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3 hours ago · Joseph Stiglitz. Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (/ ˈstɪɡlɪts /; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, [ 2 ] a public policy analyst, political activist, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) [ 3 ] and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). [ 4 ]
1 day ago · Leonhard Euler (/ ˈ ɔɪ l ər / OY-lər; [b] German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈʔɔʏlɐ] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German: [ˈleːɔnhart ˈɔʏlər]; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, and infinitesimal calculus.
3 hours ago · James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, and a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967. At age 99, Carter is the longest-lived president ...
1 day ago · The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog and Access Lists, enabling the owner of a note file or other application to limit access to a certain ...
1 day ago · —Sinatra's daughter Nancy on the importance of his mother Dolly in his life and character. Francis Albert Sinatra [a] was born on December 12, 1915, in a tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey, [b] the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa and Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra, who boxed under the name Marty O'Brien. [c] Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1 kg) at birth and had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left ...
3 hours ago · The following players were the individual leaders in rushing yards among major college football players during the 1952 season: 1. Howard Waugh, Tulsa, 1,372 yards on 164 carries (8.37 average) 2. Billy Vessels, Oklahoma, 1,072 yards on 161 carries (6.66 average) 3. Buck McPhail, Oklahoma, 1,018 yards on 161 carries (6.32 average) 4.
Dora Wiley: American opera singer United States of America: 1852 1853 1924-11-02 Bucksport: Scarsdale: Q5297448: Mily-Meyer: French singer France: 1852 1927 Paris: Paris: Q6861867: Emma Matilda Engdahl-Jägerskiöld: Finnish opera singer Finland: 1852-04-26 1930-06-13 Saint Petersburg: Helsinki: Q4946717: Mathilda Grabow: Swedish opera singer ...
