Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and present President of the United States. Born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr., Obama spent his childhood in Witchita, Kansas. Obama's parents separated when he was a toddler at the age of two, and later divorced....
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States and the eponym of the Jacksonian Democracy. Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in Waxhaw, North Carolina, or Lancaster, South Carolina, as the border between the states had not been resolved at the time of his birth. Jackson was born...
Influential people come in all shapes and sizes in all generations throughout history. Such people can be grouped together by shared affiliations and backgrounds, for whatever purposes people are drawn to make lists. This list offers some interesting biographical tidbits about 50 people of Jewish...
The American Civil Liberties Union or ACLU is a non-profit organization that has played an important part in defending different human rights. For almost 80 years, they have worked on showing importance on putting into consideration every person’s rights and freedom such as the freedom of speech,...
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was born to a poor family on February 12, 1809, in a one room cabin in southeast Hardin County, Kentucky. Lincoln was mostly self educated and rose to be one of the greatest politicians within the U.S. by leading the country through the...
Universally and instantly recognizable, the President of the United States – the heads of state and government of the world’s largest superpower, the commander–in-chief of the US Armed Forces, the omnipotent and oft-termed “Leader of the Free World” – requires no long-winded or flowery introduction. What does require clarification, however, are the notions of “smartness” and “dumbness”.
Lower Merion School District, located within suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, possibly invaded student's privacy by remotely activating webcams. The school issued 2,300 laptops to its high school students and used webcams to capture them in their homes, interact with family members, and in...
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States and considered the last Founding Father of America from the Virginia Dynasty and Republican generation. Monroe was born on April 28, 1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, to Spence Monroe, a planter and carpenter, and Elizabeth Jones, an...
