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The memoir recounts the Appalachian culture and socioeconomic problems of Vance's small-town upbringing. [46] Hillbilly Elegy was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2016 and 2017. The Times called it "one of the six best books to help understand Trump's win", [47] and The Washington Post called Vance the "voice of the Rust Belt". [48]
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; [3] born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.Often considered to be one of the greatest songwriters in history, [4] [5] [6] Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 60-year career.
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The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...
Wireless internet became prominent by the end of the decade, as well as internet access in devices besides computers, such as mobile phones and gaming consoles. Email became a standard form of interpersonal written communication, with popular addresses available to the public on Hotmail (now Outlook.com), Gmail and Yahoo! Mail.
Two years later, they moved to Mankato, Minnesota, Gwen's home state, [15] where Walz worked as a geography teacher and football coach at Mankato West High School. [5] The football team had lost 27 straight games when he joined the coaching staff as a defensive coordinator. [29] Three years later, in 1999, the team won its first state championship.
Kennedy delivering his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University, 1962. In 1960, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, was elected the 35th president of the United States with Lyndon B. Johnson as his vice presidential running mate.
The site was launched as 4chan.net on October 1, 2003, by Christopher Poole, a then-15-year-old student from New York City using the online handle "moot". [25] Poole had been a regular participant on Something Awful's subforum "Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse" (ADTRW), where many users were familiar with the Japanese imageboard format and Futaba Channel ("2chan.net"). [16]