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The Cross of Gold speech was delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States Representative from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896. In his address, Bryan supported "free silver" (i.e. bimetallism), which he believed would bring the nation prosperity
The idea of out-of-hours cash distribution was first put into practice in Japan, the United Kingdom and Sweden. [14] [15]In 1960, Armenian inventor Luther Simjian invented an automated deposit machine (accepting coins, cash and cheques) although it did not have cash dispensing features. [16]
Project 100,000, also known as McNamara's 100,000, McNamara's Folly, McNamara's Morons, and McNamara's Misfits, [1] [2] was a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards.
Phelps swam the lead-off leg in 48.42 seconds and Neil Walker, Cullen Jones and Jason Lezak each expanded the lead to win in a Championship record of 3:12.72, just missing the world record of 3:12.46 set the previous year. [123] His lead-off time was faster than the winning time in the individual 100-meter freestyle final later in the meet.
Unlike for 27 Al, hydrogen burning is the primary source of 26 Al, with the nuclide emerging after a nucleus of 25 Mg catches a free proton. However, the trace quantities of 26 Al that do exist are the most common gamma ray emitter in the interstellar gas ; [ 60 ] if the original 26 Al were still present, gamma ray maps of the Milky Way would ...
Hillbilly Elegy is a 2020 American drama film directed by Ron Howard from a screenplay by Vanessa Taylor, based on the 2016 memoir of the same name by JD Vance.The film stars Amy Adams and Glenn Close, and features Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins in his final film appearance, and Owen Asztalos.
The 1984 United States presidential election was the 50th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1984.Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan and his running mate, incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush, were re-elected to a second term in a landslide.
In a full-text search, a search engine examines all of the words in every stored document as it tries to match search criteria (for example, text specified by a user). Full-text-searching techniques appeared in the 1960s, for example IBM STAIRS from 1969, and became common in online bibliographic databases in the 1990s.