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3 days ago · Among them was my father, Frank McHugh, one of more than 100 men who in the late 1950s and early 1960s quit their roles in An Garda Síochána to respond to the UN’s call for peacekeepers from politically neutral Ireland.
20 hours ago · The 1950s was a decade of technological innovation that changed everyday life. 04 Television Boom: By the end of the decade, nearly 90% of American households owned a TV. Popular shows like "I Love Lucy" and "The Ed Sullivan Show" became cultural phenomena. 05 Polio Vaccine: Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first effective polio vaccine in 1955 ...
3 days ago · (Paying Subscribers, Eddie Jefferson’s two rare recordings are below as a bonus.) In the first essay of this series (see the Index under “Singing”), we discussed the origin of the name “vocalese,” and we studied the earliest example that was released, by Marion Harris in 1934. In Supplement 1A, we mentioned the even earlier version recorded by Bee Palmer in 1929, but never released ...
Reading list and course outline for two semester course on Theory and Problems of Economic Development at Harvard 1960-61.
2 days ago · The Republican Party in the United States includes several factions, or wings.During the 19th century, Republican factions included the Half-Breeds, who supported civil service reform; the Radical Republicans, who advocated the immediate and total abolition of slavery, and later advocated civil rights for freed slaves during the Reconstruction era; and the Stalwarts, who supported machine ...
5 days ago · Though ABC hasn’t confirmed McHugh’s exit from 9-1-1, from the storyline, it definitely seems like from the storyline that the actor — who has been a main cast member on 9-1-1 since Season 3 —...
20 hours ago · Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 15, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of ...
