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Killer Girlfriend provides the first comprehensive account of the case, from the moment Jodi and Travis met, through the killing, her arrest, the four-month trial, and ending, finally, with the verdict.


Source: Alleged East Feliciana serial killer's ex-girlfriend had married another person soon before first killing
Thibodeaux said the ex-girlfriend, who also worked at T's Country, and Sharpe had been living together when the woman left her job, sometime in the first half of 2015. Thibodeaux said the ex-girlfriend had since gotten married, but not to Sharpe.


Source: Alleged East Feliciana serial killer's ex-girlfriend had married another person soon before first killing
Investigators learned Monday that Ryan Sharpeâs ex-girlfriend, who has not been identified, had married soon before he allegedly killed his first victim in July and are looking into a connection between the ex-girlfriend and a possible motive, the source said. The source spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.


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Holly Eudy says she had a 10-year relationship with Todd Kohlhepp, who admitted to killing multiple people over a 13-year period Holly Eudy says she had a 10-year relationship with Todd Kohlhepp, who admitted to killing multiple people over a 13-year period


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Ex-Girlfriend of S.C. Serial Killer Speaks Out: 'I Knew There Was Something About Him'


Source: Alleged East Feliciana serial killer's ex-girlfriend had married another person soon before first killing
Investigators looking into new information about what led a Clinton man to allegedly shoot four people, killing three of them, say his motive may have been linked to his ex-girlfriend, You are the owner of this article.


Ira Einhorn
Ira Samuel Einhorn, known as the Unicorn Killer, is an American environmental activist convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Holly Maddux. On September 9, 1977, Maddux disappeared following a trip to collect her things from the apartment she and Einhorn had shared in Philadelphia. Eighteen months later, police found Maddux's partially mummified body in a trunk in his closet. It had been packed with Styrofoam pellets, air fresheners, and newspapers. After his arrest, Einhorn fled the country and spent 23 years in Europe before being extradited to the US. He took the stand in his own defense, claiming his ex-girlfriend had been killed by CIA agents who framed him for the crime because he knew too much about the agency's paranormal military research. He was convicted and is currently serving a life sentence.


Ira Einhorn
Ira Einhorn. Ira Samuel Einhorn (born May 15, 1940), known as the Unicorn Killer, is an American environmental activist convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Holly Maddux. On September 9, 1977, Maddux disappeared following a trip to collect her things from the apartment she and Einhorn had shared in Philadelphia.


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On January 2, 2013, the murder trial of Jodi Arias began, setting off a national obsession with Jodi's story of sex, lies, and murder. Jodi Arias became a household name overnight when she was charged with the heinous murder of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander.


Who was the first Admiral in the US Navy?
David Glasgow Farragut became the first Admiral in the US Navy in 1866. ..... my Version: Farragut was the first 4-star Admiral, and he achieved that rank of simply Admiral, promoting from the 3-star rank of Vice Admiral, on July 25, 1866. However the first specifically admirals in the United States, came about two years prior.


The First Black Admiral in the U.S. Navy: Samuel Gravely Jr.
Admiral Samuel Gravely Jr., who retired from the Navy in 1980, repeatedly broke the grounds during his 38-year career, recording a series of firsts in naval education and appointments to increasingly commendable commands. He, in 1962, became the first black officer to command a U.S.-based Warship.


Who was the first female Admiral of the Navy?
Admiral Grace Hopper was the first female admiral. She was a figurehead in the computer development in the US Navy. She served in the US Navy for 43 years. I had the honor to salute her once.


Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)
The appointment gave the command of the English navy to one person for the first time; the post would evolve into the post of Admiral of the Fleet. In the days sailing ships the admiral distinctions then used by the Royal Navy when the fleet was divided into three divisions â red, white, or blue.


Who was the first Admiral in the US Navy?
David Glasgow Farragut became the first Admiral in the US Navy in 1866. ..... my Version: Farragut was the first 4-star Admiral, and he achieved that rank of si â¦ mply Admiral, promoting from the 3-star rank of Vice Admiral, on July 25, 1866. However the first specifically admirals in the United States, came about two years prior.


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Navy names first female four-star admiral. Vice Admiral Michelle Howard was awarded her fourth star, and made history, during a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Howard is the first female to be named a four-star admiral in the U.S. Navy's history. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, left, and Michelle Howard's husband Wayne Cowles, put four-star shoulder boards on Howard's service white uniform during her promotion ceremony. Howard is the first woman to be promoted to the rank of admiral in the history of the Navy.


Admiral (United States)
Admiral is a four-star commissioned naval flag officer rank in the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, and the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, with the pay grade of O-10. Admiral ranks above vice admiral and below fleet admiral in the Navy; the Coast Guard and the Public Health Service do not have an established grade above admiral. Admiral is equivalent to the rank of general in the other uniformed services. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrat


African American Firsts
As part of the U.S. Navy's underwater demoliton teams, which were a precursor to the current U.S. Navy SEAL Teams, Fred Tiz Morrison was the first African-American Navy SEAL/Frogman. Morrison was awarded the Bronze Star for his heroics in the Korean War as part of UDT Team 12. Morrison was known as an expert in underwater demolitions.


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Not only were native Americans present when he reached the New World, but also Africans, Asians and Europeans, among others, had been sailing to the Americas thousands of years before Columbus ventured across the Atlantic.


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Who were the Africans who sailed to America before Columbus? Indian scholar R.A. Jairazbhoy states that the earliest settlers were Ancient Egyptians led by King Ramesis III, during the 19th dynasty. Van Sertima also believes that most of the explorers sailed from Egypt, but during the much later 25th dynasty.


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Furthermore, very ancient African skeletons have been unearth in California, Mexico, Central and South America. The best evidence of the Black presence in America before Columbus comes from the pen of the great discoverer himself.


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Early Mexican scholars were convinced that the impact of the Black explorers on the New World was profound and enduring. One author, J.A. Villacorta, has written: Any way you view it, Mexican civilization had its origin in Africa.. Modern excavations throughout Latin America appear to confirm Villacorta's conclusions.


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Back. 1  Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend. 2  La Travesia de Enrique: La arriesgada odisea de un niÃ±o en busca de su madre (Spanish Edition) Sonia Nazario. 3  La casa de los espiritus: The House of the Spirits - Spanish-language Edition (Spanish Edition) Isabel Allende.


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Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Nearly two centuries before Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began their epic trek to the Pacific coast


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Goodwin's groundbreaking research in original Spanish archives has led him to a radical new interpretation of American history-one in which an African slave named Esteban emerges as the nation's first great explorer and adventurer. Esteban (1500â1539) is the first man born in Africa to die in North America about whom anything is known. The first African American with a name, he was also the first great pioneer from the Old World to explore the entirety of the American South with his three companions.


Timeline of women's education
Elizabeth Blackwell, born in England, became the first woman to earn a medical degree from an American college, Geneva Medical College in New York. Bedford College opens in London as the first higher education college for women in the United Kingdom.


Martha E. Bernal: First Latina to earn a PhD in Psychology in the U.S.
Martha E. Bernal: First Latina to earn a PhD in Psychology in the U.S. Born in San Antonio, Texas to Mexican parents who migrated to the United States, Martha Bernal lived in a time of racial segregation.


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place: Washington, D.C. In 1943, Euphemia Lofton Haynes earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics at The Catholic University in Washington, D.C., thus becoming the first African American Woman Ph. D. in Mathematics. Born Martha Euphemia Lofton, Euphremia (she rarely used Martha) was a fourth generation Washingtonian, her father was Dr. William S. Lofton, a prominent Black D.C. dentist and financier of Black businesses in the area.


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Who was the first African American woman to receive a PhD in electrical engineering?


Who was the first woman with a doctorate degree in psychology?
Answer     6-8 years. Doctorate degree Doctorate degree - 25 years or older Male 1.1% Female 0.7% (total within all fields of study) Above retrieved from US Census Bureau (educational â¦Attainment) Women Women in all citizenship groups earned 15,108 of the 39,754 doctorates awarded in all fields in 1993, 38 percent of the total.


Francis Sumner, PhD, and Inez Beverly Prosser, PhD
Francis Sumner, PhD, was the first African American to receive a PhD degree in psychology. Inez Beverly Prosser, PhD, was the first African American woman to receive her doctoral degree in psychology.


Timeline
1933 - Inez Beverly Prosser: First African American woman to receive a doctoral degree in psychology at the University of Cincinnati, in educational psychology 1934 - Ruth Howard (Beckham): Second African American woman to receive a doctoral degree in psychology, first within a department of psychology, at the University of Minnesota


America's first black female psychologist
America's first black female psychologist. Despite the odds, Inez Beverly Prosser earned her doctorate in psychology 75 years ago and went on to do historic work, though her life was abruptly cut short. By Ludy T. Benjamin Jr., PhD . 2008, Vol 39, No. 10. Print version: page 20


Timeline of women's education
Juliana Morell, a Spanish woman, became the first woman to earn a doctorate degreeâa Law doctorateâand, indeed, the first woman to earn any type of university degree.


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Interesting Note: Boston Was Late To The Negro League Party. From New York To Atlanta almost every major city in the East and South either claimed it's own Negro League team or regularly hosted Negro League games from the 1920s forward.


Negro league baseball
The league was racially segregated due to racism in the United States, with non whites prevented from playing in the major and minor baseball leagues. In 1885 the Cuban Giants formed the first black professional baseball team. The first league, the National Colored Base Ball League, was organized strictly as a minor league but failed in 1887 after only two weeks owing to low attendance.


Jackie Robinson
Black History: First Black Major League Baseball Player. John W. âBudâ Fowler, top row center, held the record for most consecutive seasons of a black man playing on white teams (11) until Jackie Robinson broke it in 1956.


Negro league baseball
The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in 1920 that are sometimes termed Negro Major Leagues. In 1885 the Cuban Giants formed the first black professional baseball team. The first league, the National


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Along the way Brown became the first black player to hit a homerun in the American League (with St. Louis in 1947) and a genuine legend in Puerto Rico. In the end, ten years after his death in 1996, Brown's career will come to a fitting conclusion with his induction into the National Baseball Hall Of Fame.


