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Hace 1 día · Michelle LaVaughn Obama (née Robinson; born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017, being married to former president Barack Obama.. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.In her early legal career, she worked at the law firm Sidley Austin where ...
Hace 1 día · The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. [7] [8] It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections. [7]
Hace 3 horas · AT&T was founded as Bell Telephone Company by Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson and Gardiner Greene Hubbard after Bell's patenting of the telephone in 1875. By 1881, Bell Telephone Company had become the American Bell Telephone Company. One of its subsidiaries was the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), established in 1885. On December 30, 1899, AT&T acquired the assets of its ...
Hace 1 día · Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Lithuanian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Born in Kaunas, Lithuania (then within the Russian Empire ), to an Orthodox ...
Hace 1 día · Georgia is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.It borders Tennessee to the northwest, North Carolina to the north, South Carolina to the northeast, Florida to the south, and Alabama to the west. Of the 50 United States, Georgia is the 24th-largest by area and 8th most populous.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, its 2023 estimated population was 11,029,227.
Hace 1 día · Tallahassee (/ ˌ t æ l ə ˈ h æ s i / TAL-ə-HASS-ee) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida.It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County.Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824.In 2022, the population was 201,731, making it the eighth-most populous city in the state of Florida.
Hace 1 día · The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century to the early 21st century. It is characterized by a rapid shift from traditional industries, as established during the Industrial Revolution, to an economy centered on ...
