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1 May 2012, 7:15 am by Lovechilde
Sending Debt Peonage, Poverty, and Freaky Weather Into The Arena By Rebecca Solnit, cross-posted from TomDispatch When I was growing up, I ate books for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and since I was constantly running out of reading material, I read everyone else’s -- which for a girl with older brothers meant science fiction. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 10:00 am
These have increased the average life expectancy in the United States from 47 years in 1900 to 78 years in 2011 almost doubling life expectancies. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 10:00 am
These have increased the average life expectancy in the United States from 47 years in 1900 to 78 years in 2011 almost doubling life expectancies. [read post]
29 Apr 2012, 9:04 am
The most famous example of a human chronic carrier of Salmonella was "Typhoid Mary,” an asymptomatic Irish-American cook linked to 54 cases and four deaths in nine different typhoid fever epidemics in New York City during the early 1900s. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 10:15 am
Further investigation indicates that the first British woman to pass a driving test did so in 1900. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 10:00 am
These have increased the average life expectancy in the United States from 47 years in 1900 to 78 years in 2011 almost doubling life expectancies. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 10:00 am
These have increased the average life expectancy in the United States from 47 years in 1900 to 78 years in 2011 almost doubling life expectancies. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 1:51 pm by Michael C. Smith
Back on Monday I posted that Judge Schneider was getting ready to pick the jury in what would have been the first trial in the historic 1900 courthouse in Marshall since the county moved out in 1964. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 8:14 am by Randy Barnett
Public views about congressional control over the national economy, which evolved between the early 1900s and 1936, may well have played a role in the Supreme Court’s decisions upholding New Deal legislation. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 6:00 am by Trusts EstatesProf
Jason Gillmer (Professor of Law at Gonzaga University School of Law) recently published an article entitled, Crimes of Passion: The Regulation of Interracial Sex in Washington, 1855-1950, 47 Gonz. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 1:43 am
Asbestos is a mineral fiber that was used extensively as a heat resistant and bonding agent in the manufacturing of construction and insulating products from the 1900's through the 1980's in the United States. [read post]
21 Apr 2012, 4:00 am by Joseph McClelland
… Black Bear—solviturambulando (Flickr.com) Endangered Species Act of 1969 The Endangered Species Act of 1969 Public Law 91-135 was an expansion of the Lacey Act the Lacey Act of 1900 was the first in a long. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 5:41 am by Steve Vladeck
., to Elihu Root, Sec’y of War (Sept. 25, 1900), reprinted in H.R. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 5:41 am by Steve Vladeck
., to Elihu Root, Sec’y of War (Sept. 25, 1900), reprinted in H.R. [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 1:09 am by Mary L. Dudziak
From approximately 4500 BC until approximately 1900 BC — and hence long before the rise of ancient Greece, Rome or Israel — the Indus Valley region gave rise to one of the very first large scale civilizations in our natural history as a species: the so-called “Harappan” Civilization. [read post]
17 Apr 2012, 6:00 pm
In 1900, over a quarter of all automobiles being manufactured ran on electricity. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 4:45 am by Lawrence Solum
From approximately 4500 BC until approximately 1900 BC — and hence long before the rise of ancient Greece, Rome or Israel — the Indus Valley region gave rise to one of the very first large scale civilizations in our natural history as a species: the so-called “Harappan” Civilization. [read post]