Negro league baseball
The first nationally known black professional baseball team was founded in 1885 when three clubs, the Keystone Athletics of Philadelphia, the Orions of Philadelphia, and the Manhattans of Washington, D.C., merged to form the Cuban Giants.


Negro league baseball
Negro major leagues. 1  Negro National League (I), 1920â31. 2  Eastern Colored League, 1923â28. 3  American Negro League, 1929; was created from some of the ECL teams but lasted just one season. 4  East-West League, 1932; ceased operations midway through the season.


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John W. âBudâ Fowler played Major League baseball in 1878. By Jason Lewis Sentinel Sports Editor jasonl@lasentinel.net. Jackie Robinson is known by many as the first black baseball player to play Major League baseball. But that is not accurate. Robinson broke Major Leagueâs color barrier in 1946, making him the first black player in the modern era, but about 50 black players were on Major League rosters in the late 1800s. The first try at segregation in baseball was in 1867, just two years after the Civil War ended.


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The Negro League-Cuban League baseball connection was a very important factor in the development of the game in both countries, and we can think of no better repository of the history than the recollections of Monte Irvin and Connie Marrero.


Negro league baseball
However, some teams were considered associate teams and games played against them did count, but an associate team held no place in the league standings. 1  Negro National League (I), 1920â31. 2  Eastern Colored League, 1923â28. 3  American Negro League, 1929; was created from some of the ECL teams but lasted just one season.


Human Computers
A former high school teacher with a college degree in mathematics, she arrived the day after Labor Day 1935 to join four other women in Langleyâs first âComputer Pool.â Before the development of electronic computers, the term âcomputerâ referred to people, not machines.


The True Story of 'Hidden Figures' and the Women Who Crunched the Numbers for NASA
In 1935, the NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a precursor to NASA) hired five women to be their first computer pool at the Langley campus. The women were meticulous and accurate... and they didn't have to pay them very much, NASA's historian Bill Barry says, explaining the NACA's decision.


Meet the Black Female Mathematicians Who Helped America Win the Space Race
Writer Margot Lee Shetterly grew up in Hampton, Virginia, and her father was a climate scientist at NASAâs Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in town â the human computers also worked there, so she grew up knowing their story.


African American Women Worked As Some of NASA's First Computers
African American Women Worked As Some of NASA's First Computers. Published on December 17, 2015 at 11:00am. Mathematician Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson was recently awarded the presidential medal of freedom for her work at NASA. Photo by NASA. The modern exploration of space is often seen as a macho endeavor.


Hidden figures: the history of Nasaâs black female scientists
While the black women are the most hidden of the mathematicians who worked at the Naca, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and later at Nasa, they were not sitting alone in the shadows: the white women who made up the majority of Langleyâs computing workforce over the years have hardly been recognised for their contributions to the agencyâs long-term success.


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When Charlene Butler was growing up, she, along with many other young people, thought that it would be cool to work for NASA one day. Little would she have guessed that her dream would begin to unfold during ninth grade for it was in Ms. Butlerâs freshman year that she decided on a career in the Computer/Information Technology (IT) field.


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Considering the atmosphere in America at the time, what made NASA hire black people in the 60s?
Considering the atmosphere in America at the time, what made NASA hire black people in the 60s?


The Black Female Mathematicians Who Sent Astronauts to Space
Such details are personal to Harris, because her grandmother, Miriam Daniel Mann, was one of the first black computers at Langley. A former math teacher, Mann worked for the lab until 1966, when illness forced her to retire. She died in 1967, two years before the lunar landing.


They did the math: How NASA's black mathematicians multiplied success
A pivotal scene in the film features Glenn. Johnson's work was held in such high regard in its time that Glenn, who died on Thursday, was aware of it. Computers were so new that even people at NASA were skeptical of them, and Glenn requested that Johnson personally confirm its calculations before his trip three times around Earth.


Top 15 African American Quarterbacks In NFL History
Doug Williams will always be remembered and should never find himself out of the top 10 on a list like this. Williams was the first black quarterback to start a Super Bowl game, as well as the first to win a Super Bowl. Williams was also the first black quarterback to be drafted in the first round of the NFL draft.


Black players in professional American football
Black players in professional American football - Today. 1  At the start of the 2014 season, NFL surveys revealed that the league was approximately 68% African-American [35] and about 28% white, with the remaining 4% comprising Asian/Pacific Islander, non-white Hispanics, and those preferring a Mixed Race category.


Black players in professional American football
Details of the history of black players in professional American football depend on the professional football league considered, which includes the National Football League (NFL); the American Football League (AFL), a rival league from 1960 through 1969 which eventually merged with the NFL; and the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), which existed from 1946 to 1949.


Black players in professional American football
Black players in professional American football - Early years. 1  Charles Follis is believed to be the first black professional football player, having played for the Shelby Steamfitters from 1902 to 1906. Follis, a two sport athlete, was paid for his work beginning in 1904.


Top 15 African American Quarterbacks In NFL History
Fritz Pollard was the very first black quarterback way back in 1920 for the Akron Pros, who won the NFL Championship. During the 20s, the quarterback position was a lot different than we know it today.


Top 15 African American Quarterbacks In NFL History
Harris also was a pioneer for the black quarterback. In 1974, Harris guided the L.A. Rams to the conference championship game, becoming the first black QB to play in a conference championship game. He was also named to the Pro Bowl in 1974, and was crowned the gameâs MVP, another first for a black quarterback. 14. Frederick âFritzâ Pollard


Black players in professional American football
Black players in professional American football - 1934 to 1945. 1  In 1933, the last year of integration, the NFL had two black players, Joe Lillard and Ray Kemp. 2  By 1934, there were no more black players in the league. [7] [8] The NFL did not have another black player until after World War II.


NAVSCIATTS Completes First Spanish Strategic Level Small Craft Combating Terrorism Course
JOHN C. STENNIS SPACE CENTER, MISS. -- Eight senior officers from four partner nations completed Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training Schoolâs (NAVSCIATTS) 12th iteration of its Strategic Level Small Craft Combating Terrorism Course (SLC) on July 1.


Commanding officer
The commanding officer of a battalion or a squadron (Marine aviation), is usually a lieutenant colonel. The commanding officer of a regiment, aviation group, or Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), a colonel, is the regimental/group/MEU commander.


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NAVSCIATTS' role as the only Department of Navy Security Cooperation enabling schoolhouse operating under the United States Special Operations Command led to numerous exchanges between the two organizations, according to Cmdr. John Cowan, NAVSCIATTS commanding officer, all of which were intended to support the upcoming launch and success of JMSTCâs first Tactical Riverine Operations Course (TROC) in Lagos, Nigeria, from July 13 to Sept. 6, 2013.


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NAVSCIATTS Selects 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient SOCOM Commander presents first NAVSCIATTS Distinguished Alumni Award USSOCOM Commander Presents 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award


Welcome
NAVSCIATTS was assigned to Commander, Training Command Atlantic Fleet, as a functional command for the Chief of Naval Education and Training (CNET) at that time.


Welcome
Continued success and further expansion led to NAVSCIATTS official establishment as a Naval Shore Command (the first Commanding Officer was Commander Richard James Flanagan) on July 21, 1983, under then-President Ronald Reaganâs directives to enhance U.S. security forces relationships in Latin America and the Caribbean.


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090306-N-8933S-316 STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (March 6, 2009) Cmdr. Bill Mahoney, commanding officer of Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School, speaks to Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School and Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation students about the success of the joint field training exercise they just completed.


Leadership
CDR Pendergrass assumed command of the NAVSCIATTS team July 9, 2015. Email: clayton.pendergrass@socom.mil; LIEUTENANT COMMANDER KERRY S. JACKSON NAVSCIATTS EXECUTIVE OFFICER UNITED STATES NAVY. LCDR Kerry S. Jackson, a Dallas, Texas native, enlisted in the Navy in August 1988. He graduated from Saint Leo University with a Bachelor of Science in May 2001, and then completed a Masterâs Degree in Organizational Leadership from National University in May 2014.


NAVSCIATTS Completes First Spanish Strategic Level Small Craft Combating Terrorism Course
Our goal is to train exceptional leaders and generate the ideas and expertise that provide solutions to some of the most serious maritime threats which face governments around the globe,â added Cmdr. John C. Cowan, commanding officer, NAVSCIATTS.


Commander of Colombian Navy Honored as NAVSCIATTS 2016 Distinguished Alumni
DurÃ¡n first attended the Patrol Craft Commandersâ Course in 1989, when NAVSCIATTS was located at the U.S. Naval Station in Rodman, Panama. In June 2016, he served as the guest speaker for the Strategic Leaders International Course gradation and spoke about his successful use of NAVSCIATTSâ network of global partners.


Narcolepsy
Narcolepsy is defined by four major symptoms: 1  Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). 2  Cataplexy, the most dramatic symptom of narcolepsy, affecting 75 percent of people with the disorder. 3  Hypnagogic hallucinations, intense and sometimes terrifying experiences that occur as the person is falling asleep.


Diagnosis
Ruling out other conditions. Narcolepsy can sometimes be difficult to diagnose because the symptoms may be attributed to other conditions, such as sleep apnoea, epilepsy, depression, an underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism), or a previous head injury.


Misdiagnosis of Narcolepsy
These alternate diagnoses of Narcolepsy may already have been considered by your doctor or may need to be considered as possible alternative diagnoses or candidates for misdiagnosis of Narcolepsy. For a general overview of misdiagnosis issues for all diseases, see Overview of Misdiagnosis.


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Learn about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of narcolepsy in children. Sleepiness, behavioral problems, and weight gain may suggest the condition. Learn about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of narcolepsy in children.


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Narcolepsy is a relatively uncommon condition, but its impact on a child can be dramatic. Learn about how it's diagnosed and treated at CHOP.


At School
Students with narcolepsy can perform well in school. Teachers and school staff can help parents identify signs of narcolepsy in a child, and, if the child is diagnosed, help work out a plan to provide academic support. Students can improve alertness by scheduling naps, keeping a regular sleep schedule, and working with their doctor to optimize medications.


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Sleepiness. 1  Unwanted episodes of sleep, which recur several times a day. 2  The sleep episodes may occur when a person is fully involved in an active task. 3  After a nap, the child may wake feeling fully refreshed. 4  Apart from sleep episodes, children feel abnormally drowsy.


