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SPEEd (Society of the Philippine Entertainment Editors), the organization behind the annual The EDDYS, is made up of entertainment editors of newspapers and tabloid circulated daily nationwide. The non-profit organization was established in 2015 initially as a social club. [7]
Joshua Fry Speed was born at Farmington, Louisville, Kentucky, to Judge John Speed and Lucy Gilmer Speed (née Fry) on November 14, 1814. [2] On his father's side, Speed's ancestry can be traced back to 17th-century cartographer and historian John Speed. [3] John Speed's great-grandfather (James Speed) emigrated to Virginia in 1695.
The Spee Club is a final club at Harvard University. After voting to adopt a gender-neutral membership policy in September 2015, the Spee Club became the first Harvard final club to admit members regardless of gender. The clubhouse is located at 76 Mount Auburn Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Club was originally founded in 1852 as the ...
The Speed Art Museum, originally known as the J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, now colloquially referred to as the Speed[1] by locals, is the oldest and largest art museum in Kentucky. It was established in 1927 in Louisville, Kentucky, on Third Street next to the University of Louisville Belknap campus. It receives around 180,000 visits annually. [2]
Berna Eli "Barney" Oldfield (January 29, 1878 – October 4, 1946) was a pioneer American racing driver. His name was "synonymous with speed in the first two decades of the 20th century". [ 1 ] He was the winner of the inaugural AAA National Championship in 1905. After success in bicycle racing, Oldfield began auto racing in 1902 and continued ...
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and 1965. The term was first referenced during a 1964 speech by Johnson at Ohio University , [ 1 ] then later formally presented at the University of Michigan , and came to represent his domestic agenda. [ 2 ]
On land, the speed record registered by a rider on a 200-meter flying start speed trial was 133.28 km/h (82.82 mph) by the Canadian Sam Whittingham riding the Varna Tempest, a streamliner recumbent bicycle in 2009, [19] at Battle Mountain, Nevada. His record has been surpassed by 0.5 km/h by Sebastiaan Bowier of the Netherlands in 2013 setting ...
Jean Baudrillard (UK: / ˈboʊdrɪjɑːr /, [ 1 ] US: / ˌboʊdriˈɑːr /; French: [ʒɑ̃ bodʁijaʁ]; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies.