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1 day ago · e. Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; [b] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. As commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865. Grant was born in Ohio and graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) in 1843.
1 day ago · James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904) was an American military officer who served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War and was the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse". He served under Lee as a corps commander for most of the battles fought by the Army of Northern ...
1 day ago · Robert M. Solow. Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. "for his contributions to the theory of economic growth". 1986. James M. Buchanan. Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S. "for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making". 1985. Franco Modigliani.
6 hours ago · Updated 4:35 AM PDT, October 14, 2024. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The murder trial of a tech consultant in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee begins Monday, a year and a half after the widely admired entrepreneur was found staggering on a deserted downtown San Francisco street seeking help. Lee’s death at age 43 stunned the tech ...
1 day ago · The word psychopathy is a joining of the Greek words psyche (ψυχή) "soul" and pathos (πάθος) "suffering, feeling". [ 20 ] The first documented use is from 1847 in Germany as psychopatisch, [ 21 ] and the noun psychopath has been traced to 1885. [ 22 ] In medicine, patho- has a more specific meaning of disease (Thus pathology has meant ...
1 day ago · American modernist poets included diverse figures such as Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and E. E. Cummings. Depression-era writers included John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
1 day ago · Psychology portal. v. t. e. Positive psychology is a field of psychological theory and research of optimal human functioning of people, groups, and institutions. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It studies "positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions... it aims to improve quality of life." [ 3 ]
