Marshall "Eddie" Conway. Marshall Conway (born April 23, 1946) was the Minister of Defense of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party.
In addition to his position within the Black Panther Party he was also employed by the United States Postal Service. Conway, however, was unaware that some of the founding members of the Baltimore chapter were actually undercover police officers with the Baltimore Police Department. These officers would report daily on his particular activities within the chapter. At the same time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had also started its own investigation of Conway, recording his whereabouts, contacting his employers at the Post Office and maintaining liaison with the Baltimore Police Department.[1] Crime[edit] On the night of April 21, 1970, Baltimore Police Officers Donald Sager and Stanley Sierakowski were shot by three assailants who fired at least eight rounds at the officers during their response to a domestic disturbance call.
Gore Vidal. Early life[edit] Vidal's father served as director of the Commerce Department's Bureau of Air Commerce (1933–1937) in the Roosevelt administration,[9] was one of the first Army Air Corps pilots and, according to biographer Susan Butler, was the great love of Amelia Earhart's life.[10] In the 1920s and 1930s, he was a co-founder of three American airlines: the Ludington Line, which merged with others and became Eastern Airlines, Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT), which became TWA), and Northeast Airlines, which he founded with Earhart, as well as the Boston and Maine Railroad.
The elder Vidal had also been a West Point football quarterback, coach, and captain and an all-American basketball player. He also participated in the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics (seventh in the decathlon; U.S. pentathlon team coach).[11][12] Writing career[edit] Copernicus, Galileo, Hubble, and now... First published in our 1999 Genius Issue, this is the story of Alan Guth, a physicist whose theory of inflation — which attempted to explain how the universe expanded so quickly after the Big Bang — was supported today by the discovery of waves in the fabric of space-time.
Essentially, if inflation can be proven, it would reveal our tiny speck of dirt to be even tinier. This man came up with the idea 35 years ago. LATE ONE DECEMBER NIGHT IN 1979, A YOUNG academic with a foundering career had an idea, which he committed to his notebook. Twenty years later, that idea--that notebook--rests under Plexiglas in a museum. This happens in science. Sheldon Adelson. Sheldon Gary Adelson (pronounced / ˈ æ d ə l s ə n / ; born August 4, 1933) is an American business magnate .
He is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited which operates The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the Sands Expo and Convention Center . He also owns the Israeli daily newspaper Israel HaYom . As of October 2012, Adelson is listed as the 24th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $21.8 billion. [ 3 ] Previously, he was listed in the Forbes 400 as the 12th wealthiest American. [ 1 ] Early life and education [ edit source | edit beta ] Adelson was born and grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts , the son of Sarah (née Tonkin) and Arthur Adelson. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] His family was Jewish. [ 7 ] His father drove a taxi, and his mother ran a knitting shop.
TWA Flight 800. Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA 800), a Boeing 747-100, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31 p.m.
EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris.[1] All 230 people on board were killed, the third-deadliest aviation accident to occur in U.S. territory. While accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) traveled to the scene, arriving the following morning,[2] there was much initial speculation that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash.[3][4][5] Consequently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) initiated a parallel criminal investigation.[6] Sixteen months later the FBI announced that no evidence had been found of a criminal act and closed its active investigation.[7] Accident flight[edit] All times in this article are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Walter Walsh. Colonel Walter Rudolph Walsh (born May 4, 1907) is a former FBI agent, USMC shooting instructor and Olympic shooter.
Walsh joined the FBI in 1934, serving during the Public enemy era, and was involved in several high-profile FBI cases, including the capture of Arthur Barker and the killing of Al Brady. He served in the Pacific theatre during World War II with the Marine Corps and, after a brief return to the FBI, served as a shooting instructor with the Marine Corps until his retirement in the 1970s. A high profile shooter, Walsh won numerous tournaments within the FBI and the Marine Corps, as well as nationally, and participated in the 1948 Summer Olympics.
He received awards for his marksmanship until the age of 90 and served as the coach of the Olympic shooting team until 2000. At the FBI's 100th anniversary celebration he was recognized as the oldest living former agent and noted as being a year older than the organization itself. List of liberal theorists. Individual contributors to classical liberalism and political liberalism are associated with philosophers of the Enlightenment.
