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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America is a book by American politician and author James "Jim" Webb.It describes the history of the Scots-Irish ethnic group, summarising their Scottish roots and time in Ulster and the Plantation of Ulster before entering a more elaborate narrative of their time in the United States of America.
In 1994 the Pioneer-financed journal Mankind Quarterly, [155] of which Roger Pearson was the manager and pseudonymous contributor, had been described by Charles Lane in a review of The Bell Curve in the New York Review of Books as "a notorious journal of 'racial history' founded, and funded, by men who believe in the genetic superiority of the ...
James Charles Napier Webb (13 January 1946 – 9 May 1980) was a Scottish historian and biographer. He was born in Edinburgh , and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge . He is remembered primarily for his books The Harmonious Circle , The Occult Underground (originally titled Flight from Reason ), and The Occult Establishment .
James Webb: Born in NC, schooled at UNC-Chapel Hill. James Webb was born in 1906 and lived in rural Granville County, on the northern border of North Carolina. His father was the superintendent of ...
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been the subject of a number of controversies, both in and outside of the United States. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner accuses the CIA of covert actions and human rights abuses. [1] Jeffrey T. Richelson of the National Security Archive has been critical of its claims. [2]
James Cameron, the writer and director of "The Terminator," is wary of artificial general intelligence, the still theoretical version of AI that can reason as well as humans.
James Edwin Webb (October 7, 1906 – March 27, 1992) was an American government official who served as Undersecretary of State from 1949 to 1952. He was the second Administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968.
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by the psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and the political scientist Charles Murray in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and that it is a better predictor of many personal outcomes, including financial income, job performance ...