“Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy” was a remark made during the 1988 United States vice-presidentialvice-presidentialWhile the exact nature of the role varies in each administration, most modern vice presidents serve as a key presidential advisor, governing partner, and representative of the president.https://en.wikipedia.org › Vice_President_of_the_United_StatesVice President of the United States –…
An angered God of the Heavens called upon the inhabitants of the sky, who destroyed the tower and scattered its inhabitants. The story was not related to either a flood or the confusion of languages, although Frazer connects its construction and the scattering of the giants with the Tower of…
Personal life. Gray married his wife Olivia in Los Angeles, California in 1993, and together they have two daughters: Ivy and Florence. He lives in London, having moved to Hampstead in 2009. David Gray was born on June 13, 1968 in Manchester, England. He is an actor and composer, known…
The Federal Trade Commission establishes regulations that apply to all advertisers, not just fast food businesses. Advertising cannot be misleading, cannot make false claims or claims that advertisers cannot back up and cannot be unfair. Advertising (including sponsorship advertising) of Occasional Food or Beverage Products must not target Children. Sponsorship…
Candidates for the presidency must be approved by the Council of Guardians, a twelve-member body consisting of six clerics (selected by Iran’s Supreme Leader) and six lawyers (proposed by the Supreme Leader-appointed head of Iran’s judicial system, and voted in by the Parliament). Unlike the executive in other countries, the…
The origins of associationism can be traced to Aristotle, who formulated four laws of associationlaws of associationIn psychology, the principal laws of association are contiguity, repetition, attention, pleasure-pain, and similarity. The basic laws were formulated by Aristotle in approximately 300 B.C. and by John Locke in the seventeenth century.https://en.wikipedia.org ›…
The Six Kingdoms. When Linnaeus developed his system of classification, there were only two kingdoms, Plants and Animals. But the use of the microscope led to the discovery of new organisms and the identification of differences in cells. In 1977, a scientist named Carl Woese proposed a six kingdom classification…
TiVo was developed by Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay through a corporation they named “Teleworld” which was later renamed to TiVo Inc. TiVo, Inc. started in 1997 and became a public company two years later. The idea behind digital video recorders had existed previously; TiVo decided to try to develop…
Standardized data sets, starting with the UHDDS developed by the NCVHS, have been in use for more than two decades. When was Uhdds established? The Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) originally developed and adopted in 1974 by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was revised in 1984…
Alferd Griner Packer (January 21, 1842 – April 23, 1907) was an American prospector who confessed to cannibalism during the winter of 1874. He and five other men attempted to travel through the high mountains of Colorado during the peak of a harsh winter. After roasting and eating their shoes…