He became the fourth person to be elected president without a popular vote victory. Upon taking office, Bush signed a major tax cut program and education reform bill, the No Child Left Behind Act. He pushed for socially conservative efforts such as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and faith-based initiatives.…
In April, the Nixon administration announced a new energy strategy to boost domestic production to reduce U.S.U.S.U.S. Refugee Admissions Program Since the passage of the Refugee Act in 1980, which incorporated this definition of refugee into the INA, the United States has admitted more than 3.1 million refugees.https://www.state.gov › refugee-admissionsRefugee…
Architecture. Salisbury Cathedral was built between 1220 and 1258, in a style we now call Early English Gothic (or just ’Early English’ for short). This style emphasized height and light, and compared to the bulkier, heavier buildings of the 11th and 12th century, were quite revolutionary. Scissor (strainer) arches in…
Deborah, also spelled Debbora, prophet and heroine in the Old Testament (Judg. 4 and 5), who inspired the Israelites to a mighty victory over their Canaanite oppressors (the people who lived in the Promised Land, later Palestine, that Moses spoke of before its conquest by the Israelites); the “Song of…
John Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913 – November 9, 1988) was the 67th Attorney General of the United States under President Richard Nixon and chairman of Nixon’s 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns. Tom C. Clark. Thomas Campbell Clark (September 23, 1899 – June 13, 1977) was an American lawyer who…
When Kalākaua died in early 1891, Liliuokalani succeeded him, becoming the first woman ever to rule Hawaii. As queen, she acted to implement a new constitution that would restore the powers lost to the monarchy through the Bayonet Constitution. In January 1893, a group of American and European businessmen, with…
Who was the author of the MYSTERY DOCUMENT? Tecumseh. What is the mystery document? In place, John began a segment called the Mystery Document, in which he took advatange of the United States’ relative youth (and thus the abundance of written documents) by reading aloud a document that Stan had…
No one has ever established exactly what caused the explosion or who was responsible, but the consequence was the brief Spanish-American War of 1898. American sentiment was strongly behind Cuban independence and many Americans blamed the Spanish for the outrage. Who really blew up the USS Maine? Maine was sent…
1- Hans Zimmer. WaterTower Music. … 2- Klaus Badelt. ryeinc. … 3- Alexandre Desplat. Georgie Bradley. … 4- Marco Beltrami. Marco Beltrami – Topic. … 5- Ryuichi Sakamoto. Milan Records USA. … 6- Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Goldark. … 7- Javier Navarrete. Zarmatura. … 8- Jonny Greenwood. Awkadan. Popularly…
On November 7, 1980, the actor Steve McQueen, one of Hollywood’s leading men of the 1960s and 1970s and the star of such action thrillers as Bullitt and The Towering Inferno, dies at the age of 50 in Mexico, where he was undergoing an experimental treatment for cancer. Why is…