Learn how UpToDate can help you.
Top. 1  American Academy of Sleep Medicine. International Classification of Sleep Disorders, 3rd ed, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Darien, IL 2014. 2  Challamel MJ, Mazzola ME, Nevsimalova S, et al. Narcolepsy in children. 3  Wijnans L, Lecomte C, de Vries C, et al.


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A PSG can help reveal whether REM sleep occurs early in the sleep cycle and if an individual's symptoms result from another condition such as sleep apnea. Multiple sleep latency test (MSLT). The MSLT assesses daytime sleepiness by measuring how quickly a person falls asleep and whether they enter REM sleep.


How is Narcolepsy diagnosed?
How is Narcolepsy diagnosed? It can take as long as 10 to 15 years after the first symptoms appear before Narcolepsy is recognized and diagnosed. Many doctors are unfamiliar with Narcolepsy, even though it affects 1 in 2,000 people. Narcolepsy symptoms are like symptoms of other illnesses, such as infections, depression and other sleep disorders. It can sometimes be mistaken for a learning problem, seizure and even laziness, especially in school-aged children and teens. When Narcolepsy symptoms are mild, the disorder is even harder to diagnose.


Pedro de Alvarado
Juan de Grijalba, Spanish explorer, nephew of the conquistador Diego VelÃ¡zquez; he was one of the first to explore the eastern coast of Mexico. Grijalba accompanied VelÃ¡zquez in the conquest of Read More


Pedro de Alvarado
This town became the first capital of the captaincy general of Guatemala, later including much of Central America, of which Alvarado was governor (1527â31). In 1534 Alvarado led an unlicensed expedition to Quito, but in 1535 he sold his ships and munitions to Diego de Almagro, one of Francisco Pizarroâs captains.


Pedro de Alvarado
Pedro de Alvarado, (born c. 1485, Badajoz, Castile [Spain]âdied 1541, in or near Guadalajara, New Spain [now in Mexico]), a conqueror of Mexico and Central America for Spain. Alvarado went to Santo Domingo in 1510 and in 1518 commanded one of Juan de Grijalbaâs ships sent from Cuba to explore the YucatÃ¡n Peninsula. In February 1519 he accompanied the army, led from Cuba by HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s, that was to conquer Mexico.


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Conquistador is the name given to any of the leaders in the Spanish conquest of America, especially of Mexico and Peru, in the 16th century. These conquistadores sailed to the Americas with certain goals in mind: to conquer the native peoples, to spread Christianity, and to look for gold and other treasure.


Conquistador
1 An expedition against Aztec Mexico was led by HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s, who set up a base camp at Veracruz in 1519 to prepare for an advance inland. 2  The conquest of Inca Peru was led by Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro, adventurers from Spain who had originally settled in Panama.


Garrido, Juan (c. 1480-c.1550)
For his service in the conquest of Mexico, Garrido was granted property on a dried out lake bed outside the former Aztec capital in 1522. Garrido became a farmer and was the first cultivator to harvest a wheat crop in the Americas.


Conquistador
1 An expedition against Aztec Mexico was led by HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s, who set up a base camp at Veracruz in 1519 to prepare for an advance inland. CortÃ©s marched inland with about 400 men and secured an alliance with the independent city of Tlaxcala, with whose aid he conquered the Aztec capital of TenochtitlÃ¡n (now Mexico City).


Garrido, Juan (c. 1480-c.1550)
Garrido, Juan (c. 1480-c.1550) Born around 1480 in West Africa, Juan Garrido is the most prominent among the small group of African freeman who traveled to the Americas to take part in the Spanish conquest of the West Indies and Mexico in the late 15th and early 16th Centuries.


Conquistador
Conquistador, ( Spanish: âconquerorâ) , plural conquistadores or conquistadors, any of the leaders in the Spanish conquest of America, especially of Mexico and Peru, in the 16th century. HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s, 18th-century engraving.


Pedro de Alvarado
Pedro de Alvarado: Pedro de Alvarado, a conqueror of Mexico and Central America for Spain. Alvarado went to Santo Domingo in 1510 and in 1518 commanded one of Juan de Grijalbaâs ships sent from


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Answered by The Community. Making the world better, one answer at a time. the constructed environment includes the natural environment after it has been changed by human effort. A constructed environment is created when a dwelling is built, landscaped, and heated and/or cooled to control the indoor climate. know lots of people wonder what can we about the environment. The simple things you can do is recycle, drive less, use energy saving light bulbs and turn off things you don' â¦ t need to have to use or need on.


What is a built environment?
: A built environment is an area that is created by people. Built environments can be very big, like a city, or can be small, like a shop. Where you live is a built environment.Built environments include towns, homes, shops, schools, factories, transport stations and cubby houses.See image 1.uilt environments can be very big, like a city, or can be small, like a shop. Where you live is a built environment. Built environments include towns, homes, shops, schools, factories, transport stations and cubby houses. See image 1.


Built environment
In social science, the term built environment refers to the human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from buildings and parks or green space to neighborhoods and cities that can often include their supporting infrastructure, such as water supply or energy networks.n landscape architecture, the built environment is understood to mean a human-made landscape, as distinguished from the natural environment; for example, a city park is a built environment.


Board on Infrastructure and Constructed Environment
The Board on Infrastructure and Constructed Environment (BICE) is a part of the Engineering and Physical Sciences division in the National Research Council (NRC). Contents.he Board on Infrastructure and Constructed Environment (BICE) is a part of the Engineering and Physical Sciences division in the National Research Council (NRC). Contents.


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The actual definition of environment is the influences and resources in a system. The environment is your surroundings, your house, your garden, your town, your shops, the hi â¦ lls and rivers, the ocean, the air and so on Environment is your surroundings and whats around you. know lots of people wonder what can we about the environment. The simple things you can do is recycle, drive less, use energy saving light bulbs and turn off things you don' â¦ t need to have to use or need on.


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The School of Constructed Environments challenges students to grapple with the forces shaping the world today: shifts in global and local ecological flows, changes in living patterns, growing economic disparities, excessive consumption, and increasing ethnic diversity.he School of Constructed Environments challenges students to grapple with the forces shaping the world today: shifts in global and local ecological flows, changes in living patterns, growing economic disparities, excessive consumption, and increasing ethnic diversity.


Constructed Environment Conference 2011
The International Conference on the Constructed Environment is a presenterâs conference, comprised of numerous parallel sessions.The Conference organizing committee is inviting proposals to present 30-minute papers, or 60-minute workshops or 90-minute colloquium sessions.ackground. Welcome to the website of the 2011 International Conference on the Constructed Environment. The conference will be held at the University Center in Chicago, USA from 29-30 October 2011.


Constructivism
A reaction to didactic approaches such as behaviorism and programmed instruction, constructivism states that learning is an active, contextualized process of constructing knowledge rather than acquiring it.Knowledge is constructed based on personal experiences and hypotheses of the environment. reaction to didactic approaches such as behaviorism and programmed instruction, constructivism states that learning is an active, contextualized process of constructing knowledge rather than acquiring it.


Constructed Environment Conference 2011
Background. International Conference on the Constructed Environment. The Constructed Environment Conference is held annually in different locations around the world. The Inaugural Constructed Environment Conference was held in Venice, Italy in 2010 alongside the 12th Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.ackground. Welcome to the website of the 2011 International Conference on the Constructed Environment. The conference will be held at the University Center in Chicago, USA from 29-30 October 2011.


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I know lots of people wonder what can we about the environment. The simple things you can do is recycle, drive less, use energy saving light bulbs and turn off things you don' â¦ t need to have to use or need on.Lot's of people panic instead of acting so instead of panicking act fast!! know lots of people wonder what can we about the environment. The simple things you can do is recycle, drive less, use energy saving light bulbs and turn off things you don' â¦ t need to have to use or need on.


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On this day in History, First indoor game of ice hockey on Mar 03, 1875. Learn more about what happened today on History. On this day in History, First indoor game of ice hockey on Mar 03, 1875.


Ice Hockey Origins, Growth and Changes in the Game
In their first attempt at capturing the Cup, the Winnipeg team defeated their counterparts from Montreal, (the first team the Cup winners didn't come from Montreal), and the reports of the victory came down in hockey's first play-by-play, done by telegraph.


THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: The world's first organized hockey game was played on March 3, 1875
In 1877, the first organized team, the McGill University Hockey Club, was formed and in 1886, the first national association, the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada, was founded. Announcement of first game in The Gazette (March 3, 1875) Victoria Rink - A game of Hockey will be played at the Victoria Skating Rink this evening, between two nines chose from among the members.


Ice hockey
In 1896, the first ice hockey league in the US was formed. The US Amateur Hockey League was founded in New York City, shortly after the opening of the artificial-ice St. Nicholas Rink.


Hockey History: The Time Line, 1917-1945
A new team, the Toronto Arenas, wins the first NHL championship, going on to defeat Vancouver of the PCHA for the 1918 Stanley Cup. The Arenas will become the St. Patricks in 1919 and the Maple Leafs in 1927. 1920: An ice hockey tournament is played at the Summer Olympics. It will later be declared the first World Ice Hockey Championship. Canada wins. 1923: Foster Hewitt calls the first hockey broadcast for radio, an intermediate game between teams from Kitchener and Toronto.


Here Are the Hockey Players Competing for Team USA at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Brianna Decker #14 of the United States handles the puck against Canada during the Ice Hockey Women's Gold Medal Game on day 13 of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Bolshoy Ice Dome on February 20, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.


Professional ice hockey
Professional ice hockey. Professional ice hockey has existed since the early 1900s (decade). The professional game originated in the United States in 1904 and became prominent in Canada during the early 20th century before expanding back into the United States and eventually to many other countries.


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23-Player U.S. Olympic Womenâs Ice Hockey Team Named With Sights On Its First Gold In 20 Years 23-Player U.S. Olympic Womenâs Ice Hockey Team Named With Sights On Its First Gold In 20 Years


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Stylish Canada defeat Sweden 3-0 to retain menâs ice hockey crown. 1  Iginla helps end half a century of pain for Canada. 2  Wickenheiser stars as Canadaâs women begin gold rush. 3  US ice hockey rookies conjure up a Miracle on Ice. 4  Soviet ice hockey maestros make it four in a row. 5  USSR assume Canadaâs ice hockey crown.


