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The education division of the National Endowment for the Humanities has prepared a lesson plan for schools asking whether "robber baron" or "captain of industry" is the better terminology. The lesson states that it attempts to help students "establish a distinction between robber barons and captains of industry.
Joshua S. Levy is an American lawyer who has served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts since November 2024. [1] In May 2023, Levy was appointed acting United States Attorney and in October 2023, he was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as the permanent U.S. attorney.
[1] [3] As part of the Loyalist migration to Nova Scotia, the Slocombes were granted 500 acres (2.0 km 2) of farmland in Nova Scotia's Annapolis County. Slocum's childhood school, now the Mount Hanley Schoolhouse Museum. Joshua Slocum was born in the family's farmhouse in Mount Hanley and learned to read and write at the nearby Mount Hanley School.
Theatre poster, 1879. H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert.It opened at the Opera Comique in London on 25 May 1878, and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time.
Joshua’s Law is a Georgia state law enacted in 2007 [1] changing the driver's license requirements for teen drivers. [2] A teen driver must meet the new requirements to obtain a Georgia driver’s license. The law was named after Joshua Brown, who died in an accident in 2003. [3]
Tristram Coffin, born in 1609 in Brixton, Devon, sailed for America in 1642, first settling in Newbury, Massachusetts, then moving to Nantucket. [1] [2] The Coffins, along with other Nantucket families, including the Gardners and the Starbucks, began whaling seriously in the 1690s in local waters, and by 1715 the family owned three whaling ships (whalers) and a trade vessel. [1]
Logbook used for NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter Two different logbooks for scuba divers. For books with logarithm tables, see Mathematical table § Tables of logarithms . A logbook (or log book ) is a record used to record states, events, or conditions applicable to complex machines or the personnel who operate them.
He also appeared in Hartley's 1995 film Flirt. [2] Burke took over the lead from Peter Weller in RoboCop 3. [2] He starred in Richard Stanley's 1993 film Dust Devil, [3] and in 2001's No Such Thing. [3] In 1996, he played the lead role in the film adaptation of Stephen King's Thinner. [2]