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The Dozier School for Boys was a reform school located in Mariana, Florida, originally opened in 1900. [read post]
21 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
From the time of Sutherland’s election to Congress from Utah in 1900 and through his years in the Senate, he and she had fought for woman suffrage, hosting delegations at their home in Washington, making speeches at suffrage meetings, and publishing articles in magazines. [read post]
18 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
”While Pennsylvania did not end up adopting the gas chamber, interest in this method grew in the late 1800s and the first two decades of the 1900s. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 9:32 am by Nathan Dorn
Lea followed this publication with nine subsequent studies on topics in the history of the legal institutions of the Middle Ages, including An historical sketch of sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian church (Philadelphia, 1867); A history of auricular confession and indulgences in the Latin church (Philadelphia, 1896); and The dead hand; a brief sketch of the relations between church and state with regard to ecclesiastical property and the religious orders (Philadelphia, 1900). [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 6:24 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
According to a news release from the university, 23-year-old Brandon Reyes-Rodriguez was arrested on the 1900 block of J Street Tuesday night. [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 12:45 pm by Evan George
It says the Agreement aims to hold global-average heating “well below 2.0 C,” and “pursue efforts” to limit heating to 1.5 C, with both those temperature increases defined relative to pre-industrial levels, meaning the period between 1850 and 1900 because that’s how far back reasonably good temperature records go. [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 4:00 am by Marc Misthal
After learning that no active company in the U.S. made watch movements, Vortic began salvaging and restoring parts from antique American-made pocket watches manufactured in the late 1800s and early 1900s. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 9:05 pm by William McDonald
Beller explains that disdain for this cost-shifting drove an anti-tipping movement in the early 1900s, culminating in several states passing legislation to ban tipping entirely. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 6:00 am by Sarah Friedman
Law schools started emerging in the mid-1800s, but the numbers grew significantly at the turn of the century (15 schools in 1850; 102 schools in 1900; 146 schools in 1920). [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 5:52 am by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.
In the early 1900s, it was renamed the Maryland Training School for Boys and relocated from the city to its current site on Old Harford Road. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 5:22 am by Yosi Yahoudai
In the early 1900s, Moore imported a dozen Eurasian boars from Russia and released them on his land, a parcel that is now part of the Santa Lucia Conservancy in Carmel Valley. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 8:05 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
On Feb. 9, one woman was killed in the 1900 block of Planz Road, after an alleged intoxicated driver crashed into her. [read post]
11 Feb 2024, 1:49 pm by Stuart Kaplow
The graphical pattern is roughly horizontal for 90% of the temperature axis, reflecting a slight, long term cooling period between 1050 and 1900, followed by a sharp increase in temperature in the twentieth century. [read post]
5 Feb 2024, 8:51 am by kblocher@hslf.org
Wolves were systematically shot, trapped and poisoned until, by the mid-1900s, in all the lower 48 states, only a few packs remained in a small part of Minnesota. [read post]
1 Feb 2024, 12:56 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
The National Wildlife Refuge System dates to the early 1900s, when President Theodore Roosevelt established the first, with an aim to protect nesting birds: Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 7:02 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
EM-DAT contains data on the occurrence and impacts of over 26,000 mass disasters worldwide from 1900 to the present day. [read post]
28 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
From 1900 to 2010, 276 (3.15%) of 8,776 execution attempts were messed up in some way.Lethal injections had the highest botch rate (7.1%), with gassings coming in second (5.4%).A botched execution is one that departs from the governing legal protocol, standard operating procedure, or the advertised virtues of the method used. [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 1:03 pm by Associated Press
Microsoft is laying off about 1,900 employees in its gaming division, according to an internal company memo. [read post]