World Cup of Hockey
The World Cup of Hockey was preceded by the Canada Cup, which began in 1976 in a combined effort from Doug Fisher of Hockey Canada and Alan Eagleson of the NHL Players' Association. Taking inspiration from soccer's FIFA World Cup, Eagleson proposed a new tournament that would bring together all the top hockeyâplaying nations.


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The joint North and South Korean women's ice hockey team competed together for the first time in a friendly match against Sweden, under a controversial Olympics unity deal. CNN's Ivan Watson has the details.


THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: The world's first organized hockey game was played on March 3, 1875
Two nine-man groups, one of which was captained by Creighton, opposed each other in the world's first-ever indoor public display of an ice hockey game. The event was played at the Victoria Skating Rink, March 3, 1875, located in the part of Montreal that is now bordered by the following streets -- Drummond, de Maisonneuve and Dorchester (now named Boulevard RenÃ© Levesque).


Professional ice hockey
The first Canadian professional league was the Manitoba Professional Hockey League (MPHL), formed in 1905 from member teams of the amateur Manitoba Hockey Association. The Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA), formed from prior amateur hockey leagues, emerged in 1906.


Koreas plan Olympic first with joint womenâs hockey team. But many in the South are not happy.
But South Korean hockey players and officials are annoyed that the engagement efforts will probably result in the exclusion of half the Southâs hockey players to make way for the athletes from the North at the Olympics, which open Feb. 9.


World Cup of Hockey
The World Cup of Hockey is organized by the National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA), unlike the annual World Ice Hockey Championships and quadrennial Olympic tournament, both run by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).


Ice hockey
In a move to eject one of the league members, the NHA decided to disband and form a new league. The result was the creation in 1917 of the National Hockey League (NHL), which became the worldâs foremost professional hockey league. In 1924 the first U.S. team, the Boston Bruins, joined the NHL.


Top 10 International Hockey Teams
America's hockey team is awesome Canada and Russia/Soviet union are definitely the best with Finland good to Canada you only won in 2010 because it was in Canada America may not have won as many as you but we almost always have had a gold silver or bronze medal besides we are all good it is a good sport and getting better can not wait until next winter Olympics oh and not all Americans are fat just some being an American makes me believe that the miracle on ice was amazing with the Finnish ...


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He was the South Dakota state director for Rural Development from 1996-01 and the South Dakota state director for the Farmers Home Administration from 1993-96. Earlier in his career, Tonsager served as state president of the South Dakota Farmers Union and worked on his family farm.


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To accomplish those objectives, he brought William I. Myers of Cornell University to Washington to advise him and to write the Executive order establishing the Farm Credit Administration, as well as the legislation authorizing itâthe Farm Credit Act.


Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Act created a new agency, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to oversee the distribution of the subsidies.[2][3][4] The Agriculture Marketing Act, which established the Federal Farm Board in 1939, was seen as a strong precursor to this act.[5][6]


History and Unique Features of the Farm Credit System
That legislation also brought into the Farm Credit Administration the banks for cooperatives. In the same year, the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act provided for refunding and revising the operations of the Federal Land Bank associations to meet the problems of farm foreclosures and debt defaults.


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Franklin Roosevelt developed the Farm Credit Administration to unify all government farm credit programs under one agency. In addition to overseeing the Farm Credit System, the FCA also sets regulations, ensures compliance with established procedures, and has the authority to intervene when an institution violates those regulations.


Farm Credit Act of 1933
Farm Credit Act of 1933. The Governor of the Farm Credit Administration, herein after in this Act referred to as the governor, is authorized and directed to organize and charter twelve corporations to be known as Production Credit Corporations and twelve banks to be known as Banks for Cooperatives..


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The fair practice codes of the NRA prohibited child labor, established minimum wages of $13 per week, set forty-hour workweek and established $12 per week in the South EXCEPT:


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Testimony (PDF, 5 pages, 158 KB) of Board Chairman Dallas P. Tonsager, Budget Request for FY 2018, Before the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations : View Archive of Updates. Subscribe to FCA News Email List


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Learn about New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Tenzing Norgay, the first men to climb Mount Everest back in May 29, 1953. Learn About the First Men to Climb Mount Everest Search the site GO


Daredevil to Jump Off Mt. Everest Summit in Wingsuit
Davorin Davo Karnicar poses with his skis. Karnicar was the first man to ski down from the summit of Mount Everest, Oct. 7, 2000. Davorin Davo Karnicar poses with his skis. Karnicar was the first man to ski down from the summit of Mt. Everest, Oct. 7, 2000. Valery Rozov jumps off the north face of Mount Everest, China on May 5th, 2013. Valery Rozov jumps off the north face of Mt. Everest in Tibet on May 5, 2013.


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Skiing down the world's highest peak took five hours A 38-year-old Slovenian man has become the first person ever to ski non-stop down Mount Everest. Using specially designed skis, Davo Karnicar took nearly five hours to make his four kilometre descent of the 8,850m (29,035ft) peak. I feel only absolute happiness and absolute fatigue.


Did anyone try to ski down mt Everest?
Yuichiro Miura became the first person to ski on Mount Everest on May 6, 1970. He descended nearly 4,200 vertical feet from the South Col (elevation over 8,000 m (26,000 ft)). This feat was documented in 1975, in the film The Man Who Skied Down Everest. The film won the Academy Award for best documentary, the first sports film to do so.


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7. First swim across a glacial lake For at least one nut brave soul, Everest's draw is its icy waters. In 2010, 40-year-old environmentalist Lewis Pugh became the first person to swim across Everest's Pumori Lake. Situated at about 17,000 feet, the lake waters are a balmy 36 degrees Fahrenheit.


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The Two Generation Expedition Makes Two Records. The Japanese adventure skier whom well known internationally as âThe man who skied down Mt. Everestâ (in 1970) - Yuichiro Miura (Age 69) and his son Gota (Age 32) reached the summit of Mt. Cho Oyu (8,201m), the sixth highest mountain in the world this afternoon.


First Woman Skis Mount Everest
That's because she skied from the top of the world, the summit of Mount Everest, in mid-October. DesLauriers was the first woman and first American to do it. She also became the first person to ski from the top of the highest peaks on each continent, known as the Seven Summits. She marked all those firsts 37 days before her 37th birthday. DesLauriers scaled Everest with husband Rob DesLauriers, photographer Jimmy Chin and a team of 11 others. Rob and Chin also skied from the summit. They first skied to the top of the Hillary Step, a nearly vertical, 40-foot drop-off at the 29,000 foot level. The next day, they skied down Lhotse Face, a 3,700-foot wall of glacial blue ice.


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9 thoughts on â Meet âThe Most Interesting Man in the Worldâ | First to Ski Everest & Oldest to Summit Everest â


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Contact. 1  Miura Cho-Oyu 2002 Expedition. 2  Update 5/8/2002: Yuichiro Miura & Son Gota Reaches the Summit of Mt. Cho Oyu! * 3  The world record of being the oldest person to reach the 8000m peak is solely based on EverestNews.com research data. 4  Update 5/7/2002: Both Yuichiro and Gota has reached C2 (7000m).


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Climber Skis Nonstop Down Everest By Binaj Gurubacharya Associated Press Writer Monday, Oct. 16, 2000; 5:27 p.m. EDT. KATMANDU, Nepal ââ It took Slovenian climber Davo Karnicar four days to reach the summit of 29,035-foot Mount Everest, but only five hours to come down â on skis.


Clinical trial tests tiny experimental pacemaker that does not require surgery
This device is remarkably compact and relatively easy to implant. We think it could prove to be a good alternative, especially for patients who have had problems caused by a traditional pacemaker implant involving leads or pocket, or in those patients who may be at higher risk for developing these problems.


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Your doctor will determine the rate of your pacemaker and other settings. The final pacemaker settings are done after the implant using a special device called a programmer. What Happens After the Pacemaker Is Implanted? You will be admitted to the hospital overnight for the pacemaker implantation. The nurses will monitor your heart rate and rhythm.


Living with a Pacemaker
As long as you follow a few simple precautions and follow your doctor's schedule for periodic follow-up, your pacemaker should not noticeably impact your lifestyle in any negative way. Read about pacemakers and how they work. After Pacemaker Implantation. Pacemaker implantation is minimally invasive surgery. The typical recovery period is not lengthy or difficult. You may experience pain at the incision site for a few days. Your doctor may ask you to restrict vigorous activity or lifting heavy objects for a week or two.


GRHS Marks First Pacemaker Implant
By Amy Chaffins, News Editor, Pope County Tribune; Printed July 27, 2009 A Glenwood woman is the first person to have a pacemaker implanted at Glacial Ridge Hospital. Doris Hoplin, 85, received a pacemaker on May 13; local surgeon, Dr. Rodger Althoff, did the procedure. âApril was not a good month for me,â Doris explained.


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What Happens During Pacemaker Implantation? The endocardial pacemaker takes about 1-2 hours to implant. Here is an overview of the procedure: You will lie on a bed and the nurse will start an intravenous line (IV) into your arm or hand. This is so you may receive medications and fluids during the procedure.


Who invented pacemaker?
The first pacemaker was too big to fit in human body internally. It was first tested in 1949 at the University of Torontoâs Department of Surgery on a dog. The earliest form of catheter electrodes used vacuum tubes that were later replaced by transistors. The first implant of pacemaker in human was done in 1958. Hoops himself became a heart patient and in 1984 he had pacemaker implanted so as to keep his heart regulated but by then it was considered a normal surgery. He got his pacemaker replaced after thirteen years of his first surgery.


An engineer with heart: Wilson Greatbatch, the 'humble tinkerer' who invented the pacemaker, dies at 92
Inventor with heart: Wilson Greatbatch, posing in his Newstead workshop in 1997, invented the first implantable pacemaker in 1958. Wilson Greatbatch, who saved countless lives with his invention of the implantable cardiac pacemaker, has died at the age of 92. A family spokesman confirmed that Mr Greatbatch died yesterday at the Oxford Village assisted living centre in Canterbury Woods, a suburb of Buffalo, New York state.


