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3. Obama and Raul Castro reversed over 60 years of tension between the U.S. and Cuba by restoring diplomatic ties. 4. He urged states in 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Since ...
The Battle of Midway is widely considered the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign and has even been described as "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare" [104] The reasons usually given for the resounding victory are Japanese overconfidence in their own forces, poor planning and the intercepting of ...
Author of the Year: J. K. Rowling: Won [13] 2000 Children's Book of the Year: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Nominated [14] 2004 Book of the Year: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Nominated [15] 2006 Book of the Year: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Won [16] 2008 Outstanding Achievement: J. K. Rowling: Won [17] 2009 ...
Hart wrote the 1999 follow-up A View from the Year 3000, [33] voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history. Roughly half the entries are fictional people from 2000 to 3000, but the remainder are taken mostly from the 1992 ranking, with some sequence changes.
March 19: The United States invades Iraq and ousts Saddam Hussein, triggering worldwide protests and an 8 year war. August 5: 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing kills 12 people. August 27 – 29: The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia. November 3 – 23: The Rose Revolution occurs in Georgia.
The George Floyd protests are an ongoing series of protests, riots, and demonstrations against police brutality and racism in policing. The protests began in the United States in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020, [40] following the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, who knelt on Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes during an arrest the ...
See also Rumford Medal (1800) and Rumford Prize (1839), which recognize significant achievements in either of the fields of heat and light. Other prestigious optics and photonics awards include Thomas Young Medal and Prize (1963, succeeding the Thomas Young Oration since 1907), [ 140 ] [ 141 ] Rank Prize in Optoelectronics (1976), [ 142 ] [ 143 ...
Kids who don’t read cursive aren’t actually missing out on that much “I love Grandma, but Grandma ain’t been writing something in cursive to most people for a good while.