Liberalism as a specifically named ideology begins in the late 18th century as a movement towards self-government and away from aristocracy. John Stuart Mill. John Stuart Mill, FRSE (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist and civil servant.
He was an influential contributor to social theory, political theory and political economy. He has been called "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century".[3] Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control.[4] He was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham. Hoping to remedy the problems found in an inductive approach to science, such as confirmation bias, he clearly set forth the premises of falsifiability as the key component in the scientific method.[5] Mill was also a Member of Parliament and an important figure in liberal political philosophy.
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Thomas Sampson, Jr. (born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1934) is an American inventor.[1] He graduated from Lanier High School in Jackson, Mississippi in 1951. He then attended Morehouse College in Atlanta before transferring to Purdue University in Indiana where he became a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. Jack Churchill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Nightly. Churchill stares down the barrel of a captured Belgian 75 mm field gun.
Early life[edit] Second World War[edit] Churchill resumed his commission after Poland was invaded. Yogendra Singh Yadav - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Nightly. Naib Subedar Yogendra Singh Yadav PVC is a soldier in the Indian army . He was awarded the highest Indian military honour, Param Vir Chakra for his actions during the Kargil War on 4 July 1999. Io9. Simo Häyhä - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Nightly. Simo Häyhä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsimɔ ˈhæy̯hæ]; December 17, 1905 – April 1, 2002), nicknamed "White Death" (Russian: Белая смерть, Belaya Smert; Finnish: valkoinen kuolema; Swedish: den vita döden) by the Red Army, was a Finnish marksman. Using a modified Mosin–Nagant in the Winter War, he acquired the highest recorded number of confirmed sniper kills – 505 – in any major war.[2] Early life[edit] Winter War service[edit] During the Winter War (1939–1940) between Finland and the Soviet Union, Häyhä served as a sniper for the Finnish Army against the Red Army in the 6th Company of JR 34 during the Battle of Kollaa.
Carl Jung. Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/; German: [ˈkarl ˈɡʊstaf jʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961), often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology.[2] Joshua Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Nightly. Early life[edit] He married Fanny Adams, adopted daughter of a local clergyman, in 1855, and they had five children, one of whom was born too prematurely to survive and two of whom died in infancy. Adams's father did not at first approve of the marriage, but later approved and shared a mutual respect with his son-in-law. Chamberlain studied for three additional years at Bangor Theological Seminary in Bangor, Maine, returned to Bowdoin, and began a career in education as a professor of rhetoric.
Nikola Tesla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Nightly. Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American[3][4] inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.[5] Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla received an advanced education in engineering and physics in the 1870s and gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. He emigrated to the United States in 1884, where he would become a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices.
Early years. Steve Wozniak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Nightly. Timur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Nightly. Timur, Tarmashirin Khan, Emir Timur, Timur Beg Gurkhani[1] (Persian: تیمور Timūr, Chagatai: Temür "iron"; 9 April 1336 – 18 February 1405), historically known as Tamerlane[2] (Persian: تيمور لنگ Timūr(-e) Lang, "Timur the Lame"), was a Turko-Mongol ruler of Barlas lineage.[3][4][5] He conquered West, South and Central Asia and founded the Timurid dynasty.
Marquis de Sade. Kubla Khan. Title page of Kubla Khan (1816) Kubla Khan /ˌkʊblə ˈkɑːn/ is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. Qin Shi Huang. Pietro Riario. Gian Maria Visconti. Gian Maria Visconti. Alonso de Ovalle. Alonso de Ovalle Fr. Alonso de Ovalle (Santiago; July 27, 1603 – Lima; May 1651) was a Chilean Jesuit priest and chronicler of Chilean history, author of the Historica relacion del Reyno de Chile y de las missiones y ministerios que exercita en él la Compañía de Jesus, describing the Conquest of Chile and the Arauco War.
Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Al-Kindi. Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي, Latin: Alkindus) (c. 801–873 CE), known as "the Philosopher of the Arabs", was an Iraqi Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician, physician, and musician. Baby Face Nelson. Philostratus. Childeric I.