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Upward Bound is a federally funded educational program within the United States. The program is one of a cluster of programs now referred to as TRiO, all of which owe their existence to the federal Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (the War on Poverty Program) and the Higher Education Act of 1965. Upward Bound programs are implemented and ...
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was born on July 4, 1872, in Plymouth Notch, Vermont —the only U.S. president to be born on Independence Day. He was the elder of the two children of John Calvin Coolidge Sr. (1845–1926) and Victoria Josephine Moor (1846–1885). Although named for his father, from early childhood Coolidge was addressed by his ...
President. Darren Walker. Endowment. US$ 16 billion [2] Website. fordfoundation.org. The Ford Foundation is an American private foundation with the stated goal of advancing human welfare. [3][4][5][6] Created in 1936 [7] by Edsel Ford and his father Henry Ford, it was originally funded by a $25,000 (about $550,000 in 2023) gift from Edsel Ford. [4]
Kamala Devi Harris was born in Oakland, California, 1964 to biologist Shyamala Gopalan and economist Donald J. Harris. The Harris family moved to various locations in the Midwestern United States from 1966 to 1970, when she moved back to California. At the age of twelve, she moved to Montreal, Quebec, where she attended school through her first ...
One such state, Pennsylvania, will not start processing mail ballots until 7 a.m. on Election Day. "States want to put in a lot of convenient parts of voting, and they don't necessarily think of ...
The numbers dramatically increase in some other sports Tech sponsors such as women's soccer (from 14 scholarships to a roster limit of 28 that can all be placed on scholarship); softball (12 to 25 ...
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (August 16, 1798 – December 19, 1859) was an American attorney, politician, poet, and leading political figure during the Texas Republic era. He was elected as the second president of the Republic of Texas after Sam Houston.
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.