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American Genius is an American documentary series focusing on the lives of inventors and pioneers who have been responsible for major developments in their areas of expertise and helped shape the course of history.
Gates was elected a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 1996 "for contributions to the founding and development of personal computing". [266] Entomologists named Bill Gates' flower fly, Eristalis gatesi, in his honor in 1997. [267] He was awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership in 1998. [268]
The Days of Rage cost Chicago and the state of Illinois about $183,000 ($100,000 for National Guard payroll, $35,000 in damages, and $20,000 for one injured citizen's medical expenses). Of Weather, 287 members were arrested during the Days of Rage and most of the Weathermen and SDS' leaders were jailed. [ 21 ]
Bill Gates, the cofounder of Microsoft, says he is kept up at night by the threat of a world war or another pandemic. Bill Gates says the world is facing two options: A ‘major war’ or another ...
Gates publicized the book's release during a five-day tour of Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington, London and Paris, [2] which included appearances on Nightline, Talking with David Frost, The Today Show, the Late Show with David Letterman, MTV, Fresh Air, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer [2] [6]
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates was released on September 20, 2019 on Netflix. [1] The release came after a summer of "unusually bad press" in which "The New Yorker published emails from the MIT Media Lab suggesting that Gates was "directed" by the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to donate $2 million to the institution (Gates' representative has pushed back on that characterization), and ...
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
The suffix-gate derives from the Watergate scandal in the United States in the early 1970s, which resulted in the resignation of US President Richard Nixon. [2] The scandal was named after the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., where the burglary giving rise to the scandal took place; the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on ...