Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Presidential History Gifts

Check out our presidential history selection for the very best in unique or custom handmade pieces from our prints shops. Air Force One Gifts.

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1960 Scarce John F Kennedy Doolan for Congress Massachusetts Button.

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Since the office was established in 1789 45 people have served in 46 presidencies. Blankets Throws. They are also home to hundreds of thousands of Presidential giftsthe inspiration for Tokens and Treasures President Franklin D.

Hayes with an ornate desk carved out of timber salvaged from the British ship the HMS. Air Force One Gifts. It includes the front page of The New York Times on the morning following this great disaster and pieces of the ship even this small are in finite supply so get yours before theyre all claimed.

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46th President Joe Joseph R Biden Gifts and Collectibles. 1928 Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis New Jersey Republican Ticket. Blankets Throws.

The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States indirectly elected to a four-year term by the American people through the Electoral College. 45th President Donald J. 45th President Donald J.

Trump Gifts and Collectibles. For some historical precedent heres a look back at some of the more interesting presidential gifts. Get an actual piece of the Titanic with this cool gift for history fanatics or Titanic buffs.

White House Gift Shop History Ornament Collection 73 Years. May 9 2020 - Explore Alexis LaMontagnes board Presidential History followed by 2339 people on Pinterest. Many hundreds of years later this remarkably preserved remnant of Israeli history became a gift to an American President.

Millard fillmore president fillmore portrait whig party politics us history president of the united states politicians george peter alexander healy american presidents history presidential president government george healy historian war is hell store warishellstore. The Complete Front Pages 1851-2009. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Land Grant signed by Adams as President in 1825 also signed by land commissioner George Graham Land Grant signed.

In 1880 Queen Victoria gifted President Rutherford B. White House Gift Shop History Ornament Collection 73 Years. Adams as President George Graham as Commissioner of the General Land Office 1 page 14¾x9½.

He also donated a portion of his family estate at Hyde Park New York for the construction of a building that would serve as both a repository. 2020 marked the 75 th anniversary of the end of World War II which makes this special edition t-shirt a timely gift for all. Washington DC 1825 October 10.

Trump Gifts and Collectibles. V-Day WWII Battles T-Shirt 3095 and up HISTORY Store. Great Order of the Nile Gift to President Carter from Anwar Sadat President of Egypt Gold enamel synthetic stones 16 x 12 inches Click to see high-resolution version JPEG President Jimmy Carter helped to negotiate peace between Egypt and Israel after 31 years of war.

High quality American Presidential History gifts and merchandise. The officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. 46th President Joe Joseph R Biden Gifts and Collectibles.

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Thursday, January 14, 2021

Singular They History

A professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois Dennis Baron compiled a history of singular genderless pronouns beginning in the late 1700s. Except for the old-style language of that poem its use of singular they to refer to an unnamed person seems very modern.

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They was recognized by the society for its emerging use as a pronoun to refer to a known person often as a conscious choice by a person rejecting the traditional gender binary of he and she American Dialect Society press release January 8.

Singular they history. In January 2016 the American Dialect Society chose the gender-neutral singular they as its Word of the Year. That the development of singular they mirrors the development of the singular you from the plural you yet we dont complain that singular you is ungrammatical. Developed package Buchmora for Atari in Modula-2 to verify existence.

The singular they and its many supporters have won and its here to stay. In fact the Wikipedia article on singular they has a section on the history of its use and specifically calls out Austen as one of the respected pre-modern authors who used they with a singular antecedent. Jointly developed by groups from Berlin Pfister and.

Despite what many language. Buchmora is renamed to Singular. And that regardless of what detractors say nearly everyone uses the singular they in casual conversation and.

Writers who approve of singular they find that it allows sentences to flow. In yesterdays installment about singular they I. A brief history of singular they Singular they has become the pronoun of choice to replace he and she in cases where the gender of the antecedentthe word the pronoun refers tois unknown irrelevant or nonbinary or where gender needs to be concealed.