Arne H. W. Larsson, 86; Had First Internal Pacemaker
Correction: January 19, 2002, Saturday An obituary yesterday about Arne H. W. Larsson, a Swedish engineer who in 1958 received the world's first implanted heart pacemaker, misspelled the surname of an inventor of the device. He was Rune Elmquist, not Enquist.


A look at the man who invented modern golf tees
Golfers would continue this ritual until the 1920s, when another dentist, a latecomer to golf, developed his own tee after his very first round of golf at the Maplewood Country Club. More to the point, William Lowell went on to mass-market the device.


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The first American to secure a golf tee patent was Prosper Senat, an artist from Philadelphia. His tee was a C-shaped card joined at its ends to form a truncated cone. Along its edges were notches and markings to help the golfer keep score.


History of Golf & Golf Equipment
In 1774, the first standardized rules of golf were written and used for the first golf championship, which was won by Doctor John Rattray on 2nd April 1744 in Edinburgh, Scotland. You must tee your ball within one club's length of the hole. Your tee must be on the ground. You are not to change the ball which you strike off the tee.


Tee
The first United States patent for a golf tee was issued to the Glaswegian David Dalziel on 8th September 1896. The patent was for a rubber tee with a flat base and slightly concave top, in combination with an artificial ground surface.


Brief History of the Golf Tee
Bloxsom and Douglas had the first patent, but there were artificial tees before theirs, too. The fact is, nobody knows what the first artificial (as opposed to sod or sand) tee was, or who made it. So the inventor of the very first manmade golf tee is, and likely always will be, unknown. To view the patent illustrations of the Bloxsom/Douglas and Grant tees, and read more about the history of this humble piece of equipment, see our article on Golf Tees in history and the rules. 1  List. 2  Article. 3  Article. 4  Article. 5  Article. 6  Article. 7  Article. 8  Article.


George F. Grant
Ten years after his patent was filed, another dentist, Dr. William Lowell, popularized a variation of Grantâs design, which became the tee in common use all around the world today. In 1910, at the age of 64, George Franklin Grant died of liver disease.


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Garrett Morgan's cross-shaped, crank-operated semaphore was not among the first half-hundred patented traffic signals, nor was it automatic as is sometimes claimed, nor did it play any part in the evolution of the modern traffic light.


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Whether those challenges are social or emotional, The First Tee uses golf as the foundation for a curriculum that teaches a range of valuable life and leadership lessons. In every experience with The First Tee youth are introduced to our Nine Core Values: honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, respect, confidence, responsibility, perseverance, courtesy, and judgment.


âThe History Of The Golf Teeâ
Among the experimenters were two Scots, William Bloxsom and Arthur Douglas, inventors of the first patented tee in the world. Their patent document is dated 1889 and describes a small rubber plate with a raised ball support in the form of upright prongs or a hollow cylinder.


Daguerreotype
Daguerreotype photography spread rapidly across the United States after the discovery first appeared in US newspapers in February 1839.[123] [124][125] In the early 1840s, the invention was introduced in a period of months to practitioners in the United States by Samuel Morse,[126] inventor of the telegraph code.


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Femail Today. 1  Thigh's the limit! 2  Leggy Kendall Jenner enjoys second consecutive date night with NBA star Blake Griffin amid claims she's 'keeping her options open'. 3  Robert Redford reunites with Jane Fonda as the pair mark FOURTH on-screen collaboration at Venice Film Festival... 4  An arresting sight! 5  He put a ring on it! 6  It's time!


History of photography
The history of photography has roots in remote antiquity with the discovery of two critical principles, that of the camera obscura (darkened or obscured room or chamber) and the fact that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light, as discovered by observation.


First Photo From Space
The grainy, black-and-white photos were taken from an altitude of 65 miles by a 35-millimeter . motion picture camera riding on a V-2 missile launched from the White Sands Missile Range. Snapping a new frame every second and a half, the rocket-borne camera climbed straight up, then fell back to Earth minutes later, slamming into the ground at 500 feet per second.


This Is The First Photograph Ever Taken Of A Human Being
'Boulevard du Temple' is the name of the first ever photograph known to include humans. Taken in late 1838 by Louis Daguerre in Paris, the photograph had an exposure time of at least 10 minutes - and so while the street was quite busy, virtually no people stayed around long enough to be captured.


20 of the First Photographs of Things, from People to Hoaxes to the Moon
In 1848, the first photograph to be used to illustrate a news story was made. This photograph of the 1848 revolution in Paris, a four-day insurrection in June that left thousands dead in the streets of Paris, was published in the JournÃ©es illustrÃ©es de la rÃ©volution de 1848 and is now in the MusÃ©e dâOrsay.


20 of the First Photographs of Things, from People to Hoaxes to the Moon
First Photograph of Drinking Edinburgh Ale photograph from 1844, salted paper print from paper calotype negative (via Metropolitan Museum of Art) This is known to be the first photograph of people drinking, perhaps even of people partying.


List of United States Presidential firsts
First President of the United States. First President to appear on a postage stamp. First President to be a Freemason. First (and, to date, only) President to receive votes from every Presidential elector in an election (in both the 1789 and 1792 elections; each elector voted for Washington and for another candidate).


Which was the 1st US President to appear on TV?
Best Answer: The first president on color television was Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 6, 1955. ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The first president to appear on black ...


Who was the first president to appear on TV (and when)?
Vote for this answer. BB is right, but Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president of any country to appear on TV, with a demonstration at the 1939 World's Fair.


First presidential speech on TV
On this day in 1947, President Harry Truman (1884-1972) makes the first-ever televised presidential address from the White House, asking Americans to cut back on their use of grain in order to help starving Europeans.


Eight Famous Presidential Visits To Late Night TV (Video)
Comments (11) 1  By Chuck Norton: It would be interesting to see a poll of which of these clips are âOKâ as opposed to going too far. 2  By Brad Phillips: Chuck, I agree that it would be interesting to see a poll. 3  By TC Dickson: Absolutely Un-presidential. 4  By Pam: These were all presidential candidates, NOT the sitting POTUS. 5  By Brad Phillips:


Which was the 1st US President to appear on TV?
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to speak on television. Roosevelt spoke at the opening session of the New York World's Fair on April 30, 1939. The first presidential address broadcast from the White House was Harry S. Truman's speech about food conservation and the world food crisis on Oct. 5, 1947.


First White House speech airs on TV, October 5, 1947
(Five days earlier saw the first telecast of a World Series game, pitting the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers.) Though Truman pioneered the now-familiar ritual of a White House telecast to the nation, he was not the first president to appear on television. President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcast on a compact black-and-white screen from the New York Worldâs Fair on April 30, 1939. Story Continued Below


List of United States Presidential firsts
Millard Fillmore (1850-1853) 1  First President to establish a permanent White House library. 2  First President born in the 1800s. 3  First President to remarry after leaving office. He remarried in 1858 to Caroline Carmichael McIntosh. 4  First President to leave office while his father was alive.


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World and Olympic coach Audrey Weisiger continues her discussion of the split jump (see Part 1 and Part 2). In this video she focuses on the split toe loop, the split flip, and the split lutz. Figure skating coach Nick Perna continues his explanation of pivots. You can see Part 1 of his presentation here.


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Figure skating jump specialist Charlie Tickner explains and demonstrates how he introduces the lutz jump. As he notes, the lutz is a challenging element that is getting lots of scrutiny today as edge changes are simply not overlooked inâ¦


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Legendary Olympic figure skating coach Frank Carroll offers his thoughts and opinions on the lutz jump, particularly the problem with change of edge. As Frank explains, a very common reason for the edge change is unwanted hip movement. â¦


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How to Do a Lutz Jump â Part 2 (Charlie Tickner) Figure skating jump specialist Charlie Tickner continues his discussion of the lutz jump. In Part 1, he talked about fundamentals of edge control and alignment and how he begins building the jump without rotation.


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Figure Skating â Lutz Jump. Dragon Tail Exercise â Setup for Jumps (Laurent Depouilly) World and Olympic coach Laurent Depouilly shares a jump setup drill he calls the âdragon tailâ that he uses for all the major jumps except waltz jump/axel (but it can be used for that too).


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Trevor Laak provides a computer analysis of 3 different triple lutz jumps. The skaters performing the jumps are Ryan Bradley, Brandon Mroz, and Max Aaron who were on a practice session at the 2013 Grassroots to Champions Supercamp inâ¦


Has Figure Skating Maxed Out In Difficulty?
Nowadays, skaters spend three or four hours on the ice and do the rest of their preparation off the ice. They begin mastering the difficult jumps from a young age. Ito was also the first woman to compete a triple-triple jump combination back in 1982, when she was just a junior skater. Both of her featsâthe triple-triple combo and the triple axelâremain the outer limit of jumping difficulty when it comes to women's figure skating.


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International coach Page Lipe continues with a double lutz lesson and shares more valuable tips regarding the lutz. In the first part of this lesson, Page focused on the arms. In this video, the primary focus isâ¦ Continue reading â


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Olympic coach Michelle Leigh works with a skater in a 3-part series on jumps leading to triple salchow. In this first part, Michelle works on 3-jump combinations with the skater. Before beginning the lesson, Michelle explains the issuesâ¦ Continue reading â


Has Figure Skating Maxed Out In Difficulty?
Famously, Tonya Harding became the first American woman to do a triple axel, a feat repeated by a handful of other women since, including current contender Mao Asada. But it's really that triple-triple combo, introduced more than 30 years ago, that is the make-or-break move for today's ladies singles skaters.


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Before your next Aer Lingus flight, be sure to visit our baggage guide to answer some of the most commonly asked questions.


2017 Aer Lingus Baggage Allowance & Baggage Fees
aer lingus Exceptional items. You are permitted to check sports equipment into the hold but are only allowed one item per person, with no item exceeding 23 kg in weight. On transatlantic flights, a sports item can be checked as part of your free baggage allowance, but if this brings you over your free allowance, a fee of â¬75 applies, one way.


