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The idea of a department of Urban Affairs was proposed in a 1957 report to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, led by New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. [3] The idea of a department of Housing and Urban Affairs was taken up by President John F. Kennedy, with Pennsylvania Senator and Kennedy ally Joseph S. Clark Jr. listing it as one of the top seven legislative priorities for the ...
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA), also known as the Office of Housing within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), is a United States government agency founded by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, established in part by the National Housing Act of 1934.
The Merseburg charms are the only known surviving relics of pre-Christian, pagan poetry in Old High German literature. [3]The charms were recorded in the 10th century by a cleric, possibly in the abbey of Fulda, on a blank page of a liturgical book, which later passed to the library at Merseburg.
West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. [note 2] It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest.
In the 1950s and 1960s, many Hollywood western movies like Giant, Hud, and The Alamo were set in Texas. In those movies, Hollywood stars like James Dean , Rock Hudson , Dennis Hopper , Paul Newman , and Patricia Neal first had to learn how to speak Texan English and were instructed by native Texans.
Colorado (/ ˌ k ɒ l ə ˈ r æ d oʊ,-ˈ r ɑː d oʊ / ⓘ KOL-ə-RAD-oh, - RAH-doh, [8] [9] other variants; [10] Spanish: [koloˈɾaðo]) is a state in the Western United States.It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.