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1 dzień temu · Robert Strange McNamara (/ ˈ m æ k n ə m ær ə /; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.He remains the longest-serving secretary of defense, having remained in office over seven years.
1 dzień temu · The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia.It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail and orange fur with black, mostly vertical stripes. It is traditionally classified into nine recent subspecies, though some recognise only two subspecies, mainland Asian tigers and the island tigers of the Sunda ...
1 dzień temu · The Arizona Diamondbacks (colloquially the D-backs) are an American professional baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona.The Diamondbacks compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) West Division.The franchise was established on March 9, 1995, and began play in 1998 as an expansion team.The team plays its home games at Chase Field.
1 dzień temu · Photography of Sierra Nevada. Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.It is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing (e.g., photolithography), and business, as well as its more direct uses for art, film and ...
1 godzinę temu · Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.Located in Middle Tennessee, it had a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census. Nashville is the 21st most populous city in the United States, and the fourth most populous city in the southeastern U.S. Located on the Cumberland River, the city ...
1 dzień temu · The explosive growth brought the number of students from 200,000 in 1890 to 1,000,000 in 1910, to almost 2,000,000 by 1920; 7% of youths aged 14 to 17 were enrolled in 1890, rising to 32% in 1920. The graduates found jobs especially in the rapidly growing white-collar sector. Cities large and small across the country raced to build new high ...
1 dzień temu · The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century. [1] The shows were performed by mostly white actors wearing blackface makeup for the purpose of comically portraying racial stereotypes of African Americans. There were also some African-American performers and black-only minstrel ...