Aer Lingus 2018 Baggage Allowance
Aer Lingus has four different sizes of checked luggage to choose from; 15kg, 20kg, 25kg or 40kg in two separate bags. A maximum of three pieces of luggage can be checked in per passenger, within your chosen weight allowance. Prices are per passenger, per flight.


Step1: Check-in
You can also use the Edinburgh Airport mobile app; if your flight is open for check-in the desk numbers will be shown against your flight number on the 'departures' page. When to check-in The majority of flights at Edinburgh Airport will be open to check-in from two hours before the scheduled departure time.


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Airports by Region Information on our homes around the world. Here youâll find all the information you need on the airports we operate from and the terminals we use. Ireland.


Aer Lingus Lounge at Terminal 2
Flight Connections at Dublin Airport. Moving through Dublin Airport has never been easier - staff at the Aer Lingus Flight Connections Desk are there to assist, be it with baggage, boarding passes, or ESTA queries and requirements, leaving you with more time to relax, shop, eat and drink before your onward journey.


Aer Lingus 2018 Baggage Allowance
Find out everything you need to know about Aer Lingus baggage allowance, restrictions, fees and charges. And, see how it compares to luggage shipping with Uni Baggageâ¦ Aer Lingus Hand Luggage. Aer Lingus permits customers to carry one piece of cabin baggage with a weight limit of 10kg and maximum dimensions of 55 x 40 x 24 cm. You can also bring a smaller piece of hand luggage into the cabin such as a laptop or a handbag. If your cabin baggage is oversized and/or overweight, it will be checked into the hold and the relevant airport baggage fees will apply. Need to purchase a suitable hand luggage case for your upcoming flight?


Athens, Greene County, NY
Athens, Greene County, NY. Catskills pride: âTop Townâ Athens, NY, is one of our best places to live in the Hudson Valley in 2012. The number-one rule for investing in real estate? Location, location, location. And Athens, a riverfront jewel in Greene County, is certainly perched in a prime spot. Set on the western banks of the Hudson, the town is 30 minutes south of Albany, four miles from the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, and only half an hour to the ski resorts of Hunter and Windham.


Athens, NY
Athens, NY. Athens is located in east New York. Athens is part of Greene County. Athens has 3.42 square miles of land area and 1.18 square miles of water area. As of 2010-2014, the total Athens population is 1,432, which has shrunk 15.52% since 2000.


Athens Clerk Office
Athens Clerk. Find Athens New York clerk, including county, city, and circuit clerk, and clerk of court. Clerks provide information on public court records and legal documents, criminal, jail, and arrest records, marriage licenses, divorce, judicial, and probate records, businesses liens, notary services, real estate taxes and voter registration services.


Athens Clean-Up Day
Explore our Historic River Town. The Town of Athens is located at the eastern end of Greene County, and was established on February 25th, 1815. Portions of the Towns of Catskill and Coxsackie were used to form the Town of Athens. The town has since developed a rich heritage with diverse architecture spanning over three centuries.


Athens (village), New York
For other uses, see Athens (disambiguation). Athens is a village in Greene County, New York, United States. The population was 1,668 at the 2010 census. The village is named after the classical city of Athens. It is in the eastern part of the town of Athens, across the Hudson River from the city of Hudson.


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Recent posts about Athens, New York on our local forum with over 2,000,000 registered users. Athens is mentioned 240 times on our forum: Latest news from Athens, NY collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: Italian (21.3%), German (16.2%), Irish (14.4%), United States (12.9%), English (6.5%), Dutch (5.1%).


Athens, New York
For other uses, see Athens (disambiguation). Athens is a town in Greene County, New York, United States. The population was 4,089 at the 2010 census. The town of Athens has a village also called Athens. The town is on the eastern end of the county.


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Athens Sheriff. Find Athens New York sheriff's office, department, headquarters, jail and detention center. Sheriffs provide information on records, arrests, inmates, warrants, and mugshots. Athens Sheriff.


Who Invented Paper?
By the 1400s paper was being made throughout Europe, but it was not until the late 1700s that paper was being produced in long, continuous rolls. In 1798 a French paper mill clerk invented a machine that could make a continuous sheet of paper, of various sizes and shapes, from wood pulp.


Timeline
As the Arab world expanded eastwards it too became acquainted with the production of paper and paper mills were set up in Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and later in Morocco, Spain and Sicily. Owing to the lack of fresh fibres, the predominant raw material used was rags.


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History of Chinese Invention - The Invention of Paper The word paper is derived from the word papyrus, which was a plant found in Egypt along the lower Nile River. About 5,000 years ago, Egyptians created sheets of papyrus by harvesting, peeling and slicing the plant into strips. The strips were then layered, pounded together and smoothed to make a flat, uniform sheet.


History of paper
The first patent for a paper using deinked waste paper as part of its fiber source was issued in 1800 in London. It was not until the 1840s that the initial development of the papermaking machine in England and experiments in groundwood pulping in Germany and Nova Scotia enabled the commercial production of paper.


The History of Paper
The history of paper dates back almost 2,000 years to when inventors in China first crafted cloth sheets to record their drawings and writings. Before then, people communicated through pictures and symbols etched on stone, bones, cave walls, or clay tablets.


Who was the first person to make a map?
Who was the first person to make maps? he identity of the creator of the first map is unknown. The first recorded maps were discovered around the ancient city of Babylon.


List of American saints and beatified people
List of American saints. 1  St. Teresa of Calcutta (canonized 2016) was declared an honorary citizen of the United States in 1996, one year before her death. 2  It is recorded of St. Louis Bertrand (canonized 1671) that âin the isle of St. Thomas, the saint gained a new people to Christ, and new triumphs to the Churchâ.


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A priest from Okarche, Oklahoma, a very small town perhaps most famous for the succulent fried chicken at Eischen's Bar, could help to revitalize the U.S. Catholic Church as the first man and first priest born in this country to be canonized a saint.


Two U.S. Saints To Be Canonized By Pope Benedict XVI
Two U.S. Saints To Be Canonized By Pope Benedict XVI. WASHINGTONâNext week,Pope Benedict XVI will canonize seven saints including two Americans: Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint, and Blessed Mother Marianne Cope, who spent the last 30 years of her life ministering to the sick on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. The canonization Mass will take place at the Vatican October 21.


First American Saint
Pius XII. The first American citizen to be canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church was born on July 15, 1850 in Saint Angelo Lodigiano, in the Lombardy region of a then disunited Italy.


The Oklahoma priest who could become the first American-born man to be canonized a saint
A priest from Okarche, Okla., a very small town perhaps most famous for the succulent fried chicken at Eischenâs Bar, could help to revitalize the U.S. Catholic Church as the first man and first priest born in this country to be canonized a saint.


John Neumann
John Nepomucene Neumann CSsR was a Catholic priest from Bohemia. He immigrated to the United States in 1836, where he was ordained and later joined the Redemptorist order and became the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia. He is the first United States bishop to be canonized. While Bishop of Philadelphia, Neumann founded the first Catholic diocesan school system in the United States. He is a Roman Catholic saint, canonized in 1977.


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Mother Teresa: How hard is it to become a saint?
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), known as Mother Cabrini, was the first American citizen to be canonized. The Italian-born nun founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and was canonized in 1946.


Who was the first person born a citizen of the United States, and when did he or she die?
Vote for this answer. Perhaps the first person born a natural US citizen was Ethan Allen Brown. He was born on July 4, 1776 in Darien, CT. He served on the Ohio Supreme Court (1810), was elected as Ohio State Governor (1818) and US Senator (1822). He died February 24, 1852, in Indianapolis, IN.


Natural-born-citizen clause
She ran against incumbent Barbara Boxer in California for the United States Senate in 2010, losing by 10 percentage points. 1  Black Women Who Have Run for President of the United States. 2  5 Reason Hillary Clinton Will Run for President... and Lose. 3  History of Women Running for President. 4  Ted Cruz Was Born in Canada.


Hillary Clinton is not the first female presidential nominee â not even close
Mitchell, a card-carrying member of the CPUSA from age 16, was the first African-American woman to be nominated for president. The ticket, which made it onto only two state ballots, received just over 1,000 votes. Hillary Clinton claims historic victory . 1972: Socialist Worker's Party, Linda Jenness


Victoria Woodhull Was the First Female Presidential Candidate, Not Hillary Clinton
Few know, though, the name of the woman who put the first crack in that highest, hardest glass ceiling. That honor belongs to a beautiful, colorful and convention-defying woman named Victoria Woodhull, who ran for the office in 1872, 136 years before Clinton made her first run in 2008. Woodhull, who died nearly twenty years before Clinton was even born, hazarded a path on which no woman before her had ever dared to tread.


Victoria Woodhull
A cenotaph of Victoria Woodhull is located at Tewkesbury Abbey. There is a historical marker located outside the Homer Public Library in Licking County, Ohio to mark Woodhull as the First Woman Candidate For President of the United States. The 1980 Broadway musical Onward Victoria was inspired by Woodhull's life.


âWe Are Preparing to Shatter the Highest Glass Ceiling in Our Countryâ
Rhode Island cheered Gina Raimondo, its first female governor, and Minnesota even brought up Walter Mondale, the first person to put a woman â Geraldine Ferraro â on a major national ticket. As the states went through roll call, many, many of them announced their pride in casting ballots for âthe first woman president of the United States! â The possibility of a woman in the White House is now more concrete, more tangible, than it has ever been in American history.


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The party is looking to move beyond lingering anger and unite behind the first woman to represent a major American political party in a presidential election.


5 Other Women Who Ran For President
1972 was a very good year for women presidential hopefuls, and Linda Jenness, a secretary from Atlanta, joined their ranks as the Socialist Workers Partyâs candidate. Jenness actually shared the nomination with another female candidate, Evelyn Reed, who ran in her place in states where Jenness did not qualify for the ballot due to her age.


List of female United States presidential and vice-presidential candidates
She became the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the presidency at a major political party's convention. In 1968, Charlene Mitchell became the first African American woman to run for president, and the first to receive valid votes in a general election.


All the Women Who Have Run for President of the U.S.
On July 26, 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first woman nominated by a major party in the United States for the office of president. On June 7, 2016, she had received enough votes at caucuses and primaries against her major opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, to clinch the election in pledged delegates.


Who Was the First Woman Nominated for Vice President?
Supporting Hillary Clinton in 2008. The same year, 2008, that the next woman was nominated for vice president by a major party, Hillary Clinton had nearly won the Democratic nomination for the top of the ticket, the presidency. Ferraro supported the campaign strongly, and said quite publicly was marked by sexism.


List of female United States Cabinet Secretaries
Clinton became the only First Lady to serve in the Cabinet and the third female Secretary of State. Napolitano became the first female Secretary of Homeland Security. Barack Obama has appointed eight women to Cabinet positions, the most of any Presidency, surpassing George W. Bush's record of six.


All the President's Men: The 15 Cabinet-Level Departments
First Secretary: William B. Wilson was appointed by Woodrow Wilson (no relation) as the first Secretary of Labor and helped the United States mobilize an effective workforce to support the troops abroad during World War I. Mission: Assure work safety, fair pay, and unemployment insurance benefits.


Elaine L. Chao Biography
In 2001, George W. Bush appointed her Secretary of Labor. Chao wed Senator Mitch McConnell in 1993. Profile. Former Secretary of labor, government official, and executive. Born on March 26, 1953, in Taipei, Taiwan. Elaine L. Chao was the first Asian American woman to be appointed to a cabinet-level position. She arrived in the United States at the age of eight without knowing any English. Chao adapted to her new country and excelled as a student, earning a bachelor??s degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1975 and a master??s of business administration from Harvard University in 1979.


The three women of color Trump has appointed, so far
As Donald Trump's Cabinet begins to take shape, the President-elect has selected three women of color so far to serve in top positions in his administration, including South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who was a sharp critic of Trump during the 2016 Republican primary campaign.


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On this day in History, Johnson appoints first African-American cabinet member on Jan 13, 1966. Learn more about what happened today on History. On this day in History, Johnson appoints first African-American cabinet member on Jan 13, 1966.


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John Adams Andrew Jackson James Madison George Washington Thomas Jefferson Which is the most recently created cabinet department? Energy Homeland Security Veterans Affairs Finance Health and Human Services Janet Reno, the first woman to be appointed to a big four cabinet position, was appointed by which president? George W. Bush Jimmy Carter George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton Ronald Reagan Who was the first black secretary of state?


10 Firsts for Canadian Women in Government
Cairine Wilson was the first woman appointed to the Canadian Senate, just months after the Persons Case gave women the right to sit in the Senate. It wasn't until 1953 that another woman was appointed to the Senate in Canada.


Her Life: The Woman Behind the New Deal
The gubernatorial election of 1918 was the first in which women in New York had the right to vote. Frances Perkins campaigned hard to capture the womenâs vote for Al Smith, her friend and ally during her prior work in Albany.


New Deal
Labor thus became a major component of the New Deal political coalition. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 set maximum hours (44 per week) and minimum wages (25 cents per hour) for most categories of workers.


Trump's cabinet nominees
Former Labor Secretary Confirmed. She has a long history in Washington and Elaine Chao made history as the first woman of Asian descent in a presidential Cabinet when she became President George W. Bush's labor secretary. She has also been CEO of the United Way and director of the Peace Corps.


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Woodrow Wilson was the President; William Wilson was the first Secretary of Labor. The previous president, Taft, had a Secretary of Labor and Commerce.


Women History exam 3
She was president of the NAWSA from 1900-1904 and then again from 1915 to 1919. She moved the NAWSA to new activism in 1916 by mimicking Alice Paul's marches and adopting street speaking and brings in working class women alongside the elite women and the traditional lecture routes, petitioning and lobbying of Congress.


All of Trumpâs cabinet nominations
Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development. Ben Carson. Perhaps the most baffling of all Trumpâs cabinet picks, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has zero experience in government, housing, or urban issues. His run for the presidency fizzled in the primaries, and he has since been a steadfast Trump surrogate.


Her Life: The Woman Behind the New Deal
Roosevelt said he endorsed them all, and Frances Perkins became the first woman in the nation to serve in a Presidential cabinet. From her earliest days in the Roosevelt cabinet, Frances Perkins was a forceful advocate for massive public works programs to bring the nationâs unemployed back to work.


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Environmental Protection Agency: Scott Pruitt The Senate voted 52-46 to confirm Pruitt on Feb. 17 as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, a federal agency he repeatedly sued to during the Obama administration, when Pruitt was Oklahoma's attorney general.


Frances Perkins Biography
After Roosevelt won the presidency and took office in 1933, he brought her to Washington, D.C., to become the U.S. Secretary of Labor, a post she would hold for twelve years. As the first female cabinet member, Perkins worked hard to improve the countryâs labor conditions and played an important role in the development of Rooseveltâs New Deal programs.


Frances Perkins: The Woman behind the New Deal
With his election as president in 1932, FDR was under pressure to appoint a woman to the cabinet. It was no surprise that he chose his trusted advisor as Labor Secretary. In a conversation reminiscent of that day in Hyde Park, Perkins wanted to be sure the new president would share her goals.


50 Women Who Made American Political History
Carol Moseley Braun (1947- ) Braun was one of the year of the woman candidates in 1992 who decided to run for higher office after Anita Hillâs testimony during Clarence Thomasâ confirmation hearings. She became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. Senate, representing Illinois from 1993 through 1999.


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Additional information was collected to allow analysis of other factors that may influence glove perforation rates such as urgent-emergent versus non-urgent status of cases and the time taken to complete the case.


Medical Definition of Duodenal ulcer
home / medterms medical dictionary a-z list / duodenal ulcer definition Medical Definition of Duodenal ulcer Duodenal ulcer: A crater (ulcer) in the lining of the beginning of the small intestine (duodenum). Ulcer formation is caused by infection with Helicobacter pylori. Other factors predisposing a person to ulcers include anti-inflammatory medications and cigarette smoking.


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Although this study is limited by its observational nature, the results suggest that there is no clinically relevant increase in the risk of uterine perforation with either type of IUD, Dr. Uterine perforation rare with levonorgestrel, copper IUDs


perforation
a hole or break in the containing walls or membranes of an organ or structure of the body. Perforation occurs when erosion, infection, or other factors create a weak spot in the organ and internal pressure causes a rupture. It also may result from a deep penetrating wound caused by trauma.


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perÂ·foÂ·raÂ·ted. Use perforated in a sentence. pierced with holes, esp. a row of holes, as to facilitate tearing.


perforation
a hole or break in the containing walls or membranes of an organ or structure of the body. Perforation occurs when erosion, infection or other factors create a weak spot in the organ and internal pressure causes a rupture. It also may result from a deep penetrating wound caused by trauma.


perforated
The melting pans are generally circular vessels, fitted with a perforated false bottom, on which the sugar to be melted is dumped.


perforated
Formerly the pans were heated by open firing from below; but now the almost universal practice is to boil by steam injected from perforated pipes coiled within the pan, such injection favouring the uniform heating of the mass and causing an agitation favourable to the ultimate mixture and saponification of the materials.


perforation
perforation A hole through the full thickness of the wall of an organ or tissue made by disease, injury or deliberate surgical act. Perforation


Medical Definition of Duodenal ulcer
Complications of ulcers include bleeding, perforation, and blockage. Treatment involves using antibiotics to eradicate H. pylori, eliminating risk factors, and preventing complications.


Hepatitis C: Frequently Asked Questions
Hepatitis A appears only as an acute or newly occurring infection and does not become chronic. People with Hepatitis A usually improve without treatment. Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C can also begin as acute infections, but in some people, the virus remains in the body, resulting in chronic disease and long-term liver problems. There are vaccines to prevent Hepatitis A and B; however, there is not one for Hepatitis C.


The Girl Who Turned to Bone
One in 2 million people have it. Peeperâs diagnosis meant that, over her lifetime, she would essentially develop a second skeleton. Within a few years, she would begin to grow new bones that would stretch across her body, some fusing to her original skeleton. Bone by bone, the disease would lock her into stillness. The Mayo doctors didnât tell Peeperâs parents that. All they did say was that Peeper would not live long.


"What the City of New York Did to ""Typhoid Mary"" Was Pretty Horrific"
Mary Mallon, an immigrant woman working in New York City in the early 1900s, became the most famous symbol of infectious disease in the United States. But the true story behind Typhoid Mary is more terrifying â and depressing â than you ever realized.


10 More Notable People Who Died From AIDS
Emerson Moore was diagnosed with HIV in the late 1980s. It is not clear how he contracted the disease. In 1994, Moore entered a drug and alcohol treatment center in Center City, Minnesota. On September 14, 1995, Emerson Moore died due to complications with AIDS.


List of fictional diseases
Also referred to as 'The Canthan Plague'. A disease that spread in Cantha, causing victims to become hulking, aggressive, pained creatures known as 'the afflicted'. It was seen to affect humans, cattle, and various animals in a menagerie. The sufferers were initially believed to be contagious, but this was later found out to be false. Ancient virus


The Girl Who Turned to Bone
But FOP is fickle in the positions in which it freezes people. One woman Peeper met was locked in a horizontal position and lived on a gurney. Anotherâs torso was angled backwards. Peeper met a girl who had lost an arm to a misdiagnosis: her doctors had thought the swelling in her left arm was a tumor. When they performed surgery, her arm began bleeding uncontrollably and they had to amputate it.


Biography of Typhoid Mary
For this reason, infected persons who were cooks (like Mallon) or food handlers had the most likelihood of spreading the disease. The Verdict The judge ruled in favor of the health officials and Mallon, now popularly known as Typhoid Mary, was remanded to the custody of the Board of Health of the City of New York.


With the release of Syfy's Helix, and promised shows for Outbreak and 12 Monkeys, we take a look at disease in movies...
With the release of Syfy's Helix, and promised shows for Outbreak and 12 Monkeys, we take a look at disease in movies... Epidemics and disease have long been the stuff of nightmares. Germs, viruses, epidemics, and plagues find their way into our apocalyptic films. They have shaped human history from leprosy to HIV. It isnât terribly surprising that disease finds its way into our horror and science fiction films.


