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0002-5577. All Hands was a monthly published magazine of the United States Navy for its sailors. It had been published since August 1922 under different names; the current title was established in 1945. Its last issue was published in December 2011, although it continues to be published online. The magazine was free of charge.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [ 1] Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating ...
The results of a tabulation are electrically coupled with a sorter while displayed on clock-like dials. The concept of automated data processing had been born. In 1890, Herman Hollerith invented the mechanical tabulating machine, a design used during the 1890 Census which stored and processed demographic and statistical information on punched ...
The Gulf of Tonkin incident ( Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ) was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. It consisted of a confrontation on August 2, 1964, when United States forces were carrying out covert amphibious operations close to North Vietnamese territorial ...
Moss, Ungar, Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan are the only people who have won the Main Event two years in a row. Johnny Chan's second victory in 1988 was featured on the 1998 film Rounders. [ 4] Peter Eastgate was the youngest person to win the Main Event when he won it in 2008, at 22 years of age. [ 5]
David Campbell (born November 4, 1941) is an American technology executive, corporate board member, and the founder of All Hands and Hearts, a nonprofit natural disaster response and rebuild organization. [1] [2] In 1997,while president of BBN Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., he was appointed by by then-president Bill Clinton to the Advisory ...
Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. [ a] He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007. The only other players to have hit 700 or more are Babe Ruth with 714, and Albert Pujols with 703. Alex Rodriguez (696), Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey Jr. (630), Jim Thome (612), and Sammy Sosa (609) are the only ...
He received the Nobel Prize for his work in the cerebral advancement of the chimpanzee and founded the Umbrella Academy, a group of adopted super-powered children. Sir Reginald is cold-hearted, often mistreating and even experimenting on the children for his personal interests. [ 4 ]