Hockey League’s most outstanding player…
The ruby slippers are the magic pair of shoes worn by Dorothy Gale as played by Judy Garland in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film The Wizard of Oz. Because of their iconic stature, the ruby slippers are among the most valuable items of film memorabilia. ^ a b “Judy Garland…
The United States won the most gold and overall medals, having 229 athletes competing compared to France’s 401. The opening ceremony and several sporting events took place in the Olympic Stadium of Colombes, which had a capacity of 45,000 in 1924. This VIII Olympiad was the last one organised under…
The suits were first associated in African-American communities such as Harlem, Chicago, and Detroit in the 1930s, but were made popular nationwide by jazz musicians in the 1940s. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word “zoot” probably comes from a reduplication of suit. First popularized during the 1930s in…
The United States presidential election of 1844 saw Democrat James Knox Polk defeat Whig Henry Clay in a close contest that turned on foreign policy, with Polk favoring the annexation of Texas and Clay opposed. Roosevelt won the highest share of the popular and electoral vote since the largely uncontested…
By 1840, the factories in Lowell employed at some estimates more than 8,000 textile workers, commonly known as mill girls or factory girls. These “operatives”—so-called because they operated the looms and other machinery—were primarily women and children from farming backgrounds. Although other textile mills were established in Massachusetts in the…
Beloved, by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) – The Pulitzer Prizes. For distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Three thousand dollars ($3,000). Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, it was one of the…
1- Sorting, washing, drying, pressing, and folding clothing and other textile items. 2- Removing stains from items using the appropriate procedures. 3- Performing minor sewing duties. 4- Tracking which items belong to whom. 5- Keeping an updated inventory of laundry detergents and sewing kits. 6- Assist customers with questions or…