With the release of Syfy's Helix, and promised shows for Outbreak and 12 Monkeys, we take a look at disease in movies...
10 Movies That Will Make You Want to Wash Your Hands With the release of Syfy's Helix, and promised shows for Outbreak and 12 Monkeys, we take a look at disease in movies... The Lists Ethan Lewis


The United States of America
First President to serve a nation from coast to coast: 12: Zachary Taylor: Virginia: 1849-1850: Millard Fillmore: Never voted for a President #: Portrait: Name: Born in: Year(s) President: Vice President(s): Fun Fact: 13: Millard Fillmore: New York: 1850-1853-----First President to have a stove and running water in the White House: 14: Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire: 1853-1857


The United States of America
President: Vice President(s): Fun Fact: 1: George Washington: Virginia: 1789-1797: John Adams: Teeth were made from elephant and walrus tusks, not wood. 2: John Adams: Mass. 1797-1801: Thomas Jefferson: First to live in the White House: 3: Thomas Jefferson: Virginia: 1801-1809: Aaron Burr, George Clinton: Spoke 6 different languages: 4: James Madison: Virginia: 1809-1817


Fascinating Facts
She also was the first woman to be both a presidentâs wife and the mother of a president, and the first to live in the White House. Martha Jefferson, 1748-1782 No known portrait exists of Thomas Jeffersonâs wife, who died 18 years before her husband was elected president.


Heaviest Person in the World
Heaviest Person in the World If you want to know the record holder for the heaviest person in the world, then you're in the right place. Jon Brower Minnoch was the heaviest person ever recorded in history.


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This page contains information about the heaviest person in the world ever establishing a world record related to body and big world, our most extreme on the list of all time.


First Ladies' Trivia & Fascinating Facts
Fascinating Facts. Little-known facts about our First Ladies... Martha Washington, 1731-1802. George Washingtonâs wife was the first to be given the title âladyâ by the press, as in âLady Washington,â and the first wife of a president to appear on U.S. postage stamp. Abigail Adams, 1744-1818


Fascinating Facts
William Henry Harrisonâs wife is the only spouse of a president and grandmother of another. She never lived in the White House because her husband died a month after his inauguration. Their daughter-in-law Jane Harrison served as White House hostess for the shortest timeâ30 days. Letitia Tyler, 1790-1842 John Tylerâs first wife was a stroke victim and the first presidentâs wife to die in the White House.


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The United States of America: Fun Facts about The United States' Presidents: The Presidents are listed in the order in which they served the nation. Click on the President's name for more information.


Grand Ole Opry
With Minnie Pearl, Rod Brasfield, Eddie Hill, Carl Smith. Country music series that represented the first televised attempt to present the Grand Ole Opry as a regular series. Minnie Pearl, Rod Brasfield, Eddie Hill | See full cast & crew Â».


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The four-string banjo is seldom heard at the Grand Ole Opry, but Whitey Ford, the Duke of Paducah, uses it for a toe-tapping medley of songs he used to sing for the packed Municipal Auditorium crowd March 15, 1975 during the Old Timers' Night and award show.


Country Stars Who Were Banned from the Grand Ole Opry
According to the Grand Ole Opry website, âOpry membership requires a passion for country musicâs fans, a connection to the musicâs history, and it requires commitmentâ¦ The decision to bring a new act into the Opry fold is a two-pronged one, based on a combination of career accomplishment and commitment.â.


Grand Ole Opry
Though a staple of radio since its infancy, the Grand Ole Opry had never been presented on TV as a regular series until 1955. That's when ABC (long before The Nashville Network and Country Music Television were even thought of) began showing live Saturday night performances from the Grand Ole Opry.


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1925: Grand Ole Opry. Less than two months later, WSM birthed itâs most famous show (and the show that would make country music famous, the Grand Ole Opry. The Opry was the first of WSMâs shows to develop such an excited audience that fans would visit live studio broadcasts.


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Check out Host profiles at Grand Ole Opry, job listings & salaries. Review & learn skills to be a Host.


Nashville Then Notes: Grand Ole Opry's Old Timers' Night
Minnie Pearl, center, and Hank Snow, right, two of seven winners of the Judge George D. Hay Award for outstanding contributions to the Grand Ole Opry, pose with presenter Irving Waugh, WSM President, during the Old Timers' Night and award show March 15, 1975.


10 things to know about the âGrand Ole Opryâ
When the Grand Ole Opry moved from the historic Ryman Auditorium to the Grand Ole Opry House in 1974, a six-foot circle of oak was cut from the stage at Ryman Auditorium and inserted into the new stage at The Grand Ole Opry House.


Country Stars Who Were Banned from the Grand Ole Opry
This one is a bit odd. In 2001, Neko Case got the opportunity to play the Grand Ole Opry Plaza Party, an outdoor event sponsored by the Opry. In the sweltering July heat, Case repeatedly asked for water or to take a break to offset her fear of impending heatstroke. But, to no avail.


WSM (AM)
The Opry began as the WSM Barn Dance in 1925, but on December 10, 1927, the program's host, Judge. George D. Hay, referred to the programming as being Grand Ole Opry in contrast to the preceding grand opera program on NBC.


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Keep your children's feet safe and comfortable with the Shane western boots by Dan Post. These boots feature full leather tops, a round toe, and a TPR Select your Store


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In this case, Laura is transformed instantly from Joey to Shane. She knows that Logan and Charles would want her to have a life free of violence and one free of the pain and loss that comes with it â they would want her to be Joey. But, instead, sheâs suddenly become Shane.


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All About 'Shane,' the Western Movie that 'Logan' Quoted Obsessively. By Caitlin Busch on March 5, 2017. Filed Under Movies & Superheroes. Hugh Jackmanâs last run as Wolverine, Logan, was marketed as a new-age Western from the very beginning.


The Magnificent 25: Legends of the Western
Alan Ladd's iconic gunfighter rides into the sunset in this cherished 1953 oater, ignoring one of the most famous last lines in movie history. Shane! shouts the young boy who adores him (Brandon deWilde, who got an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor). Come back!


Shane West
Shane West (born Shannon Bruce Snaith; June 10, 1978) is an American actor, punk rock musician, and songwriter. West is known for his portrayal of Eli Sammler in the ABC family drama Once and Again, Landon Carter in A Walk to Remember, Darby Crash in What We Do Is Secret, Dr. Ray Barnett in the NBC medical drama ER and Michael Bishop in The CW spy drama Nikita.


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Parents need to know that this is a serious-minded Western, not one of the charming but silly singing-cowboy fantasies that stampeded by the hundreds out of old Hollywood. Death is a serious thing here, and gunplay is realistic, not cartoonish or gratuitous. There's also a sense of the harshness of frontier life.


Shane  (film)
Shane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film from Paramount Pictures, noted for its landscape cinematography, editing, performances, and contributions to the genre. The picture was produced and directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by A. B. Guthrie Jr., based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer. Its Oscar-winning cinematography was by Loyal Griggs. Shane stars Alan Ladd and Jean Arthur in the last feature film of her career. The film also stars Van Heflin and features


The Movie Locations:
Intro & Homesteads. George Stevenâs âShaneâ (1953) with Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde, & Jack Palance. Teton Pass: This intro shot was taken at the top of Teton Pass. The current highway was still in the scene, though the shot lasted briefly as Shane rode into the JH valley.


'Shane,' a classic Western about a gunslinger and a boy: Indie & art house films
'Shane,' a classic Western about a gunslinger and a boy: Indie & art house films. A family relies on a gunfighter to help defend against bad men who'd take their land in Shane.. Starring Brandon de Wilde, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, and Alan Ladd in the title role.


Shane  ( 1953)
Shane (1953) Approved | 1h 58min | Drama, Western | 1 October 1953 (France) A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act.


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Important notice: This security policy remains as general as possible, depicting various options or. scenarios that must be applied according to the business risk a nalysis. IT governance has the. responsibility t o enable a secure environment without impairing the functionality of relevant. devices and services.


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Adhe rence to these requirements and the security policies derived from them and. Â© SANS Institute 2008, As part of the Information Security Reading Room Author retains full rights. Â© SANS Institute 200 8. , Author retains full rights.


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Table 3: ISO27001 Standard policies .....................................................................................12. Â© SANS Institute 2008, As part of the Information Security Reading Room Author retains full rights.


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1 The use of the device is for business purposes and such use is excludable from the employeeâs income as a working condition fringe benefit.  The University has a select number of mobile device plans with various service providers from which to choose.


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This policy applies to employees who have been required by the University to utilize a mobile device (such as smart phone or mobile phones) so as to be available to the University while away from campus and/or to use a mobile device as an integral tool in performing their assigned duties.


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For those employees who have been assigned to utilize a mobile device, the University offers two options. The decision regarding which option to use will be discussed collaboratively between the employee and his/her administrator, with the appropriate administrator making the final decision.


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The use of handheld devices is increasing in corporate environments, providing mobile. services and constant connectivity to mobile workers. Due to the fact that handheld devices. are recent and not yet properly managed, they present new threats to corporate as sets.


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As long as the mobile service providerâs plan supports and is compatible with the use required by the University, the employee may choose the device and/or the service plan he or she wishes to use. The University is not involved in the contract with the service provider or purchase of the device.


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Copyright : This document is a policy template, free of copyrights. It must be adapted to. your specific organization and according to your business risk analysis and the available. resources (time, budget, staffs). You are authorized to modify, adapt, or change this policy. template as required.


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The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines for mobile devices operated by University employees as part of their University duties.


Getting Your Retirement Money Early -- Without Penalty
But you cannot receive a distribution from your employer's retirement plan while you are still employed with the company if you want to use the age 55 exception to the early distribution tax. This exception is relevant only if you are between ages 55 and 59 1/2.


Getting Your Retirement Money Early -- Without Penalty
If you are at least 55 years old when you leave your job, you will not have to pay an early distribution tax on any distribution you receive from your former employer's retirement plan. (You will have to pay income tax on it, however.)


Can I Start Taking Pension Benefits Early?
Nope. While you can opt to tap your 401(k) at any time (though youâll pay a huge penalty to do so before age 59.5), you canât collect your pension until youâve reached the retirement age determined by your pension plan. Typically full retirement age 65, though many plans allow an early retirement that could start as soon as age 55. If you decide to start receiving benefits before you reach full retirement age, the size of your monthly payout will be less than it would have been if youâd waited.