Do there exist complete intersection singularities which are not quasi-homogeneous but whose Poincare-complex is exact. As the dictionarys staff wrote in explaining their pick English famously lacks a gender-neutral singular pronoun to correspond neatly with singular pronouns like everyone someone and anyone and as a consequence they has been used for this purpose for over 600 years Writers as illustrious as Chaucer and Shakespeare wrote using the singular they. Language historians trace the use of a singular they all the way back to the late 14th century.

When the subject of a sentence is both non-specific and quantifiable they has always been appropriate in the singular. But is the singular they really so revolutionary. The oldest kind of singular they appeared in writing around 1370 and certainly showed up earlier than that in speech.

Pfister et al Humboldt Uni Berlin. The venerable Merriam-Webster dictionary has declared the word they its 2019 word of the year. The History of Singular 1984.

Older usage by respected authors They was already being used with a singular antecedent in the Middle English of the 14th century. Heres the Middle English version. Timeline of singular they from 1375 to 1896 Modern Use.

Except for the old-style language of that poem its use of singular they to refer to an unnamed person seems very modern. In March of 1794 a writer for The Medley or New Bedford Marine Journal defended the use of a singular they writing we wished to conceal the. We will note that they has been in consistent use as a singular pronoun since the late 1300s.

Now it has entered into formal writing as well. Its the word we use for sentences like Everyone loves their mother. The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375 where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf.

Jul 25 2019 - The Astonishing History of Singular They Learn all about the pronoun Singular They its history and why you can use and should use it in writing. Ye thou and thee the objective form of thou were all left behind in the history books. The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375 where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf.

Everything you need to know about the upbringing of they singular and its historyA six video series on pronounsPart 1 Singular They. Grammarians started to outright ban the use of singular they in the late 19th and early 20th century but it has now returned to our vocabulary first in oral speech and informal writing.

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Interesting History Stories

In 1882 in Exeter Rhode Island Mary Eliza Brown died of tuberculosis. The Grisly Story Of Harold Shipman The British Doctor Who Killed His Patients For Pleasure.

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Before he became president Abraham Lincoln was a champion wrestler taking part in about 300 matches and earning a reputation as a tough fighter also being 6 feet 4 inches tall didnt hurt.

Interesting history stories. The Ottoman Empires Sultan Ibrahim I had 280 of his concubines drowned in the ocean after one of them slept with. In 1950 during the Korean War some US Marines ran out. Most of the new passengers were Union soldiers chiefly from Ohio and just released from Confederate prison camps such as Cahawba and Andersonville.

In 1867 Russia sold the territory of Alaska to the US. Embellishments should have no place here. Known at the time as consumption the disease literally consumed people causing the body to rapidly deteriorate along with intense fevers and nasty coughs.

However Augustuss staggering wealth could be measured. The project began in 1857 and took 70 years to complete even with the help of thousands of contributors. In 1917 when George S.

THE GI WHO BECAME A TRANSGENDER CELEBRITY. 51 Historical Facts That Sound Like Huge Lies But Are Actually True 1. The Grisly Crimes Of Gary Hilton The National Forest Serial Killer Who Decapitated Hikers.

A collection of fascinating true stories from history science and psychology. The Revolutionary War the Civil War the Apollo 11 landing and the fall of the Berlin Wall are just a small few of historys most defining and interesting historical events. The Professor and the Madman.

Top 10 strange history stories. But Mary Eliza wasnt the only victim in. Top 10 strange history stories.

13 surprising and weird history facts. 10 Funny Stories from History that You Never Read in Your School Books 1. Plenty of tragic fascinating and frankly vital stories have emerged from the Holocaust.

Try 6 issues of BBC History Magazine or BBC History Revealed for only 999 From lethal Tudor toys to John Quincy Adamss pet alligator we round up some of the more unusual stories to feature on History. The works of Primo Levi Elie Wiesel Anne Frank and Viktor Frankl provide us with harrowing insight into perhaps the most terrible viscerally tragic period in modern history. Here we humbly suggest six stories that depict people and places in the past that we would want to see on the big screen.

Marys little lamb the first plan for space travel a 1930s chastity belt and the plots to kill Cuban dictator Fidel Castro - HistoryExtra. The reason that this disaster was mostly forgotten by history is because it took place soon after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and during the closing weeks of the Civil War. Most inventors dignitaries and social activists make a lasting impression on history.

Patton was stationed in France the mayor of a French town mistook a covered latrine pit for. A Tale of Murder Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. Nephew and heir of Julius Caesar Roman Emperor Augustus had an estimated net worth of 46 trillion when counting for inflation.

In text and podcast form. Heres an interesting history fact you probably didnt learn in school. A fascinating true story about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Thanks to record keeping historical documents and word of mouth there are interesting people from history that everyone knows about like Galileo Thomas Jefferson Rosa Parks or Henry Ford. From the purchase of Alaska by the United States to the project of creating spy cats we bring to you some of the most interesting but lesser-known events from history around the world. In medieval times people were put to death for being.

Some say that Mansa Musa king of Timbuktu was the worlds wealthiest man as his wealth was apparently too great to count. Inside The Multi-State Murder Spree Of Alton Coleman And Debra Brown In 1984.

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

History Of Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle Cell Over The Years Dr. Relationship of Red Cell Sickling to Oxygen.

Sickle Cell Disease Wikipedia

The term sickle cell disease embraces a group of genetic conditions in which pathology results from the inheritance of the sickle cell gene either homozygously or as a double heterozygote with another interacting gene.

History of sickle cell disease. In the annals of medical history 1910 is regarded as the date of the discovery of sickle cell disease making 2010 the 100th anniversary of that discovery but just what does it mean to say the disease was discovered. What we call its discovery in 1910 occurred not in Africa but in the United States. First Description of Sickle Cell Disease On the 15th of November 1910 Dr.

James Herrick notes the sickle shape of red blood cells identifying sickle cell anemia Sickle cell is identified as a genetic disease The National Association for Sickle Cell Disease is established National Sickle Cell Anemia Control Act is signed into law. The Strategies defined at the Wingspread meeting laid the foundation for todays Association. Herrick who noted in 1910that a patient of his from the West Indies had an anemia characterizedby unusual red cells that were sickleshaped.

Out of that meeting the National Association for Sickle Cell Disease was created. Dr Mason who observed the fourth reported case of Sickle cell was also the first to call the disease sickle cell anemia and to notice the similarities between the cases. The natural history of sickle cell disease.

The existence of sickle cell disease was first reported around the beginning of the twentieth century when the medical world discovered microscopic oddly shaped red blood cells. James Herrick made the first official description in published literature of sickle cell disease. James Herrick in Chicago treated an individual with symptoms of pains in the.

History - Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Inc. Sickle cell anemia is a disease of red blood cells. Peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped is how sickle cells were first described in 1904 by intern Ernest Edward Irons when examining the blood of Walter Clement Noel a 20-year-old first-year dental student from a wealthy Black family in Grenada.

The Natural History of Sickle Cell Disease Graham R. The spectrum of resulting conditions is therefore influenced by the geography of. Given sickle cell diseases prevalence among black Americans questions of race and stigma have shadowed the history of its medical treatment.

A Brief History of Sickle Cell Disease. It is caused by an autosomal recessive single gene defect in the beta chain of hemoglobin which results in production of sickle cell hemoglobin HbS. In the western literature the first description of sickle cell diseasewas by a Chicago physician James B.

As a disease of pain and suffering that affected black Americans sickle cell disease became a political symbol for patients doctors politicians and others seeking recognition com. Serjeant Sickle Cell Trust Jamaica Kingston 6 Jamaica Correspondence. The term sickle cell disease SCD is used in a generic sense to refer to all the clinically severe sickling syndromes.

A Brief History of Sickle Cell Disease. The genetic abnormality involves the substitution of thymine with adenine in. In 1927 Hahn and Gillespie showed that.

The name was changed to Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Inc. Sickle cells can obstruct blood flow and break down prematurely and are associated with vary. The medical history of sickle cell anemia began in 1910 when an American doctor named James Herrick used a microscope to study the blood cells of a Caribbean man who was experiencing body pains and lethargy.

The disorder we call Sickle Cell Disease often abbreviated as SCD had been present in Africa for at least five thousand years and has been known by many names in many tribal languages. 1922 Dr VR Mason names the disease Sickle Cell Anemia.

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Animal Rights History

Prevention of cruelty to animals became an important movement in early 19th Century England where it grew alongside the humanitarian current that advanced human rights including the anti-slavery movement and. Animal welfare groups such as the ASPCA remained focused on sheltering adoption and the prevention of suffering.

The History Of Animal Protection In The United States The American Historian

Insofar as the nation is a rattlesnake that snake is eating itself.

Animal rights history. Herpetologists and animal rights groups like Advocates for Snake Preservation have lobbied the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for years in protest of gassing capturing and killing wild snakes for human amusement. The humane movement has been hijacked radicalized and rerouted. But now rapidly growing segments within the movement have adopted a new philosophy that began to spread in the late 1970s.

Animal Rights Movement PDF. First known animal rights law in history. With titles from the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Animal Welfare Institute this collection aims to establish the foundational laws pertaining to animals and follow the evolution of these rights throughout the years.

Brief History of the Animal Protection Movement In the UK the first legislation Martins Act for the protection of animals mainly cattle and horses was passed in 1822. In the last 20 years however it has been taken over by animal rights extremists whose priority is neither the humane care of animals nor the prevention of cruelty to animals but instead the promotion of a revolutionary value system which redefined mans relationship with animals. Historically different views of the scope of animal rights have reflected philosophical and legal developments scientific conceptions of animal and human nature and religious and ethical conceptions of the proper relationship between animals.

The established movement for animal protection started in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The modern animal rights movement The fundamental principle of the modern animal rights movement is that many nonhuman animals have basic interests that deserve recognition consideration and protection. The ideology behind the animal rights movement has evolved over millennia but many animal activists point to the 1975 publication of Australian philosopher Peter Singers Animal Liberation.

The life cycle of history. Compared to other states cruelty laws Texas animal cruelty laws are unique in a couple of ways. Salts urging of a recognition for the common bond of humanity that unites all living beings into one universal brotherhood echoed ancient religious.

We are building a. Singer argued that sentient creatures have a right to equal consideration because they can suffer and considered. The laws do not protect wild animals.

The philosophical origins of animal rights date back centuries and include Plato Einstein Jesus Lincoln and Albert Schweitzer. Started more than a hundred years ago this movement was traditionally concerned with the humane treatment of animals. In 1944 Donald Watson in England strengthened the foundation for the modern animal rights movement by coining the word vegan and founding the Vegan Society in London directly challenging the official story and the underlying core of our culture.

In 1975 utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer published Animal Liberation which was immediately hailed as a bible for an emergent animal rights movement. 1641 The first legal code to protect domestic animals in North America was passed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony 1654 Oliver Cromwell a political leader during the English Civil War disliked blood sports. First Texas criminal cruelty laws only apply to domesticated animals such as house pets and livestock.

The court could order that the animal be auctioned given up to an animal rescue group or put to sleep. Two years later in 1824 the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals which became the Royal SPCA in 1840 was established. 19k The Animal Protection Movement.

It has always been. It includes philosophical books dating back to the 1800s videos periodicals brochures and more. Sports such as cockfighting dog fighting bull baiting and bull running.

In 2015 Jose L. In the view of animal rights advocates these basic interests give the animals that have them both moral and legal rights. Considered in Relation to Social Progress rallied against the idea of prejudice against animals.

The first explicit reference to the concept of animal rights came from Henry Stephens Salt whos book Animals Rights. Animal rights moral or legal entitlements attributed to nonhuman animals usually because of the complexity of their cognitive emotional and social lives or their capacity to experience physical or emotional pain or pleasure. Bills against animal cruelty were.

That animals have inherent rights to a full life in a natural society.

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