Lee Edwards (born 1932) is an American conservative political writer and historian. He was born in Chicago. He thought at the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He was a historian of the conservative movement in America and of the Presidency of Ronald Reagan.
Edwards is the author or editor of 25 books, and wrote about biographies of President Ronald Reagan, Senator Barry Goldwater, Attorney General Edwin Meese III and William F. Buckley, Jr.. He is currently the Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
Bob Ellicott
Robert James Ellicott (born 15 April 1927) is an Australian lawyer, politician and judge. He was born in Moree, New South Wales. Ellicott was one of only six politicians to have been in both the Parliament of Australia and the Federal Court of Australia. He was elected as the Liberal member for the Division of Wentworth in the 1974 election. He was Attorney-General in the Fraser Ministry from 1975 to 1977.
Marcin Wodziński
Marcin Wodziński is a professor in the city of Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland. Professor Wodziński a historian who studies the history of the Jews in Poland.
Wodziński was born and raised in the city of Świdnica. As a historian, Wodziński, has studied the history of the Hasidic Judaism in Poland. Professor Wodziński considers Hasidic Judaism to be one of Poland's most important religious movements.
Professor Wodziński is the first scholar to perform a complete study on Hasidic Jewish communities. His study required him to collect and catalog all Hasidic community phone books. This effort allowed him to estimate the size of the current Hasidic Jewish population. Professor Wodziński found that there are around 750,000 Hasidic Jews in the world today, with most living in the United States and in Israel.
John Cain (41st Premier of Victoria)
John Cain (26 April 1931 – 23 December 2019) was an Australian politician. He was born in Melbourne. Cain was the 41st Premier of Victoria, in office from 1982 to 1990 as leader of the Labor Party. His father was John Cain, the 34th Premier of Victoria.
Cain died on 23 December 2019 at a Melbourne hospital, aged 88. He had a massive stroke on 10 December.
Barrie Unsworth
Barrie John Unsworth (born 16 April 1934) is an Australian politician. He represented the Labor Party in the Parliament of New South Wales from 1978 to 1991. He was the 36th Premier from July 1986 to March 1988. Unsworth was born in Dubbo, New South Wales.
Steele Hall
Raymond Steele Hall (born 30 November 1928) is an Australian politician. He was the 36th Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970. He also was a senator for South Australia from 1974 to 1977, and federal member for the Division of Boothby from 1981 to 1996.
Inkheart
Inkheart is a book made in 2003 and has a film based on its content. It has many characters such as six main characters: Meggie, Mo, Dustfinger, Elinor, Capricorn and Basta. It has many parts to it. Its author is Cornelia Funke.
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is a search engine made by Gabriel Weinberg. It stresses that it does not collect information about users like Google does, and keeps data private. It headquarters is in Paoli, Pennsylvania, United States. As of March 2020, it received 56,256,596 searches every day.
Popular sovereignty
Popular sovereignty is the idea that the power of a state and its government are created and sustained by the permission of its people. They give their permission through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who is the source of all political power. It is very similar to a social contract, with philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Americans created their Revolution and government on popular sovereignty. In the 1850s Popular sovereignty in the United States meant a very controversial way to deal with slavery in the territories. This was pushed by senator Stephen A. Douglas. It meant that people living in a territory would be the ones to decide if slavery would be allowed. It led to fighting in Bleeding Kansas. This was because abolitionists (people who didn't want slavery) and pro-slavery people came to the Kansas territory in order to decide the elections.
Popular sovereignty also can be described as the "voice of the people."
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross (ARC), also known as The American National Red Cross, is a humanitarian group that gives emergency assistance, disaster relief, and teaches people how to prepare for disasters in the United States. It is the official US group related to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the United States movement to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
The groups offers services and developments programs.
Clara Barton (1821–1912) created the American chapter after learning of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1869, she went to Europe and became involved with the International Red Cross during the Franco-Prussian War. She wanted to bring the group to America.
Recent presidents and CEOs include Gail McGovern, Elizabeth Dole, Bernadine Healy, Mary S. Elcano, Mark W. Everson and John F. McGuire.
Daniel Woodson
Daniel Woodson (May 24, 1824 – October 5, 1894) was secretary of Kansas Territory (1854–1857) and a five-time acting governor of the territory.
Woodson was born on a farm in Albemarle County, Virginia. Both of his parents died by the time he was 7 years old.
Woodson was chosen to be secretary of the Kansas Territory by President Franklin Pierce on June 29, 1854. He took the oath of office in Washington, DC on September 28. He made $2,000 per year. He agreed with people who wanted to make Kansas a slave state. He agreed with what the pro-slavery people in the territory wanted.
While Governor Andrew Reeder was away from the territory, Woodson became acting governor. He signed the first laws passed by the territorial legislature. Even though this first territorial legislature was seen as real by the federal government, free-staters called the laws "bogus laws".
In total, Woodson was acting governor for a little more than five months while governors Andrew Reeder, Wilson Shannon, and John W. Geary were away from the territory.
Woodson spent his last years in Parker, Kansas. He was visiting Claremore, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) when he died in 1894.
Woodson County, Kansas was named for him in 1855. It was the only county named for a Kansas territorial politician. This changed in 1889 when Davis County's name changed to Geary County.
Kansas Democratic Party
The Kansas Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Kansas. The chair of the Kansas Democratic Party is Vicki Hiatt.
Since Kansas became a territory, the Democratic Party didn't have much power.
The Kansas Democratic Party has not been able to send a U.S. Senator to Washington since 1939. This is a record that no other state party in the United States has been able to beat. Kansas Democrats have not controlled the Kansas Senate since 1917.
Since the state’s founding, there have been 11 Democratic governor of Kansas, six of whom were elected after 1961.
Kansas Republican Party
The Kansas Republican Party is the state political party in Kansas of the United States Republican Party. The Kansas Republican Party was created in May 1859. It has been the main political party of Kansas ever since.
Scorched earth
A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy. The goal is to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while the enemy is going through or running away from a place. Any useful things that could be used by the enemy may be targeted, for example food sources, water supplies, transportation, communications, industrial resources, and even the local people themselves.
The policy can be done by the military in enemy territory, or in its own home territory.