NEW YORK (KABC) — The Statue of Liberty turns 125 Friday, and the iconic structure is being celebrated with a…
Month: October 2011
Magic Mystery Treasure
in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic The Staffordshire Hoard, as it was quickly dubbed, electrified the general public…
History of the Mousetrap
Has anyone built a better mousetrap? By Mary Bellis, About.com Guide James Henry Atkinson was the British inventor who in 1897 invented…
On Oct. 10th, 1845, naval school opens in Annapolis, Md., with 50 students.
source http://navytv.org/section.cfm?s=59 U.S. Naval Academy This section on Navy TV is presented by The U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association and…
The Man Who Inspired Jobs
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR By CHRISTOPHER BONANOS Published: October 7, 2011 source http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/opinion/the-man-who-inspired-jobs.html?_r=1# October 7, 2011 The Man Who Inspired Jobs By CHRISTOPHER…
Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/us/obit-steve-jobs/index.html?iid=Lead (CNN) — Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into…
How Brands Were Born: A Brief History of Modern Marketing
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/how-brands-were-born-a-brief-history-of-modern-marketing/246012/ The “Mad Men” era of the 1960s was a Cambrian explosion of brands — from cigarettes to soap…
Writer, singer and folk icon Woody Guthrie dies.
Writer, singer and folk icon Woody Guthrie dies. (2011). The History Channel website. Retrieved 5:40, October 3, 2011, from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/writer-singer-and-folk-icon-woody-guthrie-dies. On…
