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On May 8, 1866, during a debate on the Fourteenth Amendment, Thaddeus Stevens, the leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, delivered a speech on the amendment's intent. Regarding Section 2, he said: [107] The second section I consider the most important in the article. It fixes the basis of representation in Congress.
The 1988 United States presidential election was the 51st quadrennial presidential election held on Tuesday, November 8, 1988. In what was the third consecutive landslide election for the Republican Party, their ticket of incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush and Indiana senator Dan Quayle defeated the Democratic ticket of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and Texas senator Lloyd ...
8 Martin Van Buren [57] July 24, 1862: Kinderhook Reformed Church Cemetery Kinderhook: New York: 9 Richard M. Johnson [58] November 19, 1850: Frankfort Cemetery: Frankfort: Kentucky: 10 John Tyler [59] January 18, 1862: Hollywood Cemetery: Richmond: Virginia: 11 George M. Dallas [60] December 31, 1864: Churchyard of St. Peter's Episcopal Church ...
The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008.The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.
[87] [88] Americans for Prosperity spent $8.4 million in swing states on television advertisements denouncing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 loan guarantee to Solyndra, a manufacturer of solar panels that went bankrupt, [89] an advertising campaign described by The Wall Street Journal in November 2011 as "perhaps the biggest ...
Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing and then returned to Earth. [1][2][3] These three astronauts — Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders —were the ...
The Impossible Quiz is a point-and-click quiz game that consists of 110 questions, [1][2] using "Gonna Fly Now" as its main musical theme. Notorious for its difficulty, the quiz mixes multiple-choice trick questions similar to riddles, along with various challenges and puzzles. [1][2] Despite the quiz's name and arduousness, the game is ...
The 2024 ATP Tour is the global elite men's professional tennis circuit organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the 2024 tennis season. The 2024 ATP Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the ATP Finals, the ATP Masters 1000, the United Cup (organized with the WTA), the ATP 500 series and the ATP 250 ...