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[2] [3] Reiner received his PhD at TU Wien in 1913 and made significant contributions to the development of the study of flow behavior known as rheology. [1] Reiner believed the teapot effect could be explained by Bernoulli's principle, which states that an increase in the speed of a fluid is always accompanied by a decrease in its pressure ...
McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 (1927), was a case heard before the Supreme Court, decided on January 17, 1927.It was a challenge to Mally Daugherty's contempt conviction and arrest, which happened when he failed to appear before a Senate committee investigating the failure of his brother, Attorney General Harry Daugherty, to investigate the perpetrators of the Teapot Dome Scandal.
The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding.It centered on Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall, who had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. [1]
Harry Micajah Daugherty (/ ˈ d oʊ. ər t i /; January 26, 1860 – October 12, 1941) was an American politician.A key Republican political insider from Ohio, he is best remembered for his service as Attorney General of the United States under presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, as well as for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal during Harding's presidency.
English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English.
Paul Y. Anderson (August 29, 1893 – December 6, 1938) was an American journalist.He was a pioneering muckraker and played a role in exposing the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s.
[8] Pinsker added: "[T]he salient point of Kernan's thesis is that the death of the old literature must be understood 'not as a culpable act but as part of a broad cultural change.'" [9] Pinsker concluded: "There are good reasons to regard Kernan's witty, provocative, altogether fascinating report about the death of literature as greatly ...
Designated for motivated students with a command of standard English, an interest in exploring and analyzing challenging classical and contemporary literature, and a desire to analyze and interpret dominant literary genres and themes, it is often offered to high school seniors and the other AP English course, AP English Language and Composition